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07 May 2014

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I'd been monitoring the article List of programs broadcast by Disney Junior (United States) as it seemed like a great deal of suspicious activity was occurring there.. there are/were 4 different users/IPs who were persistently removing/adding the same content to the article without a source, even though I advised them to stop, and all four of those users/IP's seem to only edit things related to the same TV show lists. The users are Mkrgolf, KomatchiGirl2, 98.90.88.42, and 2602:306:25A5:9999:889:B7AD:88A7:4F79, who was temporarily blocked last week for doing literally the same thing as the IP 98.90.88.42 did today. Not sure if this is relevant or not, or if you already know this, but I thought I'd inform you that it seems highly likely to me that the four of them are all the same person, or at least a group of people collaborating to vandalize/etcetera. I'm not sure either if an investigation has already been filed, but when four different users consistently add and remove the exact same sentences of content and all edit the same types of articles, that seems suspicious to me. Check out their contribs. Cheers! :) ''' Flipandflopped  (Discuss,   Contribs)  10:54, 7 May 2014 (UTC) 22:50, 17 May 2014 (UTC)
 * Note KomatchiGirl may actually be the "primary account" or "puppet master" so to speak, judging as the account has existed longer and has more contribs. The way that all of these users and IP's behave (with total ignorance to the requests of fellow wikipedians, and the habit of adding things to lists without a source or explanation) is just too suspicious to be ignored to me. ''' Flipandflopped  (Discuss,   Contribs)  00:11, 10 May 2014 (UTC)
 * I will be away for the next 2 days or so - but I will work on providing the diffs (bear in mind, being so many accounts, this may take me a while)2 The contributions on all of the accounts in question are a jumbled mess of removals of items from lists, mostly pertaining to educational/child-related media (i.e 'List of Baby songs') ''' Flipandflopped  (Discuss,   Contribs)
 * I do not want to cancel this investigation, as I'm sure I can provide diffs (there are lots to choose from, and they're all close to the same: the accounts removing items from lists with no explanation, so I will have to look for instances in which they removed the same one after the previous one has been blocked), but it's currently exam week and I'm quite busy in real life (I'm probably only going to get to be able to do anything this weekend, frankly). Sorry for the inconvenience, bear with me :) ''' Flipandflopped  (Discuss,   Contribs)  10:35, 22 May 2014 (UTC)

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Added two more that recently became active. –Skywatcher68 (talk) 19:44, 9 May 2014 (UTC)
 * Found another one. –Skywatcher68 (talk) 19:51, 9 May 2014 (UTC)
 * Good find! It's becoming increasingly obvious that the IP's are seemingly the same person, the question is rather if Mkrgolf and Komatchigirl are too the same person, or if the IP's are one person and these two are an other, or etcetera. All of the users/IP's listed only edit the same topics/, list of songs/TV shows (particularly Baby Songs and the likes). They are both equally unresponsive.. ''' Flipandflopped  (Discuss,   Contribs)  00:14, 10 May 2014 (UTC)
 * Found another IP, as well as another user. Was scrolling through KomatchiGirl's contributions, and clicked this article only to find the IP in question had made numerous edits not only to that article, but to other articles that the supposed other sock puppets had been patrolling as well. ''' Flipandflopped  (Discuss,   Contribs)  01:45, 10 May 2014 (UTC)
 * I suggest the admins concentrate on the 2602:306:25A5 IPs, all they seem to do is go around restoring vandalism perpetrated by others using that IP series; on the rare occasion that they add content rather undoing a removal of vandalism, they all put a date and only a date in the edit summary (e.g.: (April 30 2014)). 98.90.88.42 does the date thing as well. Some of them are already blocked but they just roll up with a new IPv6 each day and continue making a mess wherever they go. Perhaps a range block would be appropriate at this point. –Skywatcher68 (talk) 18:51, 14 May 2014 (UTC)
 * 2602:306:25A5 just keep coming. –Skywatcher68 (talk) 19:50, 17 May 2014 (UTC)
 * 2602:306:25A5:82A9:5C37:436:8472:C872 even reverted an anti-vandal bot! –Skywatcher68 (talk) 14:44, 20 May 2014 (UTC)

I was checking my teenage severely autistic son's email account today and found an email from you that you had filed a complaint against him. I am not sure what this is about, but I assure you that he is non-verbal and his only loves in life are his computer, old cartoons, VHS tapes, and Wikipedia. He only has one account, and it is under MKRGOLF.

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 * There's way too many contribs to dig through to try to find similarities. Please provide one or more diffs above for each of the accounts/IPs in question showing similar behavior. &mdash;Darkwind (talk) 14:09, 14 May 2014 (UTC)
 * I don't feel comfortable running checks without any diffs -- Guerillero &#124;  My Talk  05:16, 21 May 2014 (UTC)
 * Closing, but this can be re-opened when the filing editor is less busy IRL. AGK  [•] 23:59, 22 May 2014 (UTC)