Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/AndreaCarax/Archive

Report date July 21 2009, 22:57 (UTC)


I am restoring the original SPI report, as it has been confirmed that the reported IPs are AndreaCarax, that AndreaCarax did abusively sockpuppet, but that the report should not have been merged into Brexx's sockpuppet report. Basically, this is just to keep the paperwork straight. This SPI report contains the checkuser results and confirmation for AndreaCarax. AndreaCarax has been blocked as a Brexx sock, and that block record needs cleaned.
 * Evidence submitted by Kww

AndreaCarax has been blocked three times for edit-warring, specifically for refusing to accept the characterization of Mariah Carey and Keri Hilson as "pop" singers. See:
 * http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=We_Belong_Together&diff=302761129&oldid=302652458
 * http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Don%27t_Forget_About_Us&diff=287328051&oldid=285515742
 * http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=In_a_Perfect_World...&diff=298943612&oldid=298693610
 * http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=In_a_Perfect_World...&diff=298010984&oldid=298007473
 * http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=In_a_Perfect_World...&diff=298007023&oldid=297999028
 * http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=In_a_Perfect_World...&diff=297954055&oldid=297915142
 * http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=In_a_Perfect_World...&diff=297914107&oldid=297891316
 * http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=In_a_Perfect_World...&diff=297603763&oldid=297602830
 * http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=In_a_Perfect_World...&diff=297600948&oldid=297600756

As for specific evidence of block evasion, this edit occured while AndreaCarax was blocked. The underlying IP range seems quite narrow, and I would like to evaluate whether a hard block can be performed: this editor is obviously quite stubborn, and I doubt a soft block would be particularly effective.&mdash;Kww(talk) 12:55, 18 July 2009 (UTC)


 * Comments by accused parties    See Defending yourself against claims.


 * Comments by other users
 * AndreaCarax has been blocked for a week due to the edit war, especially the use of an apparent sockpuppet here. lifebaka++ 16:32, 18 July 2009 (UTC)

as noted in the Brexx SPI, the underlying IP range has been blocked on 20 July 2009 for 2 weeks. MuZemike 23:04, 21 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments


 * Conclusions

Report date August 10 2009, 19:03 (UTC)

 * Suspected sockpuppets

Same Italian ISP as AndreaCarax has always used, repeating the same campaign of removing "pop" from all the Mariah Carey articles. We've had a spate of this recently, with various anons and named accounts doing it, so it's worthy of a sweep to make sure there aren't some sleeping socks.&mdash;Kww(talk) 19:03, 10 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Evidence submitted by Kww

Added more IPs, problem is more widespread than I had thought. I think we need to reblock 93.149.194.0/24, preferably a hardblock for three months. Checkuser clearly required to determine collateral damage.&mdash;Kww(talk) 19:24, 10 August 2009 (UTC)


 * Comments by accused parties    See Defending yourself against claims.


 * Comments by other users
 * Ditto. AndreaCarax was pretty much the only person who constantly/consistently removed "pop" from Mariah Carey articles, generally.  So this is suspicious. SKS (talk) 22:43, 10 August 2009 (UTC)

Requested by &mdash;Kww(talk) 19:03, 10 August 2009 (UTC)
 * CheckUser requests


 * Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments
 * to check for collateral damage. NW ( Talk ) 03:27, 11 August 2009 (UTC)


 * Conclusions
 * Extremely that the IPs listed are the named user, and this user appears to be the only one on the /24. I've  the /24 AOACB for 3 months. -- Versa  geek  04:10, 11 August 2009 (UTC)

Evidence submitted by Kww
Reappeared nearly the minute the three-month range block on 93.149.194.0/24 expired. Immediately removed "pop" from the genre of Mariah Carey articles, which was exactly the edit that AndreaCarax was blocked for the first time around. Previous checkuser results showed that AndreaCarax is the only editor using the /24. Time to rangeblock again, maybe for 6 months this time.&mdash;Kww(talk) 22:43, 11 November 2009 (UTC)

Comments by accused parties
See Defending yourself against claims.

Comments by other users
So...this user is saying that "can also stop me but you are not able to fill these pages" when reverting Kevin's reverts. It looks very much like AndreaCarax's edits from before. SKS (talk) 17:59, 12 November 2009 (UTC)

I agree. I think it's time for a longer block period. Charmed36 (talk) 20:37, 12 November 2009 (UTC)

Conclusions
Rangeblocked 6 months. MuZemike 21:15, 13 November 2009 (UTC)

Evidence submitted by Kww
Obvious AndreaCarax sock, continuing her edit war on genres and fiddling with AndreaCarax's user page. We have previously blocked 93.149.194.0/24, and it looks like that needs to be expanded to 93.149.194.0/23 to cover this address. Requesting checkuser so that collateral damage can be assessed before expanding the block.&mdash;Kww(talk) 15:37, 3 January 2010 (UTC)

Comments by accused parties
See Defending yourself against claims.

CheckUser requests
Requested by &mdash;Kww(talk) 15:37, 3 January 2010 (UTC)

– Not needed, a CU has previously hardblocked the range that user is currently on, and I don't think anything has changed. –MuZemike 04:54, 4 January 2010 (UTC)
 * I was incorrect on that assumption as this is actually a new range. It's small enough, though, that there will likely be no collateral damage. –MuZemike 05:02, 4 January 2010 (UTC)
 * ...and the current block on the other range is anon-only, which means CU is definitely not needed. –MuZemike 05:05, 4 January 2010 (UTC)

Conclusions
93.149.195.0/26 blocked 6 months. –MuZemike 05:06, 4 January 2010 (UTC)