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10 December 2010

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Many socks trolling Talk:September 11 attacks, all probably originating from Bell Canada addresses. All obvious socks blocked per WP:DUCK, but many more popping up, talkpage now semi-protected. Scan for sleepers and underlying range, please.  Acroterion  (talk)  19:54, 10 December 2010 (UTC)

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All the named accounts are ✅, plus
 * No comment on the IPs, but there are two rangeblocks in place which should hopefully quiet things down. TN X Man  20:13, 10 December 2010 (UTC)
 * I've blocked and tagged the three that Tnxman found, and updated the tags on the others. I think we're good here for now. —  Hello Annyong  (say whaaat?!) 20:25, 10 December 2010 (UTC)
 * No comment on the IPs, but there are two rangeblocks in place which should hopefully quiet things down. TN X Man  20:13, 10 December 2010 (UTC)
 * I've blocked and tagged the three that Tnxman found, and updated the tags on the others. I think we're good here for now. —  Hello Annyong  (say whaaat?!) 20:25, 10 December 2010 (UTC)
 * I've blocked and tagged the three that Tnxman found, and updated the tags on the others. I think we're good here for now. —  Hello Annyong  (say whaaat?!) 20:25, 10 December 2010 (UTC)

Three new sleeper socks, , appeared after the rangeblock but were created before the rangeblock. Still seems like there's other sleepers around. Note, it appears that these accounts are editing within the blocked ranges because none of these accounts have an autoblock present. Could I please get another check? Elockid  ( Talk ) 00:20, 11 December 2010 (UTC)
 * All ✅ as sleepers with:
 * TN X Man 03:04, 11 December 2010 (UTC)
 * The new three (two?) that Tnxman found were already blocked, but I tagged them. Anything else? —  Hello Annyong  (say whaaat?!) 03:06, 11 December 2010 (UTC)
 * ...alright then, closing. —  Hello Annyong  (say whaaat?!) 22:10, 11 December 2010 (UTC)
 * The new three (two?) that Tnxman found were already blocked, but I tagged them. Anything else? —  Hello Annyong  (say whaaat?!) 03:06, 11 December 2010 (UTC)
 * ...alright then, closing. —  Hello Annyong  (say whaaat?!) 22:10, 11 December 2010 (UTC)

27 December 2010

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There was vandalism to the Christmas Eve article on December 24. The vandalism came anonymously from IP numbers 174.34.161.124. (blocked) and 69.10.63.226

69.10.63.226 claimed they are a school IP and can not be blocked for that long, promised not to spam from that IP anymore, didn't promise not to spam from another IP.

64.120.47.28 contributed on the talk page instead.

The edits of all three numbers are about Flouride and included external links to articles connected with Flouride. It didn't seem random or like usual vandalism. Wouldn't have mentioned it usually but am doing so after having read this discussion. This lousy t-shirt (talk) 00:47, 27 December 2010 (UTC)

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 * One IP locates to Georgia, and one locates to Illinois. The third one has somewhat to do with Georgia, so I don't think they're all the same. —  Hello Annyong  (say whaaat?!) 01:17, 27 December 2010 (UTC)
 * Freedom5000 is known to use proxies. Gwen Gale (talk) 08:21, 27 December 2010 (UTC)
 * There is not much we can do at this point, short of semi (or in the extreme case, full)-protecting the most-often affected pages. –MuZemike 21:31, 27 December 2010 (UTC)
 * Yes, which I've already done (semi, anyway). Gwen Gale (talk) 21:40, 27 December 2010 (UTC)


 * I'm closing this for now. The article was semi'd, and the vandalism seems to have calmed down a bit. —  Hello Annyong  (say whaaat?!) 16:19, 29 December 2010 (UTC)

21 January 2011

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 * Dumped a bunch of unusable primary research at Talk:Water fluoridation. Could be a new user, or could be a block evading sock. We know this guy has done this many times before and he doesn't give up. Brangifer (talk) 15:35, 21 January 2011 (UTC)


 * I can understand the confusion. Freedom5000 exclusively attacked the 9/11 articles, but CU connected Freedom5000 with an anti-fluoridation sock attacking the fluoridation articles and spamming, seemingly indiscriminately, all kinds of articles and userpages. Those are also included in a subcategory Category:Suspected Wikipedia sockpuppets of Wikidrips. These socks are only concerned with fluoridation subjects, but there may be a connection. It's all explained at the top of the category page. User:GeneralMandrakeRipper might be the one which connects the dots. If the 9/11 socks and the anti-fluoridation socks are unrelated, then we should split the categories completely. Right now all those who have attacked the fluoridation subject are in the Wikidrips subcategory, and many are ALSO in the Freedom5000 category. -- Brangifer (talk) 17:43, 21 January 2011 (UTC)


 * Thanks Deskana. It's probably just a newbie with some information who doesn't understand our manner of dealing with primary vs. secondary sources. -- Brangifer (talk) 18:00, 22 January 2011 (UTC)

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 * Freedom5000 usually edits the 9/11 articles, but this is water fluoridation. What makes you think that this editor is part of that sockfarm? —  Hello Annyong  (say whaaat?!) 15:49, 21 January 2011 (UTC)
 * Freedom5000 has been active on both 9/11 and fluoridation, although the overlap between them on any given account is limited, and I'm not totally convinced that they're linked. CU would know better.  Acroterion  (talk)  16:32, 21 January 2011 (UTC)
 * - Ah, okay. Endorsing then. —  Hello Annyong  (say whaaat?!) 16:52, 21 January 2011 (UTC)


 * You say that "CU connected Freedom5000 with an anti-fluoridation sock attacking the fluoridation articles and spamming". I can't find any evidence of this. Can you point me in the right direction? User:GeneralMandrakeRipper edited both September 11 attacks and Water fluoridation, but as it seems he was blocked simply for vandalism and is only suspected of being a sockpuppet, this doesn't count as a checkuser connection. --(ʞɿɐʇ) ɐuɐʞsǝp 13:07, 22 January 2011 (UTC)
 * Here's what I've found, digging further into this.
 * is marked as a confirmed sockpuppet of Freedom5000. All of their edits were in the fluoridation world.
 * Over on Category:Wikipedia sockpuppets of Freedom5000, there's a note about a connection to the Wikidrips account; apparently was confirmed as being part of the Freedom5000 sockfarm.
 * It looks like at least one account of Wikidrops,, was blocked on behavioral evidence - and spent their time in the fluoridation articles.
 * Similarly, was also blocked as Freedom5000 and edited in that area.
 * That's what I'm seeing, at least. —  Hello Annyong  (say whaaat?!) 14:38, 22 January 2011 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the info. The result is ❌. --(ʞɿɐʇ) ɐuɐʞsǝp 17:11, 22 January 2011 (UTC)
 * Hm, okay. Closing. —  Hello Annyong  (say whaaat?!) 18:54, 22 January 2011 (UTC)

23 January 2011

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Wikipedia has shut down several sockpuppets for User:Wikidrips over the previous few weeks, thanks to Brangifer. This user often seeks only to edit water fluoridation or closely related themes, which they do not like, sort of a conspiracy thing. The brand-new editor User:ChrisH48 popped up on Talk:Water fluoridation. I am inclined to suspect that every unregistered or newly registered editor at that site is related to the same group. Smokefoot (talk) 17:57, 23 January 2011 (UTC)

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 * This case was originally opened at Sockpuppet investigations/Wikidrips, but it's been shown before that Freedom5000 is the master here. Anyway, a checkuser was done with regards to this editor and found to be unrelated, so I'm closing. —  Hello Annyong  (say whaaat?!) 18:04, 23 January 2011 (UTC)