Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Axiomatica/Archive

Report date September 20 2009, 15:40 (UTC)

 * Suspected sockpuppets

Suspected editing in violation of this block. Please see the revision history of Talk:Georgia O'Keeffe for details. Checkuser evidence of browser version could help to confirm this. Both IP Addresses are in "PPPoX Pool Rback37.SNFCCA.1 SBC07114122400019051025134353 (NET-71-141-224-0-1)  71.141.224.0 - 71.141.255.255" (AT&T PPPoX Pool 71.141.224/19 in San Francisco, California formerly allocated to SBC) per this check. — Jeff G. (talk&#124;contribs) 15:40, 20 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Evidence submitted by  — Jeff G. (talk&#124;contribs)


 * Comments by accused parties    See Defending yourself against claims.


 * Comments by other users

I have added a username and a number of other IP user accounts to the list that I strongly suspect of also being sockpuppets of the same user. All use San Francisco Bay Area AT&T accounts, frequently edit the article Melissa Farley, as well as articles on 20th Century female artists, (see for example, 71.141.231.74 edit to Mellisa Farley or Axiomatica edit to Remedios Vero) and the editor is notoriously abusive toward other editors accused of being sexist or anti-feminist.

The connection between the account "User:Axiomatica" and at least two of these IP was established when the user signed a comment made while logged in as an anonymous IP, then resigned it with their username. (See here and here.)

I also want to note that three of the most recent edits made by User:71.141.231.74 were abusive personal attacks on me made at the page Talk:Feminism. Clearly this individual is using Wikipedia in an abusive manner and using sockpuppets to help accomplish this. Iamcuriousblue (talk) 18:16, 20 September 2009 (UTC)

I also just added 71.141.253.176. Edits to the article and talk page on Marija Gimbutas strongly suggest that this is the same person who made 71.141.225.166's edits to Goddess. Iamcuriousblue (talk) 23:44, 20 September 2009 (UTC)

Comment In response to the closing of this case. User:71.141.231.74 has been active in the last 24 hours, has carried out the same abuse as the already-blocked IP, but remains unblocked. User:Axiomatica is a stale account, however, it can certainly be used to get around an IP block. Iamcuriousblue (talk) 00:46, 21 September 2009 (UTC)

Requested by  — Jeff G. (talk&#124;contribs) 15:40, 20 September 2009 (UTC)
 * CheckUser requests


 * Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments


 * Connection is clear and obvious (WP:DUCK), checkuser isn't required. Nathan  T 16:15, 20 September 2009 (UTC)

No action needed. The only IP currently causing the abuse is 71.141.225.166, which has already been blocked. All other IP accounts as well as User:Axiomatica have not edited in well over a year and are stale. Marking as closed. MuZemike 00:02, 21 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Conclusions
 * IP Sockmaster now blocked 24 hours, as well. I completely forgot to block the master. Crowd boos... MuZemike 00:46, 21 September 2009 (UTC)
 * User:Axiomatica now indefinitely blocked just in case the person decides to use the registered account again. Nearly everything started with this account, anyways. MuZemike 00:59, 21 September 2009 (UTC)