Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Duane E. Tressler/Archive

11 June 2014

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Seems to be editing under a IP to avoid another block for disruptive editing. Reported recently at the blocking administrators talk page here. Lor Chat 03:20, 11 June 2014 (UTC)

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 * FWIW, it's my opinion that this is not an instance of deliberate sockpuppetry; see my comment here. Yunshui 雲 水 10:13, 11 June 2014 (UTC)
 * I am the one who asked for Yunshui's input on this. I actually tend to agree a bit with Yunshui – that this may not be anything other than him trying to distance himself from the original account; however, the damage seems to continue.  The frustrating thing is that the account totally ignores any attempt at communication, and continues to create edits, of which 50% (imo) are needing a fix/re-write of some sort.  He would probably be a good editor if someone could just get him to read the darn MoS.  He is certainly prolific enough.   GenQuest  "Talk to Me" 12:14, 11 June 2014 (UTC)

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 * - CU cannot be used to publicly link accounts and IPs. King of &hearts;   &diams;   &clubs;  &spades; 07:03, 11 June 2014 (UTC)
 * King of &hearts;   &diams;   &clubs;  &spades; 07:06, 11 June 2014 (UTC)
 * Given the advice of Yunshui and GenQuest, I'll let them go with a warning. Closing. King of &hearts;   &diams;   &clubs;  &spades; 16:40, 11 June 2014 (UTC)

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I am convinced that this is Duane E. Tressler: they are editing exactly the same kinds of articles in the same way--US history is the topic (usually), and the game is adding dates, wikilinks, and details to the extent that the regular prose is clogged up so bad the reader will need Dulcolax. Here's Duane, and here's the IP. You can click on any of their edits (without edit summaries) and find this kind of material. (Added problem is he's been editing FAs and GAs...) They also have a pretty spectacular overlap, and the IPs geolocate to the same place. Like I said, I have no doubt, but I'd like for someone else to look at it. Thanks! Drmies (talk) 04:13, 20 September 2017 (UTC)

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 * No edits from this IP in more than 2 weeks. Case closed.  Vanjagenije  (talk)  17:10, 6 October 2017 (UTC)