Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Avenger2015/Archive

13 October 2014

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Firstly, there are numerous points of intersection. Speedball was created 4 days after Avenger2015 was indeffed. Avenger was indeffed for persistent addition of unsourced cast lists that typically duplicated existing content found in List of Characters articles or elsewhere in the main article, which contravenes MOS:TV guidelines. Avenger typically makes an abundance of edits to an article, (like these edits by Speedball) slowly adding credits, instead of just dumping a text block or reverting previous reverts.

This level of persistence and disregard for community consensus leads me to wonder if the user is not another incarnation of the Long-term abuse/Voice Cast Vandal, since Avenger didn't bother to respond to friendly notes, warnings, or his first two trips to ANI. The first time Avenger ever spoke was on his third trip to ANI, I believe, and it was to express dubious confusion about the complaints against him. Cyphoidbomb (talk) 07:26, 13 October 2014 (UTC)
 * Hi, I didn't bother including an IP because the CUs won't connect them to accounts. However,  is another one to watch. Thanks, Cyphoidbomb (talk) 15:36, 14 October 2014 (UTC)


 * Oh, I think I gotcha now. Thanks C! Cyphoidbomb (talk) 02:30, 15 October 2014 (UTC)

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 * They are ✅ block and tagged. They aren't using any IPs or ranges which are documented on the SPI LTA page you linked though behaviour suggests someone who is returning. Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 10:05, 14 October 2014 (UTC)
 * Sorry I meant the Voice Cast Vandal LTA page, it can be useful to include IPs in the report as it documents them for the future, especially if the data becomes stale, CUs can use the reported IP (in the archive) for at least a possible result. Plus if we were to do a sleeper check we might check the IP for accounts. Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 00:16, 15 October 2014 (UTC)

29 October 2014

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Avenger's MO was to add redundant (and unsourced) cast lists to articles that typically already had character lists or separate List of Characters articles. This contravenes MOS:TVCAST. IP has been adding these duplicate lists, for example before I warned him, and  here after I'd informed him of the community's expectations and asked them to not submit the duplicate content. Since this type of disruptive editing is rare, I believe it to be a strong indication that this is an Avenger2015 sock, although the IP is editing a wider range of articles than Avenger, and some of the other behaviors I'm seeing are not entirely consistent with Avenger. This edit appears to be blatant vandalism, as the user changes the names of the real voice actors to incorrect actors. (See closing credits here @ 11:00.) Cyphoidbomb (talk) 18:07, 29 October 2014 (UTC)


 * Addendum - Adding user Batman1601. It is a recently created account and has a similar user naming style to Avenger2015, but more importantly: there are numerous intersecting articles between Batman1601 and Avenger2015, Batman1601 attempts to re-add additional voices for example in these 6 edits where they apparently ignore an embedded note that points to the MOS:TV section that covers cast/character lists. That seems deliberately disruptive. More examples of adding the extensive, duplicate content:, . See also these edits from Nov 9, 2014 which are consistent with Avenger's edits. Checkuser requested, please.  I also noticed another user, Anthonyg328, making similar edits but I think it's premature to scrutinize him. (I just wanted to document my observation) Thanks. Cyphoidbomb (talk) 20:43, 1 November 2014 (UTC)

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 * ✅ -- DQ   (ʞlɐʇ)  17:17, 12 November 2014 (UTC)
 * IP is stale now. Bbb23 (talk) 21:31, 15 November 2014 (UTC)

01 December 2014

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Seems pretty obvious to me. Same area of interest as Avenger, IP keeps adding the same massive cast lists as Avenger, for instance here, here, here and more recently here. I notified the user that I suspected them of being a sock, included diffs, but that didn't dissuade them from making the change at Motorcity. Not sure what this user's issue is, but they seem to have zero intention of adhering to MOS guidelines. Cyphoidbomb (talk) 23:07, 1 December 2014 (UTC)

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 * The IP has been blocked by Kuru for 2 weeks. Mike V  •  Talk  04:44, 10 December 2014 (UTC)

21 December 2014

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Similar NameYYYY format. Another addition of duplicate cast list in these 8 edits. As noted in the archive, user tends not to add a lot of content in a single edit, preferring instead to add content over many edits, for instance these 14 edits which were closely preceded by these 34 edits. In these edits the user employs oddly-worded edit summaries "According to the end credits of this movie, these are the main cast members". They also use weird canned summaries as Batman1601 "I gave a link to the actor that voices these characters" and as Speedball1988 "I am making a cast list and am going to cite links to actors that voice these characters" and "I organized the cast list based on the end credits", etc. Thanks. Cyphoidbomb (talk) 00:43, 21 December 2014 (UTC)

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 * ✅ NativeForeigner Talk 07:41, 21 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Blocked and tagged. Mike V  •  Talk  18:49, 21 December 2014 (UTC)

09 February 2015

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Avenger's main tactic was to add duplicate cast lists to articles already containing character lists. At Snorks IP 76.73.140.234 has repeatedly added duplicate cast lists here and here (where they also remove a Broadcast section with no explanation). In late December IP 76.73.142.219 added similar cast lists here and here (also removing a Home media releases section). Both IPs geolocate to Prattville, Alabama, ISP: WideOpenWest. Might not be worth doing anything about the *.219 IP since they haven't edited in a while, but I am including these as suspected sock IPs for completion. Cyphoidbomb (talk) 22:39, 9 February 2015 (UTC)

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 * Since the issue is limited to the one page, I've semi-protected it for 3 months. Mike V • Talk 00:55, 10 February 2015 (UTC)