Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Darkcover21/Archive

23 April 2011

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Similar pattern of edits and poor spelling/grammar - new accounts created very soon after prior one blocked. MikeWazowski (talk) 05:14, 23 April 2011 (UTC)

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All are ✅. –MuZemike 05:19, 23 April 2011 (UTC)

Due to the socks clearly trying to bust autoconfirmed in order to edit, I have full-protected Lowestoft, Lake Lothing, and Port of Lowestoft for 3 days each for excessive socking; I will keep them protected for longer if necessary. –MuZemike 05:26, 23 April 2011 (UTC)
 * Everyone's blocked and the articles protected, so we're done, I think. —  Hello Annyong  (say whaaat?!) 12:14, 23 April 2011 (UTC)

26 April 2011

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Similar editing pattern - such as here and here. Same spelling of Artical, for example, here. Focus on the same sorts of articles with the same sorts of gaming type edits. Blue Square Thing (talk) 22:05, 26 April 2011 (UTC)

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 * IP blocked 1 week for evasion. —  Hello Annyong  (say whaaat?!) 03:31, 27 April 2011 (UTC)

27 April 2011

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Reinsertion of very similar images at Lowestoft and Port of Lowestoft strongly suggests same editor. POV pushes of the same things here and here. I might let this slide for a while were it not for the nastiness that's gone on in the past. Blue Square Thing (talk) 07:18, 27 April 2011 (UTC)


 * Withdrawn - no point wasting time and effort on it - he's IP hoping and doing exactly the same stuff he was before on articles such as Lowestoft :-( Blue Square Thing (talk) 21:11, 27 April 2011 (UTC)
 * Well,, I'm for blocking the guy if he keeps this up - we need to get this checked, and possible look in to a rangeblock, if this is the same as Darkcover... MikeWazowski (talk) 21:56, 27 April 2011 (UTC)
 * If you think it's worthwhile - I did have a quick look at rangeblocking and haven't got a clue how it might apply. If you think it may work then OK, I'll change my mind. Again. Blue Square Thing (talk) 22:13, 27 April 2011 (UTC)

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 * The three articles that they've been editing on have been protected. —  Hello Annyong  (say whaaat?!) 01:30, 30 April 2011 (UTC)

27 April 2011

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Created account as Lowestoft article was being part protected following his 37 ip edits in a day. The spelling of "artical" in the AfD entry ([Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Lowestoft here]) and the generally petulant and failure to put the AfD note in the right place makes identification fairly easy I'm afraid. Blue Square Thing (talk) 22:48, 27 April 2011 (UTC)

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 * That account is already blocked. —  Hello Annyong  (say whaaat?!) 01:30, 30 April 2011 (UTC)

09 June 2011

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Similar pattern of edits and poor spelling/grammar - new account was created the day after original one blocked. Original editor has already had multiple sock accounts blocked. Interestingly, one of the Duceober's first actions was to immediately ask another editor why he always gets reverted, right after claiming to have never edited. MikeWazowski (talk) 15:41, 9 June 2011 (UTC)

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The spelling of "Created Artical" in the edit summary for the creation of Waveney Campus University is a dead giveaway. Has almost certainly also been editing with dynamic ip stuff again - all centred on Lowestoft and it's immediately surrounding area. Blue Square Thing (talk) 16:06, 9 June 2011 (UTC)

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✅, no other sleepers at a glance. TN X Man 16:57, 9 June 2011 (UTC)
 * Blocked and tagged. —  Hello Annyong  (say whaaat?!) 17:00, 9 June 2011 (UTC)