Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Francbellise/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets
This is about one or more enraged fans of Keanu Reeves trying to remove any reference to Alexandra Grant being his longterm romantic partner. Disruptive IPs from Brazil, Tennessee and Mississippi are involved.

The first edit of this type by this person was from a Tennessee IP6 address on November 9, 2019. That IP group stayed active through July 2021. The final edit of the /64 added more detail to the talk page entry by Stormriders09, responding in place of Stormriders09. One minute later, Stormriders09 signed the IP's edit.

The username BlackOpsPom was registered on November 15, 2019, changing the relationship to "false".

More usernames were registered in November 2019 to do the same stuff: Tarteàlafraise45, Sophinettez, Clearwater48 and Fighttoright123. BlackOpsPom and Fighttoright123 were blocked for socking by checkuser. See Category:Wikipedia sockpuppets of BlackOpsPom. Sophinettez and Tarteàlafraise45 were also blocked by checkuser for socking.

In 2020, the username 20truth20 was registered, editing solely the biography of Alexandra Grant to remove Keanu Reeves. 20truth20 was blocked for vandalism. Billck29 was registered and made two talk page edits while the biographies were under protection. AshleyVeritas showed up denying the Reeves/Grant relationship. Same with Zzzzyyyyxxxxuuuu and KelleyM64.

JoanaTav was another 2020 username that did the same stuff, removing a People magazine cite. The same removal was performed by Brazil IP 177.87.99.2 and Clearwater48.

Carolina napolitano was also registered in 2020, violating Grant's privacy with street address and family description including false girlfriend Andrea Napolitano. Another edit introduced the name as a legally blind stalker.

In June and July 2021, Keanurbrasil and RainJackson made the same kinds of edits. In November 2021, the Mississippi IP 24.233.227.236 started editing with the same pattern. The IP also extensively edited the biography of wrestler Varinder Singh Ghuman. The IP was blocked three times but active through August 2022. Ageofwisdom edited the Ghuman bio and then started making the same noises about Reeves and Grant. Itsabeaute also edited both the Ghuman and Grant bios. Francbellise edited the Ghuman bio and then falsely added Keanu Reeves to a town in Mississippi.

Another 2022 user doing the same stuff is The Moving Temple.

A new username showed up today, Iamwisdillem, doing the same stuff.

Checkuser requested to link recent activity and to search for sleepers. Binksternet (talk) 06:03, 4 October 2022 (UTC)

Comments by other users

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Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * CU since I don't see a history of sleepers. Think everyone who needs to be blocked is blocked. I will go through and clean up the tagging situation, though. Closing.  --  Tamzin  [ cetacean needed ] (she&#124;they&#124;xe) 15:28, 4 October 2022 (UTC)
 * FWIW, I did a cursory check and . As a practical matter, the list of articles impacted is very small (basically, 2), so long-term page protection seems like a better tool than SPI. -- RoySmith (talk) 15:33, 4 October 2022 (UTC)
 * Meant to add, worth noting that accounts like suggest she's at least sometimes paying cheap UPEs to proxy for her.  --  Tamzin  [ cetacean needed ] (she&#124;they&#124;xe) 15:41, 4 October 2022 (UTC)