Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/MaximumMadnessStixon/Archive

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13 April 2018 origin

MaximumMadnessStixon was first seen by me when I reverted him at Jigsaw (2017 film) for adding this generic edit, which had already been continuously reverted by multiple users for having no relevance to the Plot section. This account has not made a single edit since then.

Immediately after my revert of MaximumMadnessStixon, showed up and reverted it back. Normally, this would be nothing out of the ordinary, except they also indiscriminately reverted me at two other articles. Also around this time, and  began reverting me at some of the same articles, and have been revert-stalking me ever since. In fact, 5.151.28.192 is currently serving their third block in a row for doing so, whereas 82.16.30.167 is still active. For simplicity, I will label the three IP addresses the "Maxwell IPs".
 * 14 April 2018 incident

Comparing contributions

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Other connections

I strongly believe that this vandal is emulating the "Clash of Clefairies" sock puppeteer, an often active vandal who has not received an SPI due to being incredibly easy to spot and identify (in fact, they often boastfully take responsibility for their own edits) but is usually swiftly dealt with by administrator. This user is a self-proclaimed troll that began vandalising articles with multiple IPs in 2016, their original M.O. being that they vandalised random articles with information pertaining to mobile video games. At some point, they began targeting, revert-stocking, and spamming after he reverted them on multiple articles. As soon as I observed this in September 2016, I tried to give DangerousJXD assistance and stop them by creating a list of socks and bringing it to the attention of ANI. attempted to deal with it, but was unable to due to the evasiveness of this user. After that, the COC troll began impersonating DangerousJXD, and their spammings and impersonations extended to me as well. On-again/off-again for the last year (April 2017-April 2018), COC has exclusively been targeting me with revert-stocking, spamming, and creating accounts that mirror my username (examples including and ). Their past and recent actions are well documented in the edit histories at User talk:DangerousJXD, User talk:NinjaRobotPirate, and User talk:Darkknight2149. They also, at one point, impersonated the blocked sock puppeteer, leading to some unconfirmed speculation that they are the same user. Here is a sample size of accounts and IPs that have been reported, blocked, or dealt with as the "Clash of Clefairies" vandal:

Spit it out - What's the connection?

The three reported IP addresses began revert-stocking me near the last time the COC vandal stopped. Their methods of revert-stocking me and edit summary style are nearly identical, I.E. some variation on "revert" or "rvt", uncivil taunting, mentionings of the word "troll", pop culture references, ETC (comparison:, , , , , , , , ).

However, given the recent persistence and length of time that the COC troll has continuously revert-stocked me, my instincts are telling me that the new "Maxwell/IP address" vandal is merely a copycat for the following reasons:
 * 1) Location. All of the COC vandal's IP addresses that I have geolocated have been from Malaysia (earning them the nickname "The Maylasian Vandal"), whereas all three of the "Maxwell IPs" are from the United Kingdom.
 * 2) Timing. The "Maxwell IPs" showed up immediately after MaximumMadnessStixon was reverted and stopped contributing all together, and they have been active since.
 * 3) Motive. One minor distinction between the edit summaries is that the British "Maxwell IPs" don't brag about their trolling, and are mostly just targeted at me. The COC's edit summaries were a combination of bragging, identifying themselves, and attacking me. Edit summaries such as "TheWolfChild has done nothing wrong. You are the one who think that you own every film related articles" ( being an unrelated user that I recently reported at ANI) indicate that they are genuinely upset with me, while the COC vandal always seemed to be doing it for fun. MaximumMadnessStixon getting reverted would explain the motive of the three "Maxwell IPs", which are all three undoubtedly the same user.

That being said, I cannot 100% rule out the possibility that the COC vandal may be using the "Maxwell IPs" to impersonate MaximumMadnessStixon, though that would be unlikely given the apparent change in location. Hopefully a checkuser might be able to clear up some of this mess.

Other pertinent investigations
 * Sockpuppet investigations/Zjec/Archive  Dark Knight  2149  02:50, 2 May 2018 (UTC)

Comments by other users
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Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * Some of the older accounts are too stale to check. However,  seems to be ❌ to any registered or IP accounts listed here.  Stixon also seems ❌ to any accounts that I've checked in the past.  Give this result, I'm going to close the case. NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 19:34, 6 May 2018 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets



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The revert-siege against me continues. Like the previous three "Maxwell IPs", this user geolocates to the United Kingdom, they are revert-stalking me, their edit summaries ("Reset page", "Revert child") indicate a vengeful motive, and they are similar to the edit summaries of the others. If MaximumMadnessStixon or the "Clash of Clefairies" vandal (that they are apparently imitating) aren't behind this, then it seems that someone else must really hate my guts. I monitor a lot of articles for vandalism, uncited material, misguided edits from inexperienced users, ETC (and never revert without a precise reason), so perhaps someone is taking business a little too personally and could take a page from Michael Corleone (Third bulleted quote).  Dark Knight  2149  20:40, 3 May 2018 (UTC)

Comments by other users
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 * Hard blocked as a proxy. NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 16:49, 4 May 2018 (UTC)

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The IPs are exactly the same as the previous proxies. Recent indiscriminate reverts against me with the word "troll" in the edit summaries, near identical edit summaries to the "Clash" sock puppeteer , and they geolocate to the United Kingdom.  Dark Knight  2149  17:04, 24 May 2018 (UTC)

Comments by other users
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Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * how are these related to MaximumMadnessStixon? You're accusing MaximumMadnessStixon of harassment without any evidence.  I've blocked the IP addresses as proxies, but I'm closing this without any further action.  Please don't file future cases under MMS's name unless you have direct evidence that MMS is behind this.  If you don't know where else to report new socks, you can report them to my talk page, WP:AIV, WP:ANI, or WP:OP.  Or ask an SPI clerk what name to file new cases under.  I don't think it matters all that much, personally; User:DarkKnight2419 is as good a choice as any. NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 01:37, 25 May 2018 (UTC)
 * To clarify, I am not accusing MaximumMadnessStixon of anything. This was opened because the IPs were obvious proxies of the same sock puppeteer that this was opened about (which turned out to be unrelated to Stixon specifically). If you would like for me to report any hypothetical future proxies under a different SPI name, I will do so.  Dark Knight  2149  03:04, 25 May 2018 (UTC)