Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Ranze/Archive

20 May 2013

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These accounts has shown a particular interest in adding Genital modification and mutilation and Circumcision to the Template:Violence against men (e.g. ), and in tying the two concepts together (e.g. ). The User:Faulknerck2 account was abandoned after getting blocked for edit-warring, and the User:Ifasz account appears to be a "throwaway" account used only for controversial edits. Jayjg (talk) 21:09, 20 May 2013 (UTC)

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I love this new notification system. Well, staying calm, never even heard of those guys, not much to say, this is beef. Ranze (talk) 22:58, 20 May 2013 (UTC)

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 * Behaviourally these look the same, and all seem pretty insistent on including male genital mutilation in the template . Faulknerck2 is obviously stale, but perhaps a CU could look into the connection between Ranze and Ifasz. Jafeluv (talk) 07:05, 27 May 2013 (UTC)
 * - Rschen7754 07:12, 27 May 2013 (UTC)
 * As already noted Faulknerck2 is stale. Ranze and Ifasz are editing from separate continents and therefore appear ❌.--Jezebel's Ponyo bons mots 23:02, 27 May 2013 (UTC)
 * Looking more closely, Faulknerck2 and Ranze seem to have different areas of interest apart from the overlap in the genital mutilation topic . While Faulknerck2's last edits don't exactly inspire confidence ("we [will] keep coming until there is a place for MGM in Wikipedia" ), I don't think we can call these editors the same on behavioural evidence. Faulknerck2's talk page comments actually seem a lot more aggressive than Ranze's from the same period, and Ranze doesn't seem to suffer from the same syntax and spelling errors Faulknerck2 does, so it looks likely to me that these are two separate people. Since Ifasz is unrelated I don't think there's anything for SPI to do here. Jafeluv (talk) 07:42, 28 May 2013 (UTC)
 * Closed. Socking concerns are no longer an issue. Users are not the same. Reaper Eternal (talk) 16:45, 28 May 2013 (UTC)

23 November 2015

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 * Ranze has been in an edit war on List of WWE World Heavyweight Champions
 * The IP made its first edit on November 18. Despite this, there are multiple overlaps with Ranze.
 * The IP jumps into the discussion at Talk:List of WWE World Heavyweight Champions. It begins making the same arguments Ranze did, such as  accusing reverters of Ranze of OR and vandalism and mentioning The Rock's 10 world championship reigns (IP diffs ) (Ranze diffs
 * The IP and Ranze have made similar edits nearly three months apart in which they add descriptions of Xavier Woods' wardrobe and its link to the Brony/Unicorn fandom.
 * They also made similar edits to Tyler Breeze in which they add refs to support his "King of Cutesville" nickname
 * The editor Interaction Analyzer reveals they've also edited the same pages outside of the wrestling genre, including: Little Charmers, Polly Dunbar and Magic: The Gathering. This is significant because the IP has been active less than a week and has less than 100 edits. LM2000 (talk) 17:07, 23 November 2015 (UTC)

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Good faith would lead me to assume that this is just Ranze forgetting to log in, but I haven't looked enough to see if he's really trying to make it look like he's two different editors, which would be obvious sockpuppetry. Frankly I'm just po'd at the edit warring and blatant ignoring of the obvious and provided official sources so he can POV push his SYNTH. oknazevad (talk) 20:18, 23 November 2015 (UTC)


 * When I saw the IP's post at WT:PW I assumed it was just Ranze forgetting to log in, which happens to everyone from time to time. But the IP just started editing recently and has already gathered nearly 100 edits, many which overlap with Ranze's.  The Brony thing on Xavier Woods' article is something that Ranze always pushed hard for despite it being clearly contentious, it's odd the IP joined his side on that argument as well.  Ranze left a message on my talk page, claiming that there are editors who support his edits to the WWE WHC article.  If he's intent on editing while logged out to gain advantage in an edit war then we really need to take care of that before it gets totally out of hand.LM2000 (talk) 20:36, 23 November 2015 (UTC)

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 * Based upon the information provided, I believe there is reasonable suspicion for editing while logged out against policy. I've blocked the account for 3 days and anon only blocked the IP for a week. Mike V • Talk 00:30, 24 November 2015 (UTC)