Wikipedia:Suspected sock puppets/Koov (2nd)

User:Koov

 * Suspected sockpuppeteer


 * Suspected sockpuppets


 * Report submission by

Skalskal (talk) 18:27, 13 May 2008 (UTC)


 * Evidence









Used comments almost identical to those used by Koov in the past.

We just finished with Suspected sock puppets/Koov. I'll ping EdJohnston to see what he thinks. Shalom (Hello • Peace) 20:53, 13 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Comments
 * I blocked the two IPs for one month (same duration as Koov's block) based solely on the traditional Koov-like edit warring to remove the coats of arms of Kosovo and other places that he does not believe to be countries. I'll let the closer of the SSP decide if the issue is completely addressed and if these blocks are justified. EdJohnston (talk) 21:12, 13 May 2008 (UTC)


 * Is there a way to block something like 149.4.108.xxx? His IP keeps changing. 155.188.183.6 (talk) 14:24, 14 May 2008 (UTC)
 * That range is part of (149.4.0.0/16) and so will be used by people other than Koov that are also at Queens College, City University of New York. It's easy enough to just revert any bad faith edits he makes, he's not hard to spot Ha! (talk) 18:55, 14 May 2008 (UTC)
 * I'm thinking of semiprotecting Gallery of sovereign-state flags and Gallery of country coats of arms for about a month each. Koov socks (and the reverts) now account for a majority of all the edits on those two articles. Semiprotection might take away Koov's incentive to edit. There were about 12-20 vandalistic edits altogether. Admins are surely supposed to control these things if they can.


 * I'm thinking of extending Koov's block to indefinite. Does anyone have a comment on this plan? The block could be undone if he promised to respect WP policy. EdJohnston (talk) 19:27, 14 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Please do. As per policy, he deserves to be indefinitely blocked for breaching the sock puppetry policy. He's consistently evading his block by editing the same articles in the same way he was before (the evidence is obvious enough in the above-listed IP contribs that I'm not going to list it here). I've just added 149.4.108.153 to the list and undone yet more of his block evasions.   Ha! (talk) 20:34, 14 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Koov's block has been extended to indefinite. If he agrees to abide by Wikipedia policy, I have promised to immediately lift the block. EdJohnston (talk) 21:09, 14 May 2008 (UTC)


 * Conclusions

No further action necessary at this time. GBT/C 07:09, 17 May 2008 (UTC)