Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/StevenMario/Archive

Evidence submitted by Ktr101
StevenMario has editwarred on many articles through his IPs. The user is 14, so he possibly doesn't realize the gravity of his edits. He primarily works on cartoon-related articles, but the IPs tend to revert to the version that Steven has last created.

There was a discussion here where the issue of him "owning" articles came up. The resulting discussion brought up the IPs. Kevin Rutherford (talk) 00:52, 27 December 2009 (UTC)

The user replied to me on his talk page that he forgot to log in. I told him to please explain here, so that we all can see. Kevin Rutherford (talk) 17:12, 27 December 2009 (UTC)

Comments by accused parties
See Defending yourself against claims.

CheckUser requests
Requested by Kevin Rutherford (talk) 00:52, 27 December 2009 (UTC)

Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments

 * The IPs are all over the place, but the behavioral evidence suggests that they are likely connected to him. I'm not really sure how to handle this, as the only checkuser link would be between the IPs and the user, so I would understand if nothing could be said publicly. If you wish to not comment on this, I'll handle it from behavioral evidence; just let me know. NW ( Talk ) 05:10, 27 December 2009 (UTC)
 * Logging out to violate the three-revert rule will not be tolerated. J.delanoy gabs adds  19:44, 27 December 2009 (UTC)

Conclusions

 * Left the user a note to look this case over before continuing editing. That should be enough. Closing out this case. NW ( Talk ) 19:47, 27 December 2009 (UTC)

Evidence submitted by MikeWazowski
StevenMario was blocked on January 7 for disruptive editing relating to edit warring and constantly inserting unreferenced information into articles. Before his block, a previous investigation found that he frequently edited without logging in, always from IPs in Georgia where (according to this edit) he lives. StevenMario appears to be continuing this pattern, as the IPs listed above (and others reported by another editor here) all appear (using the Geolocate link) to be coming from the same area and are editing the same articles with the same pattern that StevenMario followed. MikeWazowski (talk) 23:16, 18 January 2010 (UTC)

Comments by accused parties
See Defending yourself against claims.

Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments
Requested by MikeWazowski (talk) 23:16, 18 January 2010 (UTC)

I'm requesting CheckUser to determine for certain that StevenMario's edits came from a similar IP range, so that whatever necessary blocks are needed can be implemented to stop this troublesome editor. MikeWazowski (talk) 23:16, 18 January 2010 (UTC)
 * ., no CU necessary. Tim Song (talk) 13:35, 19 January 2010 (UTC)

The only thing I could really do was block 68.223.0.0/18 for 1 week. Otherwise, the other IPs keep hopping all over the place in which rangeblocking (or regular blocking) wouldn't do much good (unless you like playing Whack-A-Mole). –MuZemike 03:48, 20 January 2010 (UTC)

Report date February 28 2010, 23:58 (UTC)

 * Suspected sockpuppets

Similar editing patterns, mentioned by another user GSK (talk ● evidence) 23:58, 28 February 2010 (UTC)
 * Evidence submitted by GSK (talk ● evidence)


 * Comments by accused parties    See Defending yourself against claims.


 * Comments by other users

Requested by GSK (talk ● evidence) 23:58, 28 February 2010 (UTC)
 * CheckUser requests

– Behavioral evidence clearly indicates that this is StevenMario. No CU necessary. –MuZemike 01:08, 1 March 2010 (UTC)


 * Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments

Blocked 31 hours. –MuZemike 01:08, 1 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Conclusions

Report date March 18 2010, 03:56 (UTC)

 * Suspected sockpuppets

Similar Behaviors R12056 (talk) 03:56, 18 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Evidence submitted by R12056 (talk)


 * Comments by accused parties    See Defending yourself against claims.


 * Comments by other users

moved from Sockpuppet investigations/68.223.54.247 to /StevenMario SpitfireTally-ho! 08:17, 18 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments

There's no purpose blocking the IP as he hasn't edited since January. No action taken. –MuZemike 17:37, 18 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Conclusions