Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Mccrex/Archive

04 February 2014

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Context: 12th man (football) is in protected mode due to a recent edit war including multiple anon IPs over content.User_talk:Randolph_Duke is an editor of this article who has been repeatedly WP:NPA attacked and reverted, both then and ongoing.

The Special:Contributions/Mccrex account was dormant for over four years, until it resumed use, immeidately after the admin protect on 12th man (football).

Mccrex then made a marginally inappropriate WP:NPA and non-encyclopedic edit to an unrelated article here.

This edit was removed by a 3rd party, and then promptly reintroduced via re-reverting by 66.87.102.94 with a grossly NPA remark in the comment of his edit (which should be removed from the version history): https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Trading_Places&diff=593795348&oldid=593766817

I believe Mccrex is also 66.87.102.94, and that both should be blocked, per WP:PUPPET and NPA.

Note, I've opened two Incident reports on Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents in the last day on both Doctothorpe and 50.132.44.241 related to WP:PUPPET issues

Several IPs in apparent coordination (or singular user who is IP hopping) have made thematically similar content edits and/or personal attacks. They included:

66.87.134.10, 75.108.235.2, 76.22.35.101, 76.22.35.101, 66.87.102.176, 50.152.213.205

I believe the activity of the above IPs is sufficient to initiate WP:CheckUser, but immediately conceded that these IPs generally made only a single edit, though in total, all edits occurred in a small time frame possibly indicating a single user.

My involvement is a semi-regular contributor and watcher of the 12th man (football) article since well-before this recent edit war. UW Dawgs (talk) 01:40, 4 February 2014 (UTC)

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Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * Please focus on the accounts as the checkusers won't publicly link an account with an IP address. Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 12:56, 5 February 2014 (UTC)
 * I'm closing this now as most IPs are stale and per lack of evidence about the named accounts. Mark Arsten (talk) 03:15, 9 February 2014 (UTC)