Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Brucvaldo/Archive

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While updating the performance histories of Donizetti operas, I came across several articles on obscure pieces by that composer such as Imelda de' Lambertazzi where the revision history would seem to show that two IP's and one editor with a name, Brucvaldo, had revised the article together. I knew immediately that they must be the same person as this is an extremely obscure piece that even hard core opera fans have never heard of. Not only that but the three accounts share an obsession with adding long screeds of unreferenced material about the original singers to these articles such as Brucvaldo's ,2600:1017:B826:8E9C:3902:D8C8:10BF:6403's  and 72.43.99.130's. These three accounts have "collaborated" in writing a long unsourced section about the original star singers of this extremely obscure piece,editors who usually work on opera articles here would never do such a thing as we don't put material like that into individual opera articles. There is the same sort of thing in the article on Maria de Rudenz,also by Donizetti, not quite as obscure as the first, but nearly. Brucvaldo adding chunks of unreferenced stuff about the original cast ,2600:1017:b812:d687:6d88:cdfd:2020:d237 pitching in to help ,72.43.99.130 adds more of exactly the same kind of thing. It is not credible that these are three different people obsessively adding material that no one knows about except true diehard Donizetti fans, in a way that is completely against any WP standards. I could go on and on. They also love to add lengthy, usually unreferenced, quotes from 19th century reviews, as in the article Marino Faliero (opera), another obscure Donizetti work- Brucvaldo, 2600:1017:b812:d687:6d88:cdfd:2020:d237 72.43.99.130. They also share a fondness for creating long long lists, mostly unsourced of early performances of these pieces. Yesterday I reverted four articles back to before these changes started, having previously left a note on 72.43.99.130's talk page and 72.43.99.130 told me to "go fuck yourself and die". Today I notice that Brucvaldo was indefinitely banned and talk page access removed in March 2017 for, among other things, saying to an editor that was correcting their spelling and usage of English "you sound like a fag. go fuck yourself". These three accounts are obviously, clearly the same person, "Brucvaldo" has been using the two IP accounts to fill articles on obscure Donizetti operas up with a lot of stuff that only interests a tiny segment even of opera fans. It says you have to explain why a checkuser is needed but I don't know whether it is or not, it seems crystal clear to me but I would like the investigation to use all possible resources. Thanks Smeat75 (talk) 21:05, 19 April 2018 (UTC)

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We don't publicly disclose the IP(s) of named accounts. CU declined.--Bbb23 (talk) 00:44, 20 April 2018 (UTC)
 * IP's now stale. Sro23 (talk) 02:00, 15 May 2018 (UTC)