Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Samlaptop85213/Archive

Report date March 8 2009, 18:20 (UTC)

 * Suspected sockpuppets




 * Evidence submitted by Thibbs (talk)

Nearly every edit is the same. This user either requests to be banned (usually specifying a 1 year duration) or inserts material stating that he likes vandalism. He has been banned countless times and continues to return repeatedly to the same 3-4 articles ("Bop It", "Duvet", "Feather", and articles on the Windows OS of various releases). This user knows better and cannot be reasoned with. He has written a number of apology letters to kind-hearted administrators who have unblocked him repeatedly, but he is a lost cause. I urge that all of his user accounts be permanently banned and that the articles he likes to vandalize be semi-protected for around a month.


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Hello, I am an administrator on the Simple English Wikipedia and we have had problems with the user in question as well. Editing behaviour is exactly the same and this has resulted in his main account being blocked indef. A CU over there has once commented that blocking all the IP addresses he uses will cause collateral damage as the ranges are too spread far apart. We hence resorted to semi-protecting the affected article. Enforcement of blocks seems to be impossible. Chenzw   Talk   03:26, 9 March 2009 (UTC)
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 * Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments

clearly the same user, but little that can be done without collateral damage.Mayalld (talk) 14:38, 9 March 2009 (UTC) Mayalld (talk) 14:38, 9 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Conclusions

Report date May 16 2009, 09:02 (UTC)

 * Suspected sockpuppets

See logs for the user (URL provided) - the user created his current account, then an account with "15" appended on the same day. http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log&user=Bop_It_Guy20 -- Apparently, the account has not yet been used, but no clear explanation has been made of why it was created. (GameShowKid)--(talk)--(evidence)--( 09:02, 16 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Evidence submitted by (GameShowKid)--(talk)--(evidence)--(


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 * Comments by other users

It turns out that both of this accounts are socks of Samlaptop85213. The user admitted to it on his talk page. As such, I have blocked them. Icestorm815 •  Talk  23:05, 16 May 2009 (UTC)
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 * Conclusions


 * Looks good, accounts tagged. Archiving.  —  Jake   Wartenberg  19:16, 17 May 2009 (UTC)

Report date July 29 2009, 09:49 (UTC)

 * Suspected sockpuppets

Another editor expressed concern that this IP may be used by the listed blocked user. The recent edit of the IP address all but confirms this. GameShowKid – talk – evidence  09:49, 29 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Evidence submitted by   GameShowKid – talk – evidence


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Requested by   GameShowKid – talk – evidence   09:49, 29 July 2009 (UTC)
 * CheckUser requests
 * Endorse checkuser based on editting behaiviour. Sedd&sigma;n talk|WikimediaUK 13:39, 30 July 2009 (UTC)


 * Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments

- Same ISP, not sure anything but a short block would be helpful, as the blocked user seems to have changed IPs every few days. -- Versa geek  02:25, 31 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Conclusions

Evidence submitted by Thibbs
-Thibbs (talk) 17:58, 27 October 2009 (UTC)
 * This user is banned on simple.wiki as a CU-confirmed sockpuppet of the same master: User:Bloccati
 * This user has left clues that he is the same as Samlaptop here (User:92.28.219.73 admits to being Samlaptop here)
 * At the very least, this user admits that this is a sockpuppet account of some sort here.

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Conclusions

 * Already blocked by another administrator; no further action necessary. NW ( Talk ) 22:51, 27 October 2009 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets




Evidence submitted by Thibbs
In this dif, User:Aaron grinder can be seen to self-identify as banned puppetmaster User:Samlaptop. I know this is atypical behavior for normal puppetmasters, but this is an atypical puppetmaster and this kind of edit is very consistent with his style. -Thibbs (talk) 23:28, 14 November 2009 (UTC)

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Comments by other users

 * 92.10.220.177 self-identified as samlaptop on several admin talk-pages and his vandalism pattern matches too. Blocked. This is a weird user! DMacks (talk) 15:39, 15 November 2009 (UTC)
 * 84.13.255.122 did the same thing and has been blocked as well. Tiptoety  talk 17:22, 15 November 2009 (UTC)
 * 84.13.255.122 tagged 78.145.60.139. That latter's edit pattern fits, but hasn't been used for over a month and was not blocked at that time. This ip-hopping is getting annoying! DMacks (talk) 17:33, 15 November 2009 (UTC)

Conclusions

 * Blocked. They already tagged for me. ;-) Tiptoety  talk 01:10, 15 November 2009 (UTC)

Evidence submitted by Alfie66
Special:Contributions/92.7.76.141 →Alfie±Talk 14:58, 5 September 2010 (UTC)

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Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments
moved from Sockpuppet investigations/92.7.76.141 SpitfireTally-ho! 08:53, 6 September 2010 (UTC)

Blocked 1 week.  E lockid  ( Talk ) 20:31, 6 September 2010 (UTC)

03 July 2013

 * Suspected sockpuppets




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 * Editor interaction utility

See below. King of &hearts;   &diams;   &clubs;  &spades; 01:19, 3 July 2013 (UTC)

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Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments
Just for the record. King of &hearts;   &diams;   &clubs;  &spades; 01:19, 3 July 2013 (UTC)

11 July 2013

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Just for the record. Also, an IP self-socktagging after being blocked is a first for me! :) · Salvidrim!  ·  &#9993;  13:08, 11 July 2013 (UTC)

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 * All done, just archive for the record. :) · Salvidrim!  ·  &#9993;  13:09, 11 July 2013 (UTC)
 * Removed trophy tag and closing. Dennis Brown &#124; 2¢ &#124; WER  13:10, 11 July 2013 (UTC)

08 August 2013

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Same fake block messages as his other known socks have done Jackmcbarn (talk) 11:36, 8 August 2013 (UTC)

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 * Blocked and closed. Reaper Eternal (talk) 12:10, 8 August 2013 (UTC)

09 August 2013

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Messing with my talk page again, very similar IP to the last one. New one messing with Thibbs' talk page again. Jackmcbarn (talk) 21:19, 9 August 2013 (UTC)

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 * Add to the list. Look at the archive, concise range for recent abuse, I recommend a rangeblock. :) ·  Salvidrim!  ·  &#9993;  23:29, 9 August 2013 (UTC)
 * Whois shows that's a /16. That'd be a pretty big rangeblock, with high collateral damage. Jackmcbarn (talk) 00:05, 10 August 2013 (UTC)
 * I'll let a CU chime in on potential collateral. :) · Salvidrim!  ·  &#9993;  00:39, 10 August 2013 (UTC)
 * Why? Anyone can see there's enough good anon edits. https://toolserver.org/~tparis/rangecontribs/index.php?type=range&ips=188.29.0.0%2F16&limit=50 Jackmcbarn (talk) 00:41, 10 August 2013 (UTC)


 * Closed. He has access to bazillions of IPs, making him impossible to rangeblock. Reaper Eternal (talk) 02:59, 14 August 2013 (UTC)

25 August 2013

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https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Closedmouth&diff=prev&oldid=570150038 Jackmcbarn (talk) 18:11, 25 August 2013 (UTC)
 * Favonian has blocked. Self-closing. Jackmcbarn (talk) 14:00, 26 August 2013 (UTC)

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20 June 2015

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A series of rollbacks would be nice after the socks are bagged and tagged if anyone has those privileges. Thibbs (talk) 21:33, 20 June 2015 (UTC)
 * Usersock self-socktagged in this edit. This matches Samlaptop's MO (see previous SPI cases).
 * IPsocks show alignment of intent in and  edit (Compare date and time, note date changes, note obsession with Bop It game) and they both geolocate to southern UK (common interest of Usersock as shown ).

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 * The sock is already blocked. 31.53.94.255 was blocked, and has stopped editing since. 81.168.45.127 might need to be blocked for a longer period (like 4 months). It seams that IP has been used by Samlaptop85213 since at least 2012 .  Vanjagenije  (talk)  00:02, 21 June 2015 (UTC)
 * The IP edited once on June 10 and before that in April 2014. I don't see the point in blocking them for any length of time. Closing.--Bbb23 (talk) 00:39, 21 June 2015 (UTC)

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self-tagged. Either they are trolling (and arent a sock) or they are admitting to be the sock of a locked sockmaster. Victor Schmidt (talk) 09:58, 28 August 2020 (UTC)

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 * Somebody's just yanking our chain. I blanked the user page.  Closing. -- RoySmith (talk) 02:37, 3 September 2020 (UTC)

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 * Tools: Editor interaction utility • Interaction Timeline • User compare report Auto-generated every hour.

Self admitted in abuse filter log, see, eg, Special:AbuseLog/30344743 DannyS712 (talk) 06:54, 4 July 2021 (UTC)

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 * - the IP has been globally blocked for 1 month. --   LuK3      (Talk)   17:36, 6 July 2021 (UTC)