Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/89.240.49.35/Archive

10 October 2015

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Four IP addresses have made nearly identical malicious edits to All Star Mr & Mrs over the past month, in each instance replacing the correct information regarding lesbian Martina Navratilova's appearance on the program with incorrect information falsely claiming heterosexual Maria Menounos appears on the show in Navratilova's place. Diffs: ,, , , , , , , , , and. This set of IPs was originally reported at WP:RVAN, not because I'm forum-shopping but because I genuinely thought the edits in question constituted "obvious vandalism"; I was advised by and  to report the issue here instead, and I defer to their greater knowledge of this area of Wikipedia. I've never made a formal request for administrator interevention in any venue before this situation. My ignorant newbie analysis is that the single human likely behind the edits in question probably isn't using multiple IP addresses with the intention of appearing to be separate people, and so this isn't a case of sockpuppetry per se, but they have ignored multiple warnings (level 4 on the most recently used address, at least 1 warning on each of the other talk pages) and continue to edit maliciously, so it seems to me something ought to be done... Hopefully I have the correct report location this time. — GrammarFascist   contribs talk 18:44, 10 October 2015 (UTC)

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 * I blocked 89.242.216.154 for 72 hours as they were the only IP listed who has edited this month. I semi-protected All Star Mr & Mrs for two weeks. Closing.--Bbb23 (talk) 19:04, 10 October 2015 (UTC)