Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Lucas081094/Archive

Report date May 1 2009, 17:46 (UTC)

 * Suspected sockpuppets


 * Evidence submitted by Jayron32. talk . contribs


 * I have a bit of a special request here for the Checkusers. See Category:Suspected Wikipedia sockpuppets of Lucas081094 for a list of IPs used by a disruptive blocked user, User:Lucas081094.  He is using multiple IPs assigned to claro.net.br, see these two representative WHOIS requests:  and .  I have tried article protection, but he just changes his targets as soon as I protect his last target.  At this point, I am trying to perhaps look at a rangeblock to stop this at the source.  However, these are both rather large ranges (33000 and 66000 addresses respectively) and I want to know what level of collateral damage is to be expected from these ranges?  If they are essentially unused except for this guy, I wouldn't feel so bad about it.  I am considering an anon-only, account creation allowed soft block to stop only the IPs.  If he creates new accounts, we can just quickly block them one-by-one.  If sockfarming become a problem, I can explore hardblocks later.  However, I am looking for a green light on rangeblocking the above ranges, or a heads up as to potential problems, if for example these are extensively used ranges by other legitimate IP users.  Thanks in advance for considering this.  --Jayron32. talk . contribs  17:46, 1 May 2009 (UTC)
 * As a little more background, the blocked user Lucas081094 has a specific pattern of behavior. He edits articles related to CGI movies (like Toy Story) with unsourced and spurious claims about a Brazilian movie named Casseopeia being the first ever CGI movie.  These attacks move to whatever venues I have not already protected, and he just drifts from article to article trying to find a new outlet to publish these unsourced claims in after I protect the last one.  I am pretty sure I have ferreted out and tagged most of the IPs he has used so far (see list at the above Suspected Sockpuppet Category I linked above) but on the off chance that I have missed some, if will give you some idea of what to look for in other IPs in these two ranges when doing your investigation.  --Jayron32. talk . contribs  17:56, 1 May 2009 (UTC)


 * Comments by accused parties    See Defending yourself against claims.


 * Comments by other users
 * This has been going on for some time - off and on since May 2006 - at that time, it was under IPs 201.45.89.202, 201.19.136.243, 201.31.11.37, 200.232.56.90, 201.19.58.136, and 200.161.6.47 (this last one was the only one to actually try and discuss things, if only briefly...), and usernames Greylica, FlavioEd., Flavioed.  Generally, this editor (or editors) has tried inserting incorrect and unsourced material about the Brazilian film Cassiopéia into several other articles (as well as rewriting Cassiopéia to build its case over Toy Story) without proper citations, references, or any discussion, either by talk page or edit summaries. Since these changes are clearly in error, have been shown to be in error, and after so many attempts (by people likely associated with the film in question, I suspect) to push their POV on the subject, I can't see further attempts to insert this information as good-faith edits, especially in light of recent attempts to evade a block. TheRealFennShysa (talk) 18:34, 1 May 2009 (UTC)

Requested by Jayron32. talk . contribs 17:46, 1 May 2009 (UTC)
 * CheckUser requests


 * To check for the possibility of a rangeblock. Peter Symonds ( talk ) 09:48, 2 May 2009 (UTC)


 * Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments

-- Avi (talk) 04:18, 3 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Conclusions
 * Softblocks placed where collateral damage may occur
 * Softblocks placed where collateral damage may occur
 * Softblocks placed where collateral damage may occur
 * Thanks for handling that Avi. It looks like you used some more targeted smaller blocks.  I appreciate that you went the extra step and found the effective ranges and blocked the smaller ranges individually.  Thanks for all of your help with this!  --Jayron32. talk . contribs  04:42, 3 May 2009 (UTC)

Tiptoety talk 04:21, 3 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Archiving. —  Jake   Wartenberg  05:10, 3 May 2009 (UTC)