Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Fête/Archive

21 July 2013

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IP editor immediately making exactly the same sorts of problematic edits as blocked editor
 * adding French pronunciation to Help:IPA for Cantonese despite this being the English WP
 * asking editors questions highlighting their ignorance of pronunciation, (compare with ),  JohnBlackburne wordsdeeds 15:14, 21 July 2013 (UTC)

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 * No evidence of abuse; the account last edited in January. He is allowed to just ditch his account forever and edit anonymously, you know, as long as he doesn't attempt to portray himself as two different people. As for the multiple IPs, that's something beyond his control. King of &hearts;   &diams;   &clubs;  &spades; 00:28, 23 July 2013 (UTC)
 * Just to note the global lock on the master, which I initially failed to notice. Not blocking the IPs as they are probably dynamic, but this will be useful for future reference. King of &hearts;   &diams;   &clubs;  &spades; 06:42, 24 July 2013 (UTC)

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Fête is a user globally locked for cross-wiki abuse. Globally locked accounts include:
 * (locked 2 January 2013)
 * (locked 3 January 2013)
 * (locked 3 January 2013)
 * (locked 20 January 2013)
 * (locked 27 January 2013)
 * (locked 16 April 2013)
 * (locked 22 April 2013)
 * (locked 22 April 2013)
 * (locked 20 October 2014)
 * (locked 9 September 2016)

Blocked on some wikis, but not here or globally, are:

One of the things Fête has kept doing over the years as IPs or using socks, in addition to editing Quebec French phonology citing no sources, is ask Erutuon (and Johnny Au) about pronunciation recordings in Quebec French, for who knows why.


 * User talk:Erutuon/2013 (and the subsequent sections)
 * User talk:Erutuon/2014
 * User talk:Erutuon/2015
 * User talk:Erutuon/2015
 * User talk:Erutuon/2017
 * User talk:Erutuon/2019

In February 2020, asked Erutuon a similar question again and, under a different IP,, responded to Erutuon saying they are indeed Fête (diff). They've continued asking Erutuon similar questions (perma).

On 27 May 2020, edited Le Plateau-Mont-Royal to add a mention of a restaurant in the borough called Khyber Pass. This caught the attention of Materialscientist, who blocked the account for promotion. Then 138.229.19.202 asked Materialscientist why it was blocked, connecting Khyber Pass to Fête.

While I know there is no apparent imminent abuse, given their history of cross-wiki abuse and sockpuppetry, I'm placing this to keep a record and to suggest seeing if there is any further abuse. Nardog (talk) 16:18, 30 May 2020 (UTC)

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 * Not just that, but Fête also frequently asked me about the key signature of various Cantopop songs. I will let all of you know if Fête or any of his socks are active. Johnny Au  (talk/contributions) 01:39, 2 June 2020 (UTC)

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 * - Everything is too stale for CU except one IP who admits to being KyberPass - Special:Diff/959624452 - so no CU needed. Cabayi (talk) 16:52, 30 May 2020 (UTC)
 * IP blocked 1 mo. Closing. Cabayi (talk) 16:58, 30 May 2020 (UTC)

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User asked me to determine the key signature of various Cantopop songs, which is very characteristic of Fête and his socks. Johnny Au (talk/contributions) 14:06, 28 July 2020 (UTC)

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The music is my interest. 138.229.19.202 (talk) 14:51, 28 July 2020 (UTC)
 * Yes, the music is your interest and I respect that. However, my talk page, as with the vast majority of Wikipedians' talk pages, is made to communicate changes to be made on Wikipedia and is not a general place to chat about anything per WP:CHAT. Johnny Au  (talk/contributions) 00:22, 29 July 2020 (UTC)

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 * Impressive that our IP friend made his way here so quickly without being notified of the SPI, that's not suspicious at all. Since this appears to be a static IP (this IP just came off of a 1-month block for the same block evasion), bumped to 3 months. GeneralNotability (talk) 00:32, 29 July 2020 (UTC)
 * Thanks. Johnny Au  (talk/contributions) 00:35, 7 October 2020 (UTC)

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The static IP is back inserting OR:. Nardog (talk) 23:21, 16 November 2020 (UTC)

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 * Blocked the IP for another year. Closing. -- RoySmith (talk) 17:13, 20 November 2020 (UTC)

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See below. TonyBallioni (talk) 22:29, 2 January 2022 (UTC)

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 * ✅ and . Closing. TonyBallioni (talk) 22:30, 2 January 2022 (UTC)