Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Mannerheimo/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets



 * Tools: Editor interaction utility • Interaction Timeline • User compare report Auto-generated every hour.

User Mannerheimo was blocked indefinitely on 22 April 2018. The IP started editing on 6 January 2018 with less than 50 edits before the block and more than 500 edits after the block. The specific examples below are of edits that the IP made after Mannerheimo's block. It seems to be a static IP used by the same person all this time.

There is more evidence if needed, but I tried to keep this short. The IP is also currently blocked for 2 weeks in the Finnish WP where the IP edits in a similar way, but it's not for socking (and not by me though I'm an admin there.) kyykaarme (talk) 19:18, 11 July 2019 (UTC)
 * The Editor interaction utility tool finds over 70 pages in common, and it shows a quite distinctive range of interests, for example List of assassinated serving ambassadors, which was created by Mannerheimo and edited mainly by Mannerheimo and the IP.
 * The IP edited Mannerheimo's userspace twice about 3 weeks after Mannerheimo was blocked, and continued to translate the list on the page from English to Finnish:, IP.
 * The IP tried to ping the blocking admin in Mannerheimo's comment two hours after Mannerheimo made the comment in August 2018.
 * The IP has continued to update lists of Mannerheimo's interest, such as "List of ambassadors of Finland", with 257 edits by Mannerheimo and 30 IP edits according to the interaction tool; "List of territory purchased by a sovereign nation from another sovereign nation" with 40 edits by Mannerheimo and 14 IP edits, and "List of in Our Time programmes" with 204 edits by Mannerheimo and 116 IP edits.

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Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * Seems pretty obvious. Blocked for 1 year. NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 21:16, 11 July 2019 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets



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Mannerheimo is indefinitely blocked since April 2018. Evidence for 84.248.82.78: Same IP range as previously blocked 84.248.90.122 (that block expires in July 2020). In common: As for 93.106.12.134, the evidence is a bit weaker, but almost all the articles have also been edited by Mannerheimo, and some have only been edited by few users, , etc. Unfortunately that seems to be a mobile range, and their IP could have already changed. kyykaarme (talk) 21:01, 10 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Article "List of In Our Time programmes": blocked IP in June 2019, new IP on 12 March 2020
 * Has a habit of using the sandbox, blocked IP, new IP
 * Has an interest in things like diplomatic relationships: blocked IP edits "Libyan Ambassador to the United Nations, new IP edits Category:Ambassadors of Finland to the Democratic Republic of Congo

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Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments
 
 * This is annoying. If 84.248.82.78 is a sock, and 84.248.90.122 (from the archive) is also a sock, you'd need to block 84.248.80.0/20 to cover them both, which seems like a pretty broad range.  We could block the specific IP (and also 93.106.12.134) but that's not likely to do much good.  Not sure how to proceed here.  -- RoySmith (talk) 00:21, 27 May 2020 (UTC)
 * You can use Special:Contribs to check the contributions of a range . From that, you need to work out, based on the IP range contributions, if the amount of collateral damage can be justified based on the disruption caused by the master. The other thing to consider is whether page protection would have a lower collateral impact. In this case, page protection isn't a viable option given the huge range of articles affected. Looking at the IP range contributions, the collateral damage seems fairly small so a /20 range block for a month initially is justified (with rangeblock and a link to this SPI). 93.106.12.134 as a single IP can also be blocked for a month or so. No tags for IPs. Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 09:25, 27 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Blocked 84.248.80.0/20 and 93.106.12.134, closing. -- RoySmith (talk) 14:06, 27 May 2020 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets



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Mannerheimo has been indefinitely blocked since August 2018. This IP (or rather its range) was blocked for a month in the last SPI. The block expired on 27 June 2020, and the user was back editing on that same day. The IP address of this user seems to stay the same for long periods of time, and I dont think there are any other users using it, however there are some edits by other users on the /20 range.


 * The Editor interaction utility shows the same interests of international affairs
 * keeps on updating the List of In Our Time programmes that had 200+ edits by Mannerheimo
 * keeps using the WP:Sandbox for their edits which I mentioned in the last SPI

Note: the IP is blocked for a year in the Finnish Wikipedia since January 2021 for WP:IDHT behavior. (Not by me though I'm an admin there.) kyykaarme (talk) 22:43, 26 March 2021 (UTC)

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Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * IP reblocked for six months. GeneralNotability (talk) 03:28, 17 April 2021 (UTC)