Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/TheDarkPyrano/Archive

31 August 2012

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User has been making unconstructive edits to Skarlet (Mortal Kombat) that are likely in nature to TheDarkPyrano100 before being blocked. Lord Sjones23 (talk - contributions) 18:11, 31 August 2012 (UTC)

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 * Pretty obvious. IP blocked for one week. (CheckUser was not used). Tiptoety  talk 22:55, 31 August 2012 (UTC)

20 September 2012

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Behavior is consistent with TheDarkPyrano's. I was initially unsure about TheElderDarkStar from the contributions a while ago, but a review now a month or so later suggests that this user's actions have been the same as TheDarkPyrano's. The behavior is generally a reversion of merged articles, particularly dealing with fighting video games (characters), and apparently now the Puppet Master horror series characters. TheElderDarkStar's behavior also includes uploading significant number of non-free images to "replaces" those in the un-merged articles, another behavior consistent with TheDarkPyrano.

I think the contribs pages should be sufficient, but I will provide diffs if necessary. Let me know. Izno (talk) 03:22, 20 September 2012 (UTC)

PS: See also Administrators'_noticeboard/IncidentArchive768, which is what finally spurred me to file this report. --Izno (talk) 03:25, 20 September 2012 (UTC)

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The 131.123 range of IP addresses are from Kent State University, and now seem to be schoolblocked per Sockpuppet_investigations/A_Nobody. There is no doubt in my mind that DarkPyrano, the 131 addresses, and A Nobody are one and the same. The fixation on undoing merges on video game characters from Special:Contributions/131.123.123.124 identifies that range with DarkPyrano. These edits are typical of A Nobody, as is this this AfD terminology because no-one else talks that way. Reyk YO!  06:19, 25 September 2012 (UTC)
 * I agree on the 131 addresses, but can you show me something that concretely ties the TheDarkPyrano into this? I'm just not seeing it.&mdash;Kww(talk) 14:49, 25 September 2012 (UTC)

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 * I'm closing this: As described above, the 131.*s have already been covered. As can be seen in the archive, TheDarkPyrano is assumed to be from another continent, and no conclusive diffs have been provided to show that they are the same, and with rather minimal (three dozen edits in total) and trivial vandalism like we saw from TheDarkPyrano I don't really want to spend too much time gathering diffs and pondering whether a check is warranted. If there are current disruptive edits from TheElderDarkStar or the 78.* range that need to be looked at, please let me know. Amalthea  15:30, 1 October 2012 (UTC)

24 February 2013

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A shared history of trying to restore certain non-notable articles through neverending reverts (,, , , , etc.). For more about it (including their inserting of blatant disinformation into Wikipedia): read here. TheDarkPyrano100 is already long blocked, TheDarkPyrano apparently not but apparently no longer in use (now it's either TheElderDarkStar or 82.16.144.238 (which is confirfmed for TheDarkPyrano) and sometimes 78.149.18.195). --Niemti (talk) 16:44, 24 February 2013 (UTC) Niemti (talk) 16:44, 24 February 2013 (UTC)

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I have a hard time deciding if this user is just here to vandalize or is adding "fake" positive reception for characters in good faith. His constant attempts to revive articles on characters without proving their notability suggests the latter for me. But what is clear is that he's being quite disruptive, with the constant reverting of edits undoing his work and the use of socks.  TheStickMan  [✆Talk] 19:13, 24 February 2013 (UTC)

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 * TheElderDarkStar blocked and tagged as a sock. The 82.16.144.238 IP was already blocked as TheDarkPyrano in August and still continues, so I've blocked the IP for six months. On the other hand, 78.149.18.195 seems to only have been used for two days in September so blocking it now would serve no purpose. Jafeluv (talk) 10:54, 28 February 2013 (UTC)

13 May 2013

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User has been making disruptive edits that are likely in nature to TheDarkPyrano. Both have the same interest in the Street Fighter and Tekken character lists as noted in the recent edits. I think this is an obvious WP:DUCK. Lord Sjones23 (talk - contributions) 21:40, 13 May 2013 (UTC)

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 * Blocked, closing. King of &hearts;   &diams;   &clubs;  &spades; 22:28, 13 May 2013 (UTC)

11 June 2013

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Edits adding false information about Street Fighter character Q (including him supposedly being rated number one in a Capcom poll) here as sockpuppet TheElderDarkStar once did here. Also has made a fairly innocuous edit here to the List of LittleBigPlanet 2 downloadable content packs article, a page TheDarkPyrano also enjoyed editing. He has made only five edits so far but at least three have shown to be either vandalism or disruptive editing.  TheStickMan  [✆Talk] 16:47, 11 June 2013 (UTC)

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 * Seem very likely. Blocked, tagged and templated.  Closing. Dennis Brown &#124; 2¢ &#124; © &#124;  WER  02:10, 23 June 2013 (UTC)