Wikipedia talk:Requests for checkuser/Case/StealBoy

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PS: Based on Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The Clinger Winker, I'm adding a few IP's in the same range as the above which were used to support the edits of the sockpuppets. Pascal.Tesson 13:09, 26 June 2007 (UTC)

  • Comment: this user's behavior bears a strong resemblance to this long-term abuse case. Cheers, Skinwalker 17:29, 26 June 2007 (UTC)
Nice catch. This is clearly the same pattern: creating articles about non-existent children's books, children's films, TV series, etc and always doing so by copying and slightly modifying the source of a legitimate article that already exists. I still hope the checkuser will help in identifying new socks or confirming current ones. The latest to be identified seems to be Iabci (talk ยท contribs). Can't wait 'til this guy gets a better hobby. Pascal.Tesson 04:27, 27 June 2007 (UTC)
Adding User:Raseboy. See The Polka Dot World. Travisl 23:19, 28 June 2007 (UTC)
  • Comment I've now added another half dozen or so sock accounts and suspicious IPs. I've also found that the history of Woodland Animations strongly suggests that StealBoy is indeed Lyle123 and so this is part of a very long term and very serious vandalism problem. Hopefully the checkuser can help us figure things out to hardblock problematic IPs if that's an option. Pascal.Tesson 01:29, 29 June 2007 (UTC)
one more comment to the checkuser people: I do understand that a number of the above accounts have gone stale. I'm listing them mostly to illustrate the importance of the problem. Pascal.Tesson 04:57, 29 June 2007 (UTC)
If it is any help, a few weeks ago, I checked all the IP addresses in the range 220.233.176.001 to 220.233.176.255 (which seem to emanate from Sydney, Australia, and all those that had been used on wikipedia showed evidence of the same pattern of sometimes very convoluted and subtle edits as you have identified here. Is it possible to flag all the addresses in that range? and is it possible to block a named editor if using a machine with one of the blocked IPs? Regards Lynbarn 22:49, 29 June 2007 (UTC)
Well it would be helpful for a start to know what IP adresses in those ranges have Wikipedia contributions because it's pretty easy from their contributions to find the sockpuppet accounts and the hoax articles they've created. By the way, note to checkusers, I have stopped adding sock accounts to this request because I figure it gets pretty pointless but there's an apparently infinite list of them. Pascal.Tesson 22:56, 29 June 2007 (UTC)

I added in another based off of [1], which was basically a copy and paste of Sesame Street when it was AfD'ed. In addition, I added User:Lyle123 to the list. Kwsn(Ni!) 18:51, 30 June 2007 (UTC)