Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Hillbillyholiday/Archive

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I think, that far from being a bona fide editor, User:Hillbillyholiday might actually be a former employee, worker or otherwise a contributor of (the now former) Exaro News, and possibly some kind of some kind of an anarchist with links, ties or connections to Bristol (see IndyMedia, which has or had their British branch based in Bristol), and he might had in fact (anonymously, through Exaro) personally involved in a potentially-libellous claim directly against Rupert Murdoch himself back in the year 2013. -- 87.102.116.36 (talk) 18:24, 28 February 2017 (UTC)

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 * Utterly unconvincing, borderline harassment. Neil N  talk to me 19:34, 28 February 2017 (UTC)

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Hillbillyholiday is a user with an axe to grind over BLPs, who has been sanctioned repeatedly for their aggressive attitude, edit warring, mass content removal against consensus under a false veil of defending BLP, and personal attacks; see:
 * ANI: Mass deletions and edit warring across celebrity articles by Hillbillyholiday
 * ANI: Hillbillyholiday Editing Restriction Violation (again)
 * ANI: Hillbillyholiday and BLP articles again

The last discussion resulted in a one-year block, which they immediately evaded with a complaint at AN3, which has earned their block an upgrade to indefinite. The user has previously declared they intend to disobey any restriction imposed, and it's evident they're intent on continuing their agenda through the use of IPs. This list represents the multiple IPs the user has edited with since being indefinitely blocked on March 20; it's pretty much guaranteed that I've missed some but this should be useful to start establishing a pattern. I am filing this report as evidence only, there is nothing more to do at the moment. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 16:27, 11 April 2018 (UTC)

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 * All of the IPs listed above match behaviourally, and those that are not stale have been blocked (in the case of the IPv6, the /64 range has been blocked). Note for anyone else reviewing that this user is very highly disruptive: admins should not hesitate to block any IP close to these ranges matching this user's pattern, and add that IP to any open report here or create a new report. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 16:27, 11 April 2018 (UTC)

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See below. — Berean Hunter   (talk)  02:18, 31 July 2019 (UTC)

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has already blocked some of them. The first two, I had picked up in a different range. this troll with tpa revoked. — Berean Hunter   (talk)  02:20, 31 July 2019 (UTC)

— Berean Hunter   (talk)  03:01, 31 July 2019 (UTC)
 * is stale but likely based on behavior.

— Berean Hunter   (talk)  03:41, 31 July 2019 (UTC)
 * Good chance that this is as the master.

— Berean Hunter   (talk)  12:33, 3 August 2019 (UTC)
 * I need a clerk to move this to casename, and ping me when it has been completed. Thank you.
 * Berean Hunter - ✅.  ~Oshwah~  (talk) (contribs)   02:53, 4 August 2019 (UTC)
 * The history has not been restored. Please assume that when asked to do a "move" that history should be restored. I've blocked as a sock. I've tagged the sock as confirmed because it matches at least one of the socks listed above by Berean Hunter. However, the tagging of all of these accounts, including the master who has no tag, is pretty messy. I'll defer to BH to instruct on tagging.--Bbb23 (talk) 14:58, 4 August 2019 (UTC)
 * Bbb23 - Whoops! You're right; I forgot to restore the history after the move. I apologize for not doing so... I typically do this; I've been very busy these last two days, which is probably why I forgot to do this here and on the other SPI clerk request you made earlier. This has been . I'll take better note to make sure that I've done this with future clerk requests.  ~Oshwah~  (talk) (contribs)   15:02, 4 August 2019 (UTC)
 * Thanks. Sorry for being grumpy. After checking the new sock and looking at all the blocked accounts here, I got dizzy and I haven't even eaten breakfast yet. I shouldn't talk to people before eating.--Bbb23 (talk) 15:05, 4 August 2019 (UTC)
 * From what you're saying it would seem talking to people after eating might have its hazards as well. EEng 23:31, 8 August 2019 (UTC)
 * Bbb23 - No big deal. :-)  ~Oshwah~  (talk) (contribs)   15:07, 4 August 2019 (UTC)

— Berean Hunter   (talk)  21:41, 4 August 2019 (UTC)
 * Closing. Bbb23 (talk) 22:16, 4 August 2019 (UTC)

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Their edits so far (including the ones to this SPI like this) are to play games with H's indef block status. I know this may be a WP:GRAVEDANCER or other troll so my apologies for taking up any admin or clerks time if that turns out to be the case. Full protection of H's talk page may be an alternative to deal with this situation MarnetteD&#124;Talk 04:54, 6 August 2019 (UTC)

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These accounts are confirmed to each other and related to previous sock(s). I don't have the data to definitively relate this to Hillbillyholiday, but the technical and behavioural evidence makes it highly likely (see previous report). -- zzuuzz (talk) 08:16, 6 August 2019 (UTC)

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Over at User talk:Dark Clouds of Joy, I indicated was  to. This has been vigorously refuted on-wiki at DCoJ's talk page, and off-wiki. I won't link to the off-wiki evidence due to WP:OUTING concerns, though if DCoJ wishes, they are free to post it themselves. Off-wiki, a user who self-declares as DCoJ indicates they are actually. Therefore, this SPI exists to see if I should change the claim with regard to and if I should tag them as. Yamla (talk) 11:20, 19 November 2021 (UTC)

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 * ✅ to (already blocked),  (already blocked),  (already blocked). There is indeed a link to, but given the ISP in question here and the time between logins, combined with the off-wiki evidence, I'm satisfied taking DCoJ at their word and admitting I was wrong, linking the two. --Yamla (talk) 23:35, 19 November 2021 (UTC)
 * I offer my unreserved apology to Dark Clouds of Joy for linking them to the wrong sock master, and to Darkness Shines for implying continued block evasion. --Yamla (talk) 23:39, 19 November 2021 (UTC)
 * Closing. Thanks, Spicy (talk) 08:30, 29 November 2021 (UTC)