Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Belevalo/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets
User:Belevalo first did some edit warring at the list of current world boxing champions in September 2021, by mass-removing content (interim and secondary titles) without consensus –,. Note the edit summary: "... list for world champions not world champion and interim champions. which are hollow belts anyway and are only there so the promotion can get more money out of the fighters". They also made an edit in December 2021, which removed content (a weight class) –. Also note the edit summary: "gimmick weight class". User:Belevalo was blocked in January 2022 for edit warring, personal attacks and all sorts.

Beginning on 17 May 2022, an IP-hopper using 2600x starts edit warring by restoring content (flagicons) and removing content (again, interim and secondary titles as well as a weight class) against consensus –,. Once more, note the edit summaries: "... promoting fake weight divisions made-up by the WBC to get more sanctioning fees from mediocre fighters", "... removing gimmick belts like interim and regular, and removing fake weight divisions such as Bridgerweight". Sounds awfully familiar.

The similarly abrasive (albeit not identical) editing style, together with repeating the same arguments, says DUCK to me. Full list of suspected IPs:


 * Special:Contributions/2600:8802:E01:3AA0:3C77:F519:FF58:42C4
 * Special:Contributions/2600:8802:E01:3AA0:C5FE:964:92CB:731A
 * Special:Contributions/2600:8802:E01:3AA0:C805:2678:5C48:2667
 * Special:Contributions/2600:8802:E01:3AA0:60E6:5817:34D6:4A8
 * Special:Contributions/2600:8802:E01:3AA0:A0AA:931A:F8C7:F77A
 * Special:Contributions/2600:8802:E01:3AA0:98DE:394C:8171:4C85
 * Special:Contributions/2600:8802:E01:3AA0:89E4:2D6C:BD4B:13C9
 * Special:Contributions/84.152.72.3
 * Special:Contributions/31.168.98.73

Those will likely be stale by the time they return, but I'm opening the SPI anyway since their activity is recent, and they tend to be persistent once they get going. Mac Dreamstate (talk) 18:59, 1 June 2022 (UTC)

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Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * The IPv6 range is currently blocked and 31.168.96.0/20 is partially blocked from editing the sockmaster's target pages - the other IP made one edit several days ago, so not worth any action right now. Closing. Thanks, Spicy (talk) 15:29, 3 June 2022 (UTC)