Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/River City Boy/Archive

02 May 2013

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IP 70.120.95.221 is a clear sockpuppet of user River City Boy, and is being used to circumvent a month-long ban that River City Boy acquired through repeated edit warring. The only 3 edits made by the IP involve changing the flag icons and category links on the article for boxer Carl Frampton, behaviour highly consistent with no less than 63 separate edits made by River City Boy on the same page in the past 2 months (I apologise for not using diffs; the edits in question are all of River City Boy's edits made on the Carl Frampton page between the 21st of February and the 22nd of April). They even follow a similar pattern as many of his previous edits - he never uses the undo tool, always changes the flag icons first and then changes the category links in a separate edit. In short, the IP appears to be pursuing the exact same edit war as River City Boy, and is going about it the exact same way. VoiceOfReason922 (talk) 22:10, 2 May 2013 (UTC)

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 * Blocked, closing. King of &hearts;   &diams;   &clubs;  &spades; 00:03, 3 May 2013 (UTC)

02 December 2013

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IP user 70.115.253.212 was blocked three times, most recently for six months back in September 2011 for disruptive editing where they would change boxing article nationalities, mostly those of British boxers, to Irish without any evidence of consensus as well as adding Irish hyphen nationalities. Examples include, , ,.

The user User talk:River City Boy then appears in February 2013 and his first edit is to the Carl Frampton article where he replaces UK with Ireland as well as flags. They soon however go into changing nationalities and adding ethnicities such as, , ,. River City Boy ended up being banned three times for these type of edits.

Next as of April 2013 the following IP editor appears 70.120.95.221. Yet their very first edit is in the same article as River City Boys first edit: editing the Carl Frampton article making virtually the exact same changes. Since then over the past months this IP has regularly being making the exact same style of edits as made by 70.115.253.212 and River City Boy did in regards to nationality and flags. For example, ,

According to Editor Interaction Report there is a strong link between River City Boy and the first IP 70.115.253.212, with a lesser degree with them both and second IP 70.120.95.221. Both River City Boy and 70.115.253.212 also have focused most of their same article edits to Carl Frampton. Both IP's also locate to Texas, though to different parts.

A stronger link between River City Boy and 70.120.95.221 is that after being inactive since 24 August 2013, River City Boy suddenly reappears on 24 November 2013 to remove a message from 70.120.95.221's talk page left by the IP 82.26.33.158 who claims to have "found" them. This IP appears to have reverted a lot of River City Boys edits and edits of 70.120.95.221 who they also I'm assuming believe to be one and the same.

70.120.95.221 has been given several warnings and is currently on their last one before I report them to AN/I, however this is clear evasion by River City Boy of his previous warnings and blocks for making these exact same types of edits so I believe here is a better venue at present. Add in the fact that the River City Boy account itself appears to be a scrunity evading account for 70.115.253.212, means that River City Boy should of maybe received a longer block.

If more exact article edit diffs are needed they can be provided upon request. Mabuska (talk) 16:21, 2 December 2013 (UTC)


 * Just to note that since the opening of this SPI, the IP 70.120.95.221 would now appear to be trying to make themselves slightly different by now adding unsourced British alongside Irish such as, whilst still ignoring their final warning on adding unsourced information which is controversial in many cases. Mabuska (talk) 23:19, 2 December 2013 (UTC)
 * The IP is still at it, making controversial unsourced changes of British to Irish despite previous warnings. Mabuska (talk) 12:22, 10 December 2013 (UTC)

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— Berean Hunter   (talk)  13:47, 10 December 2013 (UTC)
 * Indeffing River City Boy and hard blocking 70.120.95.221 for one year since they have been there over six months. Closing.