Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Mlillybaltimore/Archive

20 September 2011

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The IP address seems to be logging out in order to remove the speedy deletion tag on The Party of Helicopters. Contribution history of the IP address with the user shows that they have edited quite a few of the same articles, and this seems to confirm my suspicion. Inks.LWC (talk) 03:20, 20 September 2011 (UTC)

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Wow! I was just thinking that this person could be a sockpuppet user as well! Anyways, both of those IPs have a knack for genre warring and/or removing genres under the justification that reliable sources aren't present to prove that x band/album is y genre. I've also noticed that Mlillybaltimore and #74 have edited some of the same pages, such as Radiohead, The Party of Helicopters, The King of Limbs, post-rock, and Cult of Luna. Both identities like to discuss which genres should be assigned to which bands on the respective talk pages. They have also both responded to personal messages by typing on their own talk page, and have made similar edit summaries for some of their edits. I have recently clashed with this editor over the controversial nature of his/her genre-oriented edits, as expressed at this report, which I issued. Genre warring is something that I have developed an abhorrence for, and this user is simply encouraging genre warring by his/her practices. There are so many ways to try to improve Wikipedia, but going on such a genre-changing spree is counterproductive and does not achieve any sort of improvement; instead, it achieves gratuitous, needless bickering and unwarranted controversy.

Another IP address that has performed similar activity is 192.245.194.254, but that IP has not been active since September 12. Something else that may be significant is that for the WHOIS lookup on #74, the IP location says, "United States Baltimore Clearwire Us Llc".

Backtable Speak to meconcerning my deeds. 23:13, 20 September 2011 (UTC)

I'm simply trying to clean up certain pages by making sure that if someone insists on including a particular genre, that there be a reliable third party source to back it up. I didn't realize that asking for verifiable and reliable sources on a Wikipedia page was such a controversial thing.Mlillybaltimore (talk) 23:47, 20 September 2011 (UTC)

And as for this accusation, there is a shared laptop in a house full of music geeks, so it's completely within the realm of possibility that other people in the house use that laptop for all number of uses (including Wikipedia). I personally have only ever contributed to Wikipedia articles while logged in to my account. I will say this though, based on the edit history of some of the folks who seem to have such a big problem with me asking that citations be provided, the extent to which I've been followed around is borderline harassment.Mlillybaltimore (talk) 03:17, 21 September 2011 (UTC)
 * Okay, then. With that stated, though, how would you address the similar editing activity between the IPs and your user account; are they independent of each other or not so? Also, who do you think took down the speedy deletion tag on The Party of Helicopters? With those questions asked, I'm sorry that you feel harassed. In case you feel like that toward me (which I am not attempting to do), some of the pages you've edited (like Boris (band) and Agalloch) happen to be on my watchlist, which is nothing personal or anything like that. Backtable Speak to meconcerning my deeds. 08:04, 21 September 2011 (UTC)

As I thought I made clear in my above post, I live in a large house with over half a dozen friends, all of whom are big music fans. There is a shared laptop in our home studio that all of us use. I don't go around asking my roommates what they do on the internet, but it's my guess that someone else in the house was on the studio computer around the same time I was on my personal computer. We all have very similar taste in music, so I wouldn't be surprised if there is a lot of overlap between articles we follow/edit on Wikipedia.Mlillybaltimore (talk) 13:51, 21 September 2011 (UTC)
 * So you're telling me that 2 people from Baltimore happened to have an interest in looking up a band from Ohio on the same day, and that there's no correlation between you making the article and someone in your house removing the speedy deletion tag on an article that you created? Inks.LWC (talk) 20:43, 21 September 2011 (UTC)

Yes, that's exactly what I'm saying. Most of the people in this house are originally from Ohio. The burden is on you to prove that what's going on here is against Wikipedia's rules and that's something you can't do. I'm telling you exactly why there is confusion about this, but you don't seem to care.Mlillybaltimore (talk) 21:20, 21 September 2011 (UTC)

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 * Kay, this thing has gone on a tangent. I've warned the master about logging in. The article has been deleted anyway, so I'm closing for now. —  Hello Annyong  (say whaaat?!) 03:55, 22 September 2011 (UTC)

03 October 2011

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The account and the IPs all seem to have an obsession with removing the term 'Alternative rock' from articles about the band Radiohead's albums; edit summaries are very similar. The user account is 'Mlillybaltimore'; the first IP resolves to Baltimore, Maryland, and the second, to Washington, DC, which is in very close proximity to Baltimore. It's the same person.  R ad io pa th y  •talk•  04:37, 3 October 2011 (UTC)

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 * This case is a little too stale to take any action. The 192 IP hasn't edited in nearly a month, and the master hasn't edited in a few weeks (save for one edit to clear their userpage). That really only leaves the 74 IP as active, and there isn't much abuse of accounts going on as of right now. If the IP keeps being disruptive report it to AIV, but you can relist here if the master or other IPs/accounts become active. —  Hello Annyong  (say whaaat?!) 13:32, 8 October 2011 (UTC)