Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/IrishSpook/Archive

17 February 2015

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 * Both accounts edit a similar group of relatively obscure articles, related to Law Enforcement in Ireland, Military Intelligence in Ireland, and the American ambassador to Ireland/ American Embassy in Ireland.
 * The page Witness Security Programme (Ireland) was created by User:IrishSpook and roughly 75% of the edits are by IrishSpook and 25% by 178.216.112.128.
 * When IrishSpook was | warned at 20:21, 11 February 2015 that he was in breach of 3rr at Army Ranger Wing, he stopped editing, and 178.216.112.128 began making identical revisions at | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 to skirt around this.
 * Both accounts have included the same bizarre reasoning in their edit summaries with regard to WP:Synthesis. IrishSpook states | It's no longer "synthesis" if it's not referenced | NO LONGER SYNTHESIS IF IT'S NOT REFERENCED.; 178.216.112.128 states | no longer reffed, can't argue synthesis now mate, | your changing your excuse now, 150 or 200 isn't original research it was "synthesis", can't be so if there's no refs, get a life, and | there is no synthesis if there isn't references, quit it.
 * 178.216.112.128 | has previously removed material from IrishSpooks talk page that was critical of IrishSpook's response to having allegedly infringed copyright.
 * When User: Murry1975 | asked IrishSpook if they had been editing while logged out, IrishSpook replied | Absolutely none of your business whether or not it was me logged in or not mate, and then removed a Template:Uw-login warning, | referring to the warning as "bs", indicating that this probably isn't a case of accidentally editing while logged out. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.97.226.247 (talk) 01:59, 18 February 2015 (UTC)

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 * - CUs will almost never connect a named account to an IP..
 * Duplicate report removed. ​—DoRD (talk)​ 14:04, 18 February 2015 (UTC)
 * The IP is already blocked for two weeks for edit warring. An admin is needed to warn IrishSpook not to edit while logged out any more.  Vanjagenije  (talk)  23:03, 2 March 2015 (UTC)
 * An admin isn't needed to do so. Any user may make such a warning, much like the various user warnings issued. Mike V • Talk 23:23, 2 March 2015 (UTC)
 * Yea, sorry. By the way, the user was already warned about editing while logged-out on 19 June 2014 . Should we use some block?  Vanjagenije  (talk)  23:54, 2 March 2015 (UTC)
 * I've blocked the account for 1 week, as it's readily apparent the user was editing while logged out. Mike V • Talk 18:32, 5 March 2015 (UTC)

08 March 2015

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178.216.112.128 was blocked by User:Drmies for one week for logged out editing on February 18th. The sockmaster, IrishSpook, was blocked by user:Mike_V for one week on March 5th for logged out editing using 178.216.112.128. On March 7th, IrishSpook resumed using 178.216.112.128 in order to evade this 2nd block. 79.97.226.247 (talk) 17:30, 8 March 2015 (UTC)

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 * I've hard blocked the IP for 2 weeks. Mike V • Talk 02:07, 10 March 2015 (UTC)

10 March 2015

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IP hopping block evasion. WP:QUACK. Last IP was hard blocked today for two weeks. Requested page protection. Would suggest longer block on master. Murry1975 (talk) 18:47, 10 March 2015 (UTC)

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 * The IPs have been blocked for 2 days (they belong to a mobile service). The page has been semi-protected as well. I've upped the master's block to 1 month. Mike V • Talk 22:33, 10 March 2015 (UTC)