Wikipedia:Requests for checkuser/Case/Bar-Ilan vandals

[edit] Bar-Ilan vandals

This is complicated, so please bear with me. There might be up to three different vandals involved, so I'll describe them by their different MOs:

Bar-Ilan "block me" vandal

MO: Blanking pages and asking to be blocked, or for Bar-Ilan University to be blocked. This is classic for 132.70.50.117 (talk • contribs • WHOIS • RDNS • RBLs • block user • block log), but has also been done by User:dittoboy who was impersonating another user at the time. I'd like to request a checkuser for User:dittoboy to establish if he is also from Bar-Ilan university.

Inconclusive. Dittoboy cannot be checked, because his contributions are too old. Essjay (Talk • Connect) 11:12, 25 May 2006 (UTC)

Bar-Ilan impersonator

It has been established that six accounts impersonating user:AlexKarpman all issued from Bar-Ilan (See: Wikipedia:Requests for CheckUser#Impersonator). It has separately been established on the Hebrew wikipedia that about two-dozen accounts impersonating Alex Karpman and other users of the Hebrew Wikipedia all issued from the same IP, also a Bar-Ilan IP (See: w:he:ויקיפדיה:בודק/בקשות לבדיקה#בקשה_לזיהוי_מתחזה). I request a checkuser for the Alex Karpman impersonator(s) in order to establish whether this is the same individual as the "Block me" vandal.

Confirmed. The AlexKarpman imposter is 132.70.50.117. Essjay (Talk • Connect) 11:12, 25 May 2006 (UTC)

Creative vandal from Bar-Ilan

This is a well known vandal on the Hebrew Wikipedia, who operates by setting up new accounts named for his next planned act of petty vandalism. Similar acts of vandalism have occurred here on the English Wikipedia, and investigators on the Hebrew Wikipedia believe that the same individual may be responsible. I would like to request checkusers for the following accounts in order to establish whether they are A. from Bar-Ilan University, B. the same as the "block me" guy and/or Bar-Ilan impersonator:

• User:Yonidebest page reverter (talk · contribs · logs · block user · block log)
• User:False data restorer (talk · contribs · logs · block user · block log)
• User:Graph Theory page blanker (talk · contribs · logs · block user · block log)

For the record, I entered this after being approached on WP:he by users requesting my assistance on WP:en tracking a known WP:he vandal. For more background details, see user:woggly/Bar-Ilan_vandal

Inconclusive. The edits are all too old to be checked. Essjay (Talk • Connect) 11:12, 25 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Impersonator

I'd ask to check the IP of the impersonator who opened six useres with names similar to my own using unicode chars (cyrillic letters). He "reverted" several pages I edited writing "reverting my own edit (and no one will say it isn't mine)" int the edit summary.

He copied my user page and talk page, and made the original ones redirects to his pages.

On the Hebrew wikipedia he opened 23 accounts impersonating me and a sysop, w:he:משתמש:Harel. a complaint from the Hebrew wikipedia is has been sent to the university of which the impersonator operated. I'm asking to check the IP of the following usernames to compare it to the ones from the Hebrew Wikipedia.

His activity is monitored at w:he:משתמש:AlexKarpman/מתחזים, and the IP check on the Hebrew wikipedia could be found at w:he:ויקיפדיה:בודק/בקשות לבדיקה#בקשה לזיהוי מתחזה.

The usernames are:

• User:АIехКаrрmаn
• User:АIехKаrрmаn
• User:АIехKаrрman
• User:АlехKаrрman
• User:АIеxKаrрman
• User:АIеxKаrpman

(Yes, those are six different usernames, using all kind of variations of latin and cyrillic letters, and captial i's instaed of L) conio.h • talk 12:20, 24 May 2006 (UTC)

IP Check on the Hebrew wikipedia showed that it is possibly the notorius Bar-Ilan University Vandalist. During the past five months he opened at least 76 accounts on all the hebrew wiki projects (most of them on wikipedia), with which he vandalised hunders of articles. (deailed information here: w:he:ויקיפדיה:התמודדות עם טרולים/המשחית היצירתי). The IP check here will help establish him being an insane-inter-lingual-wiki-vandalist. A complaint has been made to the university, but this will help. conio.h • talk 13:21, 24 May 2006 (UTC)

Confirmed Is coming from the Bar-Ilan university network; unfortunately, there is a legitimate contributor coming from the same area that would be caught up in an IP block. Essjay (Talk • Connect) 21:42, 24 May 2006 (UTC)