Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Bsnwisbr/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets



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What is obviously a single person has over the past few days repeatedly made virtually identical edits on John Green (author), adding fake death date and death place (Hell, Michigan...), using multiple IPs and this named account (which is the only named account I have seen doing it). Having a named account, and an SPI, to connect new IPs to will make it easier to connect them all together... - Tom &#124; Thomas.W talk 17:39, 31 May 2017 (UTC)
 * ... or someone who travels (no two IPs were used on the same day) or uses open proxies. Multiple IPs geolocating to different places making identical edits with identical edit summaries etc etc, showing that it's a single editor, are fairly common (even a couple of our more frequent long-term vandals, such as the "Best known for-IP", have frequently used IPs in different locations, even different continents...). - Tom &#124; Thomas.W talk 18:30, 31 May 2017 (UTC)
 * To quote a decision by the Arbitration Committe in 2005: "... when there is uncertainty whether a party is one user with sockpuppets or several users with similar editing habits they may be treated as one user with sockpuppets" (Sock puppetry). - Tom &#124; Thomas.W talk 18:43, 31 May 2017 (UTC)

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 * Three different ISPs in three different locations. More likely different people reacting to some social media thing? --Neil N  talk to me 18:10, 31 May 2017 (UTC)
 * At least one IP shows as static. Plus all the edits were slightly different. --Neil N  talk to me 18:35, 31 May 2017 (UTC)


 * John Green (author) semi-protected by . As that was only targeted article and will put a stopper in the disruption, I'm closing this report.-- Jezebel's Ponyo bons mots 20:52, 31 May 2017 (UTC)