Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Ulib2015/Archive

16 November 2015

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Suspected accounts are all engaged in systematic edit-warring on North Yemen Civil War page over a specific sub-topic from 3 May 2015. The IP's and the suspected "master" account have been undone dozens of times by several different users, including user:Mikrobølgeovn, user:CAPTAIN RAJU, user:Ruslik0 and myself. All the IPs all coming from the same location in New South Wales (Australia). The static IP user:117.120.18.135 has had some history on Wikipedia from 2012 to July 2015, but was blocked for disruptive editing on 21 July. Another static IP user:117.120.18.136 was active in parallel from 2014 to 2015 and became blocked on August 17. The suspected "master" user:Ulib2015 was created on June 28, but made only two edits. Ever since the article has periodically been semi-protected, while a wide range of IPs have been engaged in edit-warring in between, likely in order to avoid 3RR blocking of the master. One of the later IPs even created a talk page for himself on 23 July - perhaps to make the account look legitimate. Furthermore, some of the edits of the IPs and the suspected master (like issuing as RFC) seem quite professional, implying the user behind it might be a veteran editor, perhaps banned from Wikipedia and this is why i would like to ask for a checkuser.GreyShark (dibra) 22:12, 16 November 2015 (UTC)

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 * I've declined the CU request. We almost never publicly disclose the IPs of a named account.--Bbb23 (talk) 22:48, 16 November 2015 (UTC)
 * I protected the page for a month. None of those IPs nor the master is active, so no blocks are necessary. I'm closing the case.  Vanjagenije  (talk)  19:51, 17 November 2015 (UTC)