Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Leaves38/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets
On the article Buddhism in Sri Lanka, the registered user account and each of these two IPv6 IPs have copy-pasted directly from the same exact source (JustBeGood). The master did so in this edit, while the IPs did so in these two edits.

The master only began editing while logged out after left a note on the master's talk page explaining that the master's edits had violated WP:NPOV and failed to adhere to the manual of style; the editing while logged out simply ignored the message and the editor continued the same pattern of issues. —  Red-tailed hawk (nest) 09:55, 13 December 2022 (UTC)


 * Also, for what it's worth, there's more activity on the /48 that looks like it's from the same user . I'll do a sweep through these to check if these need a copyvio-revdel when I get the chance. —  Red-tailed hawk (nest) 10:02, 13 December 2022 (UTC)
 * I've requested revdel on a all of the diffs from the 48 that were not already revdel'd; it looks like this is persistent copyvio from a single book. —  Red-tailed hawk (nest) 17:07, 13 December 2022 (UTC)
 * Cheers - let me know if you see any more. Girth Summit  (blether)  17:14, 13 December 2022 (UTC) Billy Mays Portrait Cropped.jpg
 * It appears that they've resumed the copyvio while logged out. —  Red-tailed hawk (nest) 07:24, 14 December 2022 (UTC)
 * Found some more copyvio from the same source. I'm not sure how one would write a filter to block editors from doing copyvio from a single specific book without lots of false positives. A bot with access to the full text of the work could do something like auto-revert each time there was a string of 12 or more words taken from the work, but I'm not sure that this is possible to do through the abusefilter itself. —  Red-tailed hawk (nest) 16:30, 14 December 2022 (UTC)
 * They're still at it today via IP. —  Red-tailed hawk (nest) 17:30, 15 December 2022 (UTC)

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Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * It seems obvious that it's the same person. I'm going to try another talk page message, encouraging them to log in to edit, and to observe NPOV and avoid COPYVIO. I see quite a few of their logged out edits have had to be revdelled too - if they persist, I'll block the main account, and we can assess whether it's worth blocking the /48. Girth Summit  (blether)  16:46, 13 December 2022 (UTC)
 * Blocked for a combination of COPYVIO, LOUTSOCKING and spam. I'll drop a note at AN about whether someone cleverer than me can put a filter in place to stop this, otherwise a rangeblock might be needed. Girth Summit  (blether)  15:47, 14 December 2022 (UTC)
 * Testing at Special:AbuseFilter/1214. Further filter discussion should probably continue in the AN thread. Closing. DatGuyTalkContribs 12:43, 16 December 2022 (UTC)