Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/72.245.246.219/Archive

28 February 2016

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The edits were both made in the Bay Area of California. Yes there are a few people who live there, but the similarities are inescapable.
 * 50.255.55.99 has been editing since June 2015.
 * 72.245.246.219's first edits started on February 13 of this year.

Both have edited on The Brothers (1972 TV series) I find it unusual that two anons from the same area edit the same obscure article within the same day. The article has seen fewer than 100 edits in its life. Granted, it would not be unusual for two editors from the same area of the United Kingdom to edit the article, but the programme was never shown in the United States, so we seem to be dealing with an import or an Anglophile.
 * https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_Brothers_%281972_TV_series%29&type=revision&diff=704712620&oldid=700112394
 * https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_Brothers_%281972_TV_series%29&diff=prev&oldid=704815743. The edit by 219 corrected one made by 99.

Suddenly today, 219 starts defending edits from 99 without ever showing interest in the subject before. It's not really the location a new anon would come to, and I don't see a new anon supporting in this way. They are either the same editor, or know each other.

WP:DUCK? Walter Görlitz (talk) 00:36, 28 February 2016 (UTC) Walter Görlitz (talk) 00:36, 28 February 2016 (UTC)


 * While the anon has been blocked for violating NPA, I would still like a determination on whether there is enough to support socking here. Walter Görlitz (talk) 17:20, 28 February 2016 (UTC)


 * Same personal attacks by 62.253.196.107 as were made against me and another editor (that we are socks of each other, etc.) as were made by 72.245.246.219 that ultimately found the 72.245.246.219 blocked for violating NPA. The geographic difference is now pronounced. The two former accounts were in the San Francisco Bay area, 62.253.196.107 is in England, but the attacks make it clear that they are the same editor, even down to the same wording. Walter Görlitz (talk) 17:08, 3 March 2016 (UTC)
 * I'm sorry, but closing the case because the editor was IP hopping is a sorry state of affairs. The editor was playing the innocence card and accusing other editors of bad faith editing and worse. The least you lazy admins could do is investigate the case in a timely manner and determine if the estimation of puppetry was or was not valid. The effort I had to go through to report this case, and several before it, make me unwilling to report any further. Walter Görlitz (talk) 05:32, 25 March 2016 (UTC)
 * You are doing a great job reporting sockpuppets. We can determinate that those IPs belong to the same person, and so what? How can that help us? Sometimes, the person hops between IP ranges, and there is nothing we can do.  Vanjagenije  (talk)  13:44, 25 March 2016 (UTC)
 * You are doing a great job reporting sockpuppets. We can determinate that those IPs belong to the same person, and so what? How can that help us? Sometimes, the person hops between IP ranges, and there is nothing we can do.  Vanjagenije  (talk)  13:44, 25 March 2016 (UTC)

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 * All those IPs are inactive now. Closing the case.  Vanjagenije  (talk)  22:07, 24 March 2016 (UTC)