Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Sinsen/Archive

15 February 2011

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User:Sinsen has an obssession with the Erode article and for the past year has been creating a lot of bogus articles promoting the city, expanding its area and deliberately introducing false information in a lot of articles. After a number of blocks (including one for socking), he was indefed on 28 jan. After his unblock requests were denied, he has started creating lots of socks and has started creating problematic articles once again (factually inaccurate, bogus refs etc). He is also editing from two dynamic IP blocks 117.193.165.174/20 and 117.206.96.152/20. All the new accounts were created in the past few days after his unblock request was declined repeatedly.

There is a lot of overlap between the socks edit contributions. IP contributions also overlap. For example 1) User:Ecodynamic creates Template:Erode and 117.193.173.102 and Colorfulclothes edit the same article. 117.193.163.161 leaves talk page messages for that page - . 2)Colorfulclothes creates Abdul Gani Textile Market and 117.193.163.161 leaves a similar talk page message. 3)Winnerstage creates Mahakavi Bharathi Memorial Library and 117.193.165.197 puts up a similar note in its talk page 4)Southernrail creates Erode Diesel Locomotive Works page and 117.193.171.123 edits it immediately. 5)Chittorean creates Periyar Anna Memorial and 117.193.160.91 edits it immediately.

There are other examples of similar behaviour. I request a sleeper check and range blocks for 117.193.165.174/20 and 117.206.96.152/20--Sodabottle (talk) 05:20, 15 February 2011 (UTC) Sodabottle (talk) 05:20, 15 February 2011 (UTC)

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 * Comment I'm the blocking admin for the main account due to excessive disruption. The problem now continues with multiple socks. I've added one more to the list above. A CU to confirm these, ID other sleepers and check on the feasibility of a rangeblock would be helpful.&mdash; Spaceman  Spiff  17:16, 15 February 2011 (UTC)

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for a sleeper check. I took a look at the requested ranges. Looks like we'll have some a collateral. Would appreciate a double check. Elockid (Alternate) ( Talk ) 17:17, 15 February 2011 (UTC)
 * The following are ✅ as being the same:


 * There appear to be two /20 ranges I can block to start with. We'll see how that goes. TN X Man  20:34, 16 February 2011 (UTC)
 * All confirmed socks blocked and tagged by and me. &mdash; Spaceman  Spiff  03:58, 17 February 2011 (UTC)
 * There appear to be two /20 ranges I can block to start with. We'll see how that goes. TN X Man  20:34, 16 February 2011 (UTC)
 * All confirmed socks blocked and tagged by and me. &mdash; Spaceman  Spiff  03:58, 17 February 2011 (UTC)
 * There appear to be two /20 ranges I can block to start with. We'll see how that goes. TN X Man  20:34, 16 February 2011 (UTC)
 * All confirmed socks blocked and tagged by and me. &mdash; Spaceman  Spiff  03:58, 17 February 2011 (UTC)
 * There appear to be two /20 ranges I can block to start with. We'll see how that goes. TN X Man  20:34, 16 February 2011 (UTC)
 * All confirmed socks blocked and tagged by and me. &mdash; Spaceman  Spiff  03:58, 17 February 2011 (UTC)
 * There appear to be two /20 ranges I can block to start with. We'll see how that goes. TN X Man  20:34, 16 February 2011 (UTC)
 * All confirmed socks blocked and tagged by and me. &mdash; Spaceman  Spiff  03:58, 17 February 2011 (UTC)
 * There appear to be two /20 ranges I can block to start with. We'll see how that goes. TN X Man  20:34, 16 February 2011 (UTC)
 * All confirmed socks blocked and tagged by and me. &mdash; Spaceman  Spiff  03:58, 17 February 2011 (UTC)
 * There appear to be two /20 ranges I can block to start with. We'll see how that goes. TN X Man  20:34, 16 February 2011 (UTC)
 * All confirmed socks blocked and tagged by and me. &mdash; Spaceman  Spiff  03:58, 17 February 2011 (UTC)
 * There appear to be two /20 ranges I can block to start with. We'll see how that goes. TN <b style="color:midnightblue; font-size:larger;">X</b> Man  20:34, 16 February 2011 (UTC)
 * All confirmed socks blocked and tagged by and me. &mdash; Spaceman  Spiff  03:58, 17 February 2011 (UTC)
 * There appear to be two /20 ranges I can block to start with. We'll see how that goes. TN <b style="color:midnightblue; font-size:larger;">X</b> Man  20:34, 16 February 2011 (UTC)
 * All confirmed socks blocked and tagged by and me. &mdash; Spaceman  Spiff  03:58, 17 February 2011 (UTC)
 * All confirmed socks blocked and tagged by and me. &mdash; Spaceman  Spiff  03:58, 17 February 2011 (UTC)