Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/SF007/Archive

17 March 2012

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IP addresses have been edit warring by making identical edits as SF007 on the Usage share of web browsers article. The IP addresses have the same ISP and geolocate to the same location as numerous IP addresses that have edited SF007's user page, such as and. Although it may be an issue of SF007 accidentally editing twice while logged out, the editor would have had to edit while logged out, log-in to make this edit, then log out to make the second IP edit. Given that the IP's actions were to continue an edit war, it appears that the editor may have been logging out to make problematic edits as an IP address, to avoid being accused of and blocked for edit warring.

Also, an IP within the same range, same ISP and geolocation,, has made apparently contentious edits to Windows 8, which reflect SF007's comments on the article's talk page, despite the fact that there is a discussion going on there about removing the quotes altogether, and in spite of the fact that these particular quotes apparently have been removed a few times (I don't have a diff to back this up). SudoGhost 05:24, 17 March 2012 (UTC)

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 * I do notice that all of the IPs you mentioned are from the same range, (ISP)/ (more specific).Jasper Deng (talk) 05:30, 17 March 2012 (UTC)
 * What's hard to explain is how he's using three widely-spaced IPs at once.Jasper Deng (talk) 05:36, 17 March 2012 (UTC)
 * I wouldn't say they're at once, when one IP begins editing, the others do not make further edits. It's a simple matter to change one's IP address quickly, and I believe some ISPs do it frequently by default as well. - SudoGhost 05:40, 17 March 2012 (UTC)
 * I mean, I don't really think an ISP would give a whole /18 to jump around in.Jasper Deng (talk) 05:42, 17 March 2012 (UTC)

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * Pretty obviously one and the same. Range and account blocked 2 weeks. T. Canens (talk) 08:41, 18 March 2012 (UTC)