Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Xanderliptak/Archive

09 March 2011

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(I haven't made such a report before - if there are procedural issues, do bear with me!) Earlier this year, User:Xanderliptak was banned following a discuss on ANI; a user with whom I have interacted before, but not in any particularly meaningful way, nor was involved in the least with the ban. I have considerable suspicion that the above mentioned User:Η936631 is the same person, although as we know there could be a possibility they aren't related, for the following reasons: I would welcome any input from more experienced users in this area because of my novelty in this area. Grandiose (me, talk, contribs) 21:03, 9 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Account creation time: the block was on the 7 November, Η936631's first contribution was the 14 January;
 * Η936631's contributions show no indication of being a new user (straight into AfDs, edit summaries reveal knowledge of policy, for example) and no acknowledgement of any form is given;
 * Pages (heraldry, for example, and American pages) in terms of topic similar; several pages (e.g. Emblem of Bahrain), http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_heads_of_state_and_government_by_net_worth&limit=250&action=history List of heads of state and government by net worth] edited by both accounts [FDR among Η936631's, Theodore Roosevelt ‎among Xanderliptak's] ;
 * The stated aim at Template_talk:Infobox_heraldic_achievement by Xanderliptak to migrate the uses of the template to another ("Emblem"), as carried out by Η936631 in this edit, this edit and this edit, and others.
 * Oh, the discussion wasn't for a full community ban. I'm not sure what position that leaves us in (not acknowledging "his" (as the case may be) former account could be a problem, no?. Help, please? Grandiose (me, talk, contribs) 21:37, 9 March 2011 (UTC)

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✅ that Η936631 is a match to Xanderliptak. TN X Man 16:49, 10 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Blocked and tagged. / ƒETCH COMMS  /  17:34, 10 March 2011 (UTC)

13 June 2011

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This seems fairly obvious. Xanderliptak was originally banned by the community, with a set of restrictions imposed should he seek an unblock. A similar situation obtained on Commons.

This user is uploading multiple images by the same person, importing them from a blog which imposes licencing constraints incompatible with Wikipedia policy, particularly WP:WATERMARK, a bugaboo of Xanderliptak; he felt his signature should remain on all work and the licencing he forces on his blog indicates the same.

He has socked around his block before, and I only just happened to notice the addition of a Xanderliptak file on a page I hadn't removed from my watchlist. CU is needed, perhaps an underlying IP can be hardblocked. → ROUX  ₪  06:14, 13 June 2011 (UTC)


 * Dammit. Wish I'd seen the edits a few days earlier then. So what do we do? Block per the overwhelming sound of ducks? Ignore the fact that he's socking (again) around a community ban? → ROUX   ₪  17:59, 13 June 2011 (UTC)


 * Question: User:173.24.117.126 is an acknowledged IP that Liptak has used while logged out. Does this help? → ROUX   ₪  20:40, 13 June 2011 (UTC)

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The accounts in the archive are, but this user is using the same ISP that I checked last time. There are no other sleepers, but there is other activity on the range, so I'm a little hesitant about IP blocking. TN X Man 14:10, 13 June 2011 (UTC)
 * Add behavoir and I think we have cleared it. -- DQ  (t)   (e)  01:59, 15 June 2011 (UTC)
 * Archiving due to lack of further action to be able to take in regards to the IP, per CU comments. Steven Zhang  The clock is ticking....  05:00, 17 June 2011 (UTC)

19 March 2012

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- ruled likely, and confirmed that Pratt and JDF are the same SarekOfVulcan (talk)  06:21, 19 March 2012 (UTC)

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Pro forma report, already bagged and tagged -- SarekOfVulcan (talk) 06:21, 19 March 2012 (UTC)