Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Siiceman917/Archive

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Common pattern vandalism revolving around "spicy boy". See ANI. Could be sock or meat or a combination, please do a CheckUser to determine this and to check for sleepers. BethNaught (talk) 19:51, 2 July 2016 (UTC)
 * I've added a couple more obvious accounts to the list, although there's likely a lot more that are not listed here as well... Tevlev3 (talk) 20:01, 2 July 2016 (UTC)

Adding Steven spice, who created Draft:The era of spice boy. --bonadea contributions talk 20:07, 2 July 2016 (UTC)
 * Remark it's looking increasingly possible this is some gang of vandals, not a single one... BethNaught (talk) 20:07, 2 July 2016 (UTC)
 * There are so many socks coming through on the filters (Special:AbuseFilter/684) that I've stopped reporting them :( ... Cf that filter or my block log. BethNaught (talk) 21:29, 2 July 2016 (UTC)
 * Added a few more accounts and one IP doing a related "fat biscuit" edits. The IPs are scattered all over the place though. This feels more like a 4chan or Twitter attack than the same person. -- Gogo Dodo (talk) 04:44, 3 July 2016 (UTC)
 * Comment - This is amazing (to me). How do you people detect all this happening within a certain time frame - by one user running socks? --- Steve Quinn (talk) 15:37, 4 July 2016 (UTC)

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. This could possibly be coming from an open proxy or a web host. — MRD2014 T C 19:58, 2 July 2016 (UTC)


 * Added 6 more IPs and 2 users. - Sum mer PhD v2.0 20:22, 2 July 2016 (UTC)

From what I am seeing on websites like ifunny.co, this appears to be a coordinated attack conducted by several individuals. Sure appears like a duck to me. MrQueeba (talk) 17:46, 4 July 2016 (UTC)

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments
Check my block log also. I've blocked a couple of accounts that were created several months ago with just a couple of edits that suddenly started in with this pattern today. It's slowed down now, but we really need a CU to help us out here. Katietalk 22:48, 2 July 2016 (UTC)
 * Also see this revdel'd edit from this morning, which may be the first salvo. Katietalk 23:08, 2 July 2016 (UTC)
 * I've just checked the first few users, and i'm going to stop there. Your better off with an edit filter and RBI than the work of any CU could do in this case. -- Amanda  (aka DQ) 18:25, 5 July 2016 (UTC)
 * All named accounts already blocked (without tags), as per DQ, CU is less than useful for such simple vandalism sprees. WP:RBI (with WP:AIV reports if you're not an admin) will work and I'll drop an e-mail to the EFM list. ☺ ·  Salvidrim!   ·  &#9993;  16:33, 15 July 2016 (UTC)