Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/WikkiManiack/Archive

19 October 2015

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Most of the recent history of the 2015 Atlantic hurricane season provides the necessary evidence. Consistently changing "Henri" to "Henry", citing that the name is spelled wrong when it's simply just a different name (Henri is of French origin while Henry is Germanic). I've blocked the first four IPs accordingly for vandalism under the assumption that they're the same person abusing proxies; the 2015 Atlantic hurricane season has been protected as well to try and curb this. The third listed IP stated "Attempts to block new editors are futile. Either handle this maturely or we will block you for warring", a clear indication of connection to the previously blocked IPs. The master originally added "Kimberly" to the list of names and created articles purporting that it was the next storm in the Atlantic basin, a blatant hoax. This was subsequently re-added by the first IP. Kimberly has never been used for a tropical cyclone name globally nor is it on any list. The fifth IP is from an identical incident two years ago where storm names on Tropical cyclone naming were changed for supposedly being spelled wrong. Sixth IP started up a Dispute Resolution in February 2013 under the same pretense as the other IPs, but I'd have to go digging to figure out the other IPs that actually made the edits prior to this report. ~ Cyclonebiskit (chat) 15:52, 19 October 2015 (UTC) Added seventh IP with assumed connection: commenting on dispute resolution of topic raised by an IP with the same base ("97.47.x.x"). ~ Cyclonebiskit (chat) 15:54, 19 October 2015 (UTC) Added eighth IP with assumed connection: condescending comments on this report, altering a reported IP address, and similar base IP to other suspected IPs ("174.255.x.x"). ~ Cyclonebiskit (chat) 16:55, 19 October 2015 (UTC) Added ninth IP who has stated a clear connection to the other suspected IPs. ~ Cyclonebiskit (chat) 17:19, 19 October 2015 (UTC) Added tenth IP and had to protect my own talk page due to harassment. ~ Cyclonebiskit (chat) 17:22, 19 October 2015 (UTC)

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''Accused parties may also comment/discuss in this section below. See Defending yourself against claims.'' Obviously this stems from a classic content dispute. Revert warring is not goin to solve th is. Have you tried mediation? 16:47, 19 October 2015 (UTC)

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 * I've indefinitely blocked WikkiManiack. I'm working on feasible range blocks for the IPs.--Bbb23 (talk) 22:47, 19 October 2015 (UTC)
 * All the IPs that are not stale are now blocked, either singly or by range. Closing.--Bbb23 (talk) 22:57, 19 October 2015 (UTC)