Wikipedia:Suspected sock puppets/Middim13

User:Middim13

 * Suspected sockpuppeteer


 * Suspected sockpuppets

Parsecboy 02:08, 4 December 2007 (UTC)
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User has been disrupting and edit warring on several pages, including General Dynamics and USS Holland (SS-1)‎. Middim13 made this edit to General Dynamics, followed by this revert by 208.29.67.33, followed by this revert by 208.39.172.33
 * Evidence

Middim13 made this edit to USS Holland (SS-1), followed by this revert by 208.29.67.33, followed by this revert by 208.29.67.36.

Also note the proximity in range of the three IP addresses.

Also see history of my talk page. B.S. Lawrence (talk) 23:23, 4 December 2007 (UTC)


 * Comments

how for apart are the were the times of the reverts of the suspected socks and the pupetter? ANOMALY-117 02:47, 4 December 2007 (UTC)


 * On General Dynamics, the reversions I referred to occurred in the past 4-5 hours, on USS Holland (SS-1), within about 2-3 hours. The edit warring has been going on considerably longer than that, however. Parsecboy 02:52, 4 December 2007 (UTC)

In case no one noticed, the IP's appear related to http://www.pwcgov.org/ and may be proxys for Prince William County, VA government, library or schools so there might be collateral damage in a range block. --Dual Freq 03:00, 4 December 2007 (UTC)

hm.. possibly a sock but at two to four hours its streching it unless its a conspericy. um were does the user trace from is he even close enough to that school? it could be friends or some weirdos who like framing people? but thats a huge streach ANOMALY-117 03:23, 4 December 2007 (UTC)


 * The time of the reverts is more or less irrelevant. The edit summaries used by all 4 (Middim and the 3 IPs) are all far too similar to be coincidence (not to mention making the exact same reverts, editing the same pages in the same style, etc.). Also, the fact that two of the IPs are off by only one digit on the last octet would imply that the computers used are in the same area of a building, if not the same room. Parsecboy 03:28, 4 December 2007 (UTC)


 * Another thing I'd like to point out is the extensive use of the IPs by seemingly the same editor (especially to tag-team revert-war on the same articles), which tends to rule out the possibility of the user simply forgetting to log in. Parsecboy (talk) 05:15, 6 December 2007 (UTC)

Definite same person. Blocked named acct 2 weeks (hard block) and IPs 1 week (allowing acct creation). — Rlevse  •  Talk  • 11:09, 7 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Conclusions