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01 June 2016

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We appear to have a long-running campaign to highlight sexual abuse allegations against Terry Bean (of which he was acquitted after the alleged victim would not testify), and to paint him as if that's what he's best known for. Some of them labeled the subject as if he were guilty/convicted, but I think I've rev-deleted remaining occurrences of that. Closer inspection strongly suggests this is the same person who has been waging this campaign for more than a year.

Firstly, User:Truthspeaker33, registered 2014-12-30, making edits like this and this (admin only). User:Truthspeaker33 stopped editing the same day.

Then User:Frysay, the oldest account registered on 2014-04-08, started editing the same subject on 2015-01-05. See this, which is very similar to this from User:Truthspeaker33 but just toned down a little. Edits were mainly at Talk:Terry Bean and are now at Talk:Terry Bean/Archive 1 - there are characteristics there which I won't highlight as per WP:BEANS, but see below. They also made edits to the article like this and this. User:Frysay was indef blocked on 2015-07-03 and had talk page access revoked on 2015-07-04.

In September 2015 we had similar IP edits from 67.171.185.165 that geolocate to Portland, Oregon, using ISP CenturyLink. Then in October 2015, from User:174.25.63.115, again ISP CenturyLink in Portland, Oregon. There are more IPs in the history, but I won't list them all.

The next registered account was User:Lurie2, registered 2015-12-02, making edits like this, this (in which they accused another of edit warring - see later) and this (admin only). Note the similarity in adding categories in that last one. User:Lurie2 was indef blocked on 2016-03-30.

Since then there have been a number of other CenturyLink IPs in Portland trying again with much the same material, up to our latest, User:67.5.251.135. You can see how that's going at User talk:67.5.251.135.

And that brings me full circle, with 67.5.251.135's comments including a couple of tells. There's a weak one here, where they say "Please do not proceed with an edit war against me" (see 2 paras above where it says "see later"). And there's a much stronger one that I won't reveal in public as per WP:BEANS, but I'll pass it on to any reviewing admin by email on request.

I don't think there's much to be done now, and checkuser won't be any help - registered accounts other than Lurie2 will be stale, and checkuser isn't allowed to identify IPs. I really just though a record of the apparent socking should be made, to help those dealing with future abuse.

Of the registered accounts, User:Truthspeaker33 is unblocked but the other two are blocked - if the reviewing admin agrees with my assessment, I'll leave it to them to decide whether to block. User:67.5.251.135 is a static IP and I have blocked for three months for block evasion. Also, should any of these accounts and IPs be tagged? I'm really not sure what the general approach is these days, but in this case I think it would help future editors who come across this problem (I only found out about the chronic problem after User:Thomas.W told me about it). Boing! said Zebedee (talk) 12:59, 1 June 2016 (UTC)

Just for the record again, I should add that I have semi-protected the article for six months - shorter periods have been tried by others in the past, but the disruption continues every time it expires. Boing! said Zebedee (talk) 14:59, 1 June 2016 (UTC)

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I'm closing this as a "for-the-record" filing. I see no point in blocking Truthspeaker33 who hasn't edited in ages. Obviously, if anything changes, this can can be reopened.--Bbb23 (talk) 14:25, 1 June 2016 (UTC)

01 June 2016

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Loudly quacking new IP-sock geolocating to Portland, Oregon like the other IP socks, with the same charming way of communicating with other editors here as Frysay and all previous socks have had, knew that there had been lots of BLP-violations on the talk page of Terry Bean and asked why they had been removed, and keeps repeating the same BLP-violations that Frysay and various others have been blocked for. Thomas.W talk 21:03, 1 June 2016 (UTC)

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 * IP blocked. Closing. Bbb23 (talk) 00:38, 2 June 2016 (UTC)

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Similar commentary at Terry Bean and editor interaction. Also geolocates to Portland Oregon. Several of their edits have had to be redacted for violations of BLP. Also went to ANI after their first edit, unusual for an IP. ‖ Ebyabe talk - Health and Welfare  ‖ 06:24, 2 April 2017 (UTC)

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 * Ip blocked for a week. Closing.  Vanjagenije  (talk)  08:24, 7 April 2017 (UTC)