Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Lunatikkrazie1/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets



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All these accounts share a similar editing pattern at Good Charlotte discography, Fall Out Boy discography, and other related articles. The user mainly likes to change sales amounts and chart postions to numbers that contradict the sources provided. They don't respond to talk page messages and rarely use edit summaries. Lunatikkrazie1 was blocked back in April 2021 for doing so, and since then, other accounts and IP addresses have appeared making the same disruptive edits, doing so at such an extent as to render semi-protection on the pages.

Lunatikkrazie1 changing the sales amounts and chart postions, despite the sources never say it.

Lunatik223 makes similar edits to the same articles.

Similar edits from Greenzeppelindude03.

An IP address with a similar editing pattern.

Another IP address making similar edits. Magatta (talk) 20:56, 23 August 2021 (UTC)

Another IP appearing to make the same edits. Magatta (talk) 21:11, 23 August 2021 (UTC)

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Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments
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 * Between same limited pool of articles and same specific kind of disruption, highly likely that these are the same user. Only thing that gives me slight pause is that suddenly discovered edit summaries, but since they're the most recent sock, that seems like an evolution, not a sign of different masters. (And even if these somehow are different people with the same vandalistic obsession, nothing of value is being lost here.)
 * Ohnoitsjamie has blocked Greenzeppelindude03 on behavioral evidence. I see no evidence of sleepers to date, and CU will not connect accounts to IPs, so.
 * 70.166.222.213 has not edited since April (when it got a 72hr block), and its edits just a few weeks earlier appear unrelated, suggesting Lunatikkrazie only briefly had this IP. No action needed.
 * Widr blocked 47.39.74.167 for 31 days. That expires tomorrow. If vandalism resumes, feel free to report at AIV. If you would like, you can link this statement as clerk support for the conclusion that this is a sock.
 * 75.128.37.40 has not edited since August 30th (which is when the other IP was blocked, so perhaps an autoblock), but has been active on-and-off since May. Conventional wisdom is to assume an IP is blockable for the same length of time since its last edit as transpired between its first and last edits, and there's about three months left on that timer, so for block of this IP. If it were more recent I'd say 2-3 months, but given the gap I would recommend just 1.
 * May also want to keep an eye on Special:Contributions/75.128.33.76, a nearby IP who's made disruptive edits that vaguely resemble these ones, but in a different topic area. Not enough for me to be sure if it's a coincidence or socking.
 * -- Tamzin [cetacean needed] (she/they) 17:48, 20 September 2021 (UTC)


 * blocked 1 month per request ~TNT (she/they • talk) 21:20, 20 September 2021 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets



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Making similar edits to Special:Contributions/75.128.37.40, changing certifications amounts without providing sources, contradicting the sources provided in the articles. Magatta (talk) 14:57, 26 October 2021 (UTC)

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 * 92 days by PhilKnight as an anonblock. That's two months longer than I would have requested a sockblock for, so, closing. Noting for the record that, at a glance, this does appear to be Lk1. --  Tamzin  [ cetacean needed ] (she/they) 23:47, 26 October 2021 (UTC)