Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Jackcrane25/Archive

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This users contributions appear to mimic the other confirmed socks from this user (including one less than a week ago). GoldMedalRibbon (confirmed sock) has this edit which is similar in structure and of the same niche genre/pages as this edit from this suspected sock. The socks also have a history of creating pages of side projects/new albums - as can be seen on this suspected sock here. Garchy (talk) 14:40, 28 July 2016 (UTC)

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 * Problem with the two diffs: they are actually the same diff, from the same user. I looked at the contributions of Jackcrane25 and I agree that this could be a sock of River Stumpf, but there's no smoking gun diff, and the contributions are generally good for the encyclopedia. If you wanted to show more of a similarity, you could look for previous socks attempting and failing to incorporate an external image. Binksternet (talk) 16:32, 28 July 2016 (UTC)
 * The two diffs from the same user were evidently a mistake. Probably what Garchy intended was and . Other than that, I agree with Binksternet: it does look as though Jackcrane25 may well be a sock of River Stumpf, but I haven't seen anything definite enough to prove it. The editor who uses the pseudonym "JamesBWatson" (talk) 15:26, 29 July 2016 (UTC)
 * Thank you, that is in fact the diffs I intended to provide. There does not, unfortunately, appear to be a 100% direct correlation between this account and the other socks, but due to the repetitive behavior by this sockpuppeter (a new account creation within a day or two of block of the previous sock) it appears likely this is a continuation of the same type of edits done with all other confirmed socks. As this behavior is repetitive and therefore hard to control (and takes a lot of effort on the end of users and admins), is there some sort of IP rangeblock that could be used to prevent further account creation from this IP (or IP range)? Garchy (talk) 15:57, 29 July 2016 (UTC)
 * Also adding, editing on the same pages - at a minimum would this be considered abusing multiple accounts? Even these edits +  - my theory is that this banned user has multiple accounts they use simultaneously - however, they all have the same niche edits (track lengths of related/niche bands, adding associated acts, page creation for side projects of said niche bands) as well as lacking any user page or talk page. As soon as one account is blocked multiple others continue the editing. While the edits alone are generally not unconstructive they have been tied to a banned user who is evading block - not sure how to handle this situation as the socks are always one step ahead. Thanks for any advice. Garchy (talk) 16:06, 29 July 2016 (UTC)

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 * The two accounts listed while being linked to each other, do not link to accounts in the archive. does link to the archive and has been blocked. A decision about either blocking the master or moving to a new case should be made at this point. --  Amanda  (aka DQ) 21:29, 5 August 2016 (UTC)
 * I've blocked the account as a sock of  and noted that they should only use one account moving forward, though both accounts appear abandoned.  Can this be moved to reflect  as the master?-- Jezebel's Ponyo bons mots  22:32, 7 September 2016 (UTC)
 * Copied from Special:Permalink/738264835 and closing per . Kevin ( aka L235 ·&#32; t ·&#32; c) 02:02, 8 September 2016 (UTC)