Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Oon835/Archive

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After being reverted for massive content additions (various reasons including usual content dispute and plagiarism), the user has continued to edit war over numerous related articles, such as: Ultraman Ace, Ultraman Leo, Ultraman Mebius, Ultraman Taro, Ultraman Cosmos vs. Ultraman Justice: The Final Battle‎, Ultraman Cosmos 2: The Blue Planet, Ultraman Cosmos: The First Contact, List of Ultraman Leo characters, List of Power Rangers Lost Galaxy characters, List of Power Rangers Megaforce characters, and about a dozen more.

Several IPs have re-introduced content that this user has edit-warred over that all have the same Geolocate data. The most recent episode immediately follows an edit-warring warning on the user's talk page. There is substantial circumstantial evidence that the IPs and the user are the same, but CU can confirm whether the user is continuing these edit wars via IPs (without confirmation, this is not necessarily a continuation of edit-warring by Oon835). I am only reporting the most recent IP edit war continuations, although there are several older IP edits in these extended edit wars. — MarkH21 (talk) 08:02, 26 April 2019 (UTC)

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It turned out that he's actually an anon who plagiarizes things from Wikia. When the page is semi-protected, he knew that he's forced to use an editor account to get matters to his own. You can compare the edits https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Power_Rangers_Beast_Morphers&diff=894195695&oldid=893942431 and https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_Power_Rangers_Beast_Morphers_characters&diff=892106995&oldid=892082525. Zero stylinx (talk) 09:19, 28 April 2019 (UTC)

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 * - We cannot publicly link named accounts to IP addresses. —DoRD (talk)​ 11:49, 26 April 2019 (UTC)
 * Consider reporting IPs to AIV. Closing. qedk (t 桜 c) 08:04, 21 May 2019 (UTC)

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Very suspicious behavior - edits the same articles as Oon835 and writes in the same way.

Appeared as soon as User:Zero stylinx had. Immediately and, two editors with whom Oon835 has had disagreements, about being a new user. Talks in the same style as Oon835 and left a.

This account is clearly presenting itself as a different editor, so this would be deception and contributing to the same pages with multiple accounts per WP:BADSOCK if it is indeed the same editor. — MarkH21 (talk) 19:53, 2 October 2019 (UTC)

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Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments
✅, blocked, tagged, closing.--Bbb23 (talk) 22:18, 2 October 2019 (UTC)

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Blatant sockpuppeteer block evasion, editing user’s sandbox and previously edited articles, same location as past IP edits from user — MarkH21 (talk) 06:39, 21 October 2019 (UTC)

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 * - Please block the IP for a week. Cabayi (talk) 09:52, 21 October 2019 (UTC)
 * ✅. Mz7 (talk) 10:37, 21 October 2019 (UTC)

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was to pre-emptively admit having the same IP as Oon835, followed by that were previous cases of block evasion. There is no doubt that this is just another one of Oon835’s ploys to evade the block by pre-emptively admitting having the same IP, in addition to the past IP editing,, and. — MarkH21 (talk) 05:54, 28 October 2019 (UTC)
 * The later edits since the start of the report make it clear as day. In particular, which partially copies  and the claim: Since that Oon835 is currently blocked because they accuse him of Sock puppetry and forgot to put Sharing an IP address. So I come here to help him out. — MarkH21 (talk) 08:05, 28 October 2019 (UTC)

Request to delete or semi-protect draft and user pages
Block evasion has been a recurring problem, focused solely on Oon825's draft and user pages. Even Oon835's explicitly mentions this: Can I have a temporary unblock for at least 3 weeks so I can finish edit my pages? No other editor has seriously edited these draft/user pages, so would it be appropriate to delete or at least semi-protect them indefinitely (until the block is lifted or upon a reasonable independent editor request)?
 * Draftspace drafts with recent block evasion:
 * Draft:List of Ultraman: The Ultimate Hero characters
 * Draft:List of Ultraman: Towards the Future characters
 * Draft:Lego Overwatch
 * Draft:Lego The Powerpuff Girls
 * Draft:Lego DC Super Hero Girls
 * Draft:Lego The Lone Ranger
 * Draft:Lego Scooby-Doo!


 * Draft:Lego Jurassic World
 * Userspace drafts (recent block evasion on 3, 4, 5, 7, but future block evasion could just as well move to replace the other sandboxes):
 * User:Oon835/sandbox
 * User:Oon835/sandbox 2
 * User:Oon835/sandbox 3
 * User:Oon835/sandbox 4
 * User:Oon835/sandbox 5
 * User:Oon835/sandbox 6
 * User:Oon835/sandbox 7
 * User:Oon835/sandbox 8
 * User:Oon835/sandbox 9
 * User:Oon835/sandbox 10
 * User:Oon835/sandbox 11
 * User:Oon835/sandbox 12
 * — MarkH21 (talk) 06:33, 28 October 2019 (UTC)
 * Deletion is appropriate. You could try G6 with a pointer to this SPI and noting that no other editor has shown any interest. Scooby Doo has an AFD listed in its edit history (G4?), other than that it'll need to be PROD or MFD. Or wait 6 months for G13. Cabayi (talk) 07:33, 28 October 2019 (UTC)
 * It's not clear to me how this rationale applies to G6, since it's not any kind of technical maintenance. There is content in these drafts that were created in good faith prior to the indefinite block on the creator. If G6 doesn't apply and PROD and MfD are the only reasonable deletion options, then I suppose semi-protection would be the most appropriate course of action to try first. — MarkH21 (talk) 08:00, 28 October 2019 (UTC)
 * Regarding protection, non-autoconfirmed editors would still be able to make edit requests at the talk page and the only demonstrated interest on any of these are from socks of Oon835. Editing these drafts is the only reason that Oon835 continues to create new socks. — MarkH21 (talk) 10:52, 28 October 2019 (UTC)
 * G6 is absolutely not appropriate. I would decline any such speedy, and bring to WP:DRV any accepted by any other admin. If the pages were created by socks after the sockmaster was fist banned then G5. Creations by banned or blocked users applies, otherwise no CSD does. In theory full protection could be used. or an MfD might be sufficient. DES (talk)DESiegel Contribs 12:44, 28 October 2019 (UTC)

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You are wrong to accuse my cousin of Sock puppetry that because he forgot to put the Sharing an IP address for him and his uncle in their user pages. Now I want to clear his name of Sock puppetry. We all want help to him and support him. So please don't delete all his sandboxes and draft pages so we can fix his all his pages. Just give him another chance to do it. Jilth47 (talk) 08:09, 28 October 2019 (UTC)
 * It's amazing that you continue to think that you can fool anyone with this. First, it was, then , and now . Continuing to lie will only result in you never been unblocked. Confess to what you've done, demonstrate that you understand the rules, and convince others that you can be trusted. Each time you do this makes it so much harder for you to ever come back. — MarkH21 (talk) 08:22, 28 October 2019 (UTC)

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 * - Please indef the named sock. Cabayi (talk) 07:22, 28 October 2019 (UTC)
 * ✅. I'm also currently looking through the drafts above to see whether I can delete or protect them as suggested. Mz7 (talk) 10:18, 28 October 2019 (UTC)
 * Yeah, it's not clear to me how I can delete these right away, and protecting them is also a little iffy since one of the purposes of the draft space is to allow non-autoconfirmed editors to prepare articles for mainspace. Mz7 (talk) 10:22, 28 October 2019 (UTC)
 * I'd go for G6 as cleaning up drafts which have only been edited by Oon835 & their socks despite being tagged for the relevant projects months ago. Any attempt to edit any of them by a new editor will likely be taken as damning evidence of sockpuppetry. Their only continuing purpose is as honeypots. Cabayi (talk) 10:49, 28 October 2019 (UTC)
 * I wish we had a speedy deletion criterion D1 that covers "drafts where the only substantial contributor(s) has been blocked indefinitely". I'm not opposed to semi-protecting all the drafts, but I'll leave it to another admin to consider. Mz7 (talk) 11:20, 28 October 2019 (UTC)


 * All the SPI side is done. Potential deletions still under consideration. Closing. Cabayi (talk) 10:54, 28 October 2019 (UTC)
 * As mentioned above, G6 does not apply, and G5 does not unless these wore created after the initial.  block. Mfd would be the way to go. You can try at WT:CSD for a new  D1, but I don't think it would get consensus. DES (talk)DESiegel Contribs 12:48, 28 October 2019 (UTC) } DES (talk)DESiegel Contribs 12:51, 28 October 2019 (UTC)
 * SPI is not MFD. Please open a discussion at WP:MFD if you think these pages should be deleted. Thanks! Reaper Eternal (talk) 14:57, 28 October 2019 (UTC)

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It seems like the IP address geolocates to the same region and same ISP as other IPs in the archive, and their two edits are all about unprotecting obscure drafts that I protected against this particular sockmaster. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk) 09:23, 8 January 2020 (UTC)

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 * Blocked the IP for a month, but really just playing whack-a-mole there. -- RoySmith (talk) 16:07, 8 January 2020 (UTC)

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This IP/24 range contains the IP already reported here a month ago. Also these may be of help. ミラP 00:22, 25 February 2020 (UTC)

Already confirmed and blocked by another CU who also disabled e-mail for the master account two days after the block. I'm still keeping them here for future reference in case of a potential WP:LTA case. Now can a CU, admin, or clerk please close this? (non-admin closure) ミラP 00:23, 25 February 2020 (UTC)

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 * Closing since the range is already blocked. However, I want to emphasize that per the privacy policy the checkuser team makes . Mz7 (talk) 00:36, 25 February 2020 (UTC)