Wikipedia:Suspected sock puppets/71.156.47.81

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[edit] User:71.156.47.81

Suspected sockpuppeteer

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

Suspected sockpuppets

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Report submission by

Wisdom89 21:37, 23 October 2007 (UTC) mirageinred 22:35, 23 October 2007 (UTC)

Evidence

• Edit histories reflect the same POV pushing on identical articles Wisdom89 23:59, 23 October 2007 (UTC)
• 75.2.216.91's contributions are exactly the same as User:75.1.250.153 mirageinred 22:35, 23 October 2007 (UTC)
• User:75.3.229.90 appears to have the same agenda, avoiding discussion and ignoring core policy. Wisdom89 02:43, 24 October 2007 (UTC)

Administrative action

• 21:23, October 18, 2007: 75.2.216.91 is blocked for 24 hours by Moonriddengirl (talk · contribs) for 3RR violation.[1]
• 22:36, October 18, 2007: 71.156.47.81 is blocked for 24 hours by Yamla (talk · contribs) for vandalism.[2]
• 02:47, October 19, 2007: 75.3.227.21 is blocked for 31 hours by Josiah Rowe (talk · contribs) for 3RR violation.[3]
• 05:22, October 24, 2007: 75.1.244.104 is blocked for 72 hours by Josiah Rowe (talk · contribs) for sockpuppetry, personal attacks, POV-pushing and 3RR violations.[4]

Comments

• I assume it's okay to add more than one sockpuppet. I added User:75.2.216.91, for the same reason.
• A new contender has emerged User:75.3.229.90 Wisdom89 02:41, 24 October 2007 (UTC)
• And I've added two three more IPs he used earlier. —Josiah Rowe (talk • contribs) 04:49, 24 October 2007 (UTC)
• I've added another one, User:71.156.35.190 — this one hasn't edited the House and ER articles, but has edited one of the other IP pages to change the sockpuppet tag so that it pointed to me and Wisdom89 (talk · contribs) instead of to him. Pretty transparent. —Josiah Rowe (talk • contribs) 05:33, 24 October 2007 (UTC)

For further evidence, please see the results of the UserCompare tool. β^_command 14:26, 24 October 2007 (UTC)

Conclusions

Yes, some of these do appear to be the same user. The problem is that they are all IPs and all start with 71.... or 75..., plus several haven't been used on wiki in a week, all of which likely means the use has an ISP using dynamic IP addressing and if we block them all for a long period, there will be a lot of collateral damage to innocent users. Several have already been blocked for various reasons. I will block ...190, who just vandalized a sock tag, for 48 hours. Sorry there's not much more I can do here. — Rlevse • Talk • 00:09, 27 October 2007 (UTC)