Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Finnedi/Archive

14 April 2014

 * Obvious sockpuppets, already blocked
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 * Suspected sockpuppets
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 * Suspected sockpuppets
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 * Suspected sockpuppets
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 * Suspected sockpuppets
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Finnedi, a k a, was recently indeffed for long-time disruption on King of Kvenland and related articles, including Rus' people. Obvious sock Finnhaithen was blocked yesterday for repeating an edit that Finnedi had been trying to edit war into Rus' people. Today, a brand new account, Nuutinpoika, posted agreement with Finnedi on Talk:King of Kvenland : Is Nuutinpoika a slightly more subtle sock, or possibly an actually different person? The reason I'd like a CU to look at it is that Nuutinpoika, in their single tp edit, actually disagreed with Finnedi about a minor matter. That looks more like a ruse to me, but it's not obvious like the Finnhaithen sock was. Bishonen &#124; talk 06:25, 14 April 2014 (UTC)

please add (and block) (blocking has been done)
 * -- TRPoD aka The Red Pen of Doom  18:08, 14 April 2014 (UTC)

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 * Connection between Finnedi and 91.155.236.125: --Guy Macon (talk) 16:24, 14 April 2014 (UTC)


 * Wikipedia pages related to "Nuutinpoika": --Guy Macon (talk) 16:36, 14 April 2014 (UTC)


 * I am getting repeated vandalism to my talk page. Requesting PC1 protection. --Guy Macon (talk) 19:45, 14 April 2014 (UTC)


 * Semi-protection applied. Happy Guy. :) --Guy Macon (talk) 20:39, 14 April 2014 (UTC)

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Update: Nuutinpoika has now edited some more, making the situation more obvious, and User:Future Perfect at Sunrise has indeffed the account as an obvious sock of Finnedi. I agree. CU is no longer needed, please close. Bishonen &#124; talk 14:59, 14 April 2014 (UTC).

Update II: I've blocked new sock and also blocked the static IP  for six months. I only blocked account creation, but if the socks continue to appear, maybe one could try ticking "Prevent logged-in users from editing from this IP address" also. Does anybody have an opinion of how much collateral damage that might cause? Bishonen &#124; talk 16:37, 14 April 2014 (UTC).

Update III: Per the duck test I have now blocked as a sock. Yngvadottir (talk) 17:10, 14 April 2014 (UTC)

Update IV: has blocked. Yngvadottir (talk) 17:31, 14 April 2014 (UTC)

Update V: I have blocked and tagged. Favonian (talk) 18:12, 14 April 2014 (UTC)

Update VI: has blocked  and  Yngvadottir (talk) 18:56, 14 April 2014 (UTC)

Note in lieu of update: Finnedi has continued to create further transparent socks throughout the day, with names that often hint at one or more of the users he has a grudge against ("Bishoska", "ThomasFavonian"). Theoretically more updates are needed, but I would like to suggest the rest is best dealt with per revert, block, deny (if any admins can still be bothered with the "block" part, considering that most of the relevant pages have been semi'd), and that we stop updating this report. I think he's thriving on the attention. Does anybody really care about having a detailed record of obvious and instantly blocked socks? There's enough here already to show the individual is NOTHERE and should never be unblocked. Let's stop keeping a record of his exploits. Please close with the finding "Finnedi's socks are as the sands of the sea and the grasses of the prairie and who cares about their names?". Bishonen &#124; talk 23:05, 14 April 2014 (UTC).


 * Checkuser note: Many of these accounts are being created on proxy services, many of which have been blocked now.  Agree with Bishonen that the best choice here is to RBI.  Risker (talk) 06:49, 18 April 2014 (UTC)