Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/76.20.110.116/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets

 * ( original case name)

The editor on the IPv6 was blocked for a year for long term vandalism and disruptive editing following this report I wrote at ANI: ANI Report. The full 204.129 / 16 range wasn't blocked due to concerns about collateral damage, but the same editor has returned now that they've moved to another IP on the range. The edits are to the exact same topic area, exact same style and exact same disruption (though now without the worst of the blatant vandalism), see the overlap on the obscure article Platform (shopping center), for example.

They have also been editing recently as the other IPv6 range. Edits like these   Where they add "This is the best thing ever" to articles on shopping centres are near identical to the edits in my ANI post.

Currently they are also avoiding their block as 76.20.110.116. The first edit of that IP range was to "radomly" show up on the talk page of the afformentioned IPv6 range to insist they are totally a different person following which they have resumed editing in the exact same topic area with the exact same disruption. See the overlap on List of shopping malls in California‎ and Platform (shopping center).192.76.8.78 (talk) 22:15, 23 May 2022 (UTC)

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Page moved from  to   per an edit request. Original message and ER template removed. — Sirdog (talk) 01:39, 24 May 2022 (UTC)

Why are you guys checking me? 76.20.110.116 (talk) 07:23, 29 May 2022 (UTC)
 * I have not done anything wrong. 76.20.110.116 (talk) 07:24, 29 May 2022 (UTC)
 * You have repeatedly been engaging in good hand bad hand editing, trolling, vandalising and being disruptive while at school     then making productive edits to the same pages from home. You, the person sitting behind the keyboard, have been blocked for a year for long term disruption and vandalism. Until you have successfully appealed that block you are not welcome to edit here under any IP address or account as you are evading your block and any edits you make can be reverted indiscriminately. 192.76.8.78 (talk) 07:53, 29 May 2022 (UTC)
 * How do you know I am evading the block? Do you know what is good hand bad hand editing mean to me? 76.20.110.116 (talk) 14:41, 29 May 2022 (UTC)

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * The CIDR suffixes were interfering with the SPI case listing and templates (they seem to process it as if it is a subpage). As a compromise, I've moved this case to the non-suffixed IP. Spicy (talk) 01:50, 24 May 2022 (UTC)
 * I've blocked 76.20.110.116 for one month. I'll let others decide whether the 3 IP ranges need any additional action. Bbb23 (talk) 15:21, 3 June 2022 (UTC)
 * There hasn't been any activity from 2600:1010:B067:F5FC:F0B7:FEBB:0:0/64 in a while, and the most recently used IPs within 204.129.0.0/16 have been blocked. Hopefully, that works to control the disruption. Closing. Thanks, Spicy (talk) 18:51, 5 June 2022 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets
Same behaviour as previous IPs, If 2020 was a person nonsense waste of time edit requests   Overlap on shopping malls and citadel outlets etc. 192.76.8.78 (talk) 07:32, 6 June 2022 (UTC)

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FYI, this now involves cross-wiki abuse. The first IP above (and at least one other used by the master) has been globally blocked. 199.208.172.35 (talk) 19:41, 7 June 2022 (UTC)

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * As noted, the first IP has been globally (and locally) blocked. I don't think there's enough recent activity from the second IP (which appears to belong to a public wifi network) to justify blocking it at this time. Closing. Thanks, Spicy (talk) 20:48, 9 June 2022 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets
WP:DUCK IP range in the same /36 subnet as the archived reports, editing in the same topic areas - malls, the year 2020 and California. Comparing the edits made and edit summaries make it obvious this is the same person. 192.76.8.85 (talk) 22:32, 2 July 2022 (UTC)

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Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * Quack quack. 2 weeks. If they resume editing after that time, please notify me, or report to AIV or any available admin with a link to this comment. Closing. --  Tamzin  [ cetacean needed ] (she&#124;they&#124;xe) 22:39, 2 July 2022 (UTC)