Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Cardinalsmyles/Archive

10 November 2012

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Cardinalsmyles began editing as 97.86 in late August, making a series of escalating problem edits. He/she began small, adding unsourced titles and later episode summaries that were copyright violations at List of Hawaii Five-0 episodes, all pretty "low on the nuisance scale" stuff. The problem escalated when another editor added a redirect to a non-existent season article. 97.86 began making a series of presumptive test edits adding and then removing the redirect with no edit summary. One sequence of back-to-back edits, for example:   where the redirect is attempted, then removed. Follow on the next few edits on the articles history and you'll see their attempt to add the redirect to a hidden note as well, clearly the behavior of an editor who doesn't know what he/she is doing. After the article was protected by User:Bushranger on September 9, he/she moved on to the main article, persistently re-adding a redundant cast table. . Every time the table came back, there was no edit summary, the editor refused requests to discuss on the article's talk page, and there was no response to comments and notices on his/her talk page.

Out of the blue, the editor registered as Cardinalsmyles on September 25, and the whole pattern started again, with repeated additions of the unnecessary redirect: and the cast table:. At the same time, there were other similar problems with edits adding unsourced cast, and similar problems on the article for the show The Mentalist, but I think the pattern is clear. Cardinalsmyles talk page has a long list of warnings, including a 31 hour block on October 3, before he/she was indeff'd on October 12.

The editor has now reappeared, editing from 97.85.224.28. He/she had edited on that IP once before the block, but actively began to use it on October 22. There were signs the editor was at least attempting to make some good faith edits, but now the cast table is back, with no edit summary and no discussion, so the whole thing should be starting over again if history is any lesson.

This is a duck case, to be sure. The original IP resolves to St. Louis, MO as does the new one, and the editor's user name explains itself, the Cardinals being St. Louis' baseball team. The new IP has already begun to accumulate warnings, and the pattern remains the same, with the addition of NCIS: Los Angeles (season 4) as a favorite article to edit. Let's stop this duck now. Drmargi (talk) 12:49, 10 November 2012 (UTC)

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— Berean Hunter   (talk)  22:26, 19 November 2012 (UTC)
 * Blocking 97.85.xxx.xxx 1 month for block evasion. Closing.