Wikipedia:Suspected sock puppets/96.247.37.61

User:96.247.37.61

 * Suspected sockpuppeteer


 * Suspected sockpuppets


 * Report submission by

Editor437 (talk) 02:56, 1 August 2008 (UTC)


 * Evidence

A number of IP addresses have attacked myself and Dave Zirin with POV edits and refused to discuss them in good faith. They follow similar patterns. Either, the edits are POV edits on Dave Zirin or they revert edits I make on other articles. Basically, they follow me around and revert my edits.

After reverting a number of my edits, 96.247.103.165: talk changed her//his talk page to say"I'll just change my ip address and make all you admins at wikipedia go apeshit.", seeming evidence of intent to sockpuppet.

Recently, the address listed blanked the talk pages of: 119.94.3.120: talk 119.94.0.250: talk 122.144.118.160: talk 58.69.106.184: talk 119.94.0.238: talk 119.94.3.144: talk 122.52.185.53: talk

They may also be using the following IPS: 122.3.11.211: talk 96.247.37.46: talk 119.94.12.16: talk 122.55.57.9: talk 119.94.15.176: talk 75.208.6.68: talk 96.247.103.165: talk


 * Comments

These IPs all resolve back to the Philippine Long Distance Telephone Company, and are probably dynamic DSL IPs. As such there is probably on actual attempt at sockpuppetry here, just the user getting a different IP whenever they connect. The edits themselves are a problem that will have to be solved by reverting and blocking individual IPs if they are active. There are too many IPs here for a range block I would think. Some of these /16 blocks have good IP edits that we can't discourage. Kevin (talk) 06:44, 1 August 2008 (UTC)

Too many IPs to block via range blocks and if it's dynamic it wouldn't do much good anyway. The article is semiprotected. If disruption spreads to other articles, we can semiprot them too. — Rlevse  •  Talk  • 20:57, 2 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Conclusions