Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/BigDwiki/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets



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User:BigDwiki was blocked for edit-warring on Waterman–Smith Building, the seventh-largest building in Mobile, Alabama. During the block, an IP address from New York with no other edits reverted the article to BigDWiki's preferred version, a version that selectively omits positive information from a source while retaining negative, changing the obvious intention of what the publisher intended. It's hard to imagine how an IP with no other edits would find this article unless outside of sock/meatpuppetry. BigDWiki has a history of making axe-grinding edits toward a number of Alabama-related articles,. Addendum: another IP from the NYC area subsequently jumped in and has been blocked. OhNo itsJamie Talk 16:28, 19 October 2019 (UTC)

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Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * This will need an oversighter since everything is suppressed. Reaper Eternal (talk) 17:05, 19 October 2019 (UTC)
 * reviewing. — xaosflux  Talk 17:06, 19 October 2019 (UTC)
 * 75... has no currently suppressed edits; 172...'s and BigDwiki's edits to Waterman–Smith Building are of similar content. — xaosflux  Talk 17:14, 19 October 2019 (UTC)
 * Additional note, "similar content" in that they are both regarding the same topic - not that they are syntactic matches. — xaosflux  Talk 17:44, 19 October 2019 (UTC)
 * After review with Xaosflux, this does not appear to be sock puppetry by BigDwiki. Closing. Reaper Eternal (talk) 17:23, 19 October 2019 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets



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Swarm blocked on November 2 for disruptive editing. Most of BigDWiki's top-edited pages were related to Alabama (mostly Mobile, AL). One of their few non-Alabama interest was Jazz Jennings. Their contributions on Jazz Jennings and Talk:Jazz Jennings have mostly been suppressed, but they appear to have been related to an effort to include Jennings' legal name on the page. Several of those edits were initially reverted by User:EvergreenFir (diff of revert)

Today (November 10) an Alabama-based IP user attempted to offer an oppose !vote in EvergreenFir's RFA, citing that editor's reverting of people who tried to include Jennings' legal name as a reason to oppose. Nblund talk 00:06, 11 November 2019 (UTC)

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 * Note; I suspect that BigdWiki has a job that gives him access to other IP from different geographic areas, so I wouldn't be surprised if CheckUser didn't come up with anything conclusive. The "voice" on those diffs (in addition to the circumstances), however, strikes me as very similar to BigDWikis. Also, I recently blocked two IPs from LA that attempted to reinstate BigDWiki's POV edits I'd previously removed here and here. One looks liked a colo, so I blocked the whole kit-and-caboodle. OhNo itsJamie Talk 00:30, 11 November 2019 (UTC)

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 * IP blocked and tagged. The IP appears to be static and likely a secure proxy (i.e. not an open proxy), and since the evidence here indicates it's being used for block evasion I have hardblocked it for one year. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 11:53, 11 November 2019 (UTC)