Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Gigilian131/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets



 * User compare report Auto-generated every hour.
 * Editor interaction utility

All sources have been posting attacks against a particular Denny's executive. Largoplazo (talk) 23:49, 25 April 2017 (UTC)

Comments by other users
''Accused parties may also comment/discuss in this section below. See Defending yourself against claims.''

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments
Comparing the edits from the IP addresses with those of the account, it is perfectly clear that it is the same person or possibly a group of people acting together, with an agenda to use Wikipedia for a campaign of attacks against a particular person. I have blocked the account indefinitely. The IP address 198.252.153.226 belongs to a web-hosting company, and appears to be in use for a VPN, so I have blocked it for two years. The other two IP addresses have been blocked by PhilKnight for short periods (48 hours and 1 week). At least two other IP adresses have also been used, namely 2602:306:C5E1:580:F543:C276:328B:5E89 and 2602:306:CFE8:9930:8551:199B:4CBC:BA3E, so I have blocked those too. However, blocking is unlikely to be effective, as the person has jumped around to various IP addresses, so I shall protect the main article that has been affected, John Chester Miller. There have also been edits to other pages, and creation of new attack pages, so there is likely to be more, and we will just have to revert and block each time. I can't see any prospect whatever of the CheckUser request being accepted, as there is only one named account, and CheckUsers do not normally connect IP addresses to accounts, so I am closing the case. The editor who uses the pseudonym "JamesBWatson" (talk) 08:16, 26 April 2017 (UTC)