Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/SimonTrew/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets



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See contributions to RfD and user talk:Steel1943. This is admitted block evasion, and I've blocked the IP for 3 months, but I'm not awake enough to do the clerical work of recording, etc. Thryduulf (talk) 01:06, 18 June 2019 (UTC) Thryduulf (talk) 01:06, 18 June 2019 (UTC)
 * See also: admission of sock-puppetry on his meta talk page. Thryduulf (talk) 01:18, 18 June 2019 (UTC)
 * See also edits to user talk:188.143.76.255 and user talk:151.0.94.108

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 * Both IPs duck-blocked. Closing for now; further block-evasion subject to escalation. Favonian (talk) 15:43, 18 June 2019 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets



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WP:DUCK - an English person living in Hungary who focuses on redirects (particularly RfD), translations (particularly Hungarian and French), comments with long, chatty tangents which they go back and edit hours later (compare contributions and edit summaries in the Wikipedia and user talk namespaces to fix typos and inconsequential mistakes. See also User talk:Tavix where Tavix agrees with my assessment they are the same person. I've indefinitely blocked the account, but they noted their IP changes semi-frequently so someone who understands dynamic IPs more than I do should block that if it can be done safely. They also noted they've edited from other IPs previously so please could a checkuser see if any range blocks are necessary (the 84. IP is probably one example). Thryduulf (talk) 18:35, 10 October 2020 (UTC)

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 * It's tedious, but you can use Special:Contributions to skim through IP ranges (for example, Special:Contributions/94.21.0.0/16). Using CIDR and behavorial analysis, you can then narrow it down to find workable range blocks.  This ISP seems to mostly allocate users to a random /24.  Each of these ranges seems to have minimal collateral damage.  It's not all that different to how IP ranges allocated to BT Group work.  I range blocked the following based on behavioral analysis:
 * Special:Contributions/84.236.27.0/24
 * Special:Contributions/94.21.10.0/24
 * Special:Contributions/94.21.78.0/24
 * Special:Contributions/94.21.219.0/24
 * Special:Contributions/94.21.224.0/20
 * Special:Contributions/94.21.252.0/23 NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 02:30, 11 October 2020 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets



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The investigation was conducted at User talk:Thryduulf (permalink) and I have blocked for one year. Noting here for the record. -- Tavix ( talk ) 02:25, 16 October 2021 (UTC)

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 * Thanks, Tavix. Glad I checked back to the thread and saw the IP's name struck, before I got too far into filing my own report here.  Closing.  --  Tamzin  [ cetacean needed ] (she/they) 02:29, 16 October 2021 (UTC)
 * Per Trew's 33kB unblock rquest, note also that he is claiming to operate, but it has 0 edits, so I've let it be for now; and that his next sock may be a mobile IP rather than another of these DIGI residential ones. Most recent known mobile sock (in June 2019) was on Vodafone. --  Tamzin  [ cetacean needed ] (she/they) 20:01, 16 October 2021 (UTC)