Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Mrmike1695/Archive

04 September 2015

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User talk:Mrmike1695 -- this account is banned and has a very specific MO. The user's edits are easily identified as overly-categorizing albums and discographies and making incessant and contradictory changes in album years. The same handful of canned edit summaries ("fixed typo", "added content", etc) are almost always included, even when a fundamental change has occurred.

This user repeatedly edits only a handful of mostly 90s-era rap artists, most notably in the edit histories of Big Pun and Big L.

MrMike1695 was probably the original and primary account and also employs:
 * User talk:Silentgentleman91
 * User talk:206.126.122.135 (used when MrMike1695 was only temporarily blocked, before the account's permanent block)
 * User talk:205.197.242.157
 * User talk:205.197.242.150
 * User talk:Thompson20
 * User: 205.197.242.172 -- added JesseRafe (talk) 14:00, 18 September 2015 (UTC)

The pattern is pretty obvious and consistent. JesseRafe (talk) 16:15, 3 September 2015 (UTC)


 * Addendum: User:Willondon also suggests that the currently blocked User_talk:72.229.40.94 is another puppet of this same master. JesseRafe (talk) 15:49, 4 September 2015 (UTC)
 * Further addendum, no "bad" edits per se (yet) but User:Rapexpert1989 has just made consecutive edits to the Big L and Big Pun articles, once again micromanaging the discography so I have little doubt this is Mrmike1695 at it again. JesseRafe (talk) 16:35, 18 September 2015 (UTC)

As per request here are some diffs showing closely related edits. Not having a lot of detailed notes on hand, and as the user doesn't use edit summaries correctly, I couldn't provide the ones where these addresses have made the exact same edits on multiple accounts, but these are close enough:
 * Diffs


 * Mrmike1695 changing the date on years active on Big Pun
 * Silentgentleman91 changing the date on years active on Big Pun and overly editorializing dates and years in bio/career section
 * Thompson20 overly fastidious changing of album categories and adjustments on Big L (this one was hard to capture, but notice how many edits this user made in quick succession of this nature, another hallmark of this master)
 * 206.126.122.135 changing dates on section headings (changing "mid-80s" to "mid-90s" has probably been done by each account used, for example) on Big Pun
 * 205.197.242.157 changing dates on section headings on Big L
 * 205.197.242.150 obsessive detail on changing album categories and groupings, i.e. collaboration vs compilation vs retrospective etc on Big Pun added JesseRafe (talk) 14:00, 18 September 2015 (UTC)


 * Another overly-tendentious album category on Big L: by 205.197.242.172 - Just the range of these IPs makes this more than evident. Why is there no response to this issue?

If any of these are not adequate, I'm sure more exact diffs can be scrounged up. JesseRafe (talk) 15:44, 15 September 2015 (UTC)

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I've blocked Thompson20 as a duck. DrKiernan (talk) 06:54, 4 September 2015 (UTC)
 * Does this mean that only that account is going to be blocked, or it was the only one blocked so far? JesseRafe (talk) 15:49, 4 September 2015 (UTC)


 * - In order to facilitate and expedite your request, please provide diffs to support your case. Please give two or more diffs meeting the following format:
 * 1) At least one diff is from the sockmaster (or an account already blocked as a confirmed sockpuppet of the sockmaster), showing the behaviour characteristic of the sockmaster.
 * 2) At least one diff per suspected sockpuppet, showing the suspected sockpuppet emulating the behaviour of the sockmaster given in the first diff.
 * 3) In situations where it is not immediately obvious from the diffs what the characteristic behaviour is, a short explanation must be provided. Around one sentence is enough for this.  Vanjagenije   (talk)  10:37, 13 September 2015 (UTC)
 * Are the provided diffs enough for a CU? --Neil N  talk to me 17:04, 18 September 2015 (UTC)


 * - to compare Silentgentleman91 with Thompson20 (Mrmike1695 is ).  Vanjagenije  (talk)  09:23, 19 September 2015 (UTC)



— Berean Hunter   (talk)  13:24, 26 September 2015 (UTC)
 * Silentgentleman91 is to the accounts above. There seems to be a bit of IP routing going on here that makes the technical data a bit unreliable. Any connection(s) to Mrmike1695 will need to be based upon behavior. . Mike V • Talk 16:25, 19 September 2015 (UTC)
 * Indeffing SilentGentleman91, hardblocking 206.126.122.135 for one year as it has been static since January and used exclusively by the master. 72.229.40.94's block will expire in a few days and we may need to keep an eye on it so please file a new report if it reemerges. Adding tags and closing.