Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Copernicus1234/Archive

27 January 2015

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Some of these accounts have already been blocked as socks; however, I do not believe that there has been an SPI, which makes it difficult for non-admins to deal with new cases. The user is currently reusing one of his never-blocked earlier accounts. Comments by User:RHaworth are here.

An SPA who has been active on Wikipedia for at least 7 months uses multiple accounts and IPs to create long (typically more than 100 kB and sometimes as long as 340 kB) physics papers. They are usually signed "Ben T Ito"; however, in the now-deleted User:Bentsutomu/sandbox the full name was given as "Ben Tsutomu Ito." The papers are not written as Wikipedia articles, and are never put into article space. They are written in userpages or user sandboxes, or the Wikipedia sandbox, typically in one enormous edit of the full paper, followed by hundreds of small edits. The user makes virtually no other Wikipedia edits and does not respond to contact attempts on his userpage, or to warnings for multiple accounts and inapropriate userpages:. Similar (or identical) material is on various web forums, created by users with users with similar names to the Wikipedia users (see 2013 posts by Ben Ito with modifications by Copernicus 1234 on for example), suggesting that Wikipedia is being used as free webspace to store or modify material for web postings.

Examples that have been speedied U5 and/or copy vio so no diffs of the original content possible:
 * User:Bentsutomu/sandbox
 * User:Bentsutomu1234/sandbox
 * User:Bentsutomu12345
 * User:Canyouhearmeknocking415
 * User:Canyouhearmeknocking4157/sandbox
 * User:Canyouhearmeknocking41579 (current version is a recreation after a U5 speedy)
 * User:Coolcatgogo (speedy deleted after Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/User:Coolcatgogo)
 * User:Copernicus1234
 * User:Copernicus1234/sandbox
 * User:Largemouthbass324/sandbox
 * User:Lightning1234
 * User:Lightningstorm1234/sandbox

Recent examples of typical edits still visible in the Wikipedia sandbox history:
 * Bentsutomu1234
 * 137.150.101.170
 * 137.150.101.227
 * 137.150.101.187 Meters (talk) 00:04, 27 January 2015 (UTC)

Canyouhearmeknocking41579 has now also been blocked. The userpage paper was deleted again and the page recreated with a sock template. Meters (talk) 22:18, 27 January 2015 (UTC)

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 * I've put together an anon-only, account-creating range block to help limit the disruption. In addition to the accounts that are stale and/or already blocked I also blocked, , , and . This may be a case where an edit filter could be useful if the blocks prove ineffective. -- Jezebel's Ponyo bons mots  23:44, 27 January 2015 (UTC)