Wikipedia:Suspected sock puppets/85.15.56.195

User:85.15.56.195

 * Suspected sockpuppeteer


 * Suspected sockpuppets
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Poindexter Propellerhead 07:31, 18 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Report submission by

This Iranian IP address is reverting to a version of the article IQ and the Wealth of Nations which contains POV statements and gross inaccuracies (like boosting the average Iranian IQ by 25 points). Mmtrmm is making the same edits. Checkuser has been requested. Page history | here.
 * Evidence

(Late addition) They even make very similar comments when they revert other editors. 85.15.56.195: "please verify your sources, why are you faking the numbers , it's a shame"  Mmtrmm: "It's a shame to fake"  Poindexter Propellerhead 04:49, 20 July 2007 (UTC)

I'm adding, as of 7:20AM, 21 July, the address 85.185.48.133, which earlier today was blocked after 4 reverts, identical to the above, in under half an hour. It, too, is an Iranian IP address, with no history other than very recents edits to this page. Am also adding it to the Checkuser request.|(checkuser)] Signed belatedly, Poindexter Propellerhead 08:22, 21 July 2007 (UTC)

Here's a new one, after the last one was blocked. Another Iranian address, making, as its first and only edits, the same reverts to IQ and the Wealth of Nations.[] Added to Checkuser request. Poindexter Propellerhead 11:03, 21 July 2007 (UTC)

Well, it looks as if my checkuser request is dead, as carrying it out would require matching an account name to an IP address, which I am told we do not do except under relatively dire circumstances. Poindexter Propellerhead 12:30, 24 July 2007 (UTC)

Looks like a match. Neither user has any unrelated edits. Shalom Hello 04:32, 20 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Comments

Highly likely. Checkuser case pending; will await its findings. MastCell Talk 21:22, 20 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Conclusions
 * A more obvious case than most, yet none have been blocked.Proabivouac 01:42, 22 July 2007 (UTC)
 * The first two addresses were originally believed to be inept good-faith editors, so were not even warned for a while. When the pattern became obvious, I tagged the first two as socks and filed a 3RR report, but I was unaware of the 3RR warning requirement, and gave the warning too late. After that, new IP socks were used, effectively derailing the 3RR case until sock status could be established. The most recently used IP ignored a 3RR warning before being blocked, but I saw little point in pursuing a 3RR action against an IP whose sock status was still unproven. Poindexter Propellerhead 23:58, 22 July 2007 (UTC)

Checkuser case was declined. I think there's enough circumstantial evidence here, as Proabivouac points out, to conclude these are socks used to edit-war. I've blocked for 72 hours. The IP's are dynamic and stale, but if it starts up again, consider requesting semi-protection for the target page. MastCell Talk 16:59, 26 July 2007 (UTC)