Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Starships109/Archive

03 November 2012

 * Suspected sockpuppets




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It's always the same articles or same types of articles touched with the same types of edits: usually a mix of minor copy edits plus dubious or difficult-to-verify release dates for songs and related recording artists; the date changes are always uncited and unexplained, and there's no discussion despite repeated warnings (including "last" warnings and a block). User account Starships109 was recently blocked for this to encourage discussion. 98.198.109.107 is the only one of these that was used after the block, so far, but a couple of the IPs have been used within the last month or so. The same types of edits on some of the same articles also came from a shared static IP address which is currently blocked: 166.102.136.7 (in the k12.tx.us domain). Geolocation checks reveal all of these IPs are in the Houston, TX area.

CheckUser isn't needed; the User Compare report shows the editing overlap of these IPs with each other and with Starships109. Let me know if more info or action is required on my part, or if this should be pursued through other means; thanks! mjb (talk) 21:45, 3 November 2012 (UTC)

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 * I've blocked the *107 account for a month. The other 98* are stale and just rotation of IP through their cable provider. That is on Cox, in a large metro region, so a rangeblock would likely have too much collateral damage as their is other valid traffic in that range.  The 76* is a one off, same situation.  The 208* is a Tmobile cell range, and looks to be just a /25 range, so with some hesitation, I've soft blocked it a month as well.  As for CU, just for future reference, CU won't link IPs to named accounts, so it would have been declined anyway.  This should take care of the current problem.  Dennis Brown -  2&cent;    &copy;   Join WER 14:10, 16 November 2012 (UTC)

03 May 2013

 * Suspected sockpuppets


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Resumed same edits after 3 month block expired. WP:AIV here told me to report this here. Geraldo Perez (talk) 01:41, 3 May 2013 (UTC)

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 * Blocked the IP for a year this time. Closed. Reaper Eternal (talk) 02:23, 3 May 2013 (UTC)