Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/VillegasD2002/Archive

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Timeline: began editing in September 2015. The user was warned multiple times for their disruptive behaviour, and was blocked three times. Nearly every single time the user received a warning on their Talk Page, they would revert it and continue their disruptive behaviour, ignoring the warning. This IP eventually ceased editing in October 2015, after being temporarily blocked. In December 2015, surfaced. This user was also warned repeatedly for disruptive editing. This user reverted and ignored every warning they received, and this user was blocked more than once. The user was blocked for a month on 28 January 2016, the day of the user's last edit. In February 2016, began editing. Like the previous IPs, this user was repeatedly warned for disruptive editing, this user ignored and reverted any warnings they received. This user was blocked twiced. The user was blocked 13 May 2016 for three months, the day that activity on this IP address stopped. On 16 June 2016, began editing. This user is warned repeatedly for disruptive editing, and reverts and ignores any warnings they receive. As of now, this user last edited on 13 September 2016.

The Edits themselves: All four of the IP addresses edit the exact same articles (articles pertaining to popular films and actors). All four IPs make the exact same types of edits on these articles, such as making disruptive changes to film titles, adding POV commentary about "standalone sequels" and "soft reboots", and making film runtime changes. DarkKnight2149 20:01, 18 September 2016 (UTC)

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 * Tagging editors who have experience with dealing with this user.

97.95.13.3 is is clearly the same IP-hopping troll who for months now has been attempting to insert the ridiculous POV neologism "soft reboot" into X-Men: First Class, doing so here on 18:30, 26 September 2015.

He did it as 71.82.105.171 here on 23:03, 26 July 2015, and here on 16:48, 17 July 2015.

He did it as the now-blocked 50.5.214.147 here on 00:33, 4 July 2015.

And he did it as 66.87.94.104 here on 20:44, 19 March 2015. --Tenebrae (talk) 00:17, 19 September 2016 (UTC)

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 * please block for six months. All of these IPs should be treated as the same user for block history purposes; they just came off a 3-month block as  dating to May of this year. If possible please reference that IP's block log in the new IP's block. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 17:45, 20 September 2016 (UTC)
 * 97.95.216.118 has been blocked for six months as requested.  ~Oshwah~  (talk) (contribs)   03:09, 22 September 2016 (UTC)

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DavidV12402 was created during VillegasD2002's third block, which was week long. Contributions appear to show an essentially 100% overlap, lack of edit notes, and the same sort of unsourced/OR issues that have led to VillegasD2002's three blocks. -- ferret (talk) 17:55, 12 April 2017 (UTC)

I've added a couple attempts to highlight their overlap of interest and tweaking of each other. Thanks -- ferret (talk) 13:53, 14 April 2017 (UTC)
 * Tweaking of hat note at Tom Holland
 * Unsourced tweaking of writer/producer credits at Lego Movie
 * Sock adjusts a wikilink, master comes back to fix double wording.
 * Shared focus on Chucky sequels, which was undone once.

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 * - In order to facilitate and expedite your request, please provide diffs to support your case. Please give two or more diffs meeting the following format:
 * 1) At least one diff is from the sockmaster (or an account already blocked as a confirmed sockpuppet of the sockmaster), showing the behaviour characteristic of the sockmaster.
 * 2) At least one diff per suspected sockpuppet, showing the suspected sockpuppet emulating the behaviour of the sockmaster given in the first diff.
 * 3) In situations where it is not immediately obvious from the diffs what the characteristic behaviour is, a short explanation must be provided. Around one sentence is enough for this.  Vanjagenije   (talk)  11:48, 14 April 2017 (UTC)
 * ✅, blocked, tagged, closing.--Bbb23 (talk) 23:44, 16 April 2017 (UTC)

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I'm pretty sure this is VillegasD2002. However, the behavior is sometimes different from other VillegasD2002 socks, and there aren't a lot of edits to compare. I sought input from another admin familiar with the case, who suggested I ask for a CU. NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 23:50, 29 August 2017 (UTC)
 * On Jon Burton, Answer908, and Quilted 10
 * On J. G. Quintel, Answer908, and Quilted 10
 * On The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water, VillegasD2002, and Quilted 10 called it

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 * Behavioral, the editor is hitting some past interests of VillegasD2002. I wasn't confident enough to issue a block on the behavior though and suggested a CU. Edits are all mobile (VillegasD2002 varies), and there's no edit notes thus far to compare. However, I wasn't aware of the Answer### socks at the time, having only dealt with "Villegas" and "David" varieties myself. One of the behaviors I noted for Quilted was adding citation needed tags to their own edits, which Answer### socks also did. -- ferret (talk) 23:57, 29 August 2017 (UTC)

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* - Everything appears, sorry. GABgab 00:48, 8 September 2017 (UTC)
 * I don't want to just undo your decision here, but there are non-stale confirmed accounts in Category:Wikipedia sockpuppets of VillegasD2002 that a CU can be run against, such as and . Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 13:16, 8 September 2017 (UTC)
 * Understood - struck. GABgab 15:06, 8 September 2017 (UTC)
 * - sorry,, I thought you would have done this. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 14:52, 11 September 2017 (UTC)


 * - Katietalk 18:37, 11 September 2017 (UTC)
 * ✅ to previous socks, along with . Blocked, tagged, closing. Katietalk 18:42, 11 September 2017 (UTC)