Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Bemben17/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets



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Cross-wiki abuse: See also see Commons:Special:Log/Mazur97 and Commons:Special:Log/Bemben17 (included below with their timestamps).

This vandal has been active from at least 2016-12-12 to 2019-03-03 (yesterday) and uses a mix of misleading edit summaries and more obvious ones. I haven't found evidence of logged-in accounts until 2019-02-23 however.

Oldest traced vandalism found is from 31.0.34.12; a year later came  by 37.28.152.246, followed moments later by  by 195.181.172.68, which is where the Harwood Heights, Illinois ("Harwud") references start. From that edit until yesterday, the common topics seem to be that specific village near Chicago, Illinois, a specific deli, and a specific non-notable living person, sometimes with disparaging comments about the person; many of these are also likely WP:BLP violations: See this MfD. There is also some vandalism of articles about a Cook County board member and a couple of Polish people, and it appears the sockpuppet could speak Polish at least once (sorry, I forgot which diff). Recently created vandalism-only accounts Bemben17 (en.wp and Commons) followed by Mazur97 (Commons only) to upload doctored images of the non-notable person and insert them into high-visibility articles about Chicago and politicians.

I can provide the characteristic names and phrases (public or private) the sockpuppet uses if administrators want to go searching for more sockpuppets. No need for CheckUser, since this one quacks long and hard.

Here's a merged en.wp+Commons log and history of the activity from the last 2 weeks. (Note: Some IPs missing because they were added after this was first filed.) Please excuse the lack of diff links in this section; I copy-pasted history and log then did some regex magic to get these in order. All are UTC timestamps. In particular, you can see that 109.173.157.81, Mazur97, and Bembem17 are all doing the same thing in the same timeframes:
 * 2019-02-23T22:28:14 109.173.157.81 (en.wikipedia) +2,546‎ Krzysztof Kononowicz ‎ added infobox.
 * 2019-02-23T22:39:12 109.173.157.81 (en.wikipedia) -55‎ President of Poland ‎ corrected a mistake (pased -> passed)
 * 2019-02-23T22:39:44 109.173.157.81 (en.wikipedia) +8‎ President of Poland ‎ corrected a mistake (pased -> passed)
 * 2019-02-23T22:42:31 109.173.157.81 (en.wikipedia) -2‎ Krzysztof Kononowicz ‎ birthplace
 * 2019-02-23T23:05:21 User account Bemben17 (Commons) was created automatically
 * 2019-02-23T23:11:17 Bemben17 (Commons) uploaded File:Bemben4.jpg (User created page with UploadWizard)
 * 2019-02-23T23:13:44 Bemben17 (en.wikipedia) -13‎ m Krzysztof Kononowicz ‎ Actual photo
 * 2019-02-23T23:15:46 Bemben17 (en.wikipedia) -13‎ m President of Poland ‎
 * 2019-02-23T23:29:07 Bemben17 (en.wikipedia) +60‎ rm President of Poland ‎
 * 2019-02-23T23:34:07 Bemben17 (Commons) uploaded File:Harwuddeli.jpg (User created page with UploadWizard)
 * 2019-02-23T23:37:11 Bemben17 (Commons) uploaded File:Mazur.png (User created page with UploadWizard)
 * 2019-02-23T23:41:00 Bemben17 (en.wikipedia) -29‎ rm Harwood Heights, Illinois ‎ updated info
 * 2019-02-23T23:41:54 Bemben17 (en.wikipedia) -3‎ m Harwood Heights, Illinois ‎
 * 2019-02-23T23:43:32 Bemben17 (en.wikipedia) +27‎ rm Harwood Heights, Illinois ‎
 * 2019-02-23T23:53:21 Bemben17 (en.wikipedia) +19‎ rm Harwood Heights, Illinois ‎
 * 2019-02-24T00:00:41 Bemben17 (Commons) uploaded File:Caleesh.jpg (User created page with UploadWizard)
 * 2019-02-24T00:02:41 Bemben17 (en.wikipedia) -37‎ m Macho Man (song) ‎
 * 2019-02-24T00:20:33 Bemben17 (en.wikipedia) +1,076‎ m Maryla Rodowicz ‎
 * 2019-02-24T00:20:56 Bemben17 (en.wikipedia) +11‎ rm Maryla Rodowicz ‎
 * 2019-02-24T00:26:01 Bemben17 (en.wikipedia) +37‎ m Macho Man (song) ‎ Undid revision 884785486 by Bemben17 (talk) current Tag: Undo
 * 2019-02-24T16:51:58 Bemben17 (Commons) uploaded File:Stanmazur.png (User created page with UploadWizard)
 * 2019-02-24T16:54:26 Bemben17 (Commons) uploaded File:Harwood heights deli.jpg (User created page with UploadWizard)
 * 2019-02-24T16:55:49 Bemben17 (en.wikipedia) +33‎ m Harwood Heights, Illinois ‎
 * 2019-02-24T17:41:01 Bemben17 (en.wikipedia) +42‎ m Harwood Heights, Illinois ‎
 * 2019-02-24T17:53:07 Bemben17 (en.wikipedia) +27‎ m Harwood Heights, Illinois ‎
 * 2019-02-24T18:06:31 Bemben17 (Commons) uploaded File:Harwood heights deli.jpg (User created page with UploadWizard)
 * 2019-02-24T18:06:31 Bemben17 (Commons) uploaded File:Stanmazur.png (User created page with UploadWizard)
 * 2019-02-24T18:06:48 Bemben17 (Commons) uploaded File:Bemben4.jpg (User created page with UploadWizard)
 * 2019-02-24T20:41:03 Bemben17 (en.wikipedia) +2,545‎ m Krzysztof Kononowicz ‎
 * 2019-02-24T20:41:33 Bemben17 (en.wikipedia) +587‎ m Maryla Rodowicz ‎
 * 2019-02-24T20:45:32 Bemben17 (en.wikipedia) +153‎ m President of Poland ‎
 * 2019-02-24T20:49:01 Bemben17 (en.wikipedia) +2,545‎ m Krzysztof Kononowicz ‎ Undid revision 884914095 by Wham2001 (talk) Tag: Undo
 * 2019-02-24T20:51:14 Bemben17 (en.wikipedia) -104‎ m Podlaskie Voivodeship ‎
 * 2019-02-24T20:51:52 Bemben17 (en.wikipedia) +2,545‎ m Krzysztof Kononowicz ‎
 * 2019-02-24T20:52:43 Bemben17 (en.wikipedia) +153‎ m President of Poland ‎
 * 2019-02-24T20:53:07 Bemben17 (en.wikipedia) +587‎ m Maryla Rodowicz ‎
 * 2019-02-24T21:45:16 Bemben17 (en.wikipedia) +102‎ m Harwood Heights, Illinois ‎
 * 2019-02-24T21:45:37 Bemben17 (en.wikipedia) +1,213‎ m Maryla Rodowicz ‎
 * 2019-02-24T21:46:06 Bemben17 (en.wikipedia) +153‎ m President of Poland ‎
 * 2019-02-24T21:46:28 Bemben17 (en.wikipedia) +2,545‎ m Krzysztof Kononowicz ‎
 * 2019-02-24T21:46:49 Bemben17 (en.wikipedia) +210‎ m Podlaskie Voivodeship ‎
 * 2019-02-24T21:52:14 Bemben17 (en.wikipedia) +5,807‎ m User talk:Wham2001 ‎
 * 2019-02-24T21:53:46 Bemben17 (en.wikipedia) +102‎ m Harwood Heights, Illinois ‎ Undid revision 884923115 by Wham2001 (talk) Tag: Undo
 * 2019-02-24T22:06:59 Bemben17 (en.wikipedia) +102‎ m Harwood Heights, Illinois ‎ fuck off wham2001
 * 2019-02-24T22:15:03 PhilKnight (en.wikipedia) blocked Bemben17 with an expiration time of indefinite (account creation blocked) (Disruptive editing)
 * 2019-02-26T17:58:23 109.173.157.81 (en.wikipedia) -16‎ Toni Preckwinkle ‎ Tag: possible BLP issue or vandalism
 * 2019-02-26T18:02:26 109.173.157.81 (en.wikipedia) -16‎ Toni Preckwinkle ‎ Undid revision 885214198 by Gilliam (talk) Tags: Undo, possible BLP issue or vandalism
 * 2019-02-26T18:39:16 User account Mazur97 (Commons) was created
 * 2019-02-26T18:40:54 Mazur97 (Commons) uploaded File:Stanmazur.png (User created page with UploadWizard)
 * 2019-02-26T19:07:32 109.173.157.81 (en.wikipedia) -2,833‎ Toni Preckwinkle ‎ Tags: possible BLP issue or vandalism, references removed
 * 2019-02-26T19:09:13 109.173.157.81 (en.wikipedia) -96‎ Toni Preckwinkle ‎ Tags: possible BLP issue or vandalism, references removed
 * 2019-02-26T19:11:18 109.173.157.81 (en.wikipedia) -96‎ Toni Preckwinkle ‎ Undid revision 885223809 by TwoTwoHello (talk) Tags: Undo, possible BLP issue or vandalism, references removed
 * 2019-02-26T19:12:13 Jauerback (en.wikipedia) blocked 109.173.157.81 with an expiration time of 31 hours (anon. only, account creation blocked) (Vandalism)
 * 2019-03-03T01:25:31 Mazur97 (Commons) uploaded File:Nazoor.jpg (User created page with UploadWizard)
 * 2019-03-03T01:28:07 109.173.157.81 (en.wikipedia) -25‎ r Mayor of Chicago ‎ typos
 * 2019-03-03T01:32:29 109.173.157.81 (en.wikipedia) -25‎ Mayor of Chicago ‎ Undid revision 885896529 by Paulthomas2 (talk) Tag: Undo
 * 2019-03-03T01:49:38 Mazur97 (Commons) uploaded File:Sealofil.jpg (User created page with UploadWizard)
 * 2019-03-03T01:51:34 109.173.157.81 (en.wikipedia) -2‎ r Governor of Illinois ‎ small changes
 * 2019-03-03T02:14:01 Mazur97 (Commons) uploaded File:Illinoisusa.jpg (User created page with UploadWizard)
 * 2019-03-03T02:14:47 109.173.157.81 (en.wikipedia) -14‎ r Illinois ‎ typo
 * 2019-03-03T02:21:58 109.173.157.81 (en.wikipedia) -21‎ Harwood Heights, Illinois ‎ typo
 * 2019-03-03T02:26:30 Mazur97 (Commons) uploaded File:Stannaz.jpg (User created page with UploadWizard)
 * 2019-03-03T02:28:01 109.173.157.81 (en.wikipedia) -91‎ Masurians ‎
 * 2019-03-03T04:27:38 31.0.87.40 (en.wikipedia) -14‎ r Illinois ‎ Tag: Undo
 * 2019-03-03T12:06:28 31.0.87.40 (en.wikipedia) -91‎ Masurians ‎ Tag: Undo Closeapple (talk) 07:02, 4 March 2019 (UTC)

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Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments
Bemben17 is blocked & locked, Mazur97 is locked. The IPs are too widespread & stale (& we're not going to block all Poznan or Warsaw). Nothing left to do. Closing. Cabayi (talk) 08:55, 11 March 2019 (UTC)