Wikipedia:Suspected sock puppets/172.130.221.247

User:172.130.221.247

 * Suspected sockpuppeteer


 * Suspected sockpuppets
 * Several America On Line IP's starting with 172.xxx and possibly User:aolworker

JForget 00:23, 30 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Report submission by

Same person targeting Canadian Liberal politicans with vandalism. The same person (possibly during work shifts) has kept on vandalism several articles on Canadian politicians (some would-be polticians also) such as Stephane Dion, Justin Trudeau, Bob Rae, Jean Chretien, Pierre Trudeau and several others including Olivia Chow, Jack Layton and Peter Kormos as well as the Liberal Party of Canada and New Democratic Party. He also made attacks against Liberal members on other articles, one of them included Tiny. In addition, when editors included me, warn the user, he often made personnal attacks or vandalism to the user pages or talk pages. The person used about hundreds of the computers from the AOL headquarters in Virginia for several months. The IP range looking at the WHOIS is ranging from 172.128.0.0 to 172.191.255.255 and has used hundreds of account whiten this range (an example is 172.165.129.102 and 172.130.95.37 used immediately after 172.130.221.247). The vast majority of the IP's were clean prior to the rampage by the small person. A user also mentionned a few months back at the AIV talk page that a User:aolworker existed and that some the 172.xxx have used this for vandalism which may suspect that the user name was used by him as well. However, after an IP was block or made several edits (vandalistic in nature), he changed IP and this happened several times, but it's difficult to pinpoint the initial AOL IP account that started the strings of socks.
 * Evidence

We need something more specific to go on than IPs in the 172.0.0.0/8 range and "Canadian Liberal politicians." Please give more detailed info including specific examples of IPs and articles. Raymond Arritt 02:36, 30 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Comments

This report is too vague. In any case, the problem described is not sockpuppetry, but vandalism from the AOL range, which is best addressed through reversion, and judicious semi-protection, if necessary. --Akhilleus (talk) 03:43, 16 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Conclusions