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24 November 2014

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IP 68.205.75.58 admitted to creating a new account in this edit as Chasbo123, so it's a clear admission that the user Chasbo123 is using an IP from Melbourne, Florida. User Chasbo123 was dragged to ANI over his insistence to use an obnoxious font style in public discussion spaces. That was ultimately resolved by AmaryllisGardener's suggestion that the user add a particular coding to a Javascript file in his user space. Anyhow, there's been a lot of back-and-forth at Talk:Phineas and Ferb (season 4) about how episodes should be arranged. Chasbo123 is in favor of "pairing" episodes. Without getting into the details that's the position you need to know. IP 68.205.75.58 was also in favor of pairing, because that was his IP before becoming a registered user.. During this discussion, IP 107.72.164.81, which geolocates to Lake Worth Florida, showed up and claimed that the bold ordering was "weird".. In this edit the user basically states that he was canvassed to give an opinion, although I'm guessing the canvassing was more like meatpuppetry given the close geolocation of the IPs.

Some back-and-forths in the discussion occur, I eventually set up a Request for Comment on the matter since the bold user and the suspected socks seem at a stalemate. Meanwhile WikiEditor2016 appears out of the ether on November 23, 2014, makes 4 innocuous edits, then a big content removal, dives into a near edit war at Girl Meets World with three edits, then jumps into reverting the edits made by Dcbanners with the edit summaries, "Consensus to pair". Where did the n00b become so acquainted with consensus and this issue, and why are they coming out of the blue to assert a perspective that hasn't been decided yet? Something is funky. If we could also check for sleepers that would be nice too, since the whole debate is making me suspicious. Cyphoidbomb (talk) 06:23, 24 November 2014 (UTC)

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 * There's not much more I can add to the above, other than to agree with Cyphoidbomb's evidence. We've had suspicions that there is some sock/meat puppetry for some time. has made no edits other than in the discussion, which is on a page that is fairly obscure.  has not participated in the talk page discussion but all of the reversions in related articles used the edit summary "Consensus to pair", which I find suspicious. The account was, coincidentally, created only an hour after protection on Phineas and Ferb season articles expired and then a series of innocuous edits were made at other articles as if to draw attention away from the true purpose of the account, which was to revert on each of the associated articles. Also coincidentally, that was less than 20 minutes after DumbBOT removed the protection templates from the pages. -- Aussie Legend  ( ✉ ) 08:34, 24 November 2014 (UTC)


 * WikiEditor2016 has continued edit-warring at the articles and I noted that the account was created 4 minutes after Chasbo123's last edit. Since WikiEditor2016 started editing, Chasbo123 has made no edits. This is yet another coincidence. -- Aussie Legend  ( ✉ ) 14:20, 24 November 2014 (UTC)


 * It is suggested above that in this diff that the IP admits to being canvassed. Reviewing the diff though the ip does not basically, sort of, kind of, or in anyway suggest they were canvassed. They offered the commentary that in a conversation with a friend about wikipedia they mentioned this debate. That friend quit wikipedia and informed others of the ridiculous nature of this dispute. He then suggested that even if the conversation was closed someone else would likely open a similar ridiculous discussion. If 68.205.75.58 is Chasbo123 so what? So they admitted that they made an account. That's encouraged. Have they used their account or their IP in a way to suggest that they are separate editors or rather have they used their IP as a sock? Florida has 19+million people. Melbourne and Lake Worth are 120 or so miles apart. Both are in the highly populated part of the State. While all of the edit histories show that they (like you) enjoy editing articles on children's shows,WikiEditor2016 seems to have a broader taste than the others.-Serialjoepsycho- (talk) 01:09, 25 November 2014 (UTC)


 * I did not make edits on any other accounts. The reason why I stopped editing was because I saw we came to a consensus to pair. When I saw that template on my userpage I started editing again to protest it. As for your classification as normal print as an obnoxious font, what is this based on. Chasbo123 (talk) 14:06, 25 November 2014 (UTC)
 * Interestingly, although there is no consensus to pair as you claim, in fact there is no consensus to do anything, "Consensus to pair" is exactly the edit summary used by WikiEditor2016. -- Aussie Legend  ( ✉ ) 14:15, 25 November 2014 (UTC)

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * Strange, I thought I already closed this. I must have stumbled across the socking from another noticeboard. For the record, and  are ✅ as . I blocked and tagged everything yesterday, but the report will need to be moved to reflect the correct master account.-- Jezebel's Ponyo bons mots  23:45, 26 November 2014 (UTC)