Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Hopelesswiki/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets



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Per User talk:Spinningspark#That IP-hopping, appendix-title and white-space guy again, multiple IPs have been blocked over the last several months for drive-by, script-like cosmetic changes to footnote style. Perhaps the latest example was who was blocked by  for such edits. Two months into that IP's six-month block, was created and immediately resumed the same style of edits, most recently at Noam Chomsky and edit warring at Ruhollah Khomeini. At minimum, it looks like block evasion for the IP, but as I saw no SPI case, looks like it was time to centralize this. There are a bunch of blocked IPs involved (for someone more familiar with this case to add here), so there are potentially sleepers. czar 23:06, 4 January 2020 (UTC)

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 * I have now blocked User:Hopelesswiki indef for sockuppetry, per the complaint at the edit warring noticeboard. EdJohnston (talk) 02:47, 5 January 2020 (UTC)
 * Account and IP are blocked —&thinsp;JJMC89&thinsp; (T·C) 03:29, 5 January 2020 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets



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Sockmaster has numerous IP socks, some of which are already blocked; other candidates are listed here. This sock has a very recognizable signature, involving particular violations of MOS:VAR, MOS:SECTIONS, MOS:NOTES, and WP:CITEVAR, including: adding/removing whitespace, changes of bottom matter section titles to their preference, pointless changes to template name capitalization or variation among equally valid param aliases, and others. The previously existing pattern to compare to, is described (with diffs) at the talk page of 129.94.8.198.

is engaged in a rapid-fire series of edits continuing all of these patterns. Checking only edits made today (3 November), they edited at least 26 articles in which each one contains one or more aspects of their signature pattern. I've added this warning to their UTP. I don't have, but could add if desired, diffs for every one of the 26 articles; hopefully that won't be necessary.

This diff of five edits at Mike O'Callaghan–Pat Tillman Memorial Bridge is representative of the series of 26, and has examples of all or almost all facets of the pattern.

Numerous additional diffs are listed on their talk page in the following sections; let me know if I should port them here:
 * #Pointless changes to references
 * #Pointless changes to white space
 * #Title of the references and notes section
 * Retaining existing style: refs, efns, and NoteTags

The same pattern is also described with diffs on the Talk pages of some other IPs in the "candidate list"; see for example, User talk:49.195.96.45 (all five sections). Mathglot (talk) 20:15, 3 November 2020 (UTC)

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 * Blocked the IP for a year, looks very stable. GeneralNotability (talk) 01:40, 16 November 2020 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets



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1 year IP block expired and Hopelesswiki is back again. Pinging GeneralNotability who did the block. Thibaut (talk) 19:41, 10 December 2021 (UTC)

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 * Blocked IP for 3 years. Closing. Bbb23 (talk) 22:06, 10 December 2021 (UTC)