Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Pplatis/Archive

Evidence submitted by Sthenel
The above user and the IP user have exactly the same activity. They are involved in edit warring, reverting anyone else, in the same articles and in the same area of interest. User:Pplatis edits as anon user to avoid being blocked for edit warring, but the problem here is that he changes IP addresses every two days, so no one can stop/punish him. He has made a lot of troubles, a series of articles were semi-protected for a while, but when the semi-protection ended, he came back. He had exactly the same behaviour in the Greek wikipedia as well, and his account was permanently blocked for suck puppetry. The account of User:Skgxt, was created during the recent disruptive activity of the IP user, but it was not used for a long. Sthenel (talk) 12:51, 26 September 2010 (UTC)

Some notes and common editing between Pplatis and the IPs:
 * ,, , , , , , as IP user – , ,  as Pplatis
 * , as IP user –  as Pplatis
 * ,, , , , , as IP user – , , , , , ,  as Pplatis
 * Other articles that Pplatis and the IPs are interested in are: ,
 * Note that Pplatis and the IPs usually write in the edit summaries that they undo or revert vandalism, an excuse in the edit wars they are involved in.
 * Note that Pplatis and the IPs usually write in Greek in the talk pages, because he isn't fluent in English.
 * The vast majority of the edits of Pplatis and the IPs are related to Piraeus, and this is the point where they are always edit warring, since Pplatis has stated that he lives in Piraeus . Some scattered edits about it in other articles are:, , , as Pplatis – , , , ,  as IP user, where both always change "Athens" to "Athens-Piraeus" or "Piraeus". - Sthenel (talk) 12:15, 6 October 2010 (UTC)

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Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments

 * If all those IPs are in the edit links above (sorry, tired, I forgot) then this whole pile reaks of WP:DUCK. Account and last three IPs are blockable. The rest are for blocking purposes. No rangeblock possible here as it hits a /16 or 65536 users. --  DQ  (t)  (e)  02:18, 14 October 2010 (UTC)
 * I think it's likely that Skgxt is the same as Pplatis, but I'm hesitant to block. As to the IPs, DQ is right: the range is too wide for a rangeblock. Going forward, I would say just report those IPs as they come in. —  Hello Annyong  (say whaaat?!) 14:39, 23 October 2010 (UTC)