Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Real Phoenician/Archive

06 March 2011

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There's been some quite odd behavior at the Lebanon article over the last week or so. A small group of IP editors and one newly registered account have popped up and continually pushed to change the ethnicity of the Lebanese people to "Lebanese" instead of "Arab". They haven't provided a source, the change directly contradicts the source cited in the article (the CIA World Factbook), and they haven't started or joined any discussions on the talk page despite warnings to do so on their talk pages and messages in edit summaries. Now, maybe it's just by chance that this small group of IP editors all showed up to the same article at the same time, trying to push the same edit, but it all seems quite unusual to me. The IP addresses are quite geographically diverse, so I suspect that these editors are either meat puppets (communicating off-Wiki), or one person changing their IP address. The specific edits that make me suspicious are the following (note that they are all the exact same edit):
 * 132.79.9.15 - 21:30, February 17, 2011
 * Real Phoenician - 12:40, February 23, 2011
 * Real Phoenician - 13:42, February 24, 2011
 * 132.79.9.15 - 15:25, March 1, 2011
 * Real Phoenician - 01:02, March 3, 2011
 * 72.223.98.84 - 04:40, March 4, 2011
 * 209.121.26.246 - 20:11, March 5, 2011
 * 72.223.98.84 - 04:20, March 6, 2011 ← George talk 09:59, 6 March 2011 (UTC)

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Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments
The IPs geolocate all over the place (Atlanta, British Columbia, Arizona), so I don't think they're related. Real Phoenician hasn't edited in a while, so I'll mark this for close. If there is more consistent activity or problems, please feel free to re-report. TN X Man 13:29, 22 March 2011 (UTC)