Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Minimalone/Archive

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GABgab 20:55, 4 November 2017 (UTC)

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✅, as per this. GABgab 20:55, 4 November 2017 (UTC)
 * Just confirming the above is accurate; all five accounts are ✅. ~ Rob 13 Talk 22:23, 4 November 2017 (UTC)

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, . GABgab 04:36, 6 November 2017 (UTC)
 * CU assesses them as a sock. GABgab 04:51, 6 November 2017 (UTC)

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Minimalone and his/her sockpuppets, namely, , , and , constantly edited the articles about the band Bowery Electric and/or its member Lawrence Chandler. Three days after the admin GeneralizationsAreBad semi-protected Bowery Electric, the CitationsAreGood account was created. At first, CitationsAreGood engaged in tag bombing on multiple music-related articles. After that, he/she restored some content on Lawrence Chandler, which had been removed by Adamfinmo a month ago as "unsourced spam added by abusive COI editors". 153.228.203.19 (talk) 00:49, 3 December 2017 (UTC)

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✅, blocked, tagged, closing.--Bbb23 (talk) 01:19, 3 December 2017 (UTC)

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Minimalone's previous sockpuppets such as, , , and  constantly edited the articles about the band Bowery Electric and its member Lawrence Chandler. After CitationsAreGood got blocked in December 2017, Mysterons2 and Jason Taverner appeared out of nowhere, mostly restoring the content that another sockpuppet had added in November 2017. Compare diffs:. 153.205.132.229 (talk) 22:18, 18 January 2018 (UTC)

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✅ + ., closing.--Bbb23 (talk) 23:46, 18 January 2018 (UTC)

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As with Minimalone's previous sockpuppets such as and, this SPA account engaged in the same behavior at the same article (Bowery Electric). Compare diffs:. 153.204.243.107 (talk) 06:47, 20 January 2018 (UTC)

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 * sock, blocked due to that and behavioral evidence. GorillaWarfare (talk) 22:20, 20 January 2018 (UTC)

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Minimalone has been repeatedly evading his block, mostly editing Bowery Electric and Lawrence Chandler, the former of which is currently semi-protected because of his persistent sock puppetry. After the sockpuppets such as, as well as the IP socks such as and , got blocked in January 2018,  appeared out of nowhere and started editing other articles to get autoconfirmed. , one of the sockpuppets, edited trip hop group articles such as Portishead (band) and Massive Attack; Shift-Work edited trip hop group articles such as Portishead (band) and Lamb (band). Shortly after the account got autoconfirmed, Shift-Work edited Bowery Electric.

In addition, Minimalone's sockpuppets sometimes imitated other users' behaviors. For example, after Adamfinmo wrote the edit summaries "apparently paid editors" at Bowery Electric (diff) and "abusive COI editors" at Lawrence Chandler (diff) on 3 November 2017,, one of the sockpuppets, wrote the edit summary "Appearance of COI or Paid Editor" at Nico Muhly (diff) on 19 November 2017. Similarly, after I wrote the edit summary "rm excessive information" at Bowery Electric (diff) on 21 January 2018, Shift-Work wrote the edit summary "rm excessive information" at Chvrches (diff) on 3 February 2018.

If the account is confirmed as Mimimalone's sockpuppet, I would also like to request reverting Shift-Work's disruptive, block-evading edits. 153.204.49.51 (talk) 06:48, 5 February 2018 (UTC)

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This is a legitimate account making good-faith edits. Claims and issues noted are not relevant to account. The accusation on this page is "bad faith". An examination of articles noted will confirm User 153.204.49.51 has a history of disruptive, abusive editing, repeatedly making claims such as this while making no positive contributions to the articles. User does not explain how this account is being used abusively. Shift-Work (talk) 15:20, 5 February 2018 (UTC)

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 * - Please block underlying IP range if possible. Sro23 (talk) 01:37, 6 February 2018 (UTC)
 * ✅. The IP range is too wide to be blocked. . Closing.--Bbb23 (talk) 02:01, 6 February 2018 (UTC)

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The same editing pattern at the same article (Bowery Electric) from the same ISP (Vodafone, London). Minimalone's previous IP socks were and, both of which got blocked for "block evasion" in January 2018. Compare diffs: 1, 2, 3. 153.230.169.41 (talk) 21:45, 3 May 2018 (UTC)

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 * Blocked Neil N  talk to me 15:00, 7 May 2018 (UTC)