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[edit] Unprovoked

We need this sock drawer emptied, the IPs blocked, and you may find a few TOR nodes in the process. Jehochman Talk 13:53, 2 April 2008 (UTC)

  • Note: Already done, see Wikipedia:Requests for checkuser/Case/NotThatJamesBrown, although I can also check for more recent activity. Thatcher 13:57, 2 April 2008 (UTC)
    • Arrg. I wish people would cross link with WP:SSP. I am going to block all of them. There is evidence of sock puppetry, and the use of open proxies by all these accounts is just one coincidence too many. Jehochman Talk 14:38, 2 April 2008 (UTC)
    • Please do check for recent activity. We need to clamp down on this activity so the user understands that block evasion is pointless. Jehochman Talk 14:44, 2 April 2008 (UTC)
      • All the recent edits are still from tor. Based on user agent and one appearance on the same proxy, Likely as any result involving tor is going to get. Thatcher 14:47, 2 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] NotThatJamesBrown

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Filed: 23:06, 26 March 2008 (UTC)

Added a sockpuppet case for this user for constant damage to the 'Electrical Sensitivity' article. The article has been given indefinate page protection for damage done to the article by the above-mentioned IP addresses. Sockpuppetry case here:[1]. There is a backlog on the sockpuppetry cases page so it's not being dealt with. Very clearly the same person editing the same articles in the same style, reverting the same content and using the same words. Previously banned for sockpuppetry under the name of 'Unprovoked'. Randomized (talk) 23:06, 26 March 2008 (UTC)

Inconclusive They're all using proxies. Thatcher 02:24, 27 March 2008 (UTC)


[edit] Unprovoked

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Filed: 23:31, 5 March 2008 (UTC)

Vandalism by Unprovoked here, claiming it he was removing vandalism but it wasn't vandalism.

On Feb 26, Admin User:Keilana deleted Martin Chapin's user page upon request. Admins can see at least two warnings. As the page is deleted, I will not link to them here. MC's very last edit was a complaint that he was wasting his time.

Someone tied Martin Chaplin and The Tutor together, but The Tutor removed it here Here you can see he is warned about unproductive editing and is accused of being MC by User:219.111.2.91. He is similary warned here. When warned on NPA vio he made here on a page on probation, he thinks it's funny. When I asked who he was , he said "WP knows". I asked him because he hit my talk page for help on Water memory, so I semi-prot'd the page, but then noticed he had unusual edits for a beginner. Here, IP User:88.191.25.27 says he's MC, which TT wipes out too. It's reinserted by IP User:195.141.76.131 and TT again wipes it out here. He's again warned on homeopathy probation here, this time by User:91.50.82.108. User:Fyslee explains to TT he needs to be constructive here. It appears to me the users I've listed have a history of being disruptive and evasive and it's getting worse. Here User:Baegis also says he's MC and advises him on proper behavior. Here User:Partyoffive talks to him about disruption. TT has wiped several things from his talk page, but it's all still in the history.

Blocked status: Unprovoked-not blocked, DrEightyEight (indef'd Feb 9), Martin Chaplin - not blocked, The Tutor-not blocked.

Interestingly, User:ScienceApologist stopped editing the day before The Tutor appeared and while the articles of interest overlap quite a bit, I highly doubt SA is TT as the editing behavior is not similar.

Prior related ANI thread: Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard/IncidentArchive366#A_touch_of_canvassing, especially this comment by User:Deskana "It's not unsupported at all. The checkuser tool gives information on the computers used to make edits. The fact that they edited from the same private residential IP to ask the same question within minutes of each other, on the same kind of machine... that's not suspicious to you? When that is their *only* overlap? You need to think like a sockpuppeteer to understand them. --Deskana (talk) 16:32, 11 February 2008 (UTC)"

...TT has been notified. — Rlevse • Talk • 00:10, 6 March 2008 (UTC)
NOTE: The ANI thread was about User:RDOlivaw, User:Unprovoked and User:DrEightyEight‎. User:RDOlivaw's talk page pretty much tells the story. — Rlevse • Talk • 01:14, 6 March 2008 (UTC)
  • Unprovoked (talk • contribs • logs • block user • block log • checkuser) made a few edits in December on an IP that belonged to DrEightyEight on 28 January 2008 when he registered. (Did he have the same IP in December? Who can say.) All of Unprovoked's remaining edits were made from Tor proxies.
Likely - DrEightyEight and RDOlivaw - Alison ❤ 05:35, 6 March 2008 (UTC)
  • Indeed, this has previously been discussed on RDOlivaw's talk page, and both Deskana and I have concluded that DrEightyEight and RDOlivaw are the same user. Thatcher 12:27, 6 March 2008 (UTC)

I looked at RDOlivaw and DrEightyEight on February 8, following a arb-l request from Deskana that day for another checkuser to double check his findings. In doing so I added Unprovoked to the list. Based on this check, I rated RDOlivaw, DrEightyEight and Unprovoked as being Confirmed on arb-l. There was more than borderline evidence. FT2 (Talk | email) 12:58, 6 March 2008 (UTC)

Note: Under the circumstances I have redacted some of the content on this page and deleted the revisions containing the redacted content. This remains as a record of a check that was previously performed on RDOlivaw and DrEightyEight which was previously discussed elsewhere; no comment on Martin Chaplin or The Tutor. Thatcher 16:24, 7 March 2008 (UTC)

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