Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/RoyalPains11/Archive

11 June 2010

 * Suspected sockpuppets

To be quite blunt, RoyalPains11 is being a right royal pain by splitting various TV episode list articles into separate season articles, well before they are due to be split (sometimes as early as mid-first season or even earlier). He/she has also split out episode lists from TV show main articles when there is insufficient justification. In at least one case, the resulting split turned the TV series main article into a stub. When RoyalPains11 did this to List of Castle episodes I left an appropriately worded warning about splitting too early on his talk page, but this was ignored. After a discussion at Talk:List of Castle episodes determined that the article would be restored to a single list this was subsequently done on May 29. Today, RoyalPains11 again split the article. The changes were reverted by another editor, but as RoyalPains11 was edit-warring over the changes, I left a 3RR warning on his talk page. A short time ago, 118.209.95.192 reinstated the changes made by RoyalPains11. It appears that RoyalPains11 is deliberately editing as an IP to avoid breaching 3RR as User:RoyalPains11 has not edited since the 3RR warning. Examination of the edits of both users indicates thay are both editing the same articles and re-implementing the changes that each have made. This is a clear case of WP:DUCK AussieLegend (talk) 12:59, 11 June 2010 (UTC)
 * Evidence submitted by AussieLegend (talk)


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S/he also split the article List of Sabrina, the Teenage Witch episodes. --Tyw7 (☎ Contact me! • Contributions)   Changing the world one edit at a time! 19:58, 11 June 2010 (UTC)
 * Comments by other users

I've noted the IP is for an Australian ISP, and both tend to edit on a good few Australian shows. S/he also split List of Royal Pains episodes, but neither the IP nor RoyalPains11 have responded to the discussion regarding merging them. Drmargi (talk) 20:09, 11 June 2010 (UTC)
 * Comment - This was done by RoyalPains11. The IP stopped editing and switched to RoyalPains11 to do the uploading of images and splitting of the article. --AussieLegend (talk) 21:01, 11 June 2010 (UTC)
 * Comment Isn't there a possiblity that they both are the same person. One is logged in and one is not. I occassionally switch between ips and logged in within the same article. --Tyw7 (☎ Contact me! • Contributions)   Changing the world one edit at a time! 21:16, 11 June 2010 (UTC)


 * Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments
 * The IP stopped editing on 11 June, with RoyalPains11 editing ever since. No action taken as there is no abusive sockpuppetry going on here. –MuZemike 23:44, 23 June 2010 (UTC)

Evidence submitted by Dougweller
Similar edit histories. IP was editing on the 9th up until 10:20, account started editing again shortly after that. I gave the account a 48 hour block later that day, "Unresponsive editor with 50 warnings on his talk page". Since then, only the IP has edited. Another editor has pointed out on my talk page that the IP has edited "on four pages where RoyalPains11 added images without appropriate FURs. I had added deletable image-caption to each of the pages and the edits made by the IP deleted these templates from each page without fixing the image problems." Both editors edit at approximately the same time, and the IP edited during the 48 hour block.

See also Sockpuppet investigations/RoyalPains11/Archive. That was closed with no action, but this time there is block evasion and we still have the problem of the unresponsiveness of RoyalPains11.

Dougweller (talk) 14:36, 12 July 2010 (UTC)

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Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments
per the checkuser policy, it is undesirable to use checkuser to link accounts to IPs. In addition to this, it seems pretty clear that the IP is linked to the account. Same range (approx. 118.209.64.0/19) as the IP in the /archive, and similar MO/behavioral patterns to, including an interest in Royal Pains, and other areas of overlap (e.g. List of Hot in Cleveland episodes, Marc Blucas, etc). See also: and. It also appears that the IP didn't edit for a 24 hour period after RoyalPains11 was blocked, which could be credited to autoblock. Regards, SpitfireTally-ho! 16:01, 12 July 2010 (UTC)

118.209.64.0/19 seems to be a bit busy as far as rangeblocking is concerned, so I don't think that's a good idea. Otherwise, it's the same as before, with the editing now having stopped after a week. However, I think it is possible for future situations that a very short rangeblock could be implemented if necessary. –MuZemike 22:44, 18 July 2010 (UTC)

20 January 2011

 * Suspected sockpuppets




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CovertAffairs22 is exhibiting almost all of the traits demonstrated by RoyalPains11; splitting various TV episode list articles into separate season articles well before they are due to be split, splitting out episode lists from TV series main articles when there is insufficient justification, in one case well before any episodes have aired, uploading numerous images without FURs or sourcing information, failing to respond to any comments on his/her talk page or talking at all for that matter and so on. At List of Childrens Hospital episodes the editor has apparently been working with 118.209.53.227, in splitting the article well before time. That IP shares the same ISP as RoyalPains11. There's also the obvious style similarities between the RoyalPains11 and CovertAffairs22 usernames. I was first alerted to this a few days ago, and had actually forgotten about RoyalPains11. I've been distracted since then but a quick look at the contributions brought it all back and the more I look, the louder those ducks seem to be AussieLegend (talk) 19:05, 20 January 2011 (UTC)

I alerted AussieLegend to this user and the IP he/she appears to be using. We've both encountered RoyalPains11 and his/her corresponding IP on various television-related articles, and have attempted to engage him/her in discussion of a repetitive pattern of problem edits, enumerated above, with no success. Recently, CovertAffairs22 appeared on the scene, along with the accompanying IP from the same ISP as before, making the same edits as before, in tandem as before. As before, attempts to engage him/her in discussion of edits elicits no response. Clearly, this is an attempt at block evasion, and the ducks are quaking loudly and strongly. Drmargi (talk) 07:43, 21 January 2011 (UTC)

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Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * Based on behavioral evidence, as well as the sock's desire not to talk about their edits, I've blocked CovertAffairs22. I also blocked the IP for a month for block evasion from RoyalPains11. —  Hello Annyong  (say whaaat?!) 14:31, 21 January 2011 (UTC)