Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Vanray/Archive

Report date April 23 2009, 23:05 (UTC)

 * Suspected sockpuppets

There have been a series of IPs and accounts edit-warring to insert questionable material at. Given that there are probably relatively few people determined to promote these devices on Wikipedia, I suspect that these are the same editor (the IPs geolocate similarly for me). The article ended up protected last week because of this, but the problem has started up with a new account now that the protection has expired.
 * Evidence submitted by MastCell Talk

I haven't been able to entice any of these accounts to the talk page, and the slow edit-warring from various IPs and accounts is growing tiresome. I'd like to clarify that these are the same user; I believe s/he is editing disruptively by repetitively inserting inappropriate material which numerous other editors have disapproved of, refusing to discuss despite requests to do so, and abusing multiple accounts. MastCell Talk 23:05, 23 April 2009 (UTC)


 * Comments by accused parties    See Defending yourself against claims.


 * Comments by other users

Requested by MastCell Talk 23:05, 23 April 2009 (UTC)
 * CheckUser requests


 * Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments
 * Same ISP on the IPs, different bloc. Not quite duck territory because the behavioral evidence is not conclusive, also might help to check for sleepers. Nathan  T (formerly Avruch) 13:59, 24 April 2009 (UTC)

-Blocked and tagged. Peter Symonds ( talk ) 16:03, 26 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Conclusions
 * IPs and ✅ to be the same editor.  &mdash; Coren (talk) 04:24, 26 April 2009 (UTC)