Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Oakley77/Archive

28 July 2012

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Oakley77 was banned in May 2012 against nominating and/or reviewing articles for Good Article status (archived discussion). On July 14 the ban was broadened to include any reviewing process and anything to do with the main page (archived discussion) for the next three months. I request Checkuser because I believe Oakley77 is using an IP to avoid his bans.
 * July 8: a discussion was started about Oakley77's contributions to WP:AfC, three months into a six month ban on WP:GAN reviewing (archived discussion)
 * July 9, 1730: Oakley77 removes self from all AfC, FA, GAN, DYK reviewing
 * July 9, 1920: 72.184.164.159's first two edits are to nominate Chongqing for GA status (combined edits). Chongqing is a focus of Oakley77's editing, with 76 edits to the article at that time (Chongqing edit count)
 * July 14: Oakley77 is banned for three months from all content review (talk page notice)
 * July 15: Oakley77 is blocked for 48 hours for violating the ban
 * 72.184.. stops editing until July 19
 * July 24, 1942: Oakley77 nominates Saudi Aramco to GA (talk page nom)
 * July 24, 1943: 72.184.. saves Oakley77 from possibly being blocked by deleting the nomination
 * July 24: Oakley77 starts doing disambiguations.
 * July 24: 72.184.. starts doing disambiguations. Last edit of the day is at 2135 to History of Abkhazia
 * July 24, 2136: Oakley77 edits History of Abkhazia, finishing the edit 72.184.. started
 * 1) 72.184.. is a Florida IP. Oakley77 claims to live in Florida (see user page).
 * 2) Since they have started editing, 72.184.. has nominated 14 articles for GA status. Failed: 5; nom removed by other users: 5; holding: 1; no action: 3; passed; 0. I believe this lack of success points to the same problems Oakley77 had in GAN before being banned from it.
 * 3) Oakley77 and 72.184.. have no overlaps in their editing history, only continuations. The timing of the Saudi Aramco and History of Abkhazia edits argues for a user logging in/out and continuing their edits. 71.234.215.133 (talk) 03:42, 28 July 2012 (UTC)

Comments by other users
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Checkuser's probably going to be declined; they do not confirm whether a user is using a certain IP. We can look with behavior though. --Rschen7754 07:18, 28 July 2012 (UTC)
 * My apologies. My reading of the "Whether or not to request a check?" collapsed box was that ban/block evasion was a reason to request it. I did not know IP socking would not be checked. 71.234.215.133 (talk) 07:23, 28 July 2012 (UTC)

Looking at the evidence, I think the socking is quite possible. --Rschen7754 07:22, 28 July 2012 (UTC)
 * Looking at this, if I were an admin, I'd say if it looks like a WP:DUCK... and block. That's just my opinion though.  Imzadi 1979  →   07:51, 28 July 2012 (UTC)

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 * - CU will not draw connections between accounts and IPs except in rare cases of extreme abuse. -- DQ  (ʞlɐʇ)  13:41, 28 July 2012 (UTC)
 * I have indefinitely blocked Oakley77, and blocked the anonymous account for 1 month. Please see my rationale at User talk:Oakley77. AGK  [•] 00:59, 30 July 2012 (UTC)

05 September 2012

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Username, both like to edit geography articles, both made substantial edits to Chongqing. Rschen7754 06:49, 5 September 2012 (UTC)

Oh, I didn't realize this was illegal. I will stop editing with this account now, and just use my IP address. Sorry! Oakley777 (talk) 15:01, 5 September 2012 (UTC)

Comments by other users
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Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * - - Oakley, you miss the point.  You are indef blocked.  Don't edit as an IP or logged in.  If you want to get unblocked, log into to Oakley77 and request it there.  Otherwise, editing as an IP is still socking and you will be blocked.  Asking for a CU to take a look, even though I've duck blocked, to consider a range block. Dennis Brown -  2&cent;    &copy;   Join WER 15:04, 5 September 2012 (UTC)
 * ✅ No sleepers at this time, but there is logged out editing going on. -- DQ  (ʞlɐʇ)  16:47, 5 September 2012 (UTC)
 * Blocked and tagged, now closing. Dennis Brown - 2&cent;    &copy;   Join WER 18:02, 5 September 2012 (UTC)