Self-admitted and behaviorally similar. Jasper Deng (talk) 20:57, 3 September 2019 (UTC)
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Blocked, tagged, closing.-- Bbb23 ( talk) 21:54, 3 September 2019 (UTC)
See below. TonyBallioni ( talk) 13:09, 26 December 2020 (UTC)
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HurricaneTracker and HurricanEdgar had both edited weather related articles, both have similar names, and Edgar has decided to edit Trackers talkpage [1] [2] [3]. Obvious sock is obvious. Thanks. – Davey2010 Talk 11:45, 28 December 2020 (UTC)
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User:Andrew5 sockpuppets used this IP to sock and for meatpuppetry ~ Destroyer 🌀 🌀 18:26, 28 December 2020 (UTC)
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I added more IPs that have been recently abused, within the past month. As well as a range with a history of CU blocks. They are all behaviorally identical, per WP:DUCK. We don't need a CheckUser to publicly link the IPs to the sockmaster, given the obvious behavioral connections. However, given Andrew's history of deception and socking, I would like to request a CU to run a sleeper check on all of the IPs for any new accounts. And any IPs that have been abused by this LTA within the past month should probably be (re)blocked as well. LightandDark2000 🌀 ( talk) 21:15, 28 December 2020 (UTC)
I’ll tell you what really happened. My friend, gale5050/Andrew5, told me to do some vandalism on Wikipedia, which I did here. Then they slowly began to get me more into Wikipedia at school which I evantually did, some of my edits were meatpuppety edits but I am a meatpuppet only. I am however, block evading as 2600:387:5:800::/60.
I shouldn’t, but admittedly, we’re both a little hotheaded, meaning we don’t always think before we act. Besides, gale5050 was a very close friend, and in March I was thinking “hey, let’s deface a users talk page!”. I don’t think that way anymore, I’ve matured since, but there is a lot I didn’t know. For example, while I knew they abused wiki data, I was not aware of this blatant harassment. Still, I will agree they have influenced me to (1) make poor decisions and (2) to make me vandalize articles a few times.
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Looks like a duck to me Obvious block evasion by the LTA Andrew5. The behavior and areas of interest of these IP socks are identical to those of other IP socks that were blocked earlier this month, such as 69.118.232.58 and 108.170.65.170. This person is editing on the same articles/talk pages as earlier IP socks, as well as similar ones. The articles targeted are all weather articles, especially severe weather/non-tropical storm articles, which he has been very active on in recent months. The similarities include: large-scale intra-wiki copying [6] [7] [8] [9], spamming (often frivolous) renaming requests [10] [11] [12], numerous AfD requests or commenting at said pages (including activity at Wikipedia talk:Articles for deletion) [13] [14] [15] [16] [17], commenting on discussions where other IP socks had previously commented [18], and his condescending, brittle attitude towards other users [19] [20], and similar rationales in RfC votes (compared to earlier socks) [21] [22] [23]. The IP socks merger/deletion rationales are often very similar to the arguments his IP socks made back in late 2020, during the mass merger debacle on the Weather Projects in late 2020, which was one of the main reasons the project implemented a 3-month merger moratorium. Some of the IP talk page activity also resembles that of PlanetsForLife, one of his most recent sock accounts, as seen here [24] [25]. Almost every one of the listed IPs were recently active, especially the last 2, so I strongly recommend blocking each of them. The IPs with more extensive editing activity should receive a longer block. While the last 3 IPs geolocate to Washington State, instead of New York State (Andrew5's known state of residence), I believe that this is due to him utilizing either a VPN or Proxy service, or being on vacation. The behavior from each of these IPs are similar enough to each other and other recently-blocked socks that they're all probably this LTA. I'm also requesting a sleeper check on the IPs, in case he has made new sock accounts for more Extended Confirmed gaming (which he has done before). LightandDark2000 🌀 ( talk) 20:23, 23 February 2022 (UTC)
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My initial reason I did the socking was because I didn’t know socking was banned until February 2020. When I created Andrew5 and Guttmana9 I thought it was ok to do one on phone and one on computer but I was wrong. (My first edits to Wikipedia were on 47.16.99.72 in April 2018, this was a year after that but that IP was since relocated and hasn’t been used since the global block expired in November 2020.) and because I got no block notice, I didn’t know how to appeal it, hence me using UTRS. I still didn’t know with ImtheOneKhaled and didn’t get to the SPI in time, so even in September I didn’t know. Now, I know I have to justify my socking since then, I just thought I could try to make the encyclopedia better. From interstate articles, shifting over to weather during September (I got interested mainly because of Hurricane Laura), and because my IP shifted due to Hurricane Isaias knocking out the power, I had a chance. I wanted to do everything my I could to not get caught, but I clearly failed at it. And all these socks that aren’t even mine just mean I have to wait even longer to get unblocked. PFL likely ruined my standard offer attempt that I made. When i used 69.116.96.17, and all the edits got reverted I thought they found out, but I should’ve stopped when the initial block of 98.116.15.128 (or whatever) was placed. But I chose not to, and now I have to live with the consequences. Because the other school IP was blocked, this means no one at school could edit Wikipedia. Also, some other accounts and IPs I remember using now were 24.189.217.187, Blizzard45678, 67.82.182.94 and 70.23.39.2. I am listing IPs that are stale because I will need to do so anyway when I take on the standard offer, so I am doing it know to get the admission out of the way. 209.201.121.4 ( talk) 13:27, 24 February 2022 (UTC)
I will never be editing from this IP again due to me leaving Seattle. Good bye. 209.201.121.4 ( talk) 13:53, 24 February 2022 (UTC)
I am not an expert in storm socks, but the above users appear to be all the same as each other, and I've seen some intersection with socks of Andrew5, so I figured this was the best place to file this. Similarities: (1) usernames, (2) recent accounts, (3) no special tags for editors or platforms, and (4) they don't act like new accounts, i.e., knowing templates and hats I'd never even heard of (broader instead of main). Bbb23 ( talk) 20:30, 12 August 2022 (UTC)
Started editing today and one of their first edits was on Talk:Tornado outbreak of December 10–11, 2021 to propose a split, which was previously proposed by a blocked sock (47.16.96.33) last month, with the exact same reasoning. They also have only edited weather-related articles, which the previous sock did as well. Confusing chain of sock references that go through like 4 different accounts, so I put Andrew5 as well, but I am unsure if that is the main/first sock account of this editor. Direct correlation to 47.16, which was confirmed as a sock. Elijahandskip ( talk) 17:15, 24 October 2022 (UTC)
69.118.235.133 & 71.183.166.47 both edited a split proposal on Talk:Tornado outbreak of December 10–11, 2021 as their 20th edit and 1st edit on Wikipedia, respectively. The split proposal has been proposed twice by the same sock master (Under User:47.16.96.33 and User:173.68.1.128) and all four accounts (two blocked and two new suspected) have an interest in weather.
170.24.150.2 gave weird vibes to myself and United States Man (Extra off-SPI discussion here) as they started editing weather-articles 4 days ago (October 27th) and suspiciously, the last blocked account of the sockmaster was 173.68.1.128, which was blocked the day after this account started editing (but three days before the blocked account (173.68.1.128) messaged in the SPI after being suspected/accused of it.) Suspecting all three are potentially the same editor as none of them have edited on the same day and all have an interest in weather articles and they all never edited the same day as the previous blocked sock (173.68.1.128). Elijahandskip ( talk) 03:58, 1 November 2022 (UTC)
There have been quite a few cases of an apparent IP-hopping editor on tornado-related articles and their talk pages. It has been going on for a while. One aspect of these IPs that first jumps out is their behavior indicates knowledge of the workings of Wikipedia beyond what would be expected of a new editor. Other traits, that have led me to, at times, suspect these IPs are Andrew5 are often confrontational attitudes, and frequent allusions to Wikipedia policy and guideline pages. 47.21.202.18 ( talk · contribs · WHOIS) seems to have been the most frequent ones that come up. I know this is old evidence, but in once such instance 47.21.202.18 added a section to Tornado outbreak of March 5–7, 2022. After that was reverted 69.116.96.17 ( talk · contribs · WHOIS) then readded the section with accusations of WP:STATUSQUOSTONEWALLING and brought the matter to ArbCom. While this would normally be considered stale, I'll note that both IPs have continued to edit many of the same weather-related articles. This is mainly to establish the continuing trend of IP-hopping. More IPs may need to be added in the near future. Honestly, this sort of pattern of an IP-hopping editor, up to and including recent comments at Talk:Tornado outbreak of December 10–11, 2021. This user has basically admitted to IP-hopping in the past, as at Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Andrew5/Archive#23 February 2022. TornadoLGS ( talk) 04:51, 1 November 2022 (UTC)
I'm confident all the IPs mentioned are Andrew5. Due to differing stability:
Closing. DatGuy Talk Contribs 07:28, 1 November 2022 (UTC)
170.24.150.113 has confirmed via Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/2012 Henryville tornado that it is a school IP address on Long Island, while WHOIS confirms the other IPs are all from the same place on Long Island or Virginia (locations of previously blocked IPs). Each new IP address tries to act like a different person, trying to make it seem like a coincidence that multiple anon users all pop up in the same place at once with the same agenda, same general in-depth knowledge of Wikipedia, and same general attitude. Several other IP addresses were just blocked a couple days ago for the same odd behavior at the same weather articles. Elijahandskip and TornadoLGS have both had encounters with this situation and may care to comment here.
The previously blocked IPs are 170.24.150.2 ( talk · contribs · WHOIS), 71.183.166.47 ( talk · contribs · WHOIS), 69.118.235.133 ( talk · contribs · WHOIS), 47.21.202.18 ( talk · contribs · WHOIS), and 69.116.96.17 ( talk · contribs · WHOIS). It is suspected that all of these accounts are the same person, despite trying to act like different people, given very similar behavior in the same place at the same time. United States Man ( talk) 23:06, 2 November 2022 (UTC)
I'll note that most of the listed IPs have shown an interest in the newly created article 2012 Henryville tornado and, despite claims to the contrary, it seems unlikely that a bunch of people would suddenly start editing Wikipedia for the first time upon hearing about a newly created article about an event that happened ten years ago. TornadoLGS ( talk) 01:03, 3 November 2022 (UTC)
170.24.150.113 is a confirmed sock of Andrew5 that is continuing to be allowed to edit freely on Wikipedia, thus making a complete mockery of this entire process. @ TornadoLGS and Elijahandskip: can testify to this as well. United States Man ( talk) 19:06, 30 November 2022 (UTC)
Previously blocked socks of Andrew5 that are continuing to be allowed to edit freely on Wikipedia, thus skirting around the sockpuppet process. I suspect there are more IPs around in which the user edits the same types of articles and displays the same editing characteristics and abrasive behavior toward others. WP:DUCK applies in those cases. United States Man ( talk) 20:45, 4 December 2022 (UTC)
Three different IPs making the same edit with the same argument at Hurricane Isaias. The different IPs are an attempt to skirt the 3RR or to sway talk page discussions and has been done multiple times with previously blocked socks. These IPs routinely edit the same types of articles and generally perform the same types of edits. The fourth and fifth make similar edits as well. WP:DUCK applies here. The WHOIS addresses all point to the same town (and many cases, same address) on Long Island, or towns immediately adjacent. Most previously blocked IP socks of Andrew5 have this address (or town) in common. United States Man ( talk) 06:32, 13 December 2022 (UTC)
Given our issues of playing whack-a-mole with IPs, I suggest page protection on this case. TornadoLGS ( talk) 20:04, 13 December 2022 (UTC)
This group of IPs is continuing in the same pattern as previously observed by Andrew5 socks. This includes editing (including edit warring) across multiple IPs, a confrontational attitude when edits are reverted or criticized, and a focus on storm-related articles. The most recent activity has involved edit warring at
2010 New Year's Eve tornado outbreak (
[26]],
[27],
[28]) and
Hurricane Isaias tornado outbreak (
[29],
[30],
[31]). See also those page histories and IP talk pages. Other IPs were mentioned at the previous opening of this case. It seems saying "How dare you" has become a calling card of theirs.
In an
earlier report here, the closing admin
RoySmith opted for page protection since this person seems to change IPs faster than they can be blocked, but stated: If that proves ineffective, we can look at stronger measures.
I'm not sure what that would involve. This person has been on quite a few weather articles.
TornadoLGS (
talk)
22:14, 15 December 2022 (UTC)
[32] [33] [34] 3 complete almost duplicate comments on a weather-related article. When asked to start a discussion about it, instantly went and started a noticeboard, which has been the behavior of this sockmaster who likes to escalate issues. 69 started editing weather articles on January 6 then stopped until January 10, then stopped until January 17. None of the three accounts edited at the same time. Based on the behavior, talking about “core policies” and such (similar to the Aon/NOAA debate which had multiple sock accounts from this sockmaster & bring it straight to ArbCom)… WP:DUCK applies here. Elijahandskip ( talk) 21:54, 17 January 2023 (UTC)
Adding to this report 69.127.228.206 ( talk · contribs · WHOIS) and 47.19.209.232 ( talk · contribs · WHOIS) have both engaged in a small revert war at Tornado outbreak of December 10–11, 2021, showing the same confrontational attitude and pattern of IP-hopping as is typical. Both of these IPs appear similar to ones previously used by Andrew5. Filing a report at an Andministrative noticeboard is also consistent with past behavior. Previous closing admins have mentioned page protection as a remedy. TornadoLGS ( talk) 22:53, 17 January 2023 (UTC)
“I didn’t even bring it up to the notice board for even me! I brought it up to the noticeboard because someone else noticed it!”is a direct admission of multiple users on the same account. The way I read that, you said a user was on that IP at 21:17 on January 17 on a talk page and a 100% different user was on the account at 21:30 on January 17 who created the IP & who just happened to continue the exact same discussion? To answer your other question, I wouldn’t have even thought about starting an SPI until I saw three unique IP accounts, following the same pattern that has been seen on multiple weather-related articles since July 2022. Admins have even confirmed multiple users (most pre-November 2022) as being the exact same person. If you are not connected to any of the other users, then you wouldn’t be blocked. That simple. But the editing pattern almost speaks for itself, unless it is an exceptional coincidence. Elijahandskip ( talk) 20:40, 18 January 2023 (UTC)
I may be jumping the gun, but this revert edit is similar to what I've seen in the past with AON/NOAA disputes, especially since different IPs doing the reverts seem to be the norm. Please look into this. Thanks. ChessEric ( talk · contribs) 22:07, 6 February 2023 (UTC)
The WHOIS location and edit history of this account match similar blocked accounts as well. United States Man ( talk) 22:20, 6 February 2023 (UTC)
1st IP appears to have been caught by United States Man, so I bought it here. This edit ( [38]) appears to have been a follow-up to this one ( [39]) as well and Andrew5 has been known to use multiple IP addresses for edit warring. The 2nd IP has been in the last two investigations and appears to start editing only after the investigations conclude. Please look into these. Thanks. ChessEric ( talk · contribs) 18:50, 23 February 2023 (UTC)
Evidence is required. When you open the investigation, you must immediately provide evidence that the suspected sock puppets are connected. The evidence will need to include diffs of edits that suggest the accounts are connected. (This requirement is waived if the edits in question are deleted; in this case just provide the names of the pages that the accounts have been editing.) You must provide this evidence in a clear way. Vaguely worded submissions will not be investigated. You need to actually show why your suspicion that the accounts are connected is reasonable. Concision is key. Evidence should be presented in a concise format. Because of the length of the backlog, cases with clear and concise explanations and evidence are handled the most quickly.ChessEric has provided very few diffs and just gave WHOIS evidence. However, (1) WHOIS isn’t always right, (2) this is a very densely populated area (Long Island) and comes from different organizations, and (3) we seem to only be served by a few towers. Also, ChessEric seems to be opening a WP:WITCHHUNT for paranoia reasons to get IPs out of WP:WEATHER. That isn’t allowed. 71.125.62.146 ( talk) 21:25, 3 March 2023 (UTC)
I know the previous case just closed, but I found another IP whose WHOIS popped up as a common Andrew5 location. He seems to be keen on putting records ( [40]) into articles and that's what tipped me off here. Additionally, this IP has previously said that they wanted me topic-banned from the weather project based on the canvassing issue that occurred on February 9, although my ban was for threats of violence, which I do regret. Regardless, the IP appears to be a repeat offender of Andrew5. Please look into this. Thanks. ChessEric ( talk · contribs) 23:10, 3 March 2023 (UTC)
IP addresses of Andrew5 have been repeatedly trying to make the WP:Weather a contentious topic, which leads up to this edit not too long ago. It was completely off-topic and unnecessary. I've been keeping my mouth shut about these, but I'm tired of seeing this so I want one of IPs nipped in the bud. Thank you. Chess Eric 22:21, 8 April 2023 (UTC)
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98.113.8.17, 69.118.237.29, and 47.19.209.230 matches the most recent editing pattern for 98.116.45.220, a recently suspected sock: Weather and baseball (looking at most recent 50 edits for all accounts show that). They all match the most recent blocked sock as well 71.125.32.0/19 with weather and baseball. While 47.19.209.230 and 69.118.237.29 have not edited recently, they all commented in a discussion. Confirmation of if they are or are not a sock is requested to know of the discussion was sock stacked or not since 3 of the 5 editors involved seemed to match the sock’s editing pattern. Possibly WP:DUCK. Elijahandskip ( talk) 16:11, 27 May 2023 (UTC)
71.125: WP:DUCK match in contribution history of weather-related edits and baseball edits (see contribution history for July 16 & 30, 2023). 98.166 was found after looking through the 2023 Chicago Cubs season article, which both accounts edited. July 23 and July 16 (right before the 71.125) contribution histories are WP:DUCK matches as well. Noting that 71.125.36.50 Was previously blocked on WHOIS evidence and then appealed saying, “Way too many of these Nassau County IPs have been blocked over the past 3 years. We just want some stability”, which is basically a SOCK confirmation. Can the IPs be perm blocked given multiple day usages and usages after the previous block as well? The Weather Event Writer ( Talk Page) 15:31, 30 July 2023 (UTC) The Weather Event Writer ( Talk Page) 15:31, 30 July 2023 (UTC)
See contribution history with a WP:DUCK match of weather and baseball edits on the same day. Also, they were previously blocked on this IP address (February 2023) and continued editing on it, so this may deserve a perm block for the IP. The Weather Event Writer ( Talk Page) 22:57, 11 August 2023 (UTC)
WP:DUCK, matching baseball and weather edits on the same day, seems like Andrew5. Baseball edit here, the weather edits are on this page's history. Tails Wx 02:46, 12 September 2023 (UTC)
WP:DUCK confirmation on October 12, 2023 (Baseball and weather (winter storm article) edits within 4 minutes. This sock account was used previously on June 14, 2023. Can we seriously just start perm blocking the IPs? This has been going on way too long, taking up the time of editors and administrators practically every month. The Weather Event Writer ( Talk Page) 18:57, 12 October 2023 (UTC)
Otis2023 made 3 edits (their only 3 edits on Wikipedia) on October 27 to Draft:Hurricane Calvin (2023) and Draft:Tropical Storm Sonca (2022). ThatBigSwiftie1989 made 2 edits (their first two edits) to the same draft articles. Edits on Hurricane Calvin’s draft are identical [41] [42]. Either SOCK inventions or accounts needing to be linked together in some fashion. Given the identical comments in an AfC, there may be some SOCK master before Otis2023, since they have knowledge of at least 2 draft articles as well as how to make AfC comments. Thought, this may be User:Andrew5 alts (unsure), since Andrew5 (sock master) likes to edit winter weather articles and ThatBigSwiftie1989 made their 3rd/4th edit on two winter articles within minutes of starting to edit. The last Andrew5 confirmed alt, User:108.54.87.90 edited winter storm articles as well, so a location-check is probably needed to verify if it is Andrew5. The Weather Event Writer ( Talk Page) 21:22, 29 October 2023 (UTC)
Their only edits today was to nominate Hurricane Calvin (2023) for deletion with the exact same reasoning as their other SOCK accounts gave to prevent it being accepted at AfC (which it was). WP:DUCK/suspected sock confirmation edits: Sock 1, Sock 2, Suspected Sock. The Weather Event Writer ( Talk Page) 15:33, 4 November 2023 (UTC)
User copied content from the talk page of a recently blocked IP address ( [43]) and edited weather/sports edits on the same day as that copied content (which was weather-related): sports/ weather 1 & weather 2. WP:DUCK reasoning seems strong and the blocked IP which had content from their talk page copied by this user admitted in a ban appeal less than 48 hours ago to editing on multiple IP addresses. Checkuser is requested strictly on WP:DUCK evidence. The Weather Event Writer ( Talk Page) 23:55, 21 November 2023 (UTC)
Typical WP:DUCK evidence in their edit history (Weather/baseball). They also basically confirmed they are a sock by reverting admin @ K6ka: on Talk:San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge, who reverted a now blocked SOCK (71.125.62.208), who was causing disruption and edit warring on the page. I'm assuming Andrew5 is the master given the weather/baseball history, but K6ka knowns the sock master as they blocked this sock earlier today. The Weather Event Writer ( Talk Page) 00:06, 26 November 2023 (UTC)
Check edit history. IP re-engaged in the exact same four edit warring discussions as the previous IP, including reverting the blocking admin who did a SOCK-disruption revert on Talk:San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge. Also a fun SOCK confirmation saying “stop bribing admins to block innocent IPs. This is a violation of WP:PAID”. The Weather Event Writer ( Talk Page) 17:22, 26 November 2023 (UTC)
After not editing for a month, their third edit was to re-revert something previous Andrew5 SOCKS were reverting. The previous user to revert this was 47.21.202.18, who was blocked for 2-years as Andrew5. Also, the user who reverted it prior to 47.21.202.18 was 47.23.6.178, who was also blocked as Andrew5. Unlike other times, this is all I have (not solid WP:DUCK evidence), which is why checkuser is requested to see if this is Andrew5, or a separate editor. The Weather Event Writer ( Talk Page) 15:53, 6 December 2023 (UTC)
WeatherWriter, CheckUsers will not, for privacy and policy reasons, publicly divulge a connection between a registered user and an IP. IP socking reports are made or broken on behavioral evidence. A clerk will likely be by soon to decline the CU request. I'm inclined not to block based off of the edits so far. I'll keep an eye on them; you should too. Firefangledfeathers ( talk / contribs) 16:07, 6 December 2023 (UTC)
First edit ever was to re-create Draft:Late October 2012 North American blizzard, which was deleted earlier today for being created by a Andrew5 sock. The Weather Event Writer ( Talk Page) 19:41, 11 December 2023 (UTC)
Most of these IPs have already been previously blocked as Andrew5 socks in the past, but they have edited since their block has expired with similar behavior to their socks, such as their interest with the Northeast United States, including Long Island, in their weather-related edits, editing their usual targets, such as Tornado outbreak of December 10-11, 2021 (removing size tag, previous socks have gotten into similar conflicts on page), and addition of snow/rainfall records on pages, which is common sock behavior for Andrew5. Some IPs haven't edited in multiple days, but since they usually edit on static IPs, they will still need to be blocked for a long period of time. A rangeblock may also be needed since they are likely on similar ranges. If there are any problems with this, please let me know. Thanks, ChrisWx 🌀 ( talk - contribs) 02:08, 12 December 2023 (UTC)
Blocked before as a sock of Andrew5 and immediately went to edit the draft of TS Bret where the socks from yesterday were editing. Noah, AA Talk 14:08, 13 December 2023 (UTC)
[44] Same behavior as User:47.21.192.218 that Bbb23 blocked earlier today. Noah, AA Talk 22:10, 13 December 2023 (UTC)
Only contribution is to reinstate edit from a blocked IP sock, similar attempt to justify his reversion to other socks, and dubiously accusing others of assuming bad faith. Also request a global block, user is known to engage in cross-wiki harassment. ChrisWx 🌀 ( talk - contribs) 21:43, 16 December 2023 (UTC)
Obvious duck: See this attack against me. Was previously blocked as Andrew5 a few days ago, so needs longer block and global block. ChrisWx 🌀 ( talk - contribs) 15:41, 17 December 2023 (UTC)
Duplicate edit on Tornado outbreak of December 10–11, 2021 ( [45]) to previous Andrew5 socks ( 69.118.238.21 & 47.23.40.14) The Weather Event Writer ( Talk Page) 18:50, 24 December 2023 (UTC)
Fairly new account with a similar editing pattern to Andrew5’s basic behavior: Wikipedia:Long-term abuse/Andrew5. A quick check can help verify if they are a true new unique account or Andrew5. The Weather Event Writer ( Talk Page) 03:04, 27 December 2023 (UTC)
Began their edits today reverting several edits by Yamla, who has just started rollbacks after blocking the previous confirmed Andrew5 sock CrossBayFan. They were previously blocked back on December 16, 2023. For sure WP:DUCK Andrew5 IP address. The Weather Event Writer ( Talk Page) 16:00, 28 December 2023 (UTC)
Every edit they made was to re-revert rollbacks from Andrew5 socks blocked yesterday by Yamla. Note, they are blocked for 1 week after making a death threat. This is a confirmed sock, block for 2+ years. The Weather Event Writer ( Talk Page) 16:35, 29 December 2023 (UTC)
Only edits as of this report is to attempt, once again, to roll-back edits from previous SOCKS. The Weather Event Writer ( Talk Page) 20:08, 29 December 2023 (UTC)
Editing sports-related articles and restoring sock edits where they were previously reverted. Also used edit summaries containing personal attacks, before engaging in page-move vandalism on an article where they were reverted, and attacking people who have been working against their sockpuppetry. Account is already blocked/g-locked, but I am requesting a CheckUser to see if there are any more sleepers waiting to gain autoconfirmed like this one. ChrisWx 🌀 ( talk - contribs) 19:25, 2 January 2024 (UTC)
A brand new account that started editing Draft:January 10-13, 2024 North American storm complex on January 19. On January 18, another new account ( JuneFan2939 was globally locked for being this sock master. 2nd edit ever from WinterStormFan was on the draft and first was on the parent winter storm article. SPI needed to check.
SEPARATE REPORT (NO SPI): Heavy WP:DUCK evidence on 152.179.91.86, who also edited the draft and parent winter storm. They stopped editing on January 15 and JuneFan2939 edited on January 16 on the draft. The IP created the draft and the only other 2 editors to it are JuneFan2939 and WinterStormFan. Can a 2nd administrator (Not checkuser) review the IP on DUCK evidence? The Weather Event Writer ( Talk Page) 23:38, 19 January 2024 (UTC)
There is a reason I knew about the draft : Talk:2023-24 North American winter. Also, while I am not JuneFan2939, I doubt that he is related to CreamFan12. CreamFan12 was a vandal who harassed multiple users on Meta Wiki, and does not even exist on enwiki. While JuneFan2939 does exist on meta, they made no edits there and instead made constructive contributions to enwiki. This just seems to be the case of two irrelevant users connecting through a shared IP address. WinterStormFan ( talk) 18:40, 20 January 2024 (UTC)
Looks like Andrew has become a Swiftie to avoid detection. A public IP in New York that has previously edited weather articles (similar to Andrew5's previous IP socks) started inexplicably editing The Eras Tour and arguing that a section is a content fork. Then SwiftFan2024 comes and makes the same argument that the IP made. Not requesting CU on the IP for obvious reasons. wizzito | say hello! 03:23, 3 February 2024 (UTC)
Suspicious new IP (208.253.89.50) that started editing winter weather articles today (just like previous Andrew5 accounts). One of their first edits was adding trivial fact about NPS closing stuff, similar to a previous sock edit. They also did a second trivial addition minutes later. That is making me suspect WP:DUCK. Not to mention that second trivial addition was on January 13–16, 2024 North American winter storm, which was (basically) Andrew5's article with JuneFan2939 and WinterStormFan (recently blocked Andrew5 socks) having about 40% authorship of the article. This account seems to match WP:LTA/Andrew5 to a T. Also, they basically "DUCK confirmed" to be a new IP when editing Talk:June 2021 North American storm complex#Merge, by responding to a merge discussion started by another IP (108.58.71.234) a couple of days ago which also coincidentally is a brand-new editor with only a few edits. DUCK senses tell me this is Andrew5. The Weather Event Writer ( Talk Page) 23:44, 17 February 2024 (UTC)
[46] [47] - First two edits were to rollback deleted SOCK edits actually on this SPI talk page. CU requested since this is an account and not an IP. The Weather Event Writer ( Talk Page) 23:27, 18 February 2024 (UTC)
Chastick293 is confirmed to June10393 ( talk + · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · spi block · block log · CA · CheckUser( log) · investigate · cuwiki) and some logged-out shenanigans (no comment on the IPs previously mentioned). The technical evidence stretches further still. It all looks very likely to be Andrew5. -- zzuuzz (talk) 00:04, 19 February 2024 (UTC)
Restored deleted content added by previous IP sock that was blocked. Account only has 1 edit and was created today. WP:DUCK me thinks? -- MarioProtIV ( talk/ contribs) 15:35, 23 February 2024 (UTC)
(69.123.50.215) There second edit today (1 minute after their first edit today) was to complete a merge, which Andrew5 was confirmed (via blocked-sock 208.253.89.50) to have participated in along with a possible 2nd DUCK account. Their edit summary commented about that talk page discussion, where only 2 actual users commented + 2 Andrew5 comments. 69.123.50.215 is also working on Draft:December 2023 nor'easter, which is a common theme for Andrew5 socks — Being aware of draft-space weather articles. Seems very DUCKY here, given Andrew5 having confirmed knowledge of that merge discussion and then an unregistered user actually merging that discussion after only 4 registered users (2 commenters, the admin closer, and myself) seemingly having knowledge of said merge discussion…Also the 2nd unregistered user was suspected by myself along with the admin to have maybe been Andrew5, who coincidentally opened that merge discussion. I.e. based on DUCK evidence: Andrew5 wanted to merge the article, commented in it, had others agree, and finally today actually merge that article via a new IP address based on a talk page discussion which had 49 views in the last month. The Weather Event Writer ( Talk Page) 17:27, 29 March 2024 (UTC) The Weather Event Writer ( Talk Page) 17:27, 29 March 2024 (UTC)
Their first edit since 2007 was to reinstate a SOCK reversion edit saying “The sock is right though”. DUCK block needed on Andrew5 sock here. The Weather Event Writer ( Talk Page) 13:47, 30 March 2024 (UTC)
Their first edit since January 5 was to yet again revert a SOCK reversion edit for that merge discussion. Easy DUCK account of Andrew5. The account also edit warred for it with Fantastic Mr. Fox. The account was also previously blocked for 1 month for ban evasion. Given previous block and edit warring behavior, requesting the 2-year block which previous Andrew5 IPs have received. The Weather Event Writer ( Talk Page) 15:26, 31 March 2024 (UTC) The Weather Event Writer ( Talk Page) 15:26, 31 March 2024 (UTC)
DUCKY chances seem high that this is Andrew5. Their first edit on Wikipedia was in
an AFD, which is currently nominated for a TNT due to SOCK copyright violations. A confirmed SOCK from
Lokicat3345 did edit the article, however, several IP users have also edited the article, including one of the large copyright violations. Andrew5 and/or Lokicat3345 are often is aware of non-mainspace things (like AfDs or drafts). My senses also went up as that AFD comment (their first edit) stated “We are becoming way too lax in giving individual tornadoes article
(emphasis mine), followed by them listed two articles (a GA and a GAN) which I created. A brand-new editor should not be that familiar with things, let alone trying to
AfD an active GAN two minutes later. This is definitely a SOCK of one of the two weather-sock masters, I just don’t know exactly which. Andrew5 is my gut due to
edits like this mentioning policy and things like a behind-the-scenes effort of WikiProject Weather to reassess GA articles. No new editor should even be aware of that process, but Andrew5 100% would and DUCK evidence from previous SOCKs back that idea up. The
Weather Event Writer (
Talk Page)
14:29, 6 April 2024 (UTC)
100.12.36.99's first edits in the last two years was to nominate Elizabeth Leitman for deletion. Majority of their edits in 2022 were weather-related plus an edit on Long Island City (NYC, where Andrew5 is located). Coincidentally, I started this article and Andrew5's latest IPs went on a shpeal about several articles (all of which I started) needing to be deleted. Both this AfD request and the one tried for 2022 Pembroke–Black Creek tornado were posted on Wikipedia talk:Articles for deletion coincidentally a day apart. 174.216.209.32's only edit was to PROD that article. In fact, 174.216.209.32's PROD is the exact same and idential AfD reasoning that 100.12.36.99 put out. Also coincidentally, both of these IPs started edited mere hours after Andrew5 was blocked on 3 IPs. I feel confident on a DUCK report for 100.12.36.99, however, 174.216.209.32 was listed more for future reference of being suspected Andrew5. The Weather Event Writer ( Talk Page) 23:21, 8 April 2024 (UTC) The Weather Event Writer ( Talk Page) 23:21, 8 April 2024 (UTC)
First edit since 2011 started with “As per usual, WeatherWriter is endlessly yapping” and on Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/2023 Little Rock tornado, where Andrew5 was already blocked once this month. Easy DUCK confirmation. The Weather Event Writer ( Talk Page) 14:57, 23 April 2024 (UTC)
First edit in 3 years was to revert a strikethrough of a comment by a blocked Andrew5 IP (the other one reported today). Easy DUCK ban. The Weather Event Writer ( Talk Page) 23:07, 23 April 2024 (UTC)
Only edit in 2024 was to restore Andrew5 SOCK content. DUCK block requested on the IP. User:Colorado is not New York WeatherWriter was added for CU review. The account is currently perm blocked due to username violation, however, this is almost certainly Andrew5 due to what the username is. The Weather Event Writer ( Talk Page) 03:02, 26 April 2024 (UTC)
Immediately resumed prior behavior for which they had been blocked. Noah, BSBA Talk 15:39, 11 May 2024 (UTC)
For the 71... IP, it has added trivial content about airport/road closures into recent tornado outbreak/winter storm articles ( here and here), has edited multiple sports-related articles since December 2023, and edited Andrew5's LTA page shortly after attacks took place on Meta, linking to them here. The IP has also edited Wikipedia:Long-term abuse/Samlaptop85213, an LTA page one of his socks created ( here). It has been intermittently active for multiple months in the same topic areas of sports and weather. For the 69... IP, it has edited 2 recent tornado outbreak articles today, and edited several sports-related articles on teams and players in football. His linking to certain policies while making edits, like this one, as well as the particular topics the IP has edited of sports and weather since July 2023 also leads me to believe this is an Andrew5 sock. ChrisWx 🌀 ( talk - contribs) 22:52, 11 May 2024 (UTC)
Edit history would suggest this is a WP:DUCK of Andrew5. Between 2023-24, they have made less than 50 edits, consisting of sports (baseball) and weather edits, even on the same day (20 May 2023). This is exactly the lookout on WP:LTA/A5. Coincidentally (DUCK-coincidence), their first edit in several months happen to also be telling others to discount my !vote in a requested move discussion. This is also common Andrew5 behavior, with either personal attacks against other weather editors (plus a few admins) or inserting themselves in discussions in an attempt to say several long-term editors are stupid/irrelevent. Even if they have not edited recently when this SPI is reviewed, if the reviewing administrator feels this is Andrew5 DUCK evidence, I would still appreciate a block or some agreement statement at least, given they are involved in an ongoing RM discussion. The Weather Event Writer ( Talk Page) 09:18, 30 May 2024 (UTC)
Second IP protested and re-inserted sports-related material that was deemed trivial on June 2024 South Florida floods, two areas Andrew is notorious in. After the first removal, the first IP reverted it again, and then when taken to talk page, the first IP proceeded to argue for its inclusion by mentioning the team names and score. Reeks of WP:DUCK here. Additionally, both added trivial information to Draft:Effects of Hurricane Ian in Florida. -- MarioProtIV ( talk/ contribs) 16:33, 19 June 2024 (UTC)
Self-admitted and behaviorally similar. Jasper Deng (talk) 20:57, 3 September 2019 (UTC)
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Blocked, tagged, closing.-- Bbb23 ( talk) 21:54, 3 September 2019 (UTC)
See below. TonyBallioni ( talk) 13:09, 26 December 2020 (UTC)
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HurricaneTracker and HurricanEdgar had both edited weather related articles, both have similar names, and Edgar has decided to edit Trackers talkpage [1] [2] [3]. Obvious sock is obvious. Thanks. – Davey2010 Talk 11:45, 28 December 2020 (UTC)
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User:Andrew5 sockpuppets used this IP to sock and for meatpuppetry ~ Destroyer 🌀 🌀 18:26, 28 December 2020 (UTC)
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I added more IPs that have been recently abused, within the past month. As well as a range with a history of CU blocks. They are all behaviorally identical, per WP:DUCK. We don't need a CheckUser to publicly link the IPs to the sockmaster, given the obvious behavioral connections. However, given Andrew's history of deception and socking, I would like to request a CU to run a sleeper check on all of the IPs for any new accounts. And any IPs that have been abused by this LTA within the past month should probably be (re)blocked as well. LightandDark2000 🌀 ( talk) 21:15, 28 December 2020 (UTC)
I’ll tell you what really happened. My friend, gale5050/Andrew5, told me to do some vandalism on Wikipedia, which I did here. Then they slowly began to get me more into Wikipedia at school which I evantually did, some of my edits were meatpuppety edits but I am a meatpuppet only. I am however, block evading as 2600:387:5:800::/60.
I shouldn’t, but admittedly, we’re both a little hotheaded, meaning we don’t always think before we act. Besides, gale5050 was a very close friend, and in March I was thinking “hey, let’s deface a users talk page!”. I don’t think that way anymore, I’ve matured since, but there is a lot I didn’t know. For example, while I knew they abused wiki data, I was not aware of this blatant harassment. Still, I will agree they have influenced me to (1) make poor decisions and (2) to make me vandalize articles a few times.
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Looks like a duck to me Obvious block evasion by the LTA Andrew5. The behavior and areas of interest of these IP socks are identical to those of other IP socks that were blocked earlier this month, such as 69.118.232.58 and 108.170.65.170. This person is editing on the same articles/talk pages as earlier IP socks, as well as similar ones. The articles targeted are all weather articles, especially severe weather/non-tropical storm articles, which he has been very active on in recent months. The similarities include: large-scale intra-wiki copying [6] [7] [8] [9], spamming (often frivolous) renaming requests [10] [11] [12], numerous AfD requests or commenting at said pages (including activity at Wikipedia talk:Articles for deletion) [13] [14] [15] [16] [17], commenting on discussions where other IP socks had previously commented [18], and his condescending, brittle attitude towards other users [19] [20], and similar rationales in RfC votes (compared to earlier socks) [21] [22] [23]. The IP socks merger/deletion rationales are often very similar to the arguments his IP socks made back in late 2020, during the mass merger debacle on the Weather Projects in late 2020, which was one of the main reasons the project implemented a 3-month merger moratorium. Some of the IP talk page activity also resembles that of PlanetsForLife, one of his most recent sock accounts, as seen here [24] [25]. Almost every one of the listed IPs were recently active, especially the last 2, so I strongly recommend blocking each of them. The IPs with more extensive editing activity should receive a longer block. While the last 3 IPs geolocate to Washington State, instead of New York State (Andrew5's known state of residence), I believe that this is due to him utilizing either a VPN or Proxy service, or being on vacation. The behavior from each of these IPs are similar enough to each other and other recently-blocked socks that they're all probably this LTA. I'm also requesting a sleeper check on the IPs, in case he has made new sock accounts for more Extended Confirmed gaming (which he has done before). LightandDark2000 🌀 ( talk) 20:23, 23 February 2022 (UTC)
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My initial reason I did the socking was because I didn’t know socking was banned until February 2020. When I created Andrew5 and Guttmana9 I thought it was ok to do one on phone and one on computer but I was wrong. (My first edits to Wikipedia were on 47.16.99.72 in April 2018, this was a year after that but that IP was since relocated and hasn’t been used since the global block expired in November 2020.) and because I got no block notice, I didn’t know how to appeal it, hence me using UTRS. I still didn’t know with ImtheOneKhaled and didn’t get to the SPI in time, so even in September I didn’t know. Now, I know I have to justify my socking since then, I just thought I could try to make the encyclopedia better. From interstate articles, shifting over to weather during September (I got interested mainly because of Hurricane Laura), and because my IP shifted due to Hurricane Isaias knocking out the power, I had a chance. I wanted to do everything my I could to not get caught, but I clearly failed at it. And all these socks that aren’t even mine just mean I have to wait even longer to get unblocked. PFL likely ruined my standard offer attempt that I made. When i used 69.116.96.17, and all the edits got reverted I thought they found out, but I should’ve stopped when the initial block of 98.116.15.128 (or whatever) was placed. But I chose not to, and now I have to live with the consequences. Because the other school IP was blocked, this means no one at school could edit Wikipedia. Also, some other accounts and IPs I remember using now were 24.189.217.187, Blizzard45678, 67.82.182.94 and 70.23.39.2. I am listing IPs that are stale because I will need to do so anyway when I take on the standard offer, so I am doing it know to get the admission out of the way. 209.201.121.4 ( talk) 13:27, 24 February 2022 (UTC)
I will never be editing from this IP again due to me leaving Seattle. Good bye. 209.201.121.4 ( talk) 13:53, 24 February 2022 (UTC)
I am not an expert in storm socks, but the above users appear to be all the same as each other, and I've seen some intersection with socks of Andrew5, so I figured this was the best place to file this. Similarities: (1) usernames, (2) recent accounts, (3) no special tags for editors or platforms, and (4) they don't act like new accounts, i.e., knowing templates and hats I'd never even heard of (broader instead of main). Bbb23 ( talk) 20:30, 12 August 2022 (UTC)
Started editing today and one of their first edits was on Talk:Tornado outbreak of December 10–11, 2021 to propose a split, which was previously proposed by a blocked sock (47.16.96.33) last month, with the exact same reasoning. They also have only edited weather-related articles, which the previous sock did as well. Confusing chain of sock references that go through like 4 different accounts, so I put Andrew5 as well, but I am unsure if that is the main/first sock account of this editor. Direct correlation to 47.16, which was confirmed as a sock. Elijahandskip ( talk) 17:15, 24 October 2022 (UTC)
69.118.235.133 & 71.183.166.47 both edited a split proposal on Talk:Tornado outbreak of December 10–11, 2021 as their 20th edit and 1st edit on Wikipedia, respectively. The split proposal has been proposed twice by the same sock master (Under User:47.16.96.33 and User:173.68.1.128) and all four accounts (two blocked and two new suspected) have an interest in weather.
170.24.150.2 gave weird vibes to myself and United States Man (Extra off-SPI discussion here) as they started editing weather-articles 4 days ago (October 27th) and suspiciously, the last blocked account of the sockmaster was 173.68.1.128, which was blocked the day after this account started editing (but three days before the blocked account (173.68.1.128) messaged in the SPI after being suspected/accused of it.) Suspecting all three are potentially the same editor as none of them have edited on the same day and all have an interest in weather articles and they all never edited the same day as the previous blocked sock (173.68.1.128). Elijahandskip ( talk) 03:58, 1 November 2022 (UTC)
There have been quite a few cases of an apparent IP-hopping editor on tornado-related articles and their talk pages. It has been going on for a while. One aspect of these IPs that first jumps out is their behavior indicates knowledge of the workings of Wikipedia beyond what would be expected of a new editor. Other traits, that have led me to, at times, suspect these IPs are Andrew5 are often confrontational attitudes, and frequent allusions to Wikipedia policy and guideline pages. 47.21.202.18 ( talk · contribs · WHOIS) seems to have been the most frequent ones that come up. I know this is old evidence, but in once such instance 47.21.202.18 added a section to Tornado outbreak of March 5–7, 2022. After that was reverted 69.116.96.17 ( talk · contribs · WHOIS) then readded the section with accusations of WP:STATUSQUOSTONEWALLING and brought the matter to ArbCom. While this would normally be considered stale, I'll note that both IPs have continued to edit many of the same weather-related articles. This is mainly to establish the continuing trend of IP-hopping. More IPs may need to be added in the near future. Honestly, this sort of pattern of an IP-hopping editor, up to and including recent comments at Talk:Tornado outbreak of December 10–11, 2021. This user has basically admitted to IP-hopping in the past, as at Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Andrew5/Archive#23 February 2022. TornadoLGS ( talk) 04:51, 1 November 2022 (UTC)
I'm confident all the IPs mentioned are Andrew5. Due to differing stability:
Closing. DatGuy Talk Contribs 07:28, 1 November 2022 (UTC)
170.24.150.113 has confirmed via Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/2012 Henryville tornado that it is a school IP address on Long Island, while WHOIS confirms the other IPs are all from the same place on Long Island or Virginia (locations of previously blocked IPs). Each new IP address tries to act like a different person, trying to make it seem like a coincidence that multiple anon users all pop up in the same place at once with the same agenda, same general in-depth knowledge of Wikipedia, and same general attitude. Several other IP addresses were just blocked a couple days ago for the same odd behavior at the same weather articles. Elijahandskip and TornadoLGS have both had encounters with this situation and may care to comment here.
The previously blocked IPs are 170.24.150.2 ( talk · contribs · WHOIS), 71.183.166.47 ( talk · contribs · WHOIS), 69.118.235.133 ( talk · contribs · WHOIS), 47.21.202.18 ( talk · contribs · WHOIS), and 69.116.96.17 ( talk · contribs · WHOIS). It is suspected that all of these accounts are the same person, despite trying to act like different people, given very similar behavior in the same place at the same time. United States Man ( talk) 23:06, 2 November 2022 (UTC)
I'll note that most of the listed IPs have shown an interest in the newly created article 2012 Henryville tornado and, despite claims to the contrary, it seems unlikely that a bunch of people would suddenly start editing Wikipedia for the first time upon hearing about a newly created article about an event that happened ten years ago. TornadoLGS ( talk) 01:03, 3 November 2022 (UTC)
170.24.150.113 is a confirmed sock of Andrew5 that is continuing to be allowed to edit freely on Wikipedia, thus making a complete mockery of this entire process. @ TornadoLGS and Elijahandskip: can testify to this as well. United States Man ( talk) 19:06, 30 November 2022 (UTC)
Previously blocked socks of Andrew5 that are continuing to be allowed to edit freely on Wikipedia, thus skirting around the sockpuppet process. I suspect there are more IPs around in which the user edits the same types of articles and displays the same editing characteristics and abrasive behavior toward others. WP:DUCK applies in those cases. United States Man ( talk) 20:45, 4 December 2022 (UTC)
Three different IPs making the same edit with the same argument at Hurricane Isaias. The different IPs are an attempt to skirt the 3RR or to sway talk page discussions and has been done multiple times with previously blocked socks. These IPs routinely edit the same types of articles and generally perform the same types of edits. The fourth and fifth make similar edits as well. WP:DUCK applies here. The WHOIS addresses all point to the same town (and many cases, same address) on Long Island, or towns immediately adjacent. Most previously blocked IP socks of Andrew5 have this address (or town) in common. United States Man ( talk) 06:32, 13 December 2022 (UTC)
Given our issues of playing whack-a-mole with IPs, I suggest page protection on this case. TornadoLGS ( talk) 20:04, 13 December 2022 (UTC)
This group of IPs is continuing in the same pattern as previously observed by Andrew5 socks. This includes editing (including edit warring) across multiple IPs, a confrontational attitude when edits are reverted or criticized, and a focus on storm-related articles. The most recent activity has involved edit warring at
2010 New Year's Eve tornado outbreak (
[26]],
[27],
[28]) and
Hurricane Isaias tornado outbreak (
[29],
[30],
[31]). See also those page histories and IP talk pages. Other IPs were mentioned at the previous opening of this case. It seems saying "How dare you" has become a calling card of theirs.
In an
earlier report here, the closing admin
RoySmith opted for page protection since this person seems to change IPs faster than they can be blocked, but stated: If that proves ineffective, we can look at stronger measures.
I'm not sure what that would involve. This person has been on quite a few weather articles.
TornadoLGS (
talk)
22:14, 15 December 2022 (UTC)
[32] [33] [34] 3 complete almost duplicate comments on a weather-related article. When asked to start a discussion about it, instantly went and started a noticeboard, which has been the behavior of this sockmaster who likes to escalate issues. 69 started editing weather articles on January 6 then stopped until January 10, then stopped until January 17. None of the three accounts edited at the same time. Based on the behavior, talking about “core policies” and such (similar to the Aon/NOAA debate which had multiple sock accounts from this sockmaster & bring it straight to ArbCom)… WP:DUCK applies here. Elijahandskip ( talk) 21:54, 17 January 2023 (UTC)
Adding to this report 69.127.228.206 ( talk · contribs · WHOIS) and 47.19.209.232 ( talk · contribs · WHOIS) have both engaged in a small revert war at Tornado outbreak of December 10–11, 2021, showing the same confrontational attitude and pattern of IP-hopping as is typical. Both of these IPs appear similar to ones previously used by Andrew5. Filing a report at an Andministrative noticeboard is also consistent with past behavior. Previous closing admins have mentioned page protection as a remedy. TornadoLGS ( talk) 22:53, 17 January 2023 (UTC)
“I didn’t even bring it up to the notice board for even me! I brought it up to the noticeboard because someone else noticed it!”is a direct admission of multiple users on the same account. The way I read that, you said a user was on that IP at 21:17 on January 17 on a talk page and a 100% different user was on the account at 21:30 on January 17 who created the IP & who just happened to continue the exact same discussion? To answer your other question, I wouldn’t have even thought about starting an SPI until I saw three unique IP accounts, following the same pattern that has been seen on multiple weather-related articles since July 2022. Admins have even confirmed multiple users (most pre-November 2022) as being the exact same person. If you are not connected to any of the other users, then you wouldn’t be blocked. That simple. But the editing pattern almost speaks for itself, unless it is an exceptional coincidence. Elijahandskip ( talk) 20:40, 18 January 2023 (UTC)
I may be jumping the gun, but this revert edit is similar to what I've seen in the past with AON/NOAA disputes, especially since different IPs doing the reverts seem to be the norm. Please look into this. Thanks. ChessEric ( talk · contribs) 22:07, 6 February 2023 (UTC)
The WHOIS location and edit history of this account match similar blocked accounts as well. United States Man ( talk) 22:20, 6 February 2023 (UTC)
1st IP appears to have been caught by United States Man, so I bought it here. This edit ( [38]) appears to have been a follow-up to this one ( [39]) as well and Andrew5 has been known to use multiple IP addresses for edit warring. The 2nd IP has been in the last two investigations and appears to start editing only after the investigations conclude. Please look into these. Thanks. ChessEric ( talk · contribs) 18:50, 23 February 2023 (UTC)
Evidence is required. When you open the investigation, you must immediately provide evidence that the suspected sock puppets are connected. The evidence will need to include diffs of edits that suggest the accounts are connected. (This requirement is waived if the edits in question are deleted; in this case just provide the names of the pages that the accounts have been editing.) You must provide this evidence in a clear way. Vaguely worded submissions will not be investigated. You need to actually show why your suspicion that the accounts are connected is reasonable. Concision is key. Evidence should be presented in a concise format. Because of the length of the backlog, cases with clear and concise explanations and evidence are handled the most quickly.ChessEric has provided very few diffs and just gave WHOIS evidence. However, (1) WHOIS isn’t always right, (2) this is a very densely populated area (Long Island) and comes from different organizations, and (3) we seem to only be served by a few towers. Also, ChessEric seems to be opening a WP:WITCHHUNT for paranoia reasons to get IPs out of WP:WEATHER. That isn’t allowed. 71.125.62.146 ( talk) 21:25, 3 March 2023 (UTC)
I know the previous case just closed, but I found another IP whose WHOIS popped up as a common Andrew5 location. He seems to be keen on putting records ( [40]) into articles and that's what tipped me off here. Additionally, this IP has previously said that they wanted me topic-banned from the weather project based on the canvassing issue that occurred on February 9, although my ban was for threats of violence, which I do regret. Regardless, the IP appears to be a repeat offender of Andrew5. Please look into this. Thanks. ChessEric ( talk · contribs) 23:10, 3 March 2023 (UTC)
IP addresses of Andrew5 have been repeatedly trying to make the WP:Weather a contentious topic, which leads up to this edit not too long ago. It was completely off-topic and unnecessary. I've been keeping my mouth shut about these, but I'm tired of seeing this so I want one of IPs nipped in the bud. Thank you. Chess Eric 22:21, 8 April 2023 (UTC)
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98.113.8.17, 69.118.237.29, and 47.19.209.230 matches the most recent editing pattern for 98.116.45.220, a recently suspected sock: Weather and baseball (looking at most recent 50 edits for all accounts show that). They all match the most recent blocked sock as well 71.125.32.0/19 with weather and baseball. While 47.19.209.230 and 69.118.237.29 have not edited recently, they all commented in a discussion. Confirmation of if they are or are not a sock is requested to know of the discussion was sock stacked or not since 3 of the 5 editors involved seemed to match the sock’s editing pattern. Possibly WP:DUCK. Elijahandskip ( talk) 16:11, 27 May 2023 (UTC)
71.125: WP:DUCK match in contribution history of weather-related edits and baseball edits (see contribution history for July 16 & 30, 2023). 98.166 was found after looking through the 2023 Chicago Cubs season article, which both accounts edited. July 23 and July 16 (right before the 71.125) contribution histories are WP:DUCK matches as well. Noting that 71.125.36.50 Was previously blocked on WHOIS evidence and then appealed saying, “Way too many of these Nassau County IPs have been blocked over the past 3 years. We just want some stability”, which is basically a SOCK confirmation. Can the IPs be perm blocked given multiple day usages and usages after the previous block as well? The Weather Event Writer ( Talk Page) 15:31, 30 July 2023 (UTC) The Weather Event Writer ( Talk Page) 15:31, 30 July 2023 (UTC)
See contribution history with a WP:DUCK match of weather and baseball edits on the same day. Also, they were previously blocked on this IP address (February 2023) and continued editing on it, so this may deserve a perm block for the IP. The Weather Event Writer ( Talk Page) 22:57, 11 August 2023 (UTC)
WP:DUCK, matching baseball and weather edits on the same day, seems like Andrew5. Baseball edit here, the weather edits are on this page's history. Tails Wx 02:46, 12 September 2023 (UTC)
WP:DUCK confirmation on October 12, 2023 (Baseball and weather (winter storm article) edits within 4 minutes. This sock account was used previously on June 14, 2023. Can we seriously just start perm blocking the IPs? This has been going on way too long, taking up the time of editors and administrators practically every month. The Weather Event Writer ( Talk Page) 18:57, 12 October 2023 (UTC)
Otis2023 made 3 edits (their only 3 edits on Wikipedia) on October 27 to Draft:Hurricane Calvin (2023) and Draft:Tropical Storm Sonca (2022). ThatBigSwiftie1989 made 2 edits (their first two edits) to the same draft articles. Edits on Hurricane Calvin’s draft are identical [41] [42]. Either SOCK inventions or accounts needing to be linked together in some fashion. Given the identical comments in an AfC, there may be some SOCK master before Otis2023, since they have knowledge of at least 2 draft articles as well as how to make AfC comments. Thought, this may be User:Andrew5 alts (unsure), since Andrew5 (sock master) likes to edit winter weather articles and ThatBigSwiftie1989 made their 3rd/4th edit on two winter articles within minutes of starting to edit. The last Andrew5 confirmed alt, User:108.54.87.90 edited winter storm articles as well, so a location-check is probably needed to verify if it is Andrew5. The Weather Event Writer ( Talk Page) 21:22, 29 October 2023 (UTC)
Their only edits today was to nominate Hurricane Calvin (2023) for deletion with the exact same reasoning as their other SOCK accounts gave to prevent it being accepted at AfC (which it was). WP:DUCK/suspected sock confirmation edits: Sock 1, Sock 2, Suspected Sock. The Weather Event Writer ( Talk Page) 15:33, 4 November 2023 (UTC)
User copied content from the talk page of a recently blocked IP address ( [43]) and edited weather/sports edits on the same day as that copied content (which was weather-related): sports/ weather 1 & weather 2. WP:DUCK reasoning seems strong and the blocked IP which had content from their talk page copied by this user admitted in a ban appeal less than 48 hours ago to editing on multiple IP addresses. Checkuser is requested strictly on WP:DUCK evidence. The Weather Event Writer ( Talk Page) 23:55, 21 November 2023 (UTC)
Typical WP:DUCK evidence in their edit history (Weather/baseball). They also basically confirmed they are a sock by reverting admin @ K6ka: on Talk:San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge, who reverted a now blocked SOCK (71.125.62.208), who was causing disruption and edit warring on the page. I'm assuming Andrew5 is the master given the weather/baseball history, but K6ka knowns the sock master as they blocked this sock earlier today. The Weather Event Writer ( Talk Page) 00:06, 26 November 2023 (UTC)
Check edit history. IP re-engaged in the exact same four edit warring discussions as the previous IP, including reverting the blocking admin who did a SOCK-disruption revert on Talk:San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge. Also a fun SOCK confirmation saying “stop bribing admins to block innocent IPs. This is a violation of WP:PAID”. The Weather Event Writer ( Talk Page) 17:22, 26 November 2023 (UTC)
After not editing for a month, their third edit was to re-revert something previous Andrew5 SOCKS were reverting. The previous user to revert this was 47.21.202.18, who was blocked for 2-years as Andrew5. Also, the user who reverted it prior to 47.21.202.18 was 47.23.6.178, who was also blocked as Andrew5. Unlike other times, this is all I have (not solid WP:DUCK evidence), which is why checkuser is requested to see if this is Andrew5, or a separate editor. The Weather Event Writer ( Talk Page) 15:53, 6 December 2023 (UTC)
WeatherWriter, CheckUsers will not, for privacy and policy reasons, publicly divulge a connection between a registered user and an IP. IP socking reports are made or broken on behavioral evidence. A clerk will likely be by soon to decline the CU request. I'm inclined not to block based off of the edits so far. I'll keep an eye on them; you should too. Firefangledfeathers ( talk / contribs) 16:07, 6 December 2023 (UTC)
First edit ever was to re-create Draft:Late October 2012 North American blizzard, which was deleted earlier today for being created by a Andrew5 sock. The Weather Event Writer ( Talk Page) 19:41, 11 December 2023 (UTC)
Most of these IPs have already been previously blocked as Andrew5 socks in the past, but they have edited since their block has expired with similar behavior to their socks, such as their interest with the Northeast United States, including Long Island, in their weather-related edits, editing their usual targets, such as Tornado outbreak of December 10-11, 2021 (removing size tag, previous socks have gotten into similar conflicts on page), and addition of snow/rainfall records on pages, which is common sock behavior for Andrew5. Some IPs haven't edited in multiple days, but since they usually edit on static IPs, they will still need to be blocked for a long period of time. A rangeblock may also be needed since they are likely on similar ranges. If there are any problems with this, please let me know. Thanks, ChrisWx 🌀 ( talk - contribs) 02:08, 12 December 2023 (UTC)
Blocked before as a sock of Andrew5 and immediately went to edit the draft of TS Bret where the socks from yesterday were editing. Noah, AA Talk 14:08, 13 December 2023 (UTC)
[44] Same behavior as User:47.21.192.218 that Bbb23 blocked earlier today. Noah, AA Talk 22:10, 13 December 2023 (UTC)
Only contribution is to reinstate edit from a blocked IP sock, similar attempt to justify his reversion to other socks, and dubiously accusing others of assuming bad faith. Also request a global block, user is known to engage in cross-wiki harassment. ChrisWx 🌀 ( talk - contribs) 21:43, 16 December 2023 (UTC)
Obvious duck: See this attack against me. Was previously blocked as Andrew5 a few days ago, so needs longer block and global block. ChrisWx 🌀 ( talk - contribs) 15:41, 17 December 2023 (UTC)
Duplicate edit on Tornado outbreak of December 10–11, 2021 ( [45]) to previous Andrew5 socks ( 69.118.238.21 & 47.23.40.14) The Weather Event Writer ( Talk Page) 18:50, 24 December 2023 (UTC)
Fairly new account with a similar editing pattern to Andrew5’s basic behavior: Wikipedia:Long-term abuse/Andrew5. A quick check can help verify if they are a true new unique account or Andrew5. The Weather Event Writer ( Talk Page) 03:04, 27 December 2023 (UTC)
Began their edits today reverting several edits by Yamla, who has just started rollbacks after blocking the previous confirmed Andrew5 sock CrossBayFan. They were previously blocked back on December 16, 2023. For sure WP:DUCK Andrew5 IP address. The Weather Event Writer ( Talk Page) 16:00, 28 December 2023 (UTC)
Every edit they made was to re-revert rollbacks from Andrew5 socks blocked yesterday by Yamla. Note, they are blocked for 1 week after making a death threat. This is a confirmed sock, block for 2+ years. The Weather Event Writer ( Talk Page) 16:35, 29 December 2023 (UTC)
Only edits as of this report is to attempt, once again, to roll-back edits from previous SOCKS. The Weather Event Writer ( Talk Page) 20:08, 29 December 2023 (UTC)
Editing sports-related articles and restoring sock edits where they were previously reverted. Also used edit summaries containing personal attacks, before engaging in page-move vandalism on an article where they were reverted, and attacking people who have been working against their sockpuppetry. Account is already blocked/g-locked, but I am requesting a CheckUser to see if there are any more sleepers waiting to gain autoconfirmed like this one. ChrisWx 🌀 ( talk - contribs) 19:25, 2 January 2024 (UTC)
A brand new account that started editing Draft:January 10-13, 2024 North American storm complex on January 19. On January 18, another new account ( JuneFan2939 was globally locked for being this sock master. 2nd edit ever from WinterStormFan was on the draft and first was on the parent winter storm article. SPI needed to check.
SEPARATE REPORT (NO SPI): Heavy WP:DUCK evidence on 152.179.91.86, who also edited the draft and parent winter storm. They stopped editing on January 15 and JuneFan2939 edited on January 16 on the draft. The IP created the draft and the only other 2 editors to it are JuneFan2939 and WinterStormFan. Can a 2nd administrator (Not checkuser) review the IP on DUCK evidence? The Weather Event Writer ( Talk Page) 23:38, 19 January 2024 (UTC)
There is a reason I knew about the draft : Talk:2023-24 North American winter. Also, while I am not JuneFan2939, I doubt that he is related to CreamFan12. CreamFan12 was a vandal who harassed multiple users on Meta Wiki, and does not even exist on enwiki. While JuneFan2939 does exist on meta, they made no edits there and instead made constructive contributions to enwiki. This just seems to be the case of two irrelevant users connecting through a shared IP address. WinterStormFan ( talk) 18:40, 20 January 2024 (UTC)
Looks like Andrew has become a Swiftie to avoid detection. A public IP in New York that has previously edited weather articles (similar to Andrew5's previous IP socks) started inexplicably editing The Eras Tour and arguing that a section is a content fork. Then SwiftFan2024 comes and makes the same argument that the IP made. Not requesting CU on the IP for obvious reasons. wizzito | say hello! 03:23, 3 February 2024 (UTC)
Suspicious new IP (208.253.89.50) that started editing winter weather articles today (just like previous Andrew5 accounts). One of their first edits was adding trivial fact about NPS closing stuff, similar to a previous sock edit. They also did a second trivial addition minutes later. That is making me suspect WP:DUCK. Not to mention that second trivial addition was on January 13–16, 2024 North American winter storm, which was (basically) Andrew5's article with JuneFan2939 and WinterStormFan (recently blocked Andrew5 socks) having about 40% authorship of the article. This account seems to match WP:LTA/Andrew5 to a T. Also, they basically "DUCK confirmed" to be a new IP when editing Talk:June 2021 North American storm complex#Merge, by responding to a merge discussion started by another IP (108.58.71.234) a couple of days ago which also coincidentally is a brand-new editor with only a few edits. DUCK senses tell me this is Andrew5. The Weather Event Writer ( Talk Page) 23:44, 17 February 2024 (UTC)
[46] [47] - First two edits were to rollback deleted SOCK edits actually on this SPI talk page. CU requested since this is an account and not an IP. The Weather Event Writer ( Talk Page) 23:27, 18 February 2024 (UTC)
Chastick293 is confirmed to June10393 ( talk + · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · spi block · block log · CA · CheckUser( log) · investigate · cuwiki) and some logged-out shenanigans (no comment on the IPs previously mentioned). The technical evidence stretches further still. It all looks very likely to be Andrew5. -- zzuuzz (talk) 00:04, 19 February 2024 (UTC)
Restored deleted content added by previous IP sock that was blocked. Account only has 1 edit and was created today. WP:DUCK me thinks? -- MarioProtIV ( talk/ contribs) 15:35, 23 February 2024 (UTC)
(69.123.50.215) There second edit today (1 minute after their first edit today) was to complete a merge, which Andrew5 was confirmed (via blocked-sock 208.253.89.50) to have participated in along with a possible 2nd DUCK account. Their edit summary commented about that talk page discussion, where only 2 actual users commented + 2 Andrew5 comments. 69.123.50.215 is also working on Draft:December 2023 nor'easter, which is a common theme for Andrew5 socks — Being aware of draft-space weather articles. Seems very DUCKY here, given Andrew5 having confirmed knowledge of that merge discussion and then an unregistered user actually merging that discussion after only 4 registered users (2 commenters, the admin closer, and myself) seemingly having knowledge of said merge discussion…Also the 2nd unregistered user was suspected by myself along with the admin to have maybe been Andrew5, who coincidentally opened that merge discussion. I.e. based on DUCK evidence: Andrew5 wanted to merge the article, commented in it, had others agree, and finally today actually merge that article via a new IP address based on a talk page discussion which had 49 views in the last month. The Weather Event Writer ( Talk Page) 17:27, 29 March 2024 (UTC) The Weather Event Writer ( Talk Page) 17:27, 29 March 2024 (UTC)
Their first edit since 2007 was to reinstate a SOCK reversion edit saying “The sock is right though”. DUCK block needed on Andrew5 sock here. The Weather Event Writer ( Talk Page) 13:47, 30 March 2024 (UTC)
Their first edit since January 5 was to yet again revert a SOCK reversion edit for that merge discussion. Easy DUCK account of Andrew5. The account also edit warred for it with Fantastic Mr. Fox. The account was also previously blocked for 1 month for ban evasion. Given previous block and edit warring behavior, requesting the 2-year block which previous Andrew5 IPs have received. The Weather Event Writer ( Talk Page) 15:26, 31 March 2024 (UTC) The Weather Event Writer ( Talk Page) 15:26, 31 March 2024 (UTC)
DUCKY chances seem high that this is Andrew5. Their first edit on Wikipedia was in
an AFD, which is currently nominated for a TNT due to SOCK copyright violations. A confirmed SOCK from
Lokicat3345 did edit the article, however, several IP users have also edited the article, including one of the large copyright violations. Andrew5 and/or Lokicat3345 are often is aware of non-mainspace things (like AfDs or drafts). My senses also went up as that AFD comment (their first edit) stated “We are becoming way too lax in giving individual tornadoes article
(emphasis mine), followed by them listed two articles (a GA and a GAN) which I created. A brand-new editor should not be that familiar with things, let alone trying to
AfD an active GAN two minutes later. This is definitely a SOCK of one of the two weather-sock masters, I just don’t know exactly which. Andrew5 is my gut due to
edits like this mentioning policy and things like a behind-the-scenes effort of WikiProject Weather to reassess GA articles. No new editor should even be aware of that process, but Andrew5 100% would and DUCK evidence from previous SOCKs back that idea up. The
Weather Event Writer (
Talk Page)
14:29, 6 April 2024 (UTC)
100.12.36.99's first edits in the last two years was to nominate Elizabeth Leitman for deletion. Majority of their edits in 2022 were weather-related plus an edit on Long Island City (NYC, where Andrew5 is located). Coincidentally, I started this article and Andrew5's latest IPs went on a shpeal about several articles (all of which I started) needing to be deleted. Both this AfD request and the one tried for 2022 Pembroke–Black Creek tornado were posted on Wikipedia talk:Articles for deletion coincidentally a day apart. 174.216.209.32's only edit was to PROD that article. In fact, 174.216.209.32's PROD is the exact same and idential AfD reasoning that 100.12.36.99 put out. Also coincidentally, both of these IPs started edited mere hours after Andrew5 was blocked on 3 IPs. I feel confident on a DUCK report for 100.12.36.99, however, 174.216.209.32 was listed more for future reference of being suspected Andrew5. The Weather Event Writer ( Talk Page) 23:21, 8 April 2024 (UTC) The Weather Event Writer ( Talk Page) 23:21, 8 April 2024 (UTC)
First edit since 2011 started with “As per usual, WeatherWriter is endlessly yapping” and on Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/2023 Little Rock tornado, where Andrew5 was already blocked once this month. Easy DUCK confirmation. The Weather Event Writer ( Talk Page) 14:57, 23 April 2024 (UTC)
First edit in 3 years was to revert a strikethrough of a comment by a blocked Andrew5 IP (the other one reported today). Easy DUCK ban. The Weather Event Writer ( Talk Page) 23:07, 23 April 2024 (UTC)
Only edit in 2024 was to restore Andrew5 SOCK content. DUCK block requested on the IP. User:Colorado is not New York WeatherWriter was added for CU review. The account is currently perm blocked due to username violation, however, this is almost certainly Andrew5 due to what the username is. The Weather Event Writer ( Talk Page) 03:02, 26 April 2024 (UTC)
Immediately resumed prior behavior for which they had been blocked. Noah, BSBA Talk 15:39, 11 May 2024 (UTC)
For the 71... IP, it has added trivial content about airport/road closures into recent tornado outbreak/winter storm articles ( here and here), has edited multiple sports-related articles since December 2023, and edited Andrew5's LTA page shortly after attacks took place on Meta, linking to them here. The IP has also edited Wikipedia:Long-term abuse/Samlaptop85213, an LTA page one of his socks created ( here). It has been intermittently active for multiple months in the same topic areas of sports and weather. For the 69... IP, it has edited 2 recent tornado outbreak articles today, and edited several sports-related articles on teams and players in football. His linking to certain policies while making edits, like this one, as well as the particular topics the IP has edited of sports and weather since July 2023 also leads me to believe this is an Andrew5 sock. ChrisWx 🌀 ( talk - contribs) 22:52, 11 May 2024 (UTC)
Edit history would suggest this is a WP:DUCK of Andrew5. Between 2023-24, they have made less than 50 edits, consisting of sports (baseball) and weather edits, even on the same day (20 May 2023). This is exactly the lookout on WP:LTA/A5. Coincidentally (DUCK-coincidence), their first edit in several months happen to also be telling others to discount my !vote in a requested move discussion. This is also common Andrew5 behavior, with either personal attacks against other weather editors (plus a few admins) or inserting themselves in discussions in an attempt to say several long-term editors are stupid/irrelevent. Even if they have not edited recently when this SPI is reviewed, if the reviewing administrator feels this is Andrew5 DUCK evidence, I would still appreciate a block or some agreement statement at least, given they are involved in an ongoing RM discussion. The Weather Event Writer ( Talk Page) 09:18, 30 May 2024 (UTC)
Second IP protested and re-inserted sports-related material that was deemed trivial on June 2024 South Florida floods, two areas Andrew is notorious in. After the first removal, the first IP reverted it again, and then when taken to talk page, the first IP proceeded to argue for its inclusion by mentioning the team names and score. Reeks of WP:DUCK here. Additionally, both added trivial information to Draft:Effects of Hurricane Ian in Florida. -- MarioProtIV ( talk/ contribs) 16:33, 19 June 2024 (UTC)