Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/AlgeriaLove/Archive

Evidence submitted by Shirik
Claim is that the user is using IPs to edit war and violate the 3-revert rule. Such actions are evident in the history of various pages such as Haratin. This claim is taken from a report at WP:ANI; the original claim is below: "POV edits pertaining to Algeria, Morocco, and Western Sahara. Warned repeatedly and persisting in his behavior, including blanking pages. Has removed the warnings from his talk and insists that others' edits are vandalism. Please intervene. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 21:26, 21 April 2010 (UTC)"

Comments by accused parties
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Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments
Requested by Sh i r ik  ( Questions or Comments? ) 03:55, 22 April 2010 (UTC)

Opened based on the discussion at Administrators'_noticeboard/Incidents. -- Sh i r ik ( Questions or Comments? ) 03:55, 22 April 2010 (UTC)

Self endorsed. While this is a WP:DUCK case, I'm requesting a checkuser to check for collateral damage associated with a rangeblock to address this issue. -- Sh i r ik ( Questions or Comments? ) 03:55, 22 April 2010 (UTC)
 * On second look, the range seems to be far too wide to be of any use. I'll leave it to an administrator to decide whether or not to block the IPs, but I don't see a need for a checkuser here as we don't really have any information to gain. I also note the IPs have not edited since the account was blocked. -- Sh i r ik ( Questions or Comments? ) 01:38, 23 April 2010 (UTC)

Agree that range is too big to block. However, they've been really only targeting two pages (the IPs), Haratin and Demographics of Algeria. So I've protected these articles for a month due to long-term socking. Hopefully this will slow them down a bit. I'm going to leave AlgeriaLove alone for now. If they edit war again, a longer block is a good option.  E lockid  ( Talk ) 15:04, 23 April 2010 (UTC)