Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/MattDiClemente/Archive

24 January 2011

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This user came to my attention for the first time at the article Christmas worldwide, which I have been working on with another editor recently. User:MattDiClemente added to the section for Italy a series of external links.. Less than 2 hours later more were added by IP number 96.242.71.27. The greater portion of these links were in violation of WP:WWIN and WP:SPS and at least one would qualify as WP:PROMO or SPAM. After I removed them, 96.242.71.27 then went to Talk:Christmas worldwide and added to a section mentioning Vandalism to the article stating that "someone" had vandalized the article by "randomly" removing the links! They didn't sign their comment but the bot did. I removed it and explained in an edit summary that I'm no vandal and why the links to blogs were removed. If you study the contributions to the article you will see that the IP number has since returned at least three times now and ADDED BACK the links which had been removed.  The other editor who is working on this article left messages on the talk page of the IP number and so did I, after a request to temporarily semi-protect the page was declined and I was advised to address the IP number on his/her talk page one last time.  Since then, the IP number has messed with my user talk page and MattDiClemente has added more external links to the page including one which is in Italian and therefore impossible to verify on the ENGLISH LANGUAGE Wikipedia! The IP number and another one 96.234.14.191 both geolocate to New Jersey and other articles being edited by the IPs are being edited by MattDiClemente. He doesn't seem to have any warnings on his user talk page about spam or vandalism but does have several warnings connected with copyright violations. It seems evident the IP numbers belong to him but editing logged in and logged out back to back makes it appear the edits come from two editors. Primarily the article is being disrupted because of this but it also feels like harassment! Please do what you feel is appropriate. Thanks. This lousy T-shirt (talk) 03:19, 24 January 2011 (UTC)

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 * - CU won't connect an account to an IP. —  Hello Annyong  (say whaaat?!) 03:20, 24 January 2011 (UTC)
 * Do you advise going straight to WP:AIV since it's a matter of harassment and the continuous disruption of the page? This lousy T-shirt (talk) 03:25, 24 January 2011 (UTC)


 * You could have taken it to AIV, but it's not really persistent enough. Anyway, I've blocked the second IP for a day and warned the master about logging in. Hopefully that fixes the problem. As a side note, the first IP hasn't edited in a month or so, so blocking or anything would be excessive. —  Hello Annyong  (say whaaat?!) 03:34, 24 January 2011 (UTC)