Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Wildblue68/Archive

30 November 2011

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The article Range Resources has been edited for about a year by several single-purpose accounts dedicated mostly to editing this article, with a few minor edits to related subjects such as Hydraulic fracturing in the United States. They confine themselves to a narrow subject matter and always edit the articles to improve the image of Range Resources and slant the article in the favor of the subject, removing critical information regardless of reliable sources and encyclopedic content. They never use edit summaries. The IP addresses all geolocate to different regions in the United States (Virginia, Oklahoma, and Texas respectively) but their editing follows similar patterns and so each could be related to the possible sockmaster. causa sui (talk) 01:01, 30 November 2011 (UTC)

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 * Blocked the socks (or meats, whichever), but I think we need to try and talk this one out instead of direct blocking as I see that hasn't really been done. IPs are block stale. -- DQ  (t)   (e)  06:25, 30 November 2011 (UTC)

01 December 2011

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This is now the 7th account that is still trying to promote the same topic. I also exchanged emails with one of the accounts from the archive and explained what could be done, and we just get a new account with no response. -- DQ  (t)   (e)  04:32, 1 December 2011 (UTC)

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 * For the current account in relation to the lot. Also, any sleepers? -- DQ  (t)   (e)  04:34, 1 December 2011 (UTC)
 * - Tiptoety  talk 07:01, 1 December 2011 (UTC)
 * I'll call it on behavioral grounds. Blocked and tagged the sock. —  Hello Annyong  (say whaaat?!) 02:28, 2 December 2011 (UTC)

12 December 2011

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Here we go again. Are we at the point where we can preemptively block these guys without an SPI? I'm also contemplating long-term semi protection. causa sui (talk) 19:17, 12 December 2011 (UTC)

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 * I've got him talking on article talk. While I'd still like this SPI to go forward I'd appreciate if nobody used blocking until diplomacy has been fully explored. causa sui (talk) 22:15, 12 December 2011 (UTC)

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 * Lets hold on this per causa sui. -- DQ  (t)   (e)  06:52, 14 December 2011 (UTC)
 * Melvin has gone quiet, so I'm going to close this. Reopen or relist if necessary. —  Hello Annyong  (say whaaat?!) 15:23, 17 December 2011 (UTC)