Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Hugh 3476/Archive

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I suspect that User:Hugh 3476 may be using IP addresses for disruptive editing on rugby league articles, concerning the addition of unsourced birthplaces on BLP articles (which the IP/s admit are guesses. I began removing these a couple weeks ago and immediately IPs began reverting. Once blocked, the IPs would change and continued until the pages in question were locked. On at least one occasion they removed an AIV report on them.

The reason I suspect Hugh is because this user has added the majority of these suspect birthplaces and in March had an IP remove a comment from his user talk (which Hugh often does, but while logged in). This IP (1.129.106.174) was very similar to those above.

I hope this isn't the case as Hugh can be a good user (lack of communication and sourcing issues aside). Unfortunately as of today these disruptive edits are continuing. Jevansen (talk) 01:19, 21 July 2019 (UTC)

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We don't publicly disclose the IPs of named accounts. CU declined.--Bbb23 (talk) 13:31, 21 July 2019 (UTC)
 * you blocked this IP range just recently for block evasion. Can you offer any input here? Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 13:05, 28 August 2019 (UTC)
 * I blocked following an AIV report for IP-hopping disruptive editing here; this that case, obviously the same user from two different ranges. I'm not familiar with User:Hugh 3476. OhNo itsJamie Talk 13:10, 28 August 2019 (UTC)


 * Hugh 3476 and are ✅. . . Closing.--Bbb23 (talk) 23:49, 22 September 2019 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets



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See below. — Berean Hunter   (talk)  13:07, 6 November 2019 (UTC)

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— Berean Hunter   (talk)  13:23, 6 November 2019 (UTC)
 * All blocked, tagged, nothing for G5, closing. Cabayi (talk) 10:44, 7 November 2019 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets
The user has made regular disruptive edits to 'List of &#91;NRL club] players' pages, such as List of Brisbane Broncos players and List of Melbourne Storm players. The user insists, with very little communication, that players who debut in the same game be ordered alphabetically. While this is the convention officially adopted by some NRL clubs, the user is being disruptive by removing verified variations and exceptions to this, such as the inaugural club captain being honoured as player #1 or same game debutants instead being ordered by their jersey number. The user otherwise appears to be reliably updating these pages regularly, making it more difficult to revert the disruptive edits.

Here are some examples of the puppeteer and the puppets reordering the list of players and removing references:

The user is also making use of IP addresses, almost never using the same IP address more than once, to make these disruptive edits.
 * List of Penrith Panthers players, edit war between several IP addresses and multiple users from about January 2022 to present. The pattern evident to me that is that after an IP address has made a disruptive edit, either Afterbrew or Red and Green Forever will make an update to the statistics (if required) within a few hours. For example, see and  by Afterbrew, and  and  by Red and Green Forever.
 * List of Penrith Panthers players, edit war between several IP addresses and multiple users from about January 2022 to present. The pattern evident to me that is that after an IP address has made a disruptive edit, either Afterbrew or Red and Green Forever will make an update to the statistics (if required) within a few hours. For example, see and  by Afterbrew, and  and  by Red and Green Forever.

Red and Green Forever has also added rugby league players to WP:DOY pages and, which is consistent with sockpuppet accusations made against Afterbrew in April 2021.

The IP addresses used by this user is probably a few dozen or more, but I will compile a list if desired. Please let me know if there is anything I can clarify to assist you. Narkova (talk) 12:23, 21 June 2023 (UTC)

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 * Since nobody has seen sufficient evidence to block over this past month and a half (the other two accounts were already blocked), I'm going to mark this case as closed due to insufficient evidence. Reaper Eternal (talk) 16:18, 8 August 2023 (UTC)