Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Joebobaboba/Archive

Report date October 13 2009, 03:48 (UTC)

 * Suspected sockpuppets


 * Evidence submitted by Valley2city

User readily admits to being the sockpuppet of a blocked wiki-hater as seen at this dif. If quacks could echo, this would be have the most resonance. Slam Duck! IP exhibits identical edits so I don't think a CU is needed. However, it operates on a CIDR on 71.96.0.0/11 so it's a wide range apparently out of Reston, Virginia. Something to keep an eye on for jumping. Valley2 city ‽ 03:48, 13 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Update: decided to request CU as the IP makes the claim of jumping. I think we should figure out which IPs within or without the range have been used to edit so we can respond appropriately. Valley2 city ‽ 04:04, 13 October 2009 (UTC)


 * Comments by accused parties    See Defending yourself against claims.


 * Comments by other users

CheckUser requests
Requested by Valley2 city ‽ 04:04, 13 October 2009 (UTC)


 * Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments


 * Looks like a rangeblock is not really feasible; the autoblock should take care of whatever IP he was using on those accounts, but its apparent that he's hopping through IPs fairly frequently. Checkuser might be useful to see if he's using other accounts that aren't as obvious, and to confirm on the rangeblock possibility. (That, plus J.delanoy kicked the clerks for being lazy, and this is payback!). Nathan  T 19:13, 13 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Yeah, I didn't expect that blocking 2,000,000+ IPs would be that feasible...Valley2 city ‽ 20:20, 13 October 2009 (UTC)

All accounts now properly tagged. There's nothing else that can be done here. MuZemike 01:13, 15 October 2009 (UTC)
 * ✅: (blocked and tagged). Still checking other IPs that account has used. Hers fold  (t/a/c) 05:22, 14 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Additional comment: I did take a closer look at that account since that user does appear to be making valid contributions; however they are clearly on the same computer as the Joebob vandal, and in some cases there is less than a minute between logged-out vandal edits and logged-in edits. That aside, some of the logged-in edits are also questionable. I don't see any other accounts, though. Hers fold  (t/a/c) 05:28, 14 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Conclusions