Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/CastellanetaFan/Archive

05 January 2014

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users moving articles en masse from narrower category to Category:Jewish American actors, against consensus and after repeated warnings. — Brianhe (talk) 06:26, 5 January 2014 (UTC) Brianhe (talk) 06:26, 5 January 2014 (UTC)

Selected examples of many:
 * Zero Mostel ,
 * Mel Blanc ,
 * Mel Brooks, ,

They also edit each others' talk page comments:
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And repeat the same "too many syllables" "explanation" of these changes:
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Comments by other users
''Accused parties may also comment/discuss in this section below. See Defending yourself against claims.'' (Disclosure: I came here after being notified on my talk page). -- Brown HairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 16:15, 5 January 2014 (UTC)
 * Comment. Both ShortTermer and CastellanetaFan appear to have focused their editing on depopulating Category:Jewish American male actors, despite a consensus to keep the category at WP:CFD 2013 September 11. ShortTermer was aware of that decision, having posted at Category talk:Jewish American actors where the CFD was linked. The report of the Editor Interaction Analyzer shows that 49 of ShortTermer's 153 edits were to pages also edited by CastellanetaFan. Checkuser could establish whether the SPA ShortTermer is actually a sock of CastellanetaFan.


 * Comment. I came here after starting a Sockpuppet investigation against Shorttermer and saw the open investigation against CastllanetaFan. On 2 separate occasions I warned ShortTermer about Sockpuppetry as you can see, ShortTermer deleted my warning and then undid his deletion using one of his socks without realizing he was on the wrong account, and then I had to warn him a second time with this. I believe he has been using at least 8 different sockpuppet accounts. Sarty72 (talk) 07:20, 6 January 2014 (UTC)

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 * Endorsing check on named accounts per behavioral evidence above. Mark Arsten (talk) 20:08, 6 January 2014 (UTC)
 * Named users are ✅., except to note that they all (2602:306:37eb:49e0::/64) likely belong to one AT&T subscriber. ​—DoRD (talk)​ 23:08, 6 January 2014 (UTC)
 * Sock blocked indef and master blocked one week per CU findings. Listed IPs are too stale to take action against. Closing now. Mark Arsten (talk) 05:27, 7 January 2014 (UTC)

25 March 2014

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[] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] CastellanetaFan (talk) is up to his old tricks, he is going through changing categories from Jewish American Male actors to Jewish American actors just like he was doing before receiving a block for it back in January. maybe you can do a check user to see if it is indeed CastellanetaFan (talk) but to me it sure is WP:QUACK Kyyp Durron (talk) 04:23, 25 March 2014 (UTC)

All right, I admit, it. I was doing edits while unlogged, but I didn't think it was exactly counted as sock-puppetry. This one was on 20th Century actors besides, not Jewish. There is a world of difference. I don't want to be blocked, I have been on this site quite prominently and just because of being picky about certain phrases, doesn't mean I can never be trusted. Please forgive me --CastellanetaFan (talk) 06:31, 25 March 2014 (UTC)

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The master was effectively doing the same thing as before; there's not a "world of difference". The IPs he was using were removing Category:Jewish American male actors as well as other similar changes. I also don't buy that he didn't know what he was doing when he was doing these edits without being logged in. I've indeffed the master. The last edits from the IPs are a bit stale, one last used on March 25 and the other on March 23, so I've left them alone.--Bbb23 (talk) 16:16, 28 March 2014 (UTC)

05 April 2014

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As you can see, Special:Contributions/CastellanetaFan (User talk:CastellanetaFan) wrote to Special:Contributions/Hahc21 (User talk:Hahc21) claiming to be sorry and asking for his account back, promising not to edit until September 1st [] []. Then today someone in the same IP range started up with his same old editing mischief [] he is using quite a few ip's [] to continue his past behavior so I suggest an ip range block or else he will just continue to evade the block and vandalize anonymously. Kyyp Durron (talk) 21:19, 5 April 2014 (UTC)

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The IP who admitted they were a puppet hasn't edited since March 29. The new one is obviously CastellanetaFan (same range, which I believe is over 16,000 addresses) and once again confirms the empty promises of socks. However, I don't know how to set a range block that is reasonable in size and will serve your purpose. Plus, do we have any other IPs in this range that are editing on behalf of CastellanetaFan? After all, even the most recent IP only made two edits.--Bbb23 (talk) 22:56, 5 April 2014 (UTC)
 * /64 range blocked for 6 months. That should take care of all the IPs. Elockid  ( Talk ) 01:57, 7 April 2014 (UTC)