Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Noodleki/Archive

18 January 2013

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Basically, this all relates to 1934 article's edit history, although a couple of other year articles have also been vandalized (1935 and 1938). This has been up at AN/I (Administrators' Noticeboard/Incidents), but all these IPs were doing exactly what Noodleki was doing: pushing a POV edit that removed 5KB+ from the article, despite constantly being reverted with several comments about the lack of consensus for such an edit. 109.148.90.47 had never edited before, 86.181.90.253 hadn't edited since 2010 and hasn't edited since, 109.148.123.174 has done identical things in several other articles. 109.148.121.92 has since made a solitary edit to another article, but this one, at least, appears to be good faith. The edit summaries are all strong retaliation (some are bordering on personal attacks, or simply tagged as reverting the anti-vandal bot. In addition, Noodleki has a history of using IPs for vandalism, based on their talkpage - ironically, on another year article, 1913. This is what I've cited 86.163.201.229, 86.161.243.49 and 86.162.75.76 for. 86.163.201.229 also edited Jimmy Savile, an article which Noodleki was warned for vandalizing, with a completely incorrect rationale . If you want me to try and dig up any further evidence, or need more to be explained, then I'm willing to do so. Lukeno94 (talk) 12:32, 18 January 2013 (UTC)
 * User also admits to using the IPs.. Lukeno94 (talk) 12:35, 18 January 2013 (UTC)

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 * Since he openly admits the IP accounts are his, the only question to resolve is whether he was using them in violation of the sockpuppet policy. For example, the main account has been blocked a couple times.  Were any of the IP accounts used while the main account was blocked? —Psychonaut (talk) 13:49, 18 January 2013 (UTC)

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * - The Privacy policy generally doesn't allow CheckUsers to publicly connect named users to IP addresses. ​—DoRD (talk)​ 12:51, 18 January 2013 (UTC)
 * I don't know whether the anonymous edits are being made by Noodleki, but since this ISP's addresses are reassigned each time a user connects to the Internet, there is no point in blocking them individually, and a rangeblock is out of the question. Semi-protection is likely the best route in this case. ​—DoRD (talk)​ 13:22, 18 January 2013 (UTC)
 * @Psychonaut: Noodleki's latest block was on 16 January and all of the listed IP addresses' contributions were prior to that. Noodleki should be aware, however, that logging out to avoid scrutiny is prohibited. ​—DoRD (talk)​ 14:26, 18 January 2013 (UTC)