Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Sldiiejj2888493/Archive

29 June 2010

 * Suspected sockpuppets

All are quite obviously the same person, but a check to see if there are any sleeper accounts would be appreciated. HJ Mitchell &#124;  Penny for your thoughts?   06:45, 29 June 2010 (UTC)
 * Evidence submitted by HJ Mitchell  &#124;  Penny for your thoughts?


 * Comments by accused parties    See Defending yourself against claims.


 * Comments by other users
 * I added two more. Tb hotch Ta lk C.  20:52, 29 June 2010 (UTC)

for now. Based on the activity, this seems to be a coordinated attack from 2 or more different users. The 216s (North America) and 81s & 77 (Europe) are from 2 different continents. Unless they are open proxies, then it is physically impossible for them to be the same person. I searched the IPs and they don't come up as open proxies. I could be wrong but this was another method suggested to me. Also based on the edits, I'm more inclined to think that they prefer using IPs instead of accounts. See also my note below.  E lockid  ( Talk ) 21:45, 29 June 2010 (UTC) these look like proxies to me. Although, I'm only using whatismyipaddress.com to look it up (heh), If these are proxies searching then for sleepers is likely to be fairly ineffective. And furthermore, if they are, then hardblocks should probably just be applied. However, I'd rather not just go with what whatismyipaddress.com says (especially considering it's only suspect), so perhaps someone with a slightly more advanced proxy checker can take a look through this? Kind regards, SpitfireTally-ho! 11:43, 29 June 2010 (UTC)
 * CheckUser requests
 * Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments
 * http://whatismyipaddress.com/ip/216.169.108.200
 * http://whatismyipaddress.com/ip/81.94.201.85
 * http://whatismyipaddress.com/ip/216.169.108.216
 * FWIW, all the IPs above are hard blocked for a week, so there's not so much urgency. HJ Mitchell  &#124;  Penny for your thoughts?   12:18, 29 June 2010 (UTC)

I've blocked both 216.169.108.0/24 and 81.94.201.0/24 for 2 weeks. This should hopefully stop them for a while. If you want these hardblocked, then I can endorse them for CU attention.  E lockid  ( Talk ) 21:45, 29 June 2010 (UTC)