Wikipedia:Suspected sock puppets/203.218.218.109

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[edit] User:203.218.218.109

Suspected sockpuppeteer

203.218.218.109 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log)

Suspected sockpuppets

Instantnood (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log · rfcu)

Report submission by

SchmuckyTheCat (talk) 17:33, 7 February 2008 (UTC)

Evidence

Returns to articles only edited by Instantnood.

Wikistalks User:Huaiwei and User:SchmuckyTheCat

Fixation on edits splitting Hong Kong/Macau from "mainland China"

For further evidence, please see the results of the UserCompare tool.

Diff

The entire contrib history of the IP is pretty obvious. This diff is definitive.

• [1] & [2] Socks have been pretty intent on restoring this redirect for a long time.

Comments

• I note that this user has made edits to articles I recently edited in, including List of countries by foreign exchange reserves, List of airlines of the People's Republic of China‎, Tiger Airways destinations, List of merchant marine capacity by country‎, Singapore Changi Airport‎, Singapore Changi Airport‎ etc.--Huaiwei (talk) 17:47, 7 February 2008 (UTC)
• Please could the submitter include some diffs into the report please. Thank you. Rudget. 17:49, 7 February 2008 (UTC)
  • I believe he has failed to that because that will entail practically citing everything in [3].--Huaiwei (talk) 18:00, 7 February 2008 (UTC)
    • Not at all. A further reasoned explanation and diffs can make the job at SSP much easier. Rudget. 18:44, 7 February 2008 (UTC)
• I added some evidence. Lara❤Love 20:02, 7 February 2008 (UTC)

• I do admit the editing patterns are extremely similar, and the wiki-stalking is evident in such cases as shown here. The edits s/he is conducting are based on the same mindset that Instantnood had. The edit comparisons link that LaraLove provided is also helpful in showing that the edits that the IP is doing are somewhat recognisable to those of Instantnood, and the pages they edit are similar too. As an IP can't be blocked indefinitely, I'll leave another administrator who has more experience with blocking IPs in SSP cases close this submission per this rationale. Regards, Rudget. 21:18, 7 February 2008 (UTC)

Judging by previous IPs used by Instantnood ([4]) he seems to keep them for a week or two. I don't really care about whether it's blocked, as long it is readily apparent why the IP contributions are readily reverted. Also, I'm going to file an RFCU on the IP and one or two usernames. SchmuckyTheCat (talk)

Conclusions

Per the reasons provided above, IP is blocked for 9 days. Rudget. 16:53, 8 February 2008 (UTC)