Wikipedia:Suspected sock puppets/75.50.172.163

User:75.50.172.163

 * Suspected sockpuppeteer


 * Suspected sockpuppets

Largo Plazo (talk) 16:16, 29 September 2008 (UTC)
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This person keeps removing good faith Fact tags added by someone else to Salsa (dance), and repeatedly removes other text without explanation, regardless of the number of reversions.
 * Evidence


 * Comments
 * If i may jump in here as a third party editor, this is quite likely not blatant sockpuppet usage, but rather a user located on a dynamic ip address. Also, the edits from this user don't strike me as being purely vandalistic. The removed content is a little WP:NOTGUIDE and non WP:NPOV, and there are simply good faith IP's that don't understand edit summaries. Slapping a vand4im warning without even trying to explain before doing so, or placing any lower level warning first is a little harsh; Especially for this type of vandalism. Excirial ( Talk, Contribs ) 19:43, 30 September 2008 (UTC)


 * He's been told several times in edit summaries. Since his IP address changes all the time there's no reason to think leaving a succession of User Talk warnings would make any difference since he won't see any messages left for a previously assigned IP address. Just now he went through the exercise all over again from yet another address, despite the warnings I did leave in all the User Talk pages. After the first dozen repetitions, I stop granting the benefit of the doubt regarding good faith. It's time to try to figure out what the next step is. &#8212;Largo Plazo (talk) 03:24, 1 October 2008 (UTC)

Next step is not a range block, as that would block too many IPs - probably take it to WP:RFPP and get semi-protection is it continues. GbT/c 17:47, 12 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Conclusions