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27 September 2015

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Chaoyangopterus has begun using his older wikipedia account (Falconfly) to edit pages (Hyaenodontidae, various pages on different creodont taxa etc) on Wikipedia. Notice prior to this recent dust-up of activity-- this all happened after attention was brought that he was citing sources as supporting his view when upon review of those papers there is no evidence in any of them that his views are supported at all, FalconFly has been an inactive account. 71.236.93.51 (talk) 22:55, 27 September 2015 (UTC)

Please see recent edits on Hyaenodontidae. 157.182.165.25 (talk) 15:17, 28 September 2015 (UTC)

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 * - compare those two (see: and [[User:Vanjagenije| Vanjagenije]  (talk)  23:25, 30 October 2015 (UTC)
 * The two accounts are ✅. I've blocked and tagged the puppet. What do you want to do with the master? He should either be indefinitely blocked or given a warning. Given that he hasn't edited since September 28, a short block makes little sense.--Bbb23 (talk) 14:55, 31 October 2015 (UTC)
 * I issued him a warning. Closing this now.  Vanjagenije  (talk)  16:18, 31 October 2015 (UTC)

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Abusively adding WP:OR about the mammal Ichthyoconodon being a flying mammal:  Lythronaxargestes (talk &#124; contribs) 22:43, 21 November 2017 (UTC)

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 * While I won't completely rule out sockpuppetry, there isn't enough to act on here. Their common position isn't so far-fetched that there can't be more than one person trying to add it to Wikipedia, and there are some important differences between the two. Closing without action. Sir Sputnik (talk) 22:27, 2 December 2017 (UTC)

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Good afternoon, a recently banned user, Falconfly appears to have a different account that he is using to push edits that (in part) led to his banning. I believe this is an attempt to circumvent his ban. Aside from general tone similarities (and a vague threatening of legal action here editor also has latched on to the same grievances as Falconfly, using identical language to identical users such as Tarage (see previous, and here). It seems especially unlikely that a user that just joined the project today has extensive knowledge of Tarage's history, just happened to pick articles that Falconfly was involved in, and just happened to add the exact same text Falconfly had attempted to add to no avail. See here and compare with here.

To expand a bit on the history of this page you'll note that it looks like Falconfly has repeatedly used IP socks to avoid the 3RR rule. It is even more relevant given that the source being used is discussed in his nomination for banning. Please also note that several confirmed sockpuppets were noted on the nomination for banning, this is not a new behavior for this user. Squatch347 (talk) 15:19, 28 November 2018 (UTC)


 * Galatians (people)
 * Religion in East Timor
 * Tapati
 * Seraph
 * Vohu Manah
 * Shamsiel
 * Scythian religion
 * List of solar deities
 * Helios
 * Patriarchy
 * The Great God Pan
 * Fall of man
 * Deltapodus Krakkos (talk) 15:28, 28 November 2018 (UTC)

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This is Falconfly. Down to not signing his posts and accusing the opposition of spite and now sexism. Shuvuuia (talk) 15:53, 28 November 2018 (UTC)

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 * Two reports were filed here at the same time, I have merged them. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 15:35, 28 November 2018 (UTC)
 * , bordering on confirmed considering they're repeating the same legal threats. . Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 15:48, 28 November 2018 (UTC)
 * Given some of the subsequent investigation I'm upping this to ✅. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 16:07, 28 November 2018 (UTC)

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Seems like another morevote sock at Articles for deletion/Tabiti. Krakkos (talk) 16:46, 29 November 2018 (UTC)

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Agreed with Krakkos' suspicions. User has a single edit in an article for deletion discussion? That seems an odd place to start your wiki career. Editor also uses superficially similar style to Falconfly and Orientls and very similar style to other Falconfly socks. Squatch347 (talk) 17:07, 29 November 2018 (UTC)
 * NM, already blocked. Sorry Squatch347 (talk) 17:08, 29 November 2018 (UTC)

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— Berean Hunter   (talk)  16:59, 29 November 2018 (UTC)
 * ✅ to ..
 * Case closed. Courcelles (talk) 19:57, 29 November 2018 (UTC)

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This seems like a pretty lazy addition for the sock. Exact same text as added by Falconfly. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Vohu_Manah&type=revision&diff=872840577&oldid=871652067&diffmode=source

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Also recommend deleting edit log addition given that it cite WP:COPYVIOEL from the same fringe site Falconfly loved citing. Squatch347 (talk) 14:16, 10 December 2018 (UTC)

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 * That's a roger. Also found and blocked sleepers  and .  Courcelles (talk) 15:11, 10 December 2018 (UTC)
 * Closing. Sir Sputnik (talk) 01:50, 11 December 2018 (UTC)

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Proxy Meat-y IPs edit warring o FF favorites: Tabiti and Scythian religion Praxidicae (talk) 16:15, 3 February 2019 (UTC)

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 * Blocked, closing. Primefac (talk) 16:25, 3 February 2019 (UTC)

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85.240.99.161 has previously been blocked twice for sockpuppetry. The block has since expired. 85.240.99.161 has now returned to restore content previously added by Falconfly. The threats issued by 85.240.99.161 are similar to another blocked IP sock. Krakkos (talk) 16:27, 15 September 2019 (UTC)

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Blocked for six months. Closing.--Bbb23 (talk) 16:40, 15 September 2019 (UTC)

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Both IP's are similar and have a similar interest in Palaeontological topics to Falconfly, they are the only editors of Draft:Trigonellites as if they were the same user, .72 has edited Falconfly favourite Ichthyoconodon  .192 has created Draft:Parirau ataroa, a draft which solely cites an unpublished pre-print by a certain Carlos Albuquerque, which Falconfly has revealed to be his real name, he states this in the comments section of the pre-print, replying to a critical comment under the name Falconfly, making clear that Falconfly is the same as the author of the paper. Hemiauchenia (talk) 14:55, 9 July 2020 (UTC)

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 * Concur with report. Both IPs are contributing to overlapping drafts and have used the same (very obscure, even for this field) source references form the mid-1800s in german.  I bet if we looked we would find the same references being used by Falconfly.  Squatch347 (talk) 11:22, 10 July 2020 (UTC)
 * , Help me out here. Two different IPs editing the same draft does not a sock make.  Can you point out some specific diffs which tie them to Falconfly?  I'm not even sure using the same obscure German source is evidence of socking; for all I know, that's the only source that talks about Trigonellites, so anybody interested in them would use that source.  There's got to be more than just that. -- RoySmith (talk) 18:27, 11 July 2020 (UTC)
 * Hi sorry for the delay, I was on vacation. I would be willing to go off of the most recent edits, which veer into another area of narrow fringe research (https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Icel_of_Mercia&action=history) where the IP is reinstating a previously redirected page (a favorite past-time of Falconfly).  However, I think the OP's original reasoning is strongest.  The use of an unpublished author exclusively on topics where that author is clearly referencing other work is pretty suspicious.  The attempt to insert Albuquerque (Falconfly) into articles when his sole presence in the field are a handful of unpublished papers and a wordpress site isn't something an IP just randomly runs across.  Squatch347 (talk) 11:22, 20 July 2020 (UTC)

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 * The "two different IPs" are on the same /24 range, . It's patently obvious that they're the same person, but editing from different dynamic IPs on a range does not constitute sockpuppetry (we expect that users' IPs change over time). If you can demonstrate that the IPs (who we can assume to be one user) are making similar edits to Falconfly socks, then there will be something to investigate. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 18:38, 11 July 2020 (UTC)
 * - Moving to "request more info" based on Ivanvector and RoySmith's comments. GeneralNotability (talk) 20:14, 13 July 2020 (UTC)
 * Even if these IPs were being used by Falconfly, I don't see that there's much SPI can do here. CU isn't going to check IPs for socking.  We could possibly block them on behavior, but a quick looks says there would be substantial collateral damage, and in any case, such a block would be short-term.  I'm afraid WP:AfC will just have to deal with the drafts on their own merits.  If there's specific mainspace articles which are being abused, ping me or WP:RFPP and maybe semi-protection will be useful there.  Closing with no action taken. -- RoySmith (talk) 16:45, 20 July 2020 (UTC)

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IP address goes to the same localtion in Portugal as an IP previously blocked for being Falconfly that was active in 2019. Same interest in Paleontology related topics as previous socks. As with 85.240.99.161, the user does not properly format references, often just adding the url, diff for .161 and diff for .63. The IP is also editing articles that were created or extensively edited by Falconfly, like Djadochtatherioidea and Neochoristodera Hemiauchenia (talk) 03:46, 8 December 2021 (UTC)

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 * Same geolocation and ISP as previous IP socks, same behaviour, and appears to be fairly static. - please block the IP for 1 month (anon-only, account creation blocked). Thanks,  Spicy (talk) 05:38, 8 December 2021 (UTC)
 * , -- TNT (talk • she/they) 00:08, 10 December 2021 (UTC)