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[edit] Epass

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Filed: 19:10, 13 April 2008 (UTC)
  • Supporting evidence: Weapons of Resident Evil 4 was quick failed under the claim that it contains a host of clean up tags and templates; however, the article contains no such tags or templates (there's a merge discussion linked to at the top, which goes to a discussion in which some of the participants had even talked about making the article a good article candidate instead of merging). Now the article has a history of IP disruption ever since it was kept following an AfD and something seems fishy with these IPs and the sudden inaccurate rationale for delisting it as a Good Article. I am not sure what to make of this one, but please check this IP's edits: [1]. It looks a lot like a registered user who is disgurntled over the Weapons of Resident Evil 4 article being kept and is now editing with an IP instead. The other edits from the IP being on such articles as List of D.Gray-man episodes and List of characters in Ben 10 make me think it is one of the ArbCom parties, maybe one of those who participated in the AfD: [2]. Anyway, the IP just tagged two other IPs as well, which have also edited character related articles or made anti-game guide edits: [3] and [4]. From the above two IPs, see for example, [5] and [6]. Undeniably the same editor has used these three IPs and the specific game list and character article material targetted is consistent with either some of the involved ArbCom party related editing, and the style of writing and specific interest in the Weapons of Resident Evil 4 article strike me as someone who participated in the AfD and is disappointed in the result. The fact that those three IPs I listed had edits that focused on episode, character, and what they perceive as "game guide" material seem consistent with either certain registered editors who typically go after episode, character, or "game list" articles with a degree of intensity as well. Considering the tremendous gap in the main IPs edit history to all of a sudden focus on this one particular article in various talk page discussions does not strike me as a non-regular user. Were I to draw a connection between the IPs, consider, for example these diffs:
IP: [7]
Other IP: [8]

Both the IPs have an issue with certain kinds of content they consider "game guide" and indicate as much in edit summaries and on the Video Games Wikiproject. In any event, notice that the block log of this IP: [9]. You'll see that the first IP has made an edit to that IP: [10]. Even if the similarities of the IPs are coincidences, then it looks like that editor may be IP hopping to evade a three month block. Also, look at a similar IP in that range with a block through next month: [11] and also [12]. Compare with this IP: [13]. Both similar IPs edited The Evil Spartan's user talk page around the same time. Finally, another IP in the same range has been blocked indefinitely for proxy and socking: [14]. The registered editor who expressed the most determined animosity against the article was TTN. After giving up on an active AfD when the discussion did not seem to be going his way, TTN first attempted to unilaterally remove material from the article under discussion while others were still working to improve the article to justify its place on Wikipedia (and some who had earlier voted to delete and then merge and now switched to keep even suggested it could be potentially a GA) and when that effort was reverted instead tried to canvass outside of the AfD. Something of a disruptive nature seems to be going on from whoever is editing from these IPs and given the problems that occured during the AfD, I am now concerned that the same user may have been the one who delisted it as a good article under a false claim of the article having tags, which it does not have.

Thank you for your time and consideration! Sincerely, Le Grand Roi des CitrouillesTally-ho! 19:10, 13 April 2008 (UTC)

  • Unrelated to the named users. There are a lot of users on those and similar IPs as they are proxy servers for a major ISP. I didn't recognize any of the names, though. Thatcher 23:45, 15 April 2008 (UTC)


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