Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/YtoSu/Archive

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For quite a while there seems to be a campaign to promote French institutions cross-wiki. So I decided to AfD one of the articles as cross-wiki promo: Articles for deletion/Genopole. Most of those edits are coming from just two IP-ranges: 2a01:c000::/19 and 92.184.116.0 - 92.184.117.255. The IPs are highly flexible and are not making more then a few edits before being abandoned. That makes it very difficult to pinpoint a master. But the came these two edits « The Banner » and « ip ». In my opinion a rather non-standard way to refer to other editors but now used by an account and an IP. The Banner talk 11:28, 20 August 2020 (UTC)

Additionally: WikiProject Spam/LinkReports/people.orange.fr and blocked for IP-socking. The Banner talk 11:36, 20 August 2020 (UTC)

Please note that the IPs have already are out of content related argument and are now making personal attacks to disrupt the AfD: 92.184.107.70, 92.184.106.35, 92.184.116.233, 2A01:CB09:D033:B009:FD83:808E:1B28:F6B7, claiming that i should stop having fun, 92.184.107.70, claiming that i should stop having fun and 2A01:CB01:3049:1832:DDB1:10B3:1ECB:958. All in all, it looks like a concerted campaign by the IPs to make the AfD unpleasant for others. The Banner talk 13:36, 20 August 2020 (UTC)

To answer de question of the clerk: I have the idea that the two IP-ranges and some accounts are working hard on cross-wiki promo for French institutes, possible in a paid capacity. The Banner talk 09:24, 21 August 2020 (UTC)

Comments by other users
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 * I'm concerned. If YtoSu is also 92.184.116.35, the insistence that English Wikipedia is not Dutch Wikipedia suggesting it, he !voted twice at the AfD. Regards, Comte0 (talk) 02:23, 21 August 2020 (UTC)
 * Two things are quite strange. The number of times The Banner has been blocked for "battleground mentality", "Personal attacks or harassment", etc. And YtoSu has been blocked the 22 October 2019 when he was not on Wikipedia. Previous contribution on 22 September 2019 and next on 23 November 2019. --2A01:CB00:B51:3E00:747E:A2C8:11B0:A215 (talk) 10:17, 21 August 2020 (UTC)
 * Funny that you guys need personal attacks to deflect the case. The Banner  talk 10:36, 21 August 2020 (UTC)

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments
— Berean Hunter   (talk)  11:17, 21 August 2020 (UTC)
 * Unclear what the filer wants a checkuser to do here. The complaint includes one registered account and a whole bunch of IPs. Though I'm still puzzled, I do note that a checkuser block of the named account for 72 hours was issued by User:Berean Hunter back in October 2019. In a practical sense, an admin ought to decide if there's enough reason to block YtoSu per NOTHERE and possibly do a few semiprotections to keep the horde of Paris-based IPs from doing any real damage. Not sure that any rangeblocks are practical. EdJohnston (talk) 01:24, 21 August 2020 (UTC)
 * Recommend removing all requests from French IPs at Articles for creation/Redirects and categories at least for the next several months as this is being manipulated.
 * I've posed a pointer on Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Articles for creation. YtoSu and many of the IPs have already been blocked, so it doesn't look like there's anything else to do here.  Closing. -- RoySmith (talk) 14:22, 29 August 2020 (UTC)