Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Victor0209/Archive

08 February 2013

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This editor has used multiple accounts to re-introduce the same edit on the article So You Think You Can Dance) as clearly reflected in the revision history of that article, found here: .  At first I took their behaviour to be simple good-faith errors and unfamiliarity with the Wikipedia process, but I'm becoming increasingly convinced that this is the work of an established sockmaster and that they are responsible for similar disruptive editing and vandalism on other articles in a similar vein with a huge number of socks.  I further suspect, given some of the articles involved, that these might all belong to known sockmaster User:TVFAN24, but that is just conjecture at this point.  In any account, I doubt a checkuser will be of much help as their IP seems to change as readily as their accounts (that is, with virtually every single edit) and protecting against their vandalism is likely to be difficult for the same reasons, but I thought the issue should be noted here all the same. For further details please see my posting on this matter at the Administrators Noticeboard. Snow (talk) 18:59, 8 February 2013 (UTC)

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 * Both accounts indeffed and 1 month blocks for 2 static IPs. The other IPs are pretty stale and so I've left them alone. Closing. Basa lisk  inspect damage⁄berate 20:40, 11 February 2013 (UTC)