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13 July 2012

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User:Tasketz Kayo edited mostly on pages related to the record label Anticon. I reported him for edit warring on these pages, mostly over discography changes, in this EDITWAR report, and on July 1 he was blocked for one week. After the one-week ban, Kayo continued edit warring and was blocked for a month almost immediately. The block was carried out on July 8 here. Kayo appealed this block and his appeal was denied on July 10.

On July 11, a crop of new editors appeared editing Anticon-related pages in much the same style Kayo was doing. Compare the following diffs:


 * User:KKK Life
 * On DJ Mayonnaise: Tasketz Kayo edit on July 8, KKK Life edit on July 11. Editing the same page, making discographical changes in a similar style, the latter fixing the former's mistake in the category.


 * User:Panda Gold
 * User only edits pages Kayo created or previously worked on:, , . Repeatedly linking the article Telephone Jim Jesus which Kayo had created three days previously (an obscure Anticon-signed rapper).


 * User:Brenjen
 * One edit to Anticon page, removing many external links similar to Kayo's actions on a different page a few days earlier.


 * User:F C K Y
 * On Darc Mind: Kayo edit on July 8, F C K Y edit on July 11. Both editing discography; the July 11 edits change the discographical style slightly, because Kayo had been blocked, in part, for unilaterally removing record label information. FCKY's discography formatting patterns are exactly the same as Poet4life's patterns (e.g., compare and ). Also, note that this username is "FUCK YOU" with the vowels removed.


 * User:LazyEditorsRuinWikipedia
 * One edit to Alias (artist), an Anticon-signed rapper: . Kayo previously edited heavily. Discographical changes, addition of links to obscure and recently created Kayo-authored pages such as Alias & Tarsier, Alias & Ehren (created from redirect), Brookland/Oaklyn, and Giga Single. Here is Kayo linking some of the same pages. Also, this username is probably inappropriate.


 * User:Poet4life
 * on Alias (artist): Kayo edit on July 8, Poet4life edit on July 11. Major discographical changes, Poet4life adds to the guest appearance section which Kayo fleshed out a few days earlier. Poet4life has continued Kayo's edit war in the same fashion on the Alias page (compare the edit summaries of e.g. Kayo and Poet4life, citing the exact same guideline as a justification for a revert). Whenever I make changes to the discography on the Alias page, Poet4life reverts it in exactly the same way Kayo did, and for which he was blocked twice.

There was also editing to Tobacco (musician) by new User:Rijkhamout, but the style of the edits appears to be sufficiently different that this may be another person. Since some of the above accounts only edited once or twice (but all edits they made were suspiciously similar to Kayo's style and were all on pages previously in Kayo's stomping grounds), I requested a checkuser (the admin who blocked Kayo also suggested this). The patterns are more visible over the gamut than within any single account action. Of these accounts, Kayo appears to be moving on with User:Poet4life as his primary block-evading sockpuppet, the only one to make edits for more than one day. Chubbles (talk) 16:56, 13 July 2012 (UTC)

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 * To me it looks very much like the same user. Paul Erik  (talk) (contribs) 18:15, 13 July 2012 (UTC)

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 * - Dennis Brown -  2&cent;    &copy;  03:05, 14 July 2012 (UTC)
 * And also a lot of logged out edits. If these accounts continue to appear, multiple rangeblocks may be necessary. Hers fold  (t/a/c) 18:43, 14 July 2012 (UTC)
 * Blocked/tagged the lot. -- DQ  (ʞlɐʇ)  23:40, 14 July 2012 (UTC)
 * And also a lot of logged out edits. If these accounts continue to appear, multiple rangeblocks may be necessary. Hers fold  (t/a/c) 18:43, 14 July 2012 (UTC)
 * Blocked/tagged the lot. -- DQ  (ʞlɐʇ)  23:40, 14 July 2012 (UTC)
 * And also a lot of logged out edits. If these accounts continue to appear, multiple rangeblocks may be necessary. Hers fold  (t/a/c) 18:43, 14 July 2012 (UTC)
 * Blocked/tagged the lot. -- DQ  (ʞlɐʇ)  23:40, 14 July 2012 (UTC)
 * And also a lot of logged out edits. If these accounts continue to appear, multiple rangeblocks may be necessary. Hers fold  (t/a/c) 18:43, 14 July 2012 (UTC)
 * Blocked/tagged the lot. -- DQ  (ʞlɐʇ)  23:40, 14 July 2012 (UTC)
 * And also a lot of logged out edits. If these accounts continue to appear, multiple rangeblocks may be necessary. Hers fold  (t/a/c) 18:43, 14 July 2012 (UTC)
 * Blocked/tagged the lot. -- DQ  (ʞlɐʇ)  23:40, 14 July 2012 (UTC)
 * And also a lot of logged out edits. If these accounts continue to appear, multiple rangeblocks may be necessary. Hers fold  (t/a/c) 18:43, 14 July 2012 (UTC)
 * Blocked/tagged the lot. -- DQ  (ʞlɐʇ)  23:40, 14 July 2012 (UTC)
 * And also a lot of logged out edits. If these accounts continue to appear, multiple rangeblocks may be necessary. Hers fold  (t/a/c) 18:43, 14 July 2012 (UTC)
 * Blocked/tagged the lot. -- DQ  (ʞlɐʇ)  23:40, 14 July 2012 (UTC)
 * And also a lot of logged out edits. If these accounts continue to appear, multiple rangeblocks may be necessary. Hers fold  (t/a/c) 18:43, 14 July 2012 (UTC)
 * Blocked/tagged the lot. -- DQ  (ʞlɐʇ)  23:40, 14 July 2012 (UTC)
 * Blocked/tagged the lot. -- DQ  (ʞlɐʇ)  23:40, 14 July 2012 (UTC)

17 July 2012

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User:Tasketz Kayo/User:Cvlwr back again. The former user banned for disruptive edit warring on discographies, as noted in detail in previous report. Originally opened a SOCK case for Kayo on July 11th, and this investigation resulted in his being indefinitely banned for block evasion and use of multiple puppets.

Boom Baptist's first edit was an unremarkable change to a Sufjan Stevens template; his second was a revert of an IP on the page S / S / S, a page created by Tasketz Kayo. Given the behavior detailed in the previous report (new accounts returning to make significant edits on pages created by the users Cvlwr and Tasketz Kayo), I was already pretty sure he was back, and I left the standard welcome template on the user talk page (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Boom_Baptist&action=history). He responded by leaving a templated warning message about not following the Manual of Style, and added a note about the guideline Manual of Style/Lists of works. (diff). This is exactly the same edit war Kayo/Cvlwr and his puppets were carrying out; see e.g. this edit from blocked sockpuppet User:Poet4life, this edit from User:Tasketz Kayo citing the same guideline.

The remainder of his edits continue the edit war he fought as Kayo and as Poet4life. E.g. on Alias (artist), Boom Baptist reverts in exactly the same way Poet4life did (e.g. ). On Beans (rapper), Boom Baptist again cites the same guideline Kayo previously cited. On the page Darc Mind, we see the only editor of this page aside from myself is this person; the page was created by Cvlwr, edited by Kayo, then by blocked sock User:F C K Y after Kayo was blocked, and now with Boom Baptist, carrying on the longstanding edit war (though thankfully with diminishing returns; he's started adopting some of what I was advocating and for which I obtained consensus).

Boom Baptist has also brought the edit war to pages I recently created:, ,. He currently appears engaged in going through my edit history and changing the style on pages I've created:, , , ,. He is currently active and making a large number of edits at this time.

Since this is a case of block-evading sockpuppetry, I requested another checkuser as suggested in the page instructions. Chubbles (talk) 16:42, 17 July 2012 (UTC)

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— Berean Hunter   (talk)  19:09, 17 July 2012 (UTC) — Berean Hunter   (talk)  19:42, 17 July 2012 (UTC)
 * - to confirm block evasion and check for sleepers.
 * Highly . . . Tiptoety  talk 19:26, 17 July 2012 (UTC)
 * Tagged and closing.

22 August 2012

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A little over a month ago, articles relating to the independent hip-hop label Anticon were besieged by a series of accounts operated by User:Tasketz Kayo/User:Cvlwr, eventually leading to a block of all the accounts for sockpuppetry, edit warring, and refusal to discuss changes. The previous investigation noted that he had also accumulated "a lot of logged out edits", but a rangeblock was not pursued at the time.

The operator of these accounts, I allege, did not leave. He continued editing under dynamic IP addresses, but since he had mostly dropped the edit-warring tendencies he showed earlier and was making more or less wikignomish edits that were uncontroversial, I didn't pursue the matter further. WP:AGF, right? Persistent editing on Anticon artists has continued, as well as his branching out into independent Canadian and American hip-hop artists in a rather narrow genre range, all from Tokyo-area IP addresses. To wit:


 * 125.172.73.163: edit to Open Mike Eagle, previously edited by Cvlwr  and with a host of logged-out edits previously. Adds reference to new album in the same manner Cvlwr and Kayo previously did. edit to Fake Four Inc, discographical additions similar to the edits of several socks of Cvlwr (several edits included in that diff, by Cvlwr, Tasketz Kayo, and blocked sock Rap-A-Lot).


 * 123.224.218.10: discographical edit to Open Mike Eagle in exactly the same style as Cvlwr/Kayo (e.g., compare this similarly styled edit of mostly discographical changes).


 * 118.6.234.12: edit to Son Lux, previously heavily edited by Tasketz Kayo. This IP's edits were immediately recognized as the same person by an involved admin and reverted. Same with this edit to S / S / S, created by Kayo and a place where, with accounts and as an IP, Kayo/Cvlwr repeatedly editwarred over discography presentation. The history of the page makes this clear.


 * Foxcon: No action needed here as the account was already blocked as an obvious sock, but this was not part of the previous SPI's and I am noting it here so that it can definitively be tagged as a sock of Cvlwr.


 * 114.145.39.84: Carried on Tasketz Kayo's bitter editwar for a day under this account; the actions of this account were documented in the second archived case. The IP was blocked for a week. Obvious example: blocked sock of Cvlwr, IP edit making exact same changes after reversion.


 * 221.184.76.152: Discographical changes to the Anticon pages Anathallo and Thee More Shallows conducted immediately after Kayo's ban. Kayo edits the Thee More Shallows discography; after reverting, so does the IP. Kayo edits the Anathallo discography; after reverting, so does the IP. He just couldn't leave it alone; he hated the tables, and when the bans took effect he felt a compulsion to tweak them.


 * 122.29.5.9: history of an album page created by Tasketz Kayo. The page is redirected; immediately afterward, this IP restores the article with a detailed rationale of its notability. Also edits to the discography of Baths (musician): Kayo edits, and after reversion, so does the IP (note the changes to the table are exactly the same as those listed for 221.184.76.152 above).


 * 221.184.81.160: Two edits, both to pages created by Tasketz Kayo: Raleigh Moncrief and Watered Lawn, an album by this Anticon artist. discographical edits in Kayo's style (compare ).


 * 122.21.252.181: edits exclusively to Anticon artists and related articles (albums, etc). Discographical edits (e.g., in the same style.


 * 118.8.19.94: edits related to Open Mike Eagle, the same as the first IP listed above, 125.172.73.163. Here he cleverly gets around not being able to create albums as an IP, and creates an album article in exactly the same style Kayo used to (compare ). notes Open Mike Eagle on the Serengeti (rapper) page.


 * 114.145.190.64: Follows the edits of 118.8.19.94, the previous entry. edits the C.A.R. (album) page, which had just been created (as noted) by the previous IP. Edits to Anticon artists previously heavily edited by Cvlwr/Kayo/their socks: Serengeti (rapper), Odd Nosdam, Jel, Why?. Discographical edits in the same style.


 * 122.21.228.93: one edit (besides a templated warning) reverting vandalism on a page extensively edited by Cvlwr under an IP (note clear pattern of discographical changes that indicates the April IP editor is the same as Cvlwr).


 * 122.26.254.96: edits to Anticon talk page demanding reliable sources for inclusions and to the anticon page itself.


 * 114.164.249.119:creates an article from a redirect about an independent hip-hop musician, links to Busdriver, heavily edited by Cvlwr and his socks; links to Jel, an Anticon artist heavily edited by Cvlwr and socks; links to Fear of a Black Tangent, an indie hip-hop album heavily edited by Cvlwr and socks.


 * 123.225.58.135: Edits consist almost entirely of additions to Anticon and related artists favorited by Cvlwr/Tasketz Kayo/socks: Alias, Doseone, Jel, Odd Nosdam, Sole, etc. Edits the 2Mex page mentioned in the prior IP section here, doppelganging my discographical edits (as he has constantly done).


 * 125.174.198.187: edits to the Astronautalis page change the discography in the hallmark Cvlwr/Kayo style. same for the Bleubird page (compare ; rearranging of discography style exactly the same).


 * 118.6.190.40: demands reliable sources on Baths (musician), previously edited by him as 122.29.5.9 noted above and as Tasketz Kayo.


 * 124.102.105.223: mass removal of information, more mass removal on Jneiro Jarel; you'll note the style of this discography is laid out as Cvlwr/Kayo always did, but these were done previously under several IP addresses. Cites WP:BLPREMOVE, all well and good, right? I reverted, questioning the applicability of the policy in this case to everything removed, and...


 * 123.224.224.117: a new edit war continues under a new IP. He reverts again, citing WP:ROWN (not exactly a BRD moment, here, and classically in the same adversarial reversion style Kayo/Cvlwr previously demonstrated). He then immedately template-warnings me about edit-warring, even though I made only a single edit to the page in the past year. He would later discover the real problem, which was a copyright violation.

Cvlwr, thus, is back, or more appropriately, he never left. Am requesting a checkuser since it was recommended, and I did so, in the previous two investigations. Chubbles (talk) 04:03, 22 August 2012 (UTC)

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 * ✅ the following are socks of Cvlwr:


 * I ran through all the previous IP ranges given in the previous sock investigation where the farm was found.
 * I was found somewhere (ballparking, don't take my word) 1:5 to 1:10 user to IP ratio when running these checks, so i'm convinced some rangeblocks need to be made.
 * I want another CU to weigh in on the possible rangeblocks to be made, instead of myself. -- DQ  (ʞlɐʇ)  04:52, 24 August 2012 (UTC)
 * You should make short range-blocks if you believe you can, but the network address blocks are far too large to feasibly block; I did not see any addresses assigned to a block smaller than  or /10 . I am also not aware of any urgent need to take preventative action against this socker, given that he has been almost inactive this month.  AGK  [•] 18:19, 27 August 2012 (UTC)
 * That's true, I haven't seen any activity in the past week or so, at least in the corners I have on my watchlist. Chubbles (talk) 21:51, 28 August 2012 (UTC)
 * But hey...what's going on here? 94.12.133.144, an IP that's been blocked a couple of times, spent much of today tagging sockpuppets, and G5'ing articles that Cvlwr/Tasketz created. It's a bit bizarre... Chubbles (talk) 21:57, 28 August 2012 (UTC)


 * I came to this through Saroos, an article I had AfD'd and on which  the only  voter was User:122.29.121.121 -  highly likely go be user:Cvlwr the creator, but  only  the CheckUser will  know if the named accounts are also in  Tokyo or use  the same ISP.. All  the IPs with the exception of 94.12.133.144 geolocate to  Tokyo and use the same ISP,  and edited from 4 June to 22 August. 94.12.133.144 geolocates to Ipswich  England and started editing on 14 August after being blocked as a sock of a named account, so  he can't have been in  two  places at  once unless he uses an open proxy. Do  we know   knows what  that named  account was?. I  suspect a good hand/bad hand at work here or the return of a RTV.  Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 12:56, 29 August 2012 (UTC)


 * Chubbles isn't suggesting that 94.12.133.144 is User:Cvlwr, merely that the actions of 94.12.133.144 are a bit odd. memphisto 14:06, 29 August 2012 (UTC)
 * I fully realise that, and that's why I did my own research. The unanswered question remains. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 14:26, 29 August 2012 (UTC)
 * Answering my  own  question, the editor is fairly  certain  to  be User talk:Hto9950 who appears not  to  have fulfilled the conditions imposed by the blocking declining admin at  User talk:94.12.133.144.  [User:Kudpung|Kudpung กุดผึ้ง]] (talk) 15:47, 29 August 2012 (UTC)
 * See also User talk:2.216.191.10. This is all possibly a case for another noticeboard. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 15:58, 29 August 2012 (UTC)
 * So 92.12.133.144 has been blocked, and Cvlwr began reverting 92's reversions; in the past couple of days, he's edited (WP:DUCK) as 118.8.45.35, 118.6.216.79, and 122.30.84.173. Chubbles (talk) 03:52, 1 September 2012 (UTC)


 * Marking for close, if we have any more reports of activity, lets go with a new case. -- DQ  (ʞlɐʇ)  15:00, 5 September 2012 (UTC)

07 September 2012

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Longstanding block-evasion by Cvlwr/Tasketz Kayo continues as a dynamic IP. Cvlwr now creates articles as an IP and has them submitted and approved through AFC since we have blocked his dozens of puppet accounts. This is a pretty clear WP:DUCK if you've been through the previous reports, but to go through the motions:

114.164.227.26: Tokyo-area IP editing in North American independent hip-hop discographies, as we have seen in previous reports. Submits to AFC an immaculately-curated article about a compilation album. (Compare style to Giga Single, an almost identically formatted independent hip-hop compilation created by the banned sock Tasketz Kayo.) Is successful at AFC with this article. (I'm willing to bet nearly every artist linked in the Tags of the Times 3 comp has been edited by this user; we know from previous reports that 2Mex was edited by him as 123.225.58.135 and no doubt he is also 118.6.216.79, on Buck 65 he is probably 122.17.183.199, 122.26.230.24, and 124.85.229.159, he heavily edited Doseone under his own socks and as an IP, and on and on...).

60.46.40.193: Tokyo-area IP links to the Tags of the Times 3 compilation, created by the previous IP, on several pages, e.g. Mr. Dibbs, Doseone, Aesop Rock, 3 Melancholy Gypsys. Clearly the same person.

Rangeblocks have been recommended twice now but not pursued. Requesting checkuser has I have for all previous reports on this editor, and for the same reasons. Chubbles (talk) 18:07, 7 September 2012 (UTC)

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— Berean Hunter   (talk)  19:49, 7 September 2012 (UTC)
 * I have made one, no new accounts found. -- DQ  (ʞlɐʇ)  19:46, 7 September 2012 (UTC)
 * Nothing else to do here so closing.

10 September 2012

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Tokyo-area IP editing North American independent hip-hop. Edits to K-the-I???, a page previously edited by socks Tasketz Kayo and Cvlwr (see history), and Pedestrian (rapper), a page created by Cvlwr (see history). Under this IP, the fellow has moved on to harassing another editor of independent hip-hop articles, Wetdogmeat (some seemingly ugly goings-on at Talk:Noah23/Temp). Chubbles (talk) 05:21, 10 September 2012 (UTC)

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What exactly are you asking for? You've only listed one IP address; are you suspicious of others? Or other registered accounts? SPI can't really do anything if you're just complaining about the conduct of a single IP, there are other venues for that. Basa lisk inspect damage⁄berate 11:58, 10 September 2012 (UTC)
 * Sorry, this is another report in an ongoing pattern of block-evasion. I've filed four or five reports in the past couple of months on User:Tasketz Kayo/User:Cvlwr (see archived material), who has created twenty-some accounts and, now that we've gone and blocked them all, is evading his blocks by editing under dynamic IPs, but nevertheless continues editing prolifically. I'm presuming that every time I find another WP:DUCK of him I should report it, as he seems to have no intention of leaving and is using the anonymity of dynamic IPs to get around all attempts we have made to stop him from editing (he submits new articles to AFC or creates them from redirects, and IP-hops to keep editing). Past reports have resulted in rangeblocks being suggested, but they have not been pursued. If rangeblocks are not the answer, I guess I'm asking, what is? Because blocking his accounts hasn't accomplished anything. Chubbles (talk) 18:01, 10 September 2012 (UTC)

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 * CheckUser . Per the Privacy Policy, with the exception of extreme circumstances, we are not allowed to publicly link a named account to an IP address. This will have to handled via the regular channels. Tiptoety  talk 05:08, 11 September 2012 (UTC)
 * Okay. So for a sockpuppeteer who has moved on to using IP addresses to continue editing, what are the regular channels? Up until this point, I thought I was in the right place. Chubbles (talk) 07:06, 11 September 2012 (UTC)
 * This is the right place, by "regular channels" I mean an SPI case without the assistance of a CheckUser. Sorry for the confusion, Tiptoety  talk 07:07, 11 September 2012 (UTC)
 * Okay. I requested CU because I had, and had been encouraged to, for all previous reports. Chubbles (talk) 07:15, 11 September 2012 (UTC)
 * As the IP has not edited in over a week, I'm going to close this. Please feel free to submit another report if there is more suspected socking. ​—DoRD (talk)​ 19:00, 18 September 2012 (UTC)

21 September 2012

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As per the last several reports, User:Cvlwr/User:Tasketz Kayo continues to edit with dynamic IP addresses, popping up every couple of days with a new IP and continuing edit wars. This is a classic WP:DUCK, a Tokyo-area IP editing in independent North American hip-hop. Here he edits a page previously edited by both of his main socks. Here is another example. He's been harassing User:Wetdogmeat, engaging in a rather concerted effort to be WP:TENDENTIOUS (have a look at all the warnings on Wetdogmeat's talk page, and see how many of them were placed by Tokyo-area IPs). I've been here an awful lot over this fellow, and wish I had a less labor-intensive way of dealing with him. Chubbles (talk) 20:19, 21 September 2012 (UTC)

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— Berean Hunter   (talk)  13:43, 26 September 2012 (UTC)
 * Agree this is him but it wouldn't do any good to block the IP now as it hasn't edited in several days. I don't know of a better way than doing what you are doing right now. Rangeblocks wouldn't work here and I'm not sure that page protection is warranted due to low frequency of edits.

28 September 2012

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User:Cvlwr refuses to go away. These are Tokyo-area IPs editing in independent North American hip hop, often making discographical edits with characteristic formatting.

114.165.30.136: First edit is to Isaiah Toothtaker, an independent hip-hop artist whose article, I established in previous SPI cases, was created by this banned user as a dynamic IP at AFC. Edits to Nosaj Thing principally concerned with the formatting of discographies, in precisely the same style Cvlwr has used in all previous SPI cases. Edits to Daedelus also include major discography formatting changes, Free the Robots changes in the same style. Since this is a classic WP:DUCK of the banned user, I summarily reverted his edits...

114.164.225.165 ...and then this IP reverted them all back, in the classic combative style we saw in the first SPI case. one, two, three reverts and a templated warning calling my edits a joke.

Whenever I submit a report, it sits for a few days and then closes, and then he returns to editing again. He may be aware of these proceedings. Chubbles (talk) 18:49, 28 September 2012 (UTC)

Update, Oct 2 2012: new IP, 114.163.221.203, reverts Wetdogmeat to restore articles created by Cvlwr sock User:Tasketz Kayo: Alias & Tarsier, Serengeti & Poyphonic, Alias & Ehren. A WP:DUCK if ever I saw one. Chubbles (talk) 20:11, 2 October 2012 (UTC)

Update: new IP, 114.145.38.52, reverts all my reversions and template-warnings my talk page. See IP edit history. Chubbles (talk) 23:24, 2 October 2012 (UTC)

Update: new IP, 114.164.39.75, leaves templated warning message on my talk page. Chubbles (talk) 23:40, 2 October 2012 (UTC)

Update: Noticed suspicious discographical edits to Eligh by 123.225.77.69, and reverted them as a likely sock; soon after my edits were reverted by 114.164.34.223. Chubbles (talk) 22:51, 5 October 2012 (UTC)

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— Berean Hunter   (talk)  20:33, 2 October 2012 (UTC) — Berean Hunter   (talk)  23:34, 2 October 2012 (UTC)
 * Blocked 114.163.221.203 to prevent further usage today.
 * ..and 114.145.38.52, too. Placing a few protections in place to thwart him.

— Berean Hunter   (talk)  00:00, 3 October 2012 (UTC) — Berean Hunter   (talk)  14:08, 8 October 2012 (UTC)
 * to check for collateral damage in rangeblocks. I want to start looking at /16 blocks he's using.
 * I made one block, the other, 114.164.0.0/16 has a little more collaterial on it, but not by much and a soft block would be fine if the community feels it could be of benefit. -- DQ  (ʞlɐʇ)  02:42, 3 October 2012 (UTC)
 * In view of the massive extent of the Cvlwr socking, I concur that a softblock would be appropriate, or even a temporary  hardblock for the other IP, but as consensus has been asked for, we need some more admin input before I could block and declare this ready for closure. Perhaps those clerks who  are admins could chime in and do  the necessary. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 00:51, 6 October 2012 (UTC)
 * I'd concur with Kudpung. I think softblocking should be adequate, but hardblocking in the short term wouldn't be out of the question. I think with one other clerk concurring I'd feel OK proceeding. NativeForeigner Talk 02:53, 8 October 2012 (UTC)
 * This clerk/admin agrees with you.
 * We should probably run it then. It's been over a year and a half since I've done a rangeblock. Let me check into what I need to do (or somebody else could do it.) NativeForeigner Talk 06:04, 9 October 2012 (UTC)
 * Since when can IPs do range blocks? Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 16:36, 8 October 2012 (UTC)

— Berean Hunter   (talk)  19:22, 9 October 2012 (UTC)
 * 114.164.0.0/16 soft-blocked 1 month and closing.

14 November 2012

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WP:DUCK. Longstanding Tokyo-based dynamic-IP editing from this banned editor was quiet in the past few weeks, at least so far as my watchlist was concerned (correction - User:Wetdogmeat reported him here for harassment on November 6). This evening he came back with a spate of new edits under this IP. He began by editing at least a dozen pages I created - in fact, aside from The Waco Brothers, which was a page I edited heavily and which I link to on my userpage, it looks like Cvlwr was looking at my userpage list of self-created articles, clicking on links that interested him, and then editing the contents. Since most of his additions were formatting cleanup and addition of infoboxes, I thought it mostly counterproductive to revert him, though I suppose this might be considered borderline harassing, since it's focused around me and he's a banned editor. 114.164.14.154 edits Ashley Beedle, The U.M.C.'s, Kings Go Forth (band), Cristian Vogel, Dam-Funk, Ida Kavafian, Tami Lynn, Maureen Evans, Thomas Otten, Creative Construction Company, Vasily Polikarpovich Titov, and Barry Young (musician). These are all musicians which have no connection to each other except that I created all the articles and include them in a list on my userpage. Then he edits Anticon, the page he's focused his energies on since he was active in creating multiple accounts and abusing them months ago. Then he goes back to editing pages I created - Eleventyseven, Randy Brown (musician).

He's not done for the night. I don't know whether I should procedurally revert everything he's done since he is a banned user editing illegitimately; I'm not particularly unhappy with most of what he's done today. Nevertheless, I am absolutely done assuming good faith with this fellow, and am reporting his return to nip him in the bud, since waiting around until he did something really unsavory didn't work out for me too well in the past. Chubbles (talk) 07:26, 14 November 2012 (UTC)

Update: he just edited Jneiro Jarel, a previous target of his as an IP (under the addresses 124.102.105.223 and 123.224.224.117). He has edited this page today as 114.164.30.97 and 114.164.14.154. I reverted both edits; he simply reinstituted his changes in the second edit, in the same classic no-discussion reversion style we've seen from Cvlwr/Tasketz Kayo in previous SPI investigations. Chubbles (talk) 07:36, 14 November 2012 (UTC)

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I think it's time to do a range block. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 15:09, 17 November 2012 (UTC) — Berean Hunter   (talk)  02:51, 20 November 2012 (UTC)
 * I've softblocked 114.164.0.0/16 for 3 months (no collateral damage was ascertained before my last rangeblock). Note he has also used 114.165.18.59 and 114.163.206.113. Closing.

22 November 2012

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Today, I redirected the title Bunky & Jake, intending it to point to the established article Bunky and Jake. I accidentally redirected the title to itself, however. This IP, a Tokyo-area address, redirected to the correct title. He then added a full infobox to this article; see previous similar behavior by established IP socks of Cvlwr (e.g., 114.164.14.154 on The UMCs, Kings Go Forth, etc.). The IP's third edit was to Anticon, the unwavering focus of Cvlwr's energies for the past year or more. . This also indicates, as did the previous SPI report, that the IP is stalking my edits. Chubbles (talk) 02:13, 22 November 2012 (UTC)

This is only getting stranger...a new Tokyo-area IP, 60.46.55.63, directly follows up my edits to Ashley Cleveland with a correction. His only other edit was to his own talk page, apparently a headline about Barack Obama pardoning turkeys. It feels like the fellow is hounding me. Chubbles (talk) 20:56, 22 November 2012 (UTC)

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Soft blocked 1 week. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 05:54, 22 November 2012 (UTC)

60.46.55.63 soft blocked 2 weeks. I'm going to do this systematically to all these now until, if ever, we get a complaint for collateral damage. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 00:49, 23 November 2012 (UTC)
 * Closed, per above. Reaper Eternal (talk) 16:30, 27 November 2012 (UTC)

04 January 2013

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This fellow, it seems, is never leaving, and can't seem to accept that his edits are no longer wanted, good or bad. Tokyo-area IP in the 114.163 range (frequented by Cvlwr in previous SPI investigations) edits Illogic, an American underground hip-hop artist (Cvlwr's favorite area), adding discographical information in Cvlwr's characteristic formatting. I reverted; a new account, DJ Quietstorm, came along and restored the edits. More WP:DUCK, and if you've seen the previous SPI cases this should look pretty familiar. Chubbles (talk) 06:16, 4 January 2013 (UTC) Chubbles (talk) 06:16, 4 January 2013 (UTC)

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 * Blocking the socks and closing. Reaper Eternal (talk) 19:02, 5 January 2013 (UTC)

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Immediately after the blocking of the above socks (reported on Jan 4), a new user returned to the Illogic page and reverted my edit again, mirroring the behavior of the sock User:DJ Quietstorm. The user seems to have a limitless patience for creating new accounts to pester me. Chubbles (talk) 22:14, 5 January 2013 (UTC)

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 * Already blocked by  Elockid. Needs cleanup and closing by  clerks. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 01:07, 6 January 2013 (UTC)

06 January 2013

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This user added the name "DJ Quietstorm" to his userpage, an obvious sock of the blocked accounts above, and then proceeded to needlessly redirect a bunch of things, including an article I had just written. Chubbles (talk) 20:52, 6 January 2013 (UTC)

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 * Blocked. Nothing useful from checkuser unfortunately. <b style="color:navy;">NW</b> ( Talk ) 14:59, 7 January 2013 (UTC)