Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Afterbrew/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets



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This involves five WP:DOY pages in which unacceptable edits had been reverted by project members. Afterbrew and the three IPs listed have restored these edits within the space of a few minutes and so Afterbrew has been using IP addresses to try and disguise his own actions.

Please see edits 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5. The DOY project insist on citations for every item added to a calendar page and, to reduce excessive lists of births and deaths in recent decades, we also require subjects to be noteworthy and not merely notable. Afterbrew has tried to add large numbers of rugby league players to the lists and, as RL is not a sport of global importance, these people cannot be considered noteworthy in DOY terms.

The additions have been reverted and Afterbrew has been advised of the project conditions at his user talk page – see threads 6 & 7. He has ignored the advice and has continued to add RL players without discussion and has restored the reverted entries without recourse to WP:BRD. You will see that all five of the edits seek to restore rugby league entries originally posted by Afterbrew.

Please let me know if I can provide anything else you may need. Thanks. No Great Shaker (talk) 15:29, 18 April 2021 (UTC)

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Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * Best, Blablubbs&#124;talk 18:38, 18 April 2021 (UTC)
 * I left a uw-login warning. If this continues, we might need to take stronger action, but hopefully the warning is enough. -- RoySmith (talk) 21:50, 19 April 2021 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets
A user from this /24 IPv4 range has been making the same edits to September 11 as was 1.144.108.90, although with a few small additional changes – compare the two diffs:
 * diff by 103.110.142.71
 * diff by 1.144.108.90

The 1.144.108.90 IP hasn't been reported to SPI before, but it looks very similar to the IPs reported in the archived previous case from April 2021.

Anyways, besides that, the articles that the user behind the range has been interested in and edit warring over is pretty much the same as the previous IPs – articles about days (e.g. November 30, June 10, September 5, April 20.

The edits they are making to and warring over these day articles are also very similar to the previously reported IPs and the sockmaster – adding sports players, especially Australian rugby players. Example diffs:


 * diff on September 11
 * diff on April 20
 * diff on June 5

It's worth noting the two individual IPs in the range who recently disrupted – 103.110.142.71 and 103.110.142.70 – have already been blocked by after an AIV and this ANEW report. I'm just making this SPI report for confirmation, and if the evidence is strong enough then it would also add to the user's sockpuppetry record. — AP 499D25  (talk)  23:03, 21 July 2023 (UTC)

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Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * Nothing to do here. Closing. Bbb23 (talk) 00:15, 22 July 2023 (UTC)