Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Exnihilox/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets
The IP has carried on a fairly disruptive level of editing at Rochdale after Exnihilox clearly gave up - nearly being taken to 3RR/ANI yesterday. However it's clear from the IP's edits and edit summaries that this is the same person. If you want further proof, go back to both editor's first edits in early June - both appear on the exact same day 4 June 2023. The IP states in talk:Wilfred Owen (a war poet) "I first came across WO's work - 1974 in prep. for O-Level English Lit."(diff). Note that Exnihilox's edits largely focus on war poets too, but then there's this edit at Talk:GCE Ordinary Level (United Kingdom) (diff) where Exnihilox talks about O-Level exams in 1974.

So both know about O-level exams in 1974, both edit articles to do with War Poets, both appeared on 4 June, both edit Rochdale - but the IP only starts editing once Exnihilox realises the game is up on Rochdale following a period of tendentious and disruptive editing. Per WP:DUCK I hear a very very loud quacking sound. 10mmsocket (talk) 20:54, 24 June 2023 (UTC)


 * The final nail in the coffin, so to speak, is this rant on the IP's talk page (diff). Same language, same shouty caps style. 10mmsocket (talk) 21:00, 24 June 2023 (UTC)

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Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * The "nail in the coffin" mentioned above, with the editing overlap at Rochdale, is already convincing enough. Blocked, closing. ~ ToBeFree (talk) 21:08, 24 June 2023 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets
Same ISP, same geographical area as previous IP used as Exnihilox sockpuppet. Used on Siegfried Sassoon when edits got controversial and challenged by other users. Now, despite block on Exnihilox and previous IP is using another IP in the /64 range to carry on editing articles. It's definitely him because he is editing submarine-related articles, as Exnihilox did with 2023 Titan submersible incident 10mmsocket (talk) 10:45, 26 June 2023 (UTC)
 * After his blocked on 24 June, the IP carried on editing. These edits by the IPV6 address (diff) to Rescue of Roger Mallinson and Roger Chapman are to a submarine incident-related article - something that Exnihilox has also looked at recently (diff) in 2023 Titan submersible incident. That same IPV6 range was used to edit the Siegfried Sassoon article multiple times, e.g. diff1 around 05:00 UTC on 21 June, and diff2 around noon/13:00 UTC on 21 June. Both times the IP made edits shortly after Exnihilox. To me, the fact that the IPV6 address in the /64 range edited the Sassoon article interchangeably with Exnihilox, just as 172.220.81.119 did with Exnihilox at Rochdale shows they are the same person. Then, after being blocked, he goes on to use the IP to edit another area of interest shows that he isn't bothered about being blocked and is carrying on (albeit only on two articles before stopping). 10mmsocket (talk) 08:57, 27 June 2023 (UTC)
 * 1 diff fixed ~ ToBeFree (talk) 19:00, 28 June 2023 (UTC)

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Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * The geographical area encompassing and  is rather wide. I'm generally willing to place a long-duration anonblock to require logging in when editing from the IPv6 range, but a diff or two wouldn't hurt. ~ ToBeFree (talk) 19:41, 26 June 2023 (UTC)
 * Thanks – requiring login for users from this IP address range for a year. Closing. ~ ToBeFree (talk) 19:08, 28 June 2023 (UTC)