Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/IceBrotherhood/Archive

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 * ( original case name)


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This user/IP has constantly been changing genres of drama films to tragedies, like Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith. They've been editing the same film articles in exactly the same way (e.g. Anna Karenina (1935 film), Dogville, Vera Drake, etc. I've blocked all the users/IPs and have requested a checkuser to flush out any more sleepers. This user may well have edited earlier under another reincarnation. Graham 87 17:02, 26 November 2020 (UTC)

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 * - Mz7 (talk) 19:49, 29 November 2020 (UTC)
 * All three named accounts are ✅ to . This is a rather displeasing result because IceBrotherhood appears to have 9000+ edits. . . Please move this case under IceBrotherhood, the oldest account. Mz7 (talk) 20:06, 29 November 2020 (UTC)
 * Case moved from SaintMary1971 to IceBrotherhood —&thinsp;JJMC89&thinsp; (T·C) 20:29, 29 November 2020 (UTC)

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This editor has been adding tragedy as a genre for films, TV, and anime for years. I first noticed this and started this thread Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Film/Archive 72 and this AFD Articles for deletion/List of tragedy films and TV programs. The pattern has resumed here, here and here and there are others. I have a vague memory that there was a thread at AN/I about their editing though I could be wrong. MarnetteD&#124;Talk 01:41, 6 December 2020 (UTC)

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 * Pretty sure this isn't IceBrotherhood. I looked at some of their socks, and they had a fairly distinctive way of marking films as tragedies, this doesn't match that pattern. Also, this IP geolocates to New York while past suspected IPs were southern California - not solid proof, but another indicator. Closing without action. GeneralNotability (talk) 02:25, 22 December 2020 (UTC)

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Both users have resumed the adding of tragedy as a genre to film and television articles. See and  for JA. and for EL. The one time that JA used a ref the cite does not use tragedy as a genre - they only state that elements of tragedy are present in the production. That is a hallmark of IceB's editing. Seeing as how I found these two accounts today (when JA made edit and EL followed up with this a couple minutes later) a checkuser may be needed to discover if there are other accounts out there. MarnetteD&#124;Talk 18:18, 18 December 2021 (UTC)

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 * I see the note here Sockpuppet_investigations/IceBrotherhood/Archive that SaintMary1971 was the original case name. Should this one be merged or renamed or something else to avoid confusion? Thanks to you and for your time on this. MarnetteD&#124;Talk 17:02, 22 December 2021 (UTC)
 * @MarnetteD We generally name a case after whichever account was created first. Sometimes cases are opened by mistake under the name of an account which isn't the oldest.  It looks like that's what happened in 26 November 2020.  Other times, during the course of working a case, we discover a new sock which is older than the one was had previously considered the master.  In either of those events, we just rename the case (there are exceptions, but that's the usual procedure).  If you go to Sockpuppet investigations/SaintMary1971, you'll see there's a stub left behind pointing people here.  So, the bottom line is, I think we're good.  But thanks for asking. -- RoySmith (talk) 17:16, 22 December 2021 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the reply and for its thoroughness :-) It helps me to be aware of things in the future - which with this one there probably will be. MarnetteD&#124;Talk 17:26, 22 December 2021 (UTC)

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 * - It's been a while since the last SPI, but these accounts are editing the same obscure articles and making the same edits as previous accounts:  (including this one where they reinstate a completely identical edit ). I'm pretty confident that these are IceBrotherhood socks, but I'm endorsing to check for other accounts as they've used multiple accounts concurrently in the past. Thanks, Spicy (talk) 08:49, 22 December 2021 (UTC)
 * - -- RoySmith (talk) 16:06, 22 December 2021 (UTC)
 * JusticiaAeterna and Enchanting Lullaby are ✅ to each other, along with:
 * Everything in the archives is stale, but I did find one clue in the logs that lets me say that this entire group is to SaintMary1971 .  I'll block all of these, but as I haven't looked closely at SM1971's contributions, so I'll leave the tagging to you, .  I don't usually editorialize like this, but Battlestar Galactica as a tragedy??? -- RoySmith (talk) 16:25, 22 December 2021 (UTC)
 * Everything in the archives is stale, but I did find one clue in the logs that lets me say that this entire group is to SaintMary1971 .  I'll block all of these, but as I haven't looked closely at SM1971's contributions, so I'll leave the tagging to you, .  I don't usually editorialize like this, but Battlestar Galactica as a tragedy??? -- RoySmith (talk) 16:25, 22 December 2021 (UTC)
 * Everything in the archives is stale, but I did find one clue in the logs that lets me say that this entire group is to SaintMary1971 .  I'll block all of these, but as I haven't looked closely at SM1971's contributions, so I'll leave the tagging to you, .  I don't usually editorialize like this, but Battlestar Galactica as a tragedy??? -- RoySmith (talk) 16:25, 22 December 2021 (UTC)
 * Everything in the archives is stale, but I did find one clue in the logs that lets me say that this entire group is to SaintMary1971 .  I'll block all of these, but as I haven't looked closely at SM1971's contributions, so I'll leave the tagging to you, .  I don't usually editorialize like this, but Battlestar Galactica as a tragedy??? -- RoySmith (talk) 16:25, 22 December 2021 (UTC)
 * Everything in the archives is stale, but I did find one clue in the logs that lets me say that this entire group is to SaintMary1971 .  I'll block all of these, but as I haven't looked closely at SM1971's contributions, so I'll leave the tagging to you, .  I don't usually editorialize like this, but Battlestar Galactica as a tragedy??? -- RoySmith (talk) 16:25, 22 December 2021 (UTC)


 * Thanks. Behaviour is a match, tagged them all as proven. Closing. Spicy (talk) 23:34, 22 December 2021 (UTC)