Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/ThomasK/Archive

Evidence submitted by Franamax
Named account and IP have edited four common pages in the last (only) day. Timing of edits indicates interleaved logged-in/logged-out editing. The named account claims repeatedly they are not socking, in close proximity to the IP edits. CU may need technical evidence to establish a link. I haven't checked whether the IP is an open proxy. Franamax (talk) 12:11, 3 October 2010 (UTC)

Comments by accused parties
See Defending yourself against claims.

Comments by other users
You will find that this is and, as as well as the great majority of the anonymous edits from 188.23.0.0/16 and 93.82.0.0/20. This user is indefinitely blocked, and it would be useful to find other socks as well as any potential other IP ranges. I left a note on User:Jpgordon's talk page to have a look at this before this SPI case was opened. I'd be very surprised if Ftsw turns out to be someone else (but I've been wrong before). Antandrus (talk) 15:54, 3 October 2010 (UTC)


 * He's stopped pretending and admitted who he is. I have ranged-blocked 188.23.0.0/16 and 93.82.0.0/20 for a week, anon-only for now, to see if this helps. Antandrus  (talk) 13:55, 5 October 2010 (UTC)

Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments

 * CheckUser won't link an account to an IP. Having said that, I think there might be justification here for a sleeper check. —  Hello Annyong  (say whaaat?!) 14:52, 3 October 2010 (UTC)
 * It's pretty well evident that this is . This has been going on for a while now and I've been tracking him with the assistance of Antandrus. For that reason, while a CU isn't really necessary to establish the link here, a sleeper check appears to be warranted, as well as potential for rangeblock. I've already DUCK blocked Ftsw. -- Sh i r ik ( Questions or Comments? ) 16:33, 3 October 2010 (UTC)

Moved from WP:Sockpuppet investigations/Ftsw -- Sh i r ik ( Questions or Comments? ) 16:33, 3 October 2010 (UTC)

I've blocked the IP for one week, hard, based on behavioral evidence. -- Sh i r ik ( Questions or Comments? ) 16:35, 3 October 2010 (UTC)
 * ThomasK is for CU purposes. No sleepers for Ftsw. The range I checked seemed to turn over pretty quickly and there seem to be some good contributors there - but not many. A narrow rangeblock is possible, please let me know if you think this would be a deterrent.  TN X Man  17:13, 3 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Since the sock is blocked and Antandrus has placed some rangeblocks, I'll mark this for close. TN X Man  14:19, 5 October 2010 (UTC)