Original name(s) | Catcreekcitycouncil |
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Wikilifespan | March 2012 – present |
Sockpuppet investigations | SPI case page |
Instructions | Suspected socks should be immediately reported to WP:AIV, referencing this LTA case. |
Status | Active |
Please report all ongoing incidents of abuse to AIV |
Catcreekcitycouncil (talk · contribs · block log · arb · SPI confirmed suspected)
Comprehensive edits analysis
A prolific sockpuppeter and vandal with over 500 sockpuppets, most of which were created to vandalize Cat Creek, Montana. This has resulted in the article fluctuating in various levels of protection.
This user has the dubious distinction of being banned twice: once in 2012 (where he was added to LOBU, but apparently never tagged with the ban template), and later after LOBU was deleted, in 2018.
They are sometimes impersonated by another LTA, ByteOr.
Although most of this vandal's edits seem to focus on Cat Creek, Montana, they also edit articles such as:
In most cases, the socks can be easily identified and reported to WP:AIV to be blocked as WP:DUCKS. In some cases, however, it may be worth it to file a WP:SPI to check for sleepers (the user has been known to edit behind proxies, however, and recent SPIs have rarely turned up any associated accounts). This user has also been known to take large breaks before becoming active again (e.g. May 2016 – February 2017).