Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Gigsons/Archive

Evidence submitted by Mosmof
The above accounts and dynamic IP addresses are being used to get around User:Gigson's indefinite block. The named accounts are used almost exclusively in Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Football to create the appearance of consensus for Gigson's POV, while the IPs are used for personal attacks,. The users all write in broken English (the IPs are from a Latvian ISP) and take the same position in a content dispute with nearly identical reasoning (with personal attacks thrown in).

User has had one sockpuppet, User:Vananen blocked, and you can see at Category:Suspected Wikipedia sockpuppets of Gigsons that the dynamic IP allows the user to get around the block easily.

User:Nancy previously declined to rangeblock the IPs, but the editing pattern has persisted, rendering the indefinite block meaningless, and considering that only the user is editing from these IPs on English Wiki, the potential collateral damage should be minimal, if any. Mosmof (talk) 18:02, 10 February 2010 (UTC)

Comments by accused parties
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Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments
the range is 95.68.40.0/21 (1401 addresses) which is okay for a block, size-wise, SpitfireTally-ho! 21:09, 10 February 2010 (UTC)
 * The actual dynamic IP range is pretty wide, from 95.68.0.0 to 95.68.127.254, but as far as I can tell, most of the edits have come from 95.68.3x.xxx to 95.68.4x.xxx, with maybe an edit or two from 96.68.5x.xxx, FWIW. --Mosmof (talk) 21:30, 10 February 2010 (UTC)

Accounts blocked and tagged; rangeblocked 2 weeks. –MuZemike 00:58, 11 February 2010 (UTC)
 * Make that 95.68.32.0/19 per and . –MuZemike 17:31, 11 February 2010 (UTC)