Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Texas Railfaning Productions TRP/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets



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These IPs have repeated the actions of the master account, which was blocked for a promo username in July 2021. Specifically, insisting that BNSF Railway was an original owner of the EMD GP38-2. I know railfan stuff probably isn't fun for most SPI clerks or admins, but suffice it to say that this is demonstrably inaccurate, as the last GP38-2 was built in 1986, and BNSF formed in 1995. I even added an invisible comment explaining this, but the IP did it yet again today. Looking at the page history within the last 50 edits to the article (and my increasingly exasperated edit summaries), it became obvious to me these IPs are the master account LOUTSOCKING (and they all geolocate to the same place in Texas, because duh). The remedy is probably to semiprotect EMD GP38-2. Forgive me but I do not understand ranges of IPs very well, can a rangeblock be applied here? Trainsandotherthings (talk) 00:35, 18 January 2022 (UTC)

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 * This isn't really block evasion. The master was soft-blocked, which means their username was a problem but as long as they picked another name, they're fine.  They did create User:Ralfanner.TX, even if they haven't edited with it.  I'm only seeing 7 edits from the IPs over the last 4 months, so I think for now it's best to just not worry about it too much.  I see what you mean about your edit summaries.  I know it's frustrating, but you might want to chill a bit :-) -- RoySmith (talk) 04:08, 18 January 2022 (UTC)