Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Worldedixor/Archive

17 February 2015

 * Suspected sockpuppets




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Although I have no proof of this, as the evidence is entirely circumstantial, I suspect that most of the listed IPs are sock-puppets of User:Worldedixor. I have listed the IPs in chronological order (adding the dates of sanctions with links where available), and have described the type of breach of WP guidelines and policy as I see it in each case after the IP number. They have harassed per WP:HOUND, been abusive per WP:PA or vandalized per WP:VANDAL.

Many of the IP numbers are either identical or nearly identical, and note how often those ones clump together in date. This and the pattern of behaviour suggests that many of these IPs could be the same IP.

Note: The type of harassment from the sock-puppets is very similar in the majority of cases to the type of  harassment which I sustained last August and September from Worldedixor i.e. WP:HOUND and WP:PA – which led to the editor being taken to RfC/U last  September by myself and another editor (now site-banned) – and in the period before the editor was finally indeff blocked in November. (See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_comment/Worldedixor and his Talk page.) I understand that CheckUser cannot be used here as the three months' period when it could have been used has expired.


 * IP 204.93.60.6... . 3 Jan  P-123 Talk page
 * . Blocked 3 Jan Bishonen
 * Harassment
 * IP 23.27.248.184 . 6 Jan 14 Infallibles Talk
 * . Blocked 6 Feb 1 yr Callanecc (recent abuse)
 * Harassment
 * IP 23.27.252.213 . 7 Jan AN/I Cont Disruptive Editing and WP:PA
 * Blocked 8 Jan 1 month Bishonen
 * Harassment - attempt to trip up over IBAN
 * IP 23.27.252.124 . 8 Jan AN/I TBAN Violation
 * Blocked 8 Jan 1 month Bishonen    (Seems the IP who brought this to AN/I was masquerading as 23.27.252.124 - see proceedings)
 * Harassment - second attempt to trip up over TBAN - suspected by the same IP
 * IP 193.109.199.37.. . 24 Jan, List of Iranian commanders in the Iran-Iraq war Talk
 * Abuse - similar IP number appears again several times later
 * IP 193.109.199.174 . 27 Jan P-123 Userpage
 * Vandalism
 * IP 193.109.199.174 . 27 Jan P-123 Userpage
 * Vandalism
 * IP 193.109.199.174 . 27 Jan P-123 Userpage
 * . Warned
 * Vandalism
 * IP 193.109.199.13. . 27 Jan P-123 Userpage
 * . Warned
 * Vandalism
 * IP 23.27.248.41 . 6 Feb Khameini Letter
 * . Block 6 Feb 1 yr Callanecc (recent abuse)
 * Vandalism - pointless block-revert of copy-editing
 * IP 180.87.192.123. .. 6 Feb Talk Khameini Letter
 * . Blocked 10 Feb 1 wk Callanecc (block evasion)
 * Abuse - suspect this IP is the same as the one before this (same article)
 * (Compare IP 180.87.192.228 16 Jan Mbcap Talk redacted outing of User:Technophant)
 * IP 208.123.223.36.. . 8 Feb  Talk M.Sakhaie
 * . Blocked 10 Feb 1 month Callanecc (abuse) (warning)
 * Harassment & abuse
 * IP 194.169.217.6 ... . 9 Feb  Talk Sahifa
 * . Blocked 1 week 12 Feb Callanecc (disruptive editing and block evasion)
 * Harassment & abuse
 * IP 194.169.217.245 . 10 Feb Talk Callanecc
 * . Blocked 12 Feb 1 wk Callanecc (disruptive editing and block evasion)
 * Harassment - IP reported to admin supposed evasion of topic ban by P-123 on Help Desk
 * IP 194.169.217.74.. . 11 Feb Help Desk (1)
 * . Blocked 1 week 12 Feb Callanecc (disruptive editing and block evasion)
 * Abuse - on Help Desk
 * IP 194.169.217.74.. . 11 Feb Help Desk (2)
 * Mild abuse - on Help Desk (continued jeer/mock)
 * IP 193.109.196.172 . 12 Feb Sahifa
 * '''Harassment - although IP correctly reverted edit, IP number close to IP on 24 Jan and IP in next
 * IP 193.109.196.155 . 14 Feb Sahifa
 * Harassment - revert okay but disparaging edit summary - IP number close to previous
 * IP 121.100.143.85.. . 14 Feb New York (magazine)
 * Vandalism - block-revert of copy-editing
 * IP 121.100.143.229 .  14 Feb New York (magazine)
 * . Blocked 15 Feb 3 months Callanecc
 * (Compare IP 121.100.143.104 30 Jan Mbcap Talk redacted outing of User:Technophant)
 * Vandalism - edit-warring over previous revert
 * IP 193.109.199.8 .. . 16 Feb Khameini Letter
 * Hounding (unnecessary revert) - IP number very close to IP 193.109.199 numbers in late Jan and some IP numbers recently

P-123 (talk) 11:37, 17 February 2015 (UTC)
 * As this SPI is now closed, I will report further harassment by IPs in a fresh SPI. ~ P-123 (talk) 11:20, 19 February 2015 (UTC)

Comments by other users
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Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * Whether this is Worldedixor or not is going to be reasonably difficult to work out given the use of open proxies (etc). In this case WP:RBI is probably going to be the best approach, I know it's distressing but there isn't a lot we can do to prevent the IP being used initially. Pinging if you want to comment. Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 12:52, 18 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Only that knowing the background, I can't imagine who else it can be. But in a sense it doesn't matter, as all we can do, as you say, is RBI. Dougweller (talk) 14:00, 18 February 2015 (UTC)


 * Thanks P-123 and Doug. Closing as nothing more needs to be done at this stage. Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 05:33, 19 February 2015 (UTC)