Wikipedia:Suspected sock puppets/NotSarenne (2nd)

User:NotSarenne

 * Suspected sockpuppeteer


 * Suspected sockpuppets

Fnagaton 22:27, 26 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Report submission by

Recently, 24th April, an IP hopping anonymous user appeared and made multiple reverts to Bondwell.
 * Evidence

When this IP was blocked another bunch of IP in the ISP IP range made vandalism edits on various talk pages, including the talk page of the admin who blocked the IP, and the Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard incidents page. Special:Contributions/217.87.112.155 Special:Contributions/217.87.58.59 Special:Contributions/217.87.115.105 Special:Contributions/217.87.123.75 Special:Contributions/217.87.75.168.

This resulted in an anon only range block of the 217.87 range being requested by the admin which was actioned.

At 10:24, 26 April 2008 a new user was created, TimTomTom. At 10:47, 26 April 2008 the user then then started to make the same edits, edit warring, as the range blocked IP user did to the same Bondwell article. .

The user TimTomTom then started adding comments, some abusive, to Thunderbird2's talk page. The anonymous IP user who was range blocked also made similar comments to the same talk page which were also abusive, especially the edit summaries. . For example calling editors "liars" is a very common occurence with this user.

The user NotSarenne and all the sock puppet activity is documented here.

The vandalism from the ISP IP range specifically on this topic of binary prefixes is also under investigation here: Abuse reports/217.87.x.x

The anonymous IP user made these edits, note the edit comments about "original authors" and "unambiguous units to ambiguous units". The user TimTomTom then made this edits note the change comment "restored originally used units; added missing hyphens". Note the similar use of "orginally" or "orignal" related to these edits.


 * Comments

As can be seen from the longer sock puppet report the IP address range and ISP is the same as NotSarenne and the other sock puppets. There is also a history of using Tor to hide the source machine of disruptive edits.

Considering that the ISP IP being anon only range blocked for a period of six days. And considering the same edits are being made only a day later by the new user account TimTomTom. Also considering the account appears to be a single purpose account (very few edits outside of the Bondwell article or on talk pages regarding the article). Therefore the user account was most likely created by this range blocked and banned sock puppet user as another attempt to evade their editing ban.

Given the history of IP address hopping and Tor use then if a check of edit IP addresses is made then the IP address range of the ISP should be considered. Also the user may be using Tor to hide their source IP address.

Wow. I've reviewed all of the evidence, and it's extremely troubling. If this person never returns to Wikipedia, it won't be too soon. I don't rule out the possibility of returning to morality, but based on the repeated violations of basic norms of civility and 3RR, there's nothing to discuss. I'll ask the first available administrator to block TimTomTom. Shalom (Hello • Peace) 16:03, 9 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Conclusions
 * This is pretty blatant and obvious to me. Both indef'd. — Rlevse  •  Talk  • 20:49, 10 May 2008 (UTC)