Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Srexfax/Archive

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Since early November there has been an edit war at Zdravko Čolić. One feature of contention is  The IPs and Srexfax do not wish it to say "Serbian singer" and change it to either "Bosnian singer" or "Yugoslav singer". User:Srexfax was created at 02:41 9 November 2019, and seems to have stopped editing Zdravko Čolić as an IP from then until he/she was blocked for edit-warring at 16:22, 17 November 2019.

What causes me to suspect that the IPs are Srexfax is that at 17:47, 17 November 2019 148.87.23.12 reverted the article back to Srexfax's preferred version, then two minutes later at 17:49, 17 November 2019 Srexfax started writing his unblock appeal.

The IPs are from the same place - the IP assigned to the editor's device probably changes from day to day.

List of edits to Zdravko Čolić by the IPs/Srexfax that made the change in question


 * 1) 15:51, 6 November 2019  148.87.23.7 changes short description from Serbian to Bosnian
 * 2) 17:32, 8 November 2019 148.87.23.11 changes short description from Serbian to Bosnian
 * 3) 22:39, 8 November 2019 148.87.23.11 changes short description from Serbian to Bosnian
 * 4) 19:02, 13 November 2019 Srexfax changes short description from Serbian to Bosnian
 * 5) 18:13, 14 November 2019 Srexfax changes short description from Serbian to Yugoslav
 * 6) 18:26, 14 November 2019 Srexfax changes short description from Serbian to Yugoslav
 * 7) 19:09, 14 November 2019 Srexfax changes short description from Serbian to Yugoslav
 * 8) 01:48, 17 November 2019 Srexfax changes short description from Serbian to Yugoslav
 * 9) 17:47, 17 November 2019 148.87.23.12 changes short description from Serbian to Yugoslav

Toddy1 (talk) 22:25, 17 November 2019 (UTC)

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 * - CUs will not connect users to IPs. . —&thinsp;JJMC89&thinsp; (T·C) 23:05, 17 November 2019 (UTC)
 * I agree that it's likely these IP edits are socks, but it's not clear what to do about it. I could block 148.87.23.0/28, but I don't have a lot of confidence that would either do any good, nor avoid collateral damage.  I was going to suggest semi-protecting Zdravko Čolić, but I see  has already done that.  I'm going to close this, but feel free to re-open if the abuse continues; there may emerge some steady IP range which might be profitably blocked (but I'm not optimistic about that).  We have have to just rely on page protections and reverting as needed.  -- RoySmith (talk) 00:41, 18 November 2019 (UTC)