Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/NearMiss1208/Archive

17 June 2012

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Anon IP 192.193.216.152 was blocked for repeatedly adding non-encyclopedic content to the Park (band) article such as this edit:. It was a one week block. But then another Anon IP popped up immediately at 199.67.140.56 with the same types of edits here, and after those were reverted and warned numerous times a named account of NearMiss1208 popped up with the same series of edits here and here. I note that in those edit summaries the named editor claims affiliation with the band noting, "Edit requested by the band who this page is about." suggesting a rather strong WP:COI. So this appears to be a sock that was blocked attempting to get around that block by using a new IP, and then trying to avoid being reverted by creating a named account after already being blocked and being warned for getting close to a second block on the new IP. ConcernedVancouverite (talk) 14:54, 17 June 2012 (UTC)

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 * Non-admin comment - FWIW it appears that the two anon IPs are both from the same corporation though - Citicorp. ConcernedVancouverite (talk) 01:38, 18 June 2012 (UTC)

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The IPs geolocate near but not in the same city. At first glance, looks like two people using three logins. IPs are both static. Dennis Brown - 2&cent;    &copy;  01:32, 18 June 2012 (UTC)

Geolocation issues aside, the history of the article does suggest that this is the same user. The second IP appeared right after the first one was blocked, made three reverts, and then the named account was created – about 30 minutes after the first IP was blocked. All were adding the same open letter to the article repeatedly (I count 12 additions within less than two days). IMO the behavioural evidence supports a block for edit warring and block evasion. Jafeluv (talk) 11:01, 18 June 2012 (UTC)
 * Everyone blocked 1 month. Dennis Brown - 2&cent;    &copy;  19:05, 18 June 2012 (UTC)