DantheWikipedian (talk⁺ · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · spi block · block log · CA · CheckUser(log) · investigate · cuwiki)

28 August 2023

Suspected sockpuppets

• Danthewiki (talk⁺ · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · spi block · block log · CA · CheckUser(log) · investigate · cuwiki) ( Clerk note: original case name)
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Account editing same pages as blocked user User:DantheWikipedian AntientNestor (talk) 12:40, 28 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

•  Clerk assistance requested: - Please move to DantheWikipedian. Bbb23 (talk) 13:04, 28 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]
• AgnewStewart (talk⁺ · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · spi block · block log · CA · CheckUser(log) · investigate · cuwiki) for the record. --Jack Frost (talk) 13:32, 28 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]
•  Case moved, as requested.  Sounds like a duck quacking into a megaphone to me - 1 v 2.  Awaiting administrative action - Please block Danthewiki indefinitely for socking. --Jack Frost (talk) 13:32, 28 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]
• The following are  Confirmed to one another:
  • DantheWikipedian (talk⁺ · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · spi block · block log · CA · CheckUser(log) · investigate · cuwiki)
  • Danywilki (talk⁺ · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · spi block · block log · CA · CheckUser(log) · investigate · cuwiki)
  • Danywilk (talk⁺ · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · spi block · block log · CA · CheckUser(log) · investigate · cuwiki)
  • Danthewiki (talk⁺ · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · spi block · block log · CA · CheckUser(log) · investigate · cuwiki)
• For what it's worth, AgnesStewart is only perhaps  Possilikely (a mix between possible and likely) - they edited on a range that DantheWikipedian has used occasionally. The others are all slam dunks. Girth Summit _(blether) 15:08, 28 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]
• AgnewStewart tagged as suspected. --Jack Frost (talk) 23:04, 28 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

08 September 2023

Suspected sockpuppets

• DavidDunnymede (talk⁺ · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · spi block · block log · CA · CheckUser(log) · investigate · cuwiki)
• 212.104.231.71 (talk⁺ · tag · contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RBLs · proxy check · block user · spi block · block log · cross-wiki contribs · CheckUser (log))
• 212.104.231.228 (talk⁺ · tag · contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RBLs · proxy check · block user · spi block · block log · cross-wiki contribs · CheckUser (log))
• 43.250.241.199 (talk⁺ · tag · contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RBLs · proxy check · block user · spi block · block log · cross-wiki contribs · CheckUser (log))
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Similar edits to DantheWikipedian, adding copyrighted text to Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool (source, edit). Preemptively started a thread on the article's talk page (Talk:Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool#On this Article) instructing other editors not to remove content that they added; DantheWikipedian had a similar combative discussion style (no need to cite diffs, their talk page is filled with examples). Admitted in a now-archived Teahouse thread that they were frustrated that DantheWikipedian's edits had been reverted. Including IPs with similar edits for posterity. — SamX [talk · contribs] 16:30, 8 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

• DavidDunnymede is  Confirmed,  Blocked and tagged, no TPA in keeping with the other accounts.  No sleepers immediately visible,  No comment with respect to IP address(es). --Blablubbs (talk) 16:23, 9 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]
• Account is now blocked, and I blocked 212.104.231.0/24 (talk⁺ · tag · contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RBLs · proxy check · block user · spi block · block log · cross-wiki contribs · CheckUser (log)) for a month as well. The page has been semi-protected, which should prevent further block evasion from IPs. Closing. Thanks, Spicy (talk) 22:53, 9 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

19 December 2023

Suspected sockpuppets

• Danjwilkie (talk⁺ · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · spi block · block log · CA · CheckUser(log) · investigate · cuwiki)
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Has added uncited copyvio to Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool from the same website that DantheWikipedian and his socks used (cf. Special:DeletedContributions/DantheWikipedian and Special:DeletedContributions/DavidDunnymede). Username is very similar to at least two confirmed socks. Interaction analyzer (DantheWikipedian, DavidDunnymede) appears to indicate a connection. — SamX [talk · contribs] 18:30, 19 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@Spicy: Thanks. Part of the reason why I request CU was to check for sleepers as Girth Summit apparently found some back in August, but I'll obviously defer to your judgement. I suppose I should've mentioned that in the request. — SamX [talk · contribs] 23:18, 19 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Quite a bit of quacking emanating from 112.134.165.178 (talk⁺ · tag · contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RBLs · proxy check · block user · spi block · block log · cross-wiki contribs · CheckUser (log)) and other IPs on that range. — SamX [talk · contribs] 23:24, 19 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Sounds good, thanks. I've started a sort of mini-CCI in my sandbox with some other IPs that have made similar edits, although most of them have been quiet for long enough that there's probably no action needed with them for the time being. — SamX [talk · contribs] 23:51, 19 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

•  Check declined by a checkuser - previous accounts are probably  Stale and this seems clear enough based on behaviour.  Blocked and tagged, closing. Thanks, Spicy (talk) 23:10, 19 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]
• SamX, that's reasonable, but I thought it was unlikely that there would be other socks because this editor isn't exactly subtle and I didn't see any obvious candidates in the history of their favourite articles. However, after your comment, I noticed Wikicommodore (talk⁺ · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · spi block · block log · CA · CheckUser(log) · investigate · cuwiki) making similar edits on Robert Walpole, so I ran a check. That account is  Confirmed to Danjwilkie as well as to JackBarnham and AlexGrump, making them confirmed to the master by extension. I didn't see any other sleepers although I didn't check as exhaustively as I could have given the aforementioned obviousness and the nature of the technical data. I will block and tag Wikicommodore.  No comment with respect to IP address(es) and I'll leave this open for a clerk or admin to evaluate the claims of IP socking. Spicy (talk) 23:46, 19 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]
• /24 range blocked for a month. Closing. Vanjagenije (talk) 00:37, 20 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

20 December 2023

Suspected sockpuppets

• 112.134.162.201 (talk⁺ · tag · contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RBLs · proxy check · block user · spi block · block log · cross-wiki contribs · CheckUser (log))
• 212.104.231.126 (talk⁺ · tag · contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RBLs · proxy check · block user · spi block · block log · cross-wiki contribs · CheckUser (log))
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• 112.134.162.201 (talk · contribs · WHOIS) has done edits similar to those of DantheWikipedian and other users mentioned here, with similar edit summaries. E.g.: diff 1, diff 2
• 212.104.231.126 (talk · contribs · WHOIS) has done edits similar to those of DantheWikipedian and other users mentioned here, with similar edit summaries. E.g.: diff 1, diff 2

In addition to the similar edits and edit summaries, one give-away are the curly quotes that are a consistent presence. HandsomeFella (talk) 19:00, 20 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

• Not going to act on month-old IPs. Izno (talk) 05:32, 21 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]