Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/BoxingWear/Archive

Evidence submitted by PMDrive1061
Consistent use of "Box Wear" and variations,same target articles, same illiterate edit summaries with threats of further disruption with "hundreds" of socks. PMDrive1061 (talk) 19:45, 14 August 2010 (UTC)

This idiot is now cyber-stalking me on other sites where I use the same username. I would greatly appreciate it if the IP were forwarded to me; I plan on filing a formal complaint against this individual. --PMDrive1061 (talk) 20:05, 14 August 2010 (UTC)


 * I think he got the message on the other wiki, so I'll hold up my end of the deal and not file a complaint. No need to forward the IP to me at this point.  --PMDrive1061 (talk) 20:32, 14 August 2010 (UTC)

Scratch that; he's still at it. Please let me know what the IP is; I will be filing a complaint the moment I get it. Thanks. --PMDrive1061 (talk) 20:41, 14 August 2010 (UTC)


 * PMDrive1061: With all due respect, it is not the duty of a check user to forward you the IP of a disruptive user, even under these circumstances. That information is considered confidential, hence why only Checkusers can view that information.  If there is an issue, file a complaint with your local authorities.  Upon request, Wikipedia, as well as the other sites where you are being stalked will be more than willing to provide investigators with the information. --ANowlin: talk 20:45, 14 August 2010 (UTC)

Damn it, the little bastard is now impersonating me with a bogus YouTube account. Without the IP, I'm screwed. I don't have admin rights at Eflightwiki.com and he is out of control. I have no way of contacting the admin on that site and YouTube/Google is closed until Monday. I am in serious trouble here!! PMDrive1061 (talk) 20:58, 14 August 2010 (UTC)

Yes, please forward the information to Eflightwiki and to YouTube. I have e-mailed YouTube, filed for assistance on a cyber-stalking help site and I've just e-mailed my local authorities inquiring as to what I need to do to initiate an investigation. This has stopped being fun and I refuse to have some faceless coward attempt to ruin my reputation on the internet. It'sbeen fun until now. PMDrive1061 (talk) 22:08, 14 August 2010 (UTC)

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Quack Quack!. I see no point for a CU, but that's just my 2 cents... --ANowlin: talk 20:48, 14 August 2010 (UTC)

Oh, yeah? Take a look at what he's done to me:  and. What is it going to take? I know legal threats aren't allowed, but if I have to, I'll make one. This idiot kid is trying to destroy me. PMDrive1061 (talk) 21:00, 14 August 2010 (UTC)

Thanks loads. I have now had to blank my Eflightwiki pages and still it continues. I quit. --PMDrive1061 (talk) 21:12, 14 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Don't let him get to you. That's what he wants. --Bsadowski1 21:15, 14 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Please note that I have already tagged them as suspected sockpuppets of that user. As far as I can tell, this user is BoxingWear. I feel a checkuser also might be necessary in this case. Sjones23 (talk - contributions) 19:04, 15 August 2010 (UTC)

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 * The accounts have been globally locked. Bsadowski1 23:39, 14 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Though normally releasing IPs isn't allowed per Privacy policy, I'll leave it to a CU's sound judgment what actions to take in this particular case. . Timotheus Canens (talk) 13:12, 15 August 2010 (UTC)
 * These editors come from a public library in a major metropolis; I'll make the IP information available by email request. (In other words, I don't have an email contact for PMDrive.) --jpgordon:==( o ) 02:03, 16 August 2010 (UTC)
 * You do now. :)  I stopped by in the hopes that this might happen.  Please do send me the info.  Eflightwiki has it as well, but the technical limitations won't let him e-mail it.  I'll be contacting that library system and Google/YouTube first thing tomorrow.  Thank you very much.  --PMDrive1061 (talk) 04:22, 16 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Still don't see contact info for you anywhere. --jpgordon:==( o ) 04:42, 16 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Should be OK now. I reverified the e-mail address and reenabled being able to receive emails.  I'll stay online for a bit.  Thanks, JP.  --PMDrive1061 (talk) 04:47, 16 August 2010 (UTC)
 * email scent. --jpgordon:==( o ) 04:55, 16 August 2010 (UTC)
 * E-mail got. Smells wonderful.  :)  Thanks.  --PMDrive1061 (talk) 15:23, 16 August 2010 (UTC)

29 May 2014

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Vandalism of Talk:BoxRec shows very similar patterns here and here. has been banned as a sock of. MaxBrowne (talk) 02:24, 29 May 2014 (UTC)

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 * Already blocked, closing. King of &hearts;   &diams;   &clubs;  &spades; 11:43, 30 May 2014 (UTC)

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To those not familiar with this case, this is an LTA with a very long history. This user is commonly referred to "George Reeves Person" and persistently makes harassments toward various users on and off-wiki. He is now globally banned by the Wikimedia Foundation. He has some other old accounts, including Projects (CentralAuth).

Some typical interests of this editor include boxing, chess and more. He also tends to spam certain external links in talk pages or edit summaries. Meanwhile, it is his common behavior to create more than one sock accounts at the same time.

Sygurdtoja made this edit: diff, mywikibiz link spamming, also note Iraq & the Guardian. This was done at Talk:Qusay Hussein.

Gogforever made this edit: diff, linking the Guardian with Iraq in the URL, done at Talk:Iraq War, a related topic of the above.

A few other non-stale socks include: Goingforwardd, Tskvikalegacy, Indonesianflower, Aliforever2, Finetree2, Indonesprez, Remembertelaviv, Telavivshot, Telavivtel, Indocomunist and probably a lot more, with behavioral match (technical as well, mostly from steward side) though I wouldn't get into details here.

While checkuser may verify the relation between accounts, checking additional socks will be helpful, because I report these socks to stewards for locking and almost every time additional ones are found. IP blocks may also be feasible as this user sometimes (re-)uses Comcast Business, library/edu IP and so on, possibly frequenting some specific locations. -★- PlyrStar93  → Message me. ← 23:27, 14 May 2019 (UTC)

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Thank you Plyrstar for your help on this. I've been removing this guy's rubbish for more than 13 years. (If anyone ever has any question whether a sock is him or not, just ask me. I recognize him.) His harassment, on and off wiki, is accelerating again to pre-2015 levels, so it's just a matter of time until he ends up back in jail. Antandrus (talk) 23:51, 14 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Is this the one I follow at User:Meters/marciano spammer? Meters (talk) 04:13, 15 May 2019 (UTC)
 * -- Yes, that's him. Antandrus (talk) 04:18, 15 May 2019 (UTC)
 * -- highly unlikely -- if it's the library IP (you don't have to comment) there are other people there. I see three separate things in that account that he never does. Antandrus (talk) 14:10, 17 May 2019 (UTC)

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 * ✅ to a ton of globally locked accounts. could also be him, but I'd prefer someone more familiar with the case see if the userpage creations fit a pattern. TonyBallioni (talk) 14:03, 17 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Closing. TonyBallioni (talk) 14:11, 17 May 2019 (UTC)

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Special:Diff/899124647 - Posting again contents of boxing, rock, etc. Added some link which are diffs of older socks' edits. For example: en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Roland_La_Starza&diff=863286138&oldid=853792770 links to Rocky50rocky's edit. -★- PlyrStar93  → Message me. ← 20:20, 30 May 2019 (UTC)

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Oh, sorry, reverted him but forgot to block, was in the middle of something else. It's the Reeves guy/BoxingWear. Antandrus (talk) 21:08, 30 May 2019 (UTC)

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 * Account now blocked. Closing. Bbb23 (talk) 22:46, 30 May 2019 (UTC)

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Same edit at talk page for rocky/boxing/mywikibiz spam: diff. Previous sock edit: diff. -★- PlyrStar93  → Message me. ← 07:56, 9 June 2019 (UTC)

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 * Globally locked, closing.. &#8208;&#8208;1997kB (talk) 16:42, 9 June 2019 (UTC)
 * Globally locked, closing.. &#8208;&#8208;1997kB (talk) 16:42, 9 June 2019 (UTC)

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More spamming at talk page about Rocky Marciano/boxing stuff: Special:Diff/903486568; the link goes to edits made by 99.245.110.185's edit at simplewiki (see the edit summaries) -★- PlyrStar93  → Message me. ← 23:40, 26 June 2019 (UTC)

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 * Already blocked. NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 12:20, 27 June 2019 (UTC)

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Continuing link spam of mywikibiz: Special:Diff/904562397; another domain he usually spams: Special:Diff/904562468. -★- PlyrStar93  → Message me. ← 03:55, 3 July 2019 (UTC)

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It's absolutely him -- have blocked, and also added to the global steward requests. Antandrus (talk) 04:31, 3 July 2019 (UTC)

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More ali/baker/marciano spamming: diff; diff -★- PlyrStar93  → Message me. ← 03:21, 7 July 2019 (UTC)

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Yup, absolutely - duly banhammered. (Would still be helpful to a quick check for other socks.) Antandrus (talk) 03:25, 7 July 2019 (UTC)
 * The following accounts are ✅ to each other:
 * I've blocked 1851london1851, which, along with Bigbobbaker, should be globally locked. ? In the future, if you want a CU, a reasonable request in this instance, please change the status to CU – it will get quicker attention. Thanks.--Bbb23 (talk) 14:16, 7 July 2019 (UTC)
 * Ok, thanks! Antandrus (talk) 14:17, 7 July 2019 (UTC)
 * Locked both. -- Ajraddatz (talk) 15:22, 7 July 2019 (UTC)
 * I've blocked 1851london1851, which, along with Bigbobbaker, should be globally locked. ? In the future, if you want a CU, a reasonable request in this instance, please change the status to CU – it will get quicker attention. Thanks.--Bbb23 (talk) 14:16, 7 July 2019 (UTC)
 * Ok, thanks! Antandrus (talk) 14:17, 7 July 2019 (UTC)
 * Locked both. -- Ajraddatz (talk) 15:22, 7 July 2019 (UTC)
 * Locked both. -- Ajraddatz (talk) 15:22, 7 July 2019 (UTC)

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Recalltotal: Spamming link, boxing, etc: diff, which links to a facebook page full of nonsense words.

Bobbakerbig: same old as older sock.

Probably should CU to find other accounts, as my experience of dealing with this sockmaster has shown that they love to create other socks. -★- PlyrStar93  → Message me. ← 00:21, 10 July 2019 (UTC)

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Thanks. That's unfortunate, but more or less consistent with what I have seen. This editor does edit with IP, either at enwiki or other projects. I have seen their IP hopping all over the world in a very short period of time so I am certain he is using some proxy/VPN service, but don't know which ones, and the IP when looked up almost never show as known proxy (most of them look like home internet IP). -★- PlyrStar93  → Message me. ← 00:50, 10 July 2019 (UTC)

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/ (use of probable proxies). .--Bbb23 (talk) 00:35, 10 July 2019 (UTC)

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Talk page linking to an edit of another sock: 1, and all the nonsense about baker/marciano: 2. It's now clear that this sock master has been using proxies/VPN around the world though, so behavioral link can take more weight in. -★- PlyrStar93  → Message me. ← 23:17, 20 July 2019 (UTC)

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Yes, it's GRP/BoxingWear (small possibility it's a copycat) -- I blocked. (An aside about the recent copycat situation -- since they're both equally banned, they're equally blockable, and it actually doesn't matter.) I requested a CU to look for other socks. Antandrus (talk) 23:36, 20 July 2019 (UTC) — Berean Hunter   (talk)  01:55, 22 July 2019 (UTC)
 * Same as before. / (use of probable proxies).


 * Thanks. I blocked him here, and he's blocked on several other wikis. He's on a tear on nl: but I put in a steward request. Antandrus (talk) 02:57, 22 July 2019 (UTC)


 * Case closed.  Vanjagenije  (talk)  00:51, 23 July 2019 (UTC)

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Again. Linking chess page to Wikibooks (although the page is already deleted). -★- PlyrStar93  → Message me. ← 22:37, 6 August 2019 (UTC)

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An edit at a chess related page and same spamming at a talk page. Boxing/boxer spamming at talk page. I could take a wild guess this individual is using proxies again. -★- PlyrStar93  → Message me. ← 03:37, 21 August 2019 (UTC)

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It's absolutely him, and I've blocked both -- and requested CU to find sleepers he may have made. (Yes, he's using proxies -- you can even see them in his edits at the same time on Wikisource and Polish Wikiquote.) Antandrus (talk) 03:46, 21 August 2019 (UTC)
 * + . Blocked the unblocked account without tags.--Bbb23 (talk) 02:19, 22 August 2019 (UTC)
 * Tagging and closing.  Vanjagenije  (talk)  18:22, 22 August 2019 (UTC)

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Just some usual boxing spam, nothing out of ordinary from this guy: 1, 2. The behavioral link is clear and I wouldn't be surprised if CU doesn't turn up positive despite the fact that he creates socks now and then. -★- PlyrStar93  → Message me. ← 17:18, 23 August 2019 (UTC)

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Editing Brockton related page (Brockton High School and the talk page), cf. Loversupreme

Adding this site - Special:Diff/912810271, same as another already blocked sock - Special:Diff/912782199 -★- PlyrStar93  → Message me. ← 02:23, 28 August 2019 (UTC)

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Yes, it's him -- thanks -- I've blocked, but please CU to find any sleepers. Antandrus (talk) 02:39, 28 August 2019 (UTC) ✅ — Berean Hunter   (talk)  21:19, 28 August 2019 (UTC)
 * edits to Russian wiki here