Same POV at same article ( Bates method), after the sockmaster got indeffed. tgeorgescu ( talk) 15:46, 4 September 2021 (UTC)
ineffectivewould violate encyclopedic neutrality. tgeorgescu ( talk) 02:19, 5 September 2021 (UTC)
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I tend to think there's not sockpuppetry here. I say that principally because of what I see as significant stylistic differences. Also, in the case of AlisonCary, their contribution history shows a range of different individual interests. There are many followers of the Bates method out there who are intent on resisting its characterisation as ineffective, so it's no surprise to me that we have a number of different people sharing the same agenda. -- Jmc ( talk) 19:59, 5 September 2021 (UTC)
Belteshazzar is indef blocked on Wikipedia for their disruption on the Bates method related articles. Belteshazzar was blocked from editing on 26 June 2021 but was active on their talk-page until September 6.
Sslad created their account on 3 September. Both Belteshazzar and Sslad make the same long type of edit summaries on articles related to the Bates method for example [3] compared to [4].
Both these accounts have edited the Pseudomyopia, an article that not many users have edited. Based on the history of that article there is very little traffic there but both make the same sort of trivial edits. Both accounts have also edited the Presbyopia article and both accounts have made an edit on the Aldous Huxley. This is very suspect because they edit exactly the same articles out of millions of others that they could be editing. If you check the history of the Bates method [5] which Sslad is currently editing they are making trivial edits. This is something that Belteshazzar resorted to in their later edits before they were blocked.
Another piece of behavioral evidence for me though not as strong is Sslad editing the Li Ching-Yuen article on [6] 18 September. However, I had edited this article exactly a day before. You can see their edit directly after mine. I am not convinced this is a coincidence. Belteshazzar blames me and another user for reporting their account and getting them banned and this user used to edit some of the same articles as me because they looked at what I was editing. In conclusion I am convinced this account is Belteshazzar. Psychologist Guy ( talk) 16:10, 26 October 2021 (UTC)
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I was interested in treatments for presbyopia, and noticed that a link did not lead to the cited paper, hence I created an account and fixed it. I don't think I had ever heard of the Bates method until I looked at the edits of AlisonCary, who had also recently edited Presbyopia. I then learned about the Bates method, and followed other related pages and users who had edited that article, including Belteshazzar. I may well have found Li Ching-Yuen via Psychologist Guy's recent editing history, and I may have originally found Pseudomyopia via Belteshazzar's history, though I had previously heard of pseudomyopia in connection to presbyopia, which apparently works against it by stopping accommodation. I recently found a source cited at Bates method which was indicated to be freely available at the doi link, but it wasn't, so I found a link where it was freely available and changed the citation. I don't know why that would be considered "trivial". Sslad ( talk) 21:16, 26 October 2021 (UTC)
LaLeLiLou is an obvious Belteshazzar sock-puppet. Belteshazzar was blocked for their disruptive edits related to Bates method and Pseudomyopia.
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I suspect that Belteshazzar's IP address still might be check-user blocked and he is using VPN's which a previous SPI found. Psychologist Guy ( talk) 13:05, 30 March 2022 (UTC)
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I have filed 3 SPI's against Belteshazzar in the past, all have been successful in blocking his socks so I am familiar with this user. It is not worth doing CU here as Belteshazzar is stale but I believe there is good behavioural evidence to block these accounts. As seen in the previous filings, Belteshazzar edits the Bates method, Aldous Huxley and Pseudomyopia related articles. However, as these articles are now heavily watched; this user has resorted to only making the occasional trivial edit on these articles but following me and editing any article I edit usually within 24 hours or 2 days of me editing an article (I have raised this in two previous SPI's), it is a very distinct type of editing behaviour. The user always leaves their user-page red, edits at the same times, makes similar edit summaries and makes very trivial edits.
SixteenSquared joined Wikipedia on 1 February 2022 to edit PaleoNeonate/Pitfalls essay on pseudoscience [20] which is odd behaviour for a brand new user and PaleoNeonate also commented the behaviour is suspect. If you check out Belteshazzar's long term disruption on the Bates method talk-page you will see that Belteshazzar was debating many users about the Bates Method being characterized as ineffective or pseudoscience and one of these users he debated was PaleoNeonate, example [21]. SixteenSquared's interest in PaleoNeonate's essay is thus not a random occurrence. If you look at SixteenSquared's edits on that essay they are actually all trivial, a pattern that matches his editing.
On August 11 this user edited the Bates Method [22]. On the same day they edited Book of Dzyan, John A. McDougall, Jean Overton Fuller, C. E. Bechhofer Roberts. Note that I edited all these articles first on August 11, adding content. Within a few hours SixteenSquared edited all of these articles making tiny edits, for example check the page history of Book of Dzyan, Jean Overton Fuller and C. E. Bechhofer Roberts [23], [24], [25]. This user has a long history of looking at my edits, then going to the same articles I have edited and making trivial edits to them. On August 25, this was done again on Peter Anthony Bertocci [26]. The Bertocci article had not been edited since 2020 when I edited it on August 25, yet within hours SixteenSquared is editing it. As said this is very distinct and odd editing behaviour that I have raised in the previous SPI. It is clearly Belteshazzar, no other user does this. SixteenSquared also made an edit on Aldous Huxley an article which most of his socks have made edits on.
The same editing behaviour has occurred on Small Jars Lack Gold, an account that I was going to file an SPI against in January 2022 but the account was abandoned so I didn't bother. This account was created on 2 January 2022 with the first edits on Wikipedia_talk:Increase_your_chances [27] using the same writing style as Belteshazzar [28]. I am very familiar with how Belteshazzar writes, and that is definitely the same user. Again what is interesting here are the trivial edits on Evan Shute [29], Claus W. Jungeblut [30] and Great Amherst Mystery. These are all articles I have edited, yet Small Jars Lack Gold also edits them directly after me, making small edits to pronunciation or removing apostrophes. This is clearly Belteshazzar who has a history of doing this, clicking on my account then editing the same articles. This same user, did this on his previous socks Sslad [31] and LaLeLiLou [32].
If you check Small Jars Lack Gold's account history, there is the similar theme of making one off edits on William Bates (physician) and vision therapy. Both these accounts have the same editing pattern. This account also edited Alexbrn/A_POV_that_draws_a_source [33]. This is unlikely to be random. Belteshazzar dislikes the user Alexbrn who he encountered on the Bates method talk-page.
It should also be noted that if you look at the edit summaries of Small Jars Lack Gold and SixteenSquared they use exactly the same phrasing and writing style and also using quotation marks [34], [35], [36] and [37].
Belteshazzar on two of his blocked socks has commented that he is improving the website by fixing grammar or pronunciation and other minor edits, however, this user is blocked here. This user is not acting in good faith by repeatedly creating new accounts every few months to make minor edits on articles I have edited. I believe it is fair that his socks are blocked. Psychologist Guy ( talk) 20:26, 26 August 2022 (UTC)
On the off-chance of something showing up I looked at 162 but found no other accounts--though I did see use of a proxy. Perhaps GeneralNotability has the memory of an elephant--they checked them last year. For me, it will have to be based on behavior, and I see that this is what Black Kite did last time--Black Kite, you mind having a quick look? Drmies ( talk) 20:35, 26 August 2022 (UTC)
Speaking of creepy, now they're following me around-- [43], [44], [45], [46]. That kind of stuff is already enough reason to block. GeneralNotability, you too. Drmies ( talk) 14:38, 27 August 2022 (UTC)
I have filed quite a few sock-puppet investigations against Belteshazzar and all have been successful in blocking this users socks. After they are blocked they usually turn up on a new account within a month or two. I am familiar with this users editing interests and style going back a few years. DefThree is a newish account created on 24 October 2022. If you check DefThree's edits they are a perfect match to Belteshazzar's socks. Belteshazzer's last blocked sock SixteenSquared was blocked on 27 August 2022.
Belteshazzar editing interests are all things related to the Bates Method and Myopia/ Pseudomyopia, Who Wants to be a Millionaire and various murders. When this user is not editing articles related to these topics, they make trivial edits on articles fixing spelling and on Wikipedia Essays. It is the same pattern of editing and edit summaries every-time.
DefThree has been editing Li Ching-Yuen, Bernarr Macfadden, Aldous Huxley, The Art of Seeing, Charles Ingram and mentioning Margaret Darst Corbett - these are all articles which Belteshazzar's blocked socks have edited. For example Belteshazzar edited the Charles Ingram article many times, just one example [47]. DefThree has been recently editing that article [48]. DefThree has been editing Aldous Huxley and The Art of Seeing - I have shown in previous SPIs that this users socks have been editing these articles but just take a look at the editing history [49] and you will see both Belteshazzar and DefThree making similar edits. The same is happening at Myopia. That is an article that Belteshazzar often spoke about many times. DefThree in a comment to SamuelTheGhost [50] has mentioned the article Margaret Darst Corbett. The Corbett article is low-traffic and is an interest of Belteshazzar's. Belteshazzer edited that article quite a few times and also edited it on their blocked sock LaLeLiLou [51]. They obviously won't touch that article because it is being watched but they are asking another user about it (SamuelTheGhost, an editor that Belteshazzar has contacted before).
As established in two of the previous SPI's - Belteshazzar has an obsession with checking my recent editing history and often edits articles I have created within two hours of me having done so. He makes very trivial edits attempting to move commas or fix spelling mistakes. On the 31 October I filed an SPI investigation against a different sock-puppeteer Dante8 [52] in my comment I listed the articles Timeline of reproductive rights legislation and Timeline of women's legal rights (other than voting) in the 20th century at a post at 2am in the morning. An hour later DefThree edits these articles [53], [54] at around 3am.
Another example on 23:15, 9 November 2022 I edited the Ancel Keys article within an hour later DefThree edits it [55]. This user does this many times. Another example is at Li Ching-Yuen where DefThree edited an hour after me on December 7.
Li Ching-Yuen is an article I first edited in 2021. A day after I edited that article Belteshazzar's edited it on his sock Sslad [56]. Since that time this user has edited that article on other socks, usually a day or so after I edit the article. A recent example is DefThree editing that article an hour after me [57]. The list goes on but it is clear this is all the same user per the same articles and editing interests.
Belteshazzar on their more recent socks SixteenSquared and Small Jars Lack Gold edits Wikipedia Essays making trivial edits to them. This is a perfect match to what DefThree has been doing on such essays as Wikipedia:Tendentious editing.
The clear give away to me is that DefThree has left a comment on SamuelTheGhost's talk-page [58]. I have raised this issue in a previous SPI where you will see that Belteshazzar's socks have also left comments to this user [59], [60].
I have no doubt that Belteshazzar and DefThree are the same user. Psychologist Guy ( talk) 13:30, 12 December 2022 (UTC) Psychologist Guy ( talk) 13:30, 12 December 2022 (UTC)
User:DefThree was recently indeffed as a sock of Belteshazzar. User:Bbb23 reverted a load of their contributions. 200.17.137.40 shows up on some of the same articles and reinstates some of DefThree's changes, sometimes with minor differences, e.g. here, here and here. This looks like the same person anonymously trying to undo their reversions and also disruptively fiddling with policies to try to justify their behaviour. Finally, please note the blatantly dishonest edit summary here which is indicative of a deliberate attempt to avoid scrutiny by pretending to be doing something innocuous. DanielRigal ( talk) 02:31, 24 December 2022 (UTC)
This IP was blocked for 2 weeks back in December for being a sockpuppet of Belteshazzar. (Details: here.) Almost as soon as the block expired it started reverting the reversions of its edits and edits by other Belteshazzar socks. As always, it spends a lot of time fiddling with policy and instruction documents, sometimes making plausible minor corrections sometimes changing things substantially without discussion. Wikipedia:We shouldn't be able to figure out your opinions is the best example as you can see it reinstating its own reverted edit from before the block which was itself a reinstatement of an edit by User:DefThree, a previously blocked sock of Belteshazzar. The IP seems to be stable so I think a longer block is needed. DanielRigal ( talk) 09:48, 11 January 2023 (UTC)
Another IP reinstating reverted edits made by blocked IPs and sockpuppets belonging to Belteshazzar. e.g. this diff which reinstates an edit made by User:200.17.137.40 which was itself a reinstatement of some edits made by User:DefThree. They continue to argue the toss in their edit summaries. They are not getting the message that the content of their edits is no longer at issue because sockpuppetry and block evasion are not acceptable under any circumstances. DanielRigal ( talk) 23:27, 15 January 2023 (UTC)
Another IP sock reinstating the reverted edits by various other Belteshazzar socks. Please can we get semi-protection on all their main targets so that they can't keep doing this with IPs? DanielRigal ( talk) 11:56, 17 January 2023 (UTC)
Recent IP socks of Belteshazzar have used IPs in Argentina, Brazil and Taiwan. Are there some proxy ranges we need to be blocking? -- DanielRigal ( talk) 16:57, 17 January 2023 (UTC)
Turns up on the request for page protection to try to argue the toss as if being a blatant sock of a blocked user wasn't even an issue. Same old nonsense. Same old chutzpah. DanielRigal ( talk) 20:55, 17 January 2023 (UTC)
Reinstating edits by previous socks, yet again. Same old same old... DanielRigal ( talk) 18:08, 18 January 2023 (UTC)
Block evasion from Belteshazzar who is continuing to use a VPN to evade his block. He's now on the talk-page of Addiction Rare in Patients Treated with Narcotics [61], at his usual obsession Charles Ingram and is again stalking my recent editing history and editing articles I have edited, i.e. [62]. There is no doubt this is Belteshazzar. Psychologist Guy ( talk) 15:06, 21 January 2023 (UTC)
I also notice that that IP has made edits to a couple of articles that I have been involved with and which Belteshazzar has previously shown no interest in. I wouldn't call it stalking in my case, at least not yet, but that does corroborate what Psychologist Guy was saying. -- DanielRigal ( talk) 20:28, 21 January 2023 (UTC)
Obvious block-evasion from Belteshazzar who is continuing to use a VPN service to evade his block and edit Addiction Rare in Patients Treated with Narcotics, Charles Ingram, Wikipedia:Avoid instruction creep etc. His tactic now appears to make only 1 edit and then change IP. Psychologist Guy ( talk) 19:58, 28 January 2023 (UTC)
61.220.170.133 went on an editing spree, including reversions, in the last 24h. That's going to take some unpicking. It would be better to block it sooner than later. -- DanielRigal ( talk) 09:07, 31 January 2023 (UTC)
Continued block-evasion from Belteshazzar who is obsessed with editing Charles Ingram and has been making this same edit [64] on his previous blocked IPs. It's obvious that this is also Belteshazzar because they are now editing Timeline of disability rights outside the United States, Timeline of transgender history and Timeline of women's legal rights in the United States (other than voting). These 3 articles I mentioned in Dante8's SPI [65] on 7 February. A few hours later that I mentioned these articles on the Dante SPI - Belteshazzar is editing these articles (as established in 3 previous SPI's he just follows me around everywhere and edits the same articles I edit or mention).
It's probably worth getting page protection on Charles Ingram because Belteshazzar's obvious block evasion is just wasting other users time. Psychologist Guy ( talk) 01:23, 10 February 2023 (UTC)
I'm certain that this is another sockpuppet IP of Belteshazzar. I assume the IP is a proxy. The editing around Charles Ingram and related topics is pretty conclusive, particularly reinstating an edit from one of his previous sockpuppet IPs. Also some of the seemingly "random" other articles edited correspond to articles that I have recently edited. That fits his pattern of stalking the edits of people who have reported him in the past. (One of the articles he has made an innocuous edit to is a new and quite obscure one which I really can't believe that he stumbled over any other way.) DanielRigal ( talk) 01:48, 10 February 2023 (UTC)
The usual nonsense from Belteshazzar. He even confesses to it here! This is the second (maybe third) time this IP has been used by Belteshazzar. He likes to hop IPs but, for some reason he keeps returning to this one. I think it needs to be blocked for a good few months this time. DanielRigal ( talk) 23:01, 13 February 2023 (UTC)
Obvious SOCK. tgeorgescu ( talk) 08:50, 22 February 2023 (UTC)
@ Bbb23: I was rather tired today, sorry, sometimes it is tedious to restate the obvious. tgeorgescu ( talk) 19:28, 22 February 2023 (UTC)
Continued block evasion from Belteshazzar who was recently editing The Carpenter's Pencil (film) and Charles Ingram on the blocked account One Ten Nine Ten. As you can see the IP (which is an open proxy) is editing the same articles [66], [67]
As established in 4 previous SPI's an obsessive editing behaviour of this user is to stalk other users recent edits, you can see he has followed the user Tgeorgescu to the article Perpetual virginity of Mary [68]
If you run an internet search on 89.17.214.10, it is listed as an proxy IP for hire so I think it should qualify to be blocked for longer. Psychologist Guy ( talk) 00:39, 25 February 2023 (UTC)
Has edited Addiction Rare in Patients Treated with Narcotics and Wikipedia:Increase your chances, which are both past targets, in a similar way to before. This is an unlikely pattern of overlap for anybody who is not Belteshazzar. The other edits are probably just intended for distraction. DanielRigal ( talk) 18:23, 28 February 2023 (UTC)
Belteshazzar has used this IP address before. He is returning to abuse it again by targeting the usual topic areas around Charles Ingram. As Charles Ingram is semi-protected he has taken this to related article James Plaskett. Also returning to Wikipedia:Increase your chances. What is new is that he is trying to solicit help in his obsessive quest around Addiction Rare in Patients Treated with Narcotics by bothering User talk:Z1720 with his nonsense. I assume this is a proxy IP. I suggest a good long block. DanielRigal ( talk) 23:28, 1 March 2023 (UTC)
As always, its the Who Wants To Be A Millionaire nonsense and the Addiction Rare in Patients Treated with Narcotics nonsense plus stalking my recent edits to find Talk:List of unusual biological names. This ticks all the boxes for a Belteshazzar sock and the other edits are just random track covering. DanielRigal ( talk) 22:19, 6 March 2023 (UTC)
Furthermore, I think this goes beyond the usual contribution stalking and rises to the level of actual harassment thus raising the question of whether we need to formalise Belteshazzars' many, many blocks as an actual complete ban. -- DanielRigal ( talk) 22:23, 6 March 2023 (UTC)
The usual pattern except that this time he finds that many of his preferred targets are semi-protected so he goes for the talk pages instead. He asks, as if he doesn't already know, why his previous edits were reverted. ( Diff and diff.) He also stalks Psychologist Guy to Isis Unveiled ( diff) and myself to James Stephanie Sterling where he misgenders Sterling in the edit summary ( diff) although I suspect that this is because he has absolutely no idea who Sterling is, not because of any intent to misgender. DanielRigal ( talk) 19:54, 9 March 2023 (UTC)
Redoing edits of the indeffed socks. tgeorgescu ( talk) 15:15, 11 March 2023 (UTC)
Now it is blocked for three months. Also a WP:PROXY. tgeorgescu ( talk) 15:37, 11 March 2023 (UTC)
I have added 154.202.98.218 to the list. That seems close in IP to the other one so maybe a rangeblock is possible? I'm also thinking of making an LTA entry. -- DanielRigal ( talk) 16:41, 11 March 2023 (UTC)
Returning to Shigechiyo Izumi with the same old same old. Also, editing Jamie Raines in a trivial way, which he almost certainly found by stalking my edits. DanielRigal ( talk) 19:18, 13 March 2023 (UTC)
This is obvious Belteshazzar block-evasion. Firstly, 45.173.12.138 is a proxy IP and he is yet again editing his favourite targets Shigechiyo Izumi and Christian Mortensen (leaving the same kind of edit summaries) [72], [73]) similar to his last blocked proxy socks [74], [75]. The same IP has now also followed me onto the Shirali Muslimov article which I edited recently. Psychologist Guy ( talk) 11:55, 25 March 2023 (UTC)
This is continued block-evasion from Belteshazzar who now resorts to using vpns and proxy IPs. 103.189.231.206 is editing Belteshazzar's previous targets Daniel M. Lavery which he has edited on previous blocked socks [76]. Also established in several previous SPI's Belteshazzar is obsessed with editing articles that DanielRigal or myself have edited recently, so that would explain this recent edit [77].
He has then followed me onto the Victoria Braithwaite article [78]. Another target of Belteshazzar is Dwight Gooden which he has been blocked on this account for editing in the past [79].
He has also edited Wikipedia:Fringe theories [80] which he previously edited on the blocked account DefThree [81]. Psychologist Guy ( talk) 23:52, 8 April 2023 (UTC)
Here we go again. Has hit Wikipedia:Everything you need to know, which is a regular target. This IP was blocked for a week and Belteshazzar resumed using it on the day the block expired. I suggest a longer block this time. DanielRigal ( talk) 22:21, 18 April 2023 (UTC)
Continued block-evasion on this proxy IP by Belteshazzar which had previously been blocked [83] in January. He is editing previous targets of his Steven Crowder, Wikipedia:Fringe theories [84] and followed me onto the carnivore diet article [85]. Psychologist Guy ( talk) 18:54, 27 April 2023 (UTC)
Yeah, that's him. Most of the edits are innocuous but I've nuked the edits to Wikipedia:Dealing with sockpuppets as that is probably the single most inappropriate thing imaginable for him to be editing, irrespective of the edit content. I find it interesting that he is reusing a previously used proxy IP. That implies that he has quite a limited pool of usable addresses available to him. Probably most of those he could use are already blocked. There is hope that a really long block on this IP, and maybe just a few others, might see the back of him for a while. -- DanielRigal ( talk) 19:38, 27 April 2023 (UTC)
This is obvious block evasion from Belteshazzar who has yet again followed me onto the carnivore diet article [86] but this time using the talk-page as the article is protected and Li Ching-Yuen [87] which he has edited many times before on IPs a few hours after me. The previous blocked IP he was using last week [88] you can see it is Belteshazzar.
Another target of his is Wikipedia:Dealing with sockpuppets [89] which he has been blocked on quite a few IPs going back to January. Psychologist Guy ( talk) 00:02, 5 May 2023 (UTC)
This is continued Belteshazzar block-evasion on a VPN who is continuing to stalk my recent edit history and edit the same articles as me. This has been mentioned in many previous SPI's. I am not happy about this stalking any longer, it's been going on nearly 2 years now. I would like to email the WMF, I believe this user Belteshazzar should be globally banned because this is long-term harassment.
Examples: 3HO [90], Hulda Crooks [91], Joe Greenstein [92] all edited after me.
Another target of Belteshazzar is the user DanielRigal which would explain the edit at For Women Scotland [93].
As per the previous SPI he also edits the article Li Ching-Yuen where he has been blocked many times [94], [95]. It might be worth protecting that article, I may request that. Psychologist Guy ( talk) 21:21, 16 May 2023 (UTC)
Belteshazzar is now using another proxy [96] to follow me around. WP:PSPITFALLS is also another target of his that he has edited in the past [97], [98]. Psychologist Guy ( talk) 18:49, 18 May 2023 (UTC)
He is back editing R v Ingram, C., Ingram, D. and Whittock, T.. This should be a quick block. There is no doubt these proxy IPs are Belteshazzar. Psychologist Guy ( talk) 10:35, 19 May 2023 (UTC)
Most of the other edits looks like innocuous edits to either to deflect attention or to annoy but the edit to Li Ching-Yuen is a very standard edit to one of his standard targets. That's definitely him. -- DanielRigal ( talk) 21:34, 16 May 2023 (UTC)
Note: The stalking is getting out of hand so I have opened a case on ANI about that: Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents#Stalking by sockpuppets of Belteshazzar. -- DanielRigal ( talk) 17:40, 19 May 2023 (UTC)
I've added 223.207.103.125. Same old, same old. Ugh... -- DanielRigal ( talk) 18:17, 27 May 2023 (UTC)
I'm pretty certain that 194.124.36.26 is Belteshazzar. Wikipedia:Guide to addressing bias is a frequent target. Their one other edit is to an article about a baseball player. Several of the previous socks have also made edits to articles about baseball players. I am fairly confident that 103.167.170.202 is also him. Wikipedia:Dealing with sockpuppets is a topic close to Belteshazzar's heart (for obvious reasons) and that IP has been blocked as a proxy in the past. Even so, it would be good to get a checkuser to make sure. DanielRigal ( talk) 00:22, 8 June 2023 (UTC)
These proxy IPs are definitely Belteshazzar block evasion. A favourite target of his is Li Ching-Yuen [102] which he followed me onto and has been editing for months on many proxies. Psychologist Guy ( talk) 17:25, 8 June 2023 (UTC)
Here we go again. He is reverting to his preferred versions made by his previous, now blocked, sock account. Doesn't he ever get bored with this nonsense? DanielRigal ( talk) 15:40, 19 June 2023 (UTC)
Reverting to reinstate the previous blocked IP's attempts to trick another user into helping him on User talk:Morganfitzp. DanielRigal ( talk) 13:39, 20 June 2023 (UTC)
45.166.16.228 is a proxy IP. The edits made on 20 June 2023 are definitely Belteshazzar. The edits made on the 8, 9, 11 and 18th of June are not Belteshazzar they are another banned sock-puppeteer who has an obsession with editing Japanese superhero character lists. This same user has shared proxy IPs with Belteshazzar in the past on multiple proxies. The best thing to do here is give 45.166.16.228 a long block. Psychologist Guy ( talk) 22:28, 20 June 2023 (UTC)
Looks like he has yet another IP sock and is using it to reinstate reverted edits by the previous IP socks. So far, he is only reinstating some of his baseball related edits, which is often a prelude to reinstating the other, weirder, nonsense. Weird thing is that I'm pretty sure that he only started doing baseball edits as cover, or out of casual interest in the topic, but now he seems to be becoming obsessed with defending those edits too. The IP is probably a proxy. If so, I recommend a long block, either of the individual IP or of a range of proxy IPs that it is in. DanielRigal ( talk) 12:49, 25 June 2023 (UTC)
Belteshazzar, if you see this, then please try to understand that you are not only wasting everybody's time by continuing to try to edit Wikipedia. This is not healthy for you. Please find some other activity that you can do instead. If you really do care about baseball then maybe participate in some baseball related forums, fan wikis or something like that? If you can't let go of Wikipedia on your own then please seek appropriate professional help to do so. It will be better for everybody, but mostly better for you, if you can do this. There is nothing for you here and staying here is only holding you back from finding somewhere else where you can achieve something more worthwhile than constantly having your efforts reverted. -- DanielRigal ( talk) 12:57, 25 June 2023 (UTC)
Returning to Das Fürlines (a recent repeat target) and also an edit about baseball. Similar tone in the edit summaries. Even after only two edits I'm confident that this is Belteshazzar again. DanielRigal ( talk) 11:26, 29 June 2023 (UTC)
Five edits to three articles, all three of which are previous targets of his socks and which are otherwise mostly unrelated. DanielRigal ( talk) 18:04, 3 July 2023 (UTC)
I'm not 100% sure about this one, hence the request for a checkuser, but this IP has been editing in the WP space for a few days and hitting a couple of the usual targets pretty hard, Wikipedia:Avoid instruction creep and Wikipedia:Increase your chances. The style of the edit summaries seems suspiciously similar to past socks. No sign of any baseball related edits but maybe he is finally learning that those are counterproductive when trying to cover his tracks. No sign of the ophthalmology stuff yet but I think four days in enough rope. I'm not nuking the edits this time, yet, just in case this is not him but the chances of an anonymous editor taking such an interest in the WP space legitimately is pretty low. DanielRigal ( talk) 13:01, 9 July 2023 (UTC)
Note: I've added 110.136.216.110. This is clearly in a fairly adjacent IP address range. This suggests the need for a good long rangeblock if such a large range can be blocked safely without hurting legitimate users. -- DanielRigal ( talk) 11:22, 14 July 2023 (UTC)
Note: I've added 103.178.42.233 which is more of the same nonsense. -- DanielRigal ( talk) 21:02, 18 July 2023 (UTC)
Here we go again. He is hitting many of the usual targets and reinstating his usual stuff, even after being reverted. His attempt to bend Wikipedia:Increase your chances to his own ends is the smoking gun here. As is often the case, he is being vocal in the edit summaries about everything except acknowledging that he is block/ban evading and hence has no right to edit Wikipedia. I did hold off reporting this one as reporting his IPs seems to do limited good as he has a reasonable sized pool of proxy IP addresses to cycle between. I had hoped that he would just go away for a bit if I nuked his edits but that isn't working and so I think that this IP does need a good long block although he'll probably be back with a new one next week... DanielRigal ( talk) 13:49, 29 July 2023 (UTC)
Baseball related edits, some reinstating previous edits by previous socks. Also, Das Fürlines again and, of course, fiddling around in the Wikipedia namespace at Wikipedia:Recentism. DanielRigal ( talk) 23:57, 7 August 2023 (UTC)
This IP was given a short block three days ago. The block has expired and Belteshazzar picked up right where he left off editing Jerry Reinsdorf and then, for some reason, moved on to The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. Unfortunately for him, we are paying attention to the man behind the curtain. I suggest a rather longer block his time. DanielRigal ( talk) 14:05, 13 August 2023 (UTC)
Reporting 110.136.218.207 for reinstituting similar edits with similar edit summaries. Just glancing at the history of 1994 World Series and 1997 World Series makes this obviously Belteshazzar. Same thing with The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. Leijurv ( talk) 01:54, 14 August 2023 (UTC) Leijurv ( talk) 02:02, 14 August 2023 (UTC)
Same old same old. Baseball stuff and some other repeat targets. Smoking gun is this edit reinstating an edit made by a previous sockpuppet IP. Bullseye says: "proxycheck: True" so I think a long block is needed. DanielRigal ( talk) 00:06, 17 August 2023 (UTC)
Clearly belteshazzar: reinstituted the exact same edit to WP:RECENTISM, and also made some edits to players in the 1997 baseball world series. Leijurv ( talk) 18:16, 17 August 2023 (UTC)
Despite only having made three edits using this IP address there is absolutely no doubt that this is Belteshazzar. -- DanielRigal ( talk) 18:29, 17 August 2023 (UTC)
Usual repeat targets. Reinstating edits by previous socks. DanielRigal ( talk) 18:49, 22 August 2023 (UTC)
proxycheck.io lists this as a Compromised Server Proxy. [104]: Suggest lengthy block and closure. And a big thanks goes out to Belteshazzar, who single-handedly has helped us to identify and block multiple proxies, thus making it harder for other people to abuse Wikipedia. -- Guy Macon ( talk) 19:45, 22 August 2023 (UTC)
Clearly Belteshazzar: reinstituted the exact same edit to Roy Halladay's perfect game and Addiction Rare in Patients Treated with Narcotics, as well as some other articles. Leijurv ( talk) 19:30, 28 August 2023 (UTC)
Same and related targets. Similar edit summaries. IP is in the same /16 as a recent previous sock, 110.136.150.254. DanielRigal ( talk) 22:18, 30 August 2023 (UTC)
The sockpuppeteer has been labeled a WMF-legal banned user. I don't know what the charges are, but this is only done for very serious charges. tgeorgescu ( talk) 17:51, 4 September 2023 (UTC)
This is obvious block evasion from Belteshazzar. 1.54.250.26 is likely to be a proxy [105]
Belteshazzar is globally banned [106]. I will not disclose any specific details but I have been stalked by this user on site and harassed by them off-site. They still seem to be using proxies/vpn to evade their block.
On Commons, Belteshazzar was using this IP [107] but it has now been blocked as a proxy. Psychologist Guy ( talk) 19:44, 16 September 2023 (UTC)
Already blocked ducky sock. Just noting it for the record; as it's been a while since there's been a registered account puppet. CU check requested in case there are sleepers. Firefangledfeathers ( talk / contribs) 18:02, 26 September 2023 (UTC)
Trying to censor their own LTA report ( diff1, diff2) is cheeky even by their standards of chutzpah. This is particularly egregious because they, a globally banned editor, are casting baseless aspersions as to the trustworthiness of another editor in good standing. DanielRigal ( talk) 22:46, 30 September 2023 (UTC)
Does anyone have a theory as to where this LTA is finding new proxies? Or are they just so easy to find that any attempt to proactively identify and block proxies would be playing a game of Whac-A-Mole? -- Guy Macon Alternate Account ( talk) 18:26, 2 October 2023 (UTC)
Hitting a couple of the usual targets in the usual ways. DanielRigal ( talk) 22:24, 1 October 2023 (UTC)
IP now blocked. Closing.-- Bbb23 ( talk) 18:51, 2 October 2023 (UTC)
Returning to previous targets in the usual manner. DanielRigal ( talk) 11:35, 11 October 2023 (UTC)
The usual behaviour. 3/4 edits are to recent previous targets. DanielRigal ( talk) 15:51, 17 October 2023 (UTC)
Usual behaviour. Several of the usual targets. DanielRigal ( talk) 11:34, 19 October 2023 (UTC)
Same old same old. Literally reinstating edits by previously blocked and reverted sock 45.181.123.97 on Presbyopia and Opioid epidemic in the United States. DanielRigal ( talk) 03:47, 28 October 2023 (UTC)
Making identical edits to Wikipedia:Everything you need to know, with identical edit summaries Panian513 20:52, 28 October 2023 (UTC)
Usual targets. Usual nonsense. DanielRigal ( talk) 17:05, 31 October 2023 (UTC)
The same nonsense. The literal same edit summaries as the last sock in at least some cases! DanielRigal ( talk) 18:02, 1 November 2023 (UTC)
Identical edits and edit summaries to sockpuppets identified in the past couple of weeks. Panian513 19:25, 2 November 2023 (UTC)
This is still ongoing, with him popping back every few hours to try his luck (and our patience) again. Is anybody able to deal with this? @ Firefangledfeathers: maybe? -- DanielRigal ( talk) 02:24, 3 November 2023 (UTC)
Some of the baseball articles are protected now but this is clearly Belteshazzar returning to some of the others and some new, related, articles. Note this diff all but exactly restoring edits be one of his previous blocked socks (185.189.199.77). Also, several of the edits have the same argumentative, self-justifying tone in their edit summaries. DanielRigal ( talk) 20:44, 4 November 2023 (UTC)
No sooner does one IP get blocked than another turns up. Mostly the usual targets, and some of the same edit summaries, as before. Hitting Private Eye is new though. DanielRigal ( talk) 16:40, 6 November 2023 (UTC)
He had the astonishing, unmitigated, brazen chutzpah to try to report me to the BLP noticeboard for reverting his ban evading edits ( diff). The affronted tone is clearly his, as is his insistence on trying to defend his individual edits while completely ignoring the fact that he is banned. This was a personal attack but I'm not going to make a big deal about that. It has already been reverted and it's not like he can get any more banned than he already is. Please can we just do the usual and block the IP for a good long time? IPCheck says it is a proxy. DanielRigal ( talk) 04:35, 10 November 2023 (UTC)
Only three edits but they all hit previous targets and reinstate the same or similar content as previous socks with similar style of edit summaries. Despite not noticing and reporting this one right away it seems to have gone quiet after those three edits. DanielRigal ( talk) 01:03, 20 November 2023 (UTC)
Reinstating edits by previous sock IPs even with the same edit summaries. Also attempting to trick ElKevbo into reinstating his edits at User talk:ElKevbo#Reverts. DanielRigal ( talk) 15:21, 26 November 2023 (UTC)
IP stirring trouble at WP:HD#Reverts and extended-confirmed protection, requesting prior edits by blocked sock StuckWithBadVersions be reinstated. * Pppery * it has begun... 05:32, 30 November 2023 (UTC)
Usual edits, usual subjects Panian513 19:46, 6 December 2023 (UTC)
Same old same old. Baseball, fringe ophthalmology and kvetching about previous socks being reverted in the hope of recruiting unwitting assistance from whatever places that he hopes that he is not already known and recognised in. The baseball edits are incredibly nitpicky tweaks to spacing and pluralisations. That is not the work of a true baseball fan. That is him trying to probe what edits he can get away with and hoping to make us look petty by reverting him. It is intentionally disruptive. -- DanielRigal ( talk) 20:12, 6 December 2023 (UTC)
Also, I note that he is clearly using a timer so that he can get back in and revandalise protected articles as soon as the protection expires. He even got in a few minutes before MusikBot II took the protection tags off on a couple of the articles. This is taking vandalism to an obsessive level. I know we shouldn't speculate about people's mental health but, Belteshazzar, if you see this, please seek help to break out of this pointless cycle of behaviour and to find something more healthy, productive and enjoyable to occupy your mind and your time. It will be better for Wikipedia but, mostly, it will be better for you. -- DanielRigal ( talk) 20:25, 6 December 2023 (UTC)
More baseball. More opioid stuff. More "Subject-verb agreement" in the edit summaries. IP is a proxy. DanielRigal ( talk) 16:16, 8 December 2023 (UTC)
Another proxy IP. He is trying to be a bit sneaky this time by editing some articles not previously hit before moving on to reinstating edits on previous targets. This edit summary is the smoking gun. -- DanielRigal ( talk) 22:13, 9 December 2023 (UTC) DanielRigal ( talk) 22:13, 9 December 2023 (UTC)
Same edits. Same edit summaries. Same globally banned nuisance. DanielRigal ( talk) 20:12, 10 December 2023 (UTC)
Another spree of trivial edits and then returning to previous targets to reinstate previous sock edits with the same edit summaries. This example is a smoking gun due to the edit summary kvetching about being reverted on some of his main targets. Is there anything we can do to get rid of him? His willingness to range widely makes it impossible to protect everything he touches. We can't protect every single baseball article, never mind all the other stuff. DanielRigal ( talk) 12:00, 15 December 2023 (UTC)
Some of the same edit summaries. DanielRigal ( talk) 01:12, 17 December 2023 (UTC)
This IP is literally the next one along from the last one (177.93.44.69) and the editing pattern is the same, including the same offended tone in the edit summaries. DanielRigal ( talk) 22:19, 19 December 2023 (UTC)
Using edit summaries to vent frustrations about previous reverts made against previous sockpuppets Panian513 01:55, 21 December 2023 (UTC)
That's him. I guess his increased recent activity corresponds to a school holiday. -- DanielRigal ( talk) 01:58, 21 December 2023 (UTC)
He straight up admits it here, even while blatantly lying about who/why he got banned. DanielRigal ( talk) 19:32, 21 December 2023 (UTC)
Usual targets, baseball, etc. Reinstating edits of previous socks. Sounds like a duck quacking into a megaphone to me Seawolf35 T-- C 16:48, 22 December 2023 (UTC)
Quack! See User_talk:PaleoNeonate#Bad_reverts which links [109] which directly references this LTA. Seawolf35 T-- C 21:47, 29 December 2023 (UTC)
Yeah. That's him. Can't he even take a break for xmas? -- DanielRigal ( talk) 22:46, 29 December 2023 (UTC)
See, for example, User talk:Roo60, where he is focused on welcoming back an inactive user, and Jake Westbrook, where there is an identical edit summary in the page history associated with a sock. Larry Hockett ( Talk) 01:58, 7 January 2024 (UTC)
Tweaking spacing to tweak our noses. Also pretty much the same edits with the same edit summaries as some of the previous socks on the edits with more substantial edit summaries. DanielRigal ( talk) 00:14, 8 January 2024 (UTC)
Looks like the proxy bot threw a local rangeblock on top of the global one as well. Imma close here. Jo-Jo Eumerus ( talk) 14:34, 10 January 2024 (UTC)
Previously blocked sockpuppet is targeting the usual targets again upon the block's expiry. Panian513 17:19, 11 January 2024 (UTC)
See the page history at Jake Westbrook, among others. Larry Hockett ( Talk) 02:40, 16 January 2024 (UTC)
Yes, that's him. Usual edit summaries and several of the usual target articles. -- DanielRigal ( talk) 14:03, 16 January 2024 (UTC)
Obvious block-evasion from Belteshazzar continuing to edit the same articles they were editing before they were blocked on their previous proxy [110]. Same pattern of disruptive obsessive trolling. Editing their usual targets Wikipedia:Avoid instruction creep, Lenny Webster etc.
Off-site Belteshazzar has been posting on a blog that he wanted to join the forum wikipediasucks.co for recruitment purposes. It's probably worth watching his usual targets for possible meat-puppetry. Psychologist Guy ( talk) 16:36, 18 January 2024 (UTC)
Trying to embroil PaleoNeonate again. "Unneeded space" again. Baseball again.
Proxycheck.io says it is not a proxy but IPQualityScore says that it is. I'm not sure what to make of that. DanielRigal ( talk) 00:31, 22 January 2024 (UTC)
WP:DUCK. Reinstated edits, several with the exact same edit summary, on Mark Geragos, Presbyopia, Wikipedia:Guide to addressing bias, Wikipedia:Increase your chances, Wikipedia:Everything you need to know, Opioid epidemic in the United States, Addiction Rare in Patients Treated with Narcotics, and Charles Ingram. I really don't understand this, it's the EXACT same edits with edit summaries. WP:GAMING an account up to extended confirmed doesn't make it any less obvious when I have all these pages watchlisted. Noticed within ten minutes?? Leijurv ( talk) 00:32, 23 February 2024 (UTC)
I've been watching this one for a bit as I was suspicious of the stats update to James Stephanie Sterling, which Belteshazzar has done before, but that's not conclusive. Lo and behold, the update to Presbyopia proves me right. It's him again. DanielRigal ( talk) 19:44, 25 February 2024 (UTC)
Same targets. Same edit summaries. Same pest. DanielRigal ( talk) 21:38, 27 February 2024 (UTC)
Manual reverts on recent targets such as Mark Geragos. Panian513 00:38, 2 March 2024 (UTC)
WP:DUCK reinstating reverted edits on: David Justice, Jake Westbrook, Roy Halladay's perfect game, Manny Ramirez Leijurv ( talk) 03:19, 17 May 2024 (UTC)
Baseball related again. Opioid related again. Fiddling with the same policies that previous socks have. This is one of his less subtle sockpuppets. Detailed, argumentative, edit summaries on the articles he actually cares about but not on the earlier random edits which were clearly just to test the water. DanielRigal ( talk) 13:03, 29 May 2024 (UTC)
Same POV at same article ( Bates method), after the sockmaster got indeffed. tgeorgescu ( talk) 15:46, 4 September 2021 (UTC)
ineffectivewould violate encyclopedic neutrality. tgeorgescu ( talk) 02:19, 5 September 2021 (UTC)
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I tend to think there's not sockpuppetry here. I say that principally because of what I see as significant stylistic differences. Also, in the case of AlisonCary, their contribution history shows a range of different individual interests. There are many followers of the Bates method out there who are intent on resisting its characterisation as ineffective, so it's no surprise to me that we have a number of different people sharing the same agenda. -- Jmc ( talk) 19:59, 5 September 2021 (UTC)
Belteshazzar is indef blocked on Wikipedia for their disruption on the Bates method related articles. Belteshazzar was blocked from editing on 26 June 2021 but was active on their talk-page until September 6.
Sslad created their account on 3 September. Both Belteshazzar and Sslad make the same long type of edit summaries on articles related to the Bates method for example [3] compared to [4].
Both these accounts have edited the Pseudomyopia, an article that not many users have edited. Based on the history of that article there is very little traffic there but both make the same sort of trivial edits. Both accounts have also edited the Presbyopia article and both accounts have made an edit on the Aldous Huxley. This is very suspect because they edit exactly the same articles out of millions of others that they could be editing. If you check the history of the Bates method [5] which Sslad is currently editing they are making trivial edits. This is something that Belteshazzar resorted to in their later edits before they were blocked.
Another piece of behavioral evidence for me though not as strong is Sslad editing the Li Ching-Yuen article on [6] 18 September. However, I had edited this article exactly a day before. You can see their edit directly after mine. I am not convinced this is a coincidence. Belteshazzar blames me and another user for reporting their account and getting them banned and this user used to edit some of the same articles as me because they looked at what I was editing. In conclusion I am convinced this account is Belteshazzar. Psychologist Guy ( talk) 16:10, 26 October 2021 (UTC)
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I was interested in treatments for presbyopia, and noticed that a link did not lead to the cited paper, hence I created an account and fixed it. I don't think I had ever heard of the Bates method until I looked at the edits of AlisonCary, who had also recently edited Presbyopia. I then learned about the Bates method, and followed other related pages and users who had edited that article, including Belteshazzar. I may well have found Li Ching-Yuen via Psychologist Guy's recent editing history, and I may have originally found Pseudomyopia via Belteshazzar's history, though I had previously heard of pseudomyopia in connection to presbyopia, which apparently works against it by stopping accommodation. I recently found a source cited at Bates method which was indicated to be freely available at the doi link, but it wasn't, so I found a link where it was freely available and changed the citation. I don't know why that would be considered "trivial". Sslad ( talk) 21:16, 26 October 2021 (UTC)
LaLeLiLou is an obvious Belteshazzar sock-puppet. Belteshazzar was blocked for their disruptive edits related to Bates method and Pseudomyopia.
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I suspect that Belteshazzar's IP address still might be check-user blocked and he is using VPN's which a previous SPI found. Psychologist Guy ( talk) 13:05, 30 March 2022 (UTC)
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I have filed 3 SPI's against Belteshazzar in the past, all have been successful in blocking his socks so I am familiar with this user. It is not worth doing CU here as Belteshazzar is stale but I believe there is good behavioural evidence to block these accounts. As seen in the previous filings, Belteshazzar edits the Bates method, Aldous Huxley and Pseudomyopia related articles. However, as these articles are now heavily watched; this user has resorted to only making the occasional trivial edit on these articles but following me and editing any article I edit usually within 24 hours or 2 days of me editing an article (I have raised this in two previous SPI's), it is a very distinct type of editing behaviour. The user always leaves their user-page red, edits at the same times, makes similar edit summaries and makes very trivial edits.
SixteenSquared joined Wikipedia on 1 February 2022 to edit PaleoNeonate/Pitfalls essay on pseudoscience [20] which is odd behaviour for a brand new user and PaleoNeonate also commented the behaviour is suspect. If you check out Belteshazzar's long term disruption on the Bates method talk-page you will see that Belteshazzar was debating many users about the Bates Method being characterized as ineffective or pseudoscience and one of these users he debated was PaleoNeonate, example [21]. SixteenSquared's interest in PaleoNeonate's essay is thus not a random occurrence. If you look at SixteenSquared's edits on that essay they are actually all trivial, a pattern that matches his editing.
On August 11 this user edited the Bates Method [22]. On the same day they edited Book of Dzyan, John A. McDougall, Jean Overton Fuller, C. E. Bechhofer Roberts. Note that I edited all these articles first on August 11, adding content. Within a few hours SixteenSquared edited all of these articles making tiny edits, for example check the page history of Book of Dzyan, Jean Overton Fuller and C. E. Bechhofer Roberts [23], [24], [25]. This user has a long history of looking at my edits, then going to the same articles I have edited and making trivial edits to them. On August 25, this was done again on Peter Anthony Bertocci [26]. The Bertocci article had not been edited since 2020 when I edited it on August 25, yet within hours SixteenSquared is editing it. As said this is very distinct and odd editing behaviour that I have raised in the previous SPI. It is clearly Belteshazzar, no other user does this. SixteenSquared also made an edit on Aldous Huxley an article which most of his socks have made edits on.
The same editing behaviour has occurred on Small Jars Lack Gold, an account that I was going to file an SPI against in January 2022 but the account was abandoned so I didn't bother. This account was created on 2 January 2022 with the first edits on Wikipedia_talk:Increase_your_chances [27] using the same writing style as Belteshazzar [28]. I am very familiar with how Belteshazzar writes, and that is definitely the same user. Again what is interesting here are the trivial edits on Evan Shute [29], Claus W. Jungeblut [30] and Great Amherst Mystery. These are all articles I have edited, yet Small Jars Lack Gold also edits them directly after me, making small edits to pronunciation or removing apostrophes. This is clearly Belteshazzar who has a history of doing this, clicking on my account then editing the same articles. This same user, did this on his previous socks Sslad [31] and LaLeLiLou [32].
If you check Small Jars Lack Gold's account history, there is the similar theme of making one off edits on William Bates (physician) and vision therapy. Both these accounts have the same editing pattern. This account also edited Alexbrn/A_POV_that_draws_a_source [33]. This is unlikely to be random. Belteshazzar dislikes the user Alexbrn who he encountered on the Bates method talk-page.
It should also be noted that if you look at the edit summaries of Small Jars Lack Gold and SixteenSquared they use exactly the same phrasing and writing style and also using quotation marks [34], [35], [36] and [37].
Belteshazzar on two of his blocked socks has commented that he is improving the website by fixing grammar or pronunciation and other minor edits, however, this user is blocked here. This user is not acting in good faith by repeatedly creating new accounts every few months to make minor edits on articles I have edited. I believe it is fair that his socks are blocked. Psychologist Guy ( talk) 20:26, 26 August 2022 (UTC)
On the off-chance of something showing up I looked at 162 but found no other accounts--though I did see use of a proxy. Perhaps GeneralNotability has the memory of an elephant--they checked them last year. For me, it will have to be based on behavior, and I see that this is what Black Kite did last time--Black Kite, you mind having a quick look? Drmies ( talk) 20:35, 26 August 2022 (UTC)
Speaking of creepy, now they're following me around-- [43], [44], [45], [46]. That kind of stuff is already enough reason to block. GeneralNotability, you too. Drmies ( talk) 14:38, 27 August 2022 (UTC)
I have filed quite a few sock-puppet investigations against Belteshazzar and all have been successful in blocking this users socks. After they are blocked they usually turn up on a new account within a month or two. I am familiar with this users editing interests and style going back a few years. DefThree is a newish account created on 24 October 2022. If you check DefThree's edits they are a perfect match to Belteshazzar's socks. Belteshazzer's last blocked sock SixteenSquared was blocked on 27 August 2022.
Belteshazzar editing interests are all things related to the Bates Method and Myopia/ Pseudomyopia, Who Wants to be a Millionaire and various murders. When this user is not editing articles related to these topics, they make trivial edits on articles fixing spelling and on Wikipedia Essays. It is the same pattern of editing and edit summaries every-time.
DefThree has been editing Li Ching-Yuen, Bernarr Macfadden, Aldous Huxley, The Art of Seeing, Charles Ingram and mentioning Margaret Darst Corbett - these are all articles which Belteshazzar's blocked socks have edited. For example Belteshazzar edited the Charles Ingram article many times, just one example [47]. DefThree has been recently editing that article [48]. DefThree has been editing Aldous Huxley and The Art of Seeing - I have shown in previous SPIs that this users socks have been editing these articles but just take a look at the editing history [49] and you will see both Belteshazzar and DefThree making similar edits. The same is happening at Myopia. That is an article that Belteshazzar often spoke about many times. DefThree in a comment to SamuelTheGhost [50] has mentioned the article Margaret Darst Corbett. The Corbett article is low-traffic and is an interest of Belteshazzar's. Belteshazzer edited that article quite a few times and also edited it on their blocked sock LaLeLiLou [51]. They obviously won't touch that article because it is being watched but they are asking another user about it (SamuelTheGhost, an editor that Belteshazzar has contacted before).
As established in two of the previous SPI's - Belteshazzar has an obsession with checking my recent editing history and often edits articles I have created within two hours of me having done so. He makes very trivial edits attempting to move commas or fix spelling mistakes. On the 31 October I filed an SPI investigation against a different sock-puppeteer Dante8 [52] in my comment I listed the articles Timeline of reproductive rights legislation and Timeline of women's legal rights (other than voting) in the 20th century at a post at 2am in the morning. An hour later DefThree edits these articles [53], [54] at around 3am.
Another example on 23:15, 9 November 2022 I edited the Ancel Keys article within an hour later DefThree edits it [55]. This user does this many times. Another example is at Li Ching-Yuen where DefThree edited an hour after me on December 7.
Li Ching-Yuen is an article I first edited in 2021. A day after I edited that article Belteshazzar's edited it on his sock Sslad [56]. Since that time this user has edited that article on other socks, usually a day or so after I edit the article. A recent example is DefThree editing that article an hour after me [57]. The list goes on but it is clear this is all the same user per the same articles and editing interests.
Belteshazzar on their more recent socks SixteenSquared and Small Jars Lack Gold edits Wikipedia Essays making trivial edits to them. This is a perfect match to what DefThree has been doing on such essays as Wikipedia:Tendentious editing.
The clear give away to me is that DefThree has left a comment on SamuelTheGhost's talk-page [58]. I have raised this issue in a previous SPI where you will see that Belteshazzar's socks have also left comments to this user [59], [60].
I have no doubt that Belteshazzar and DefThree are the same user. Psychologist Guy ( talk) 13:30, 12 December 2022 (UTC) Psychologist Guy ( talk) 13:30, 12 December 2022 (UTC)
User:DefThree was recently indeffed as a sock of Belteshazzar. User:Bbb23 reverted a load of their contributions. 200.17.137.40 shows up on some of the same articles and reinstates some of DefThree's changes, sometimes with minor differences, e.g. here, here and here. This looks like the same person anonymously trying to undo their reversions and also disruptively fiddling with policies to try to justify their behaviour. Finally, please note the blatantly dishonest edit summary here which is indicative of a deliberate attempt to avoid scrutiny by pretending to be doing something innocuous. DanielRigal ( talk) 02:31, 24 December 2022 (UTC)
This IP was blocked for 2 weeks back in December for being a sockpuppet of Belteshazzar. (Details: here.) Almost as soon as the block expired it started reverting the reversions of its edits and edits by other Belteshazzar socks. As always, it spends a lot of time fiddling with policy and instruction documents, sometimes making plausible minor corrections sometimes changing things substantially without discussion. Wikipedia:We shouldn't be able to figure out your opinions is the best example as you can see it reinstating its own reverted edit from before the block which was itself a reinstatement of an edit by User:DefThree, a previously blocked sock of Belteshazzar. The IP seems to be stable so I think a longer block is needed. DanielRigal ( talk) 09:48, 11 January 2023 (UTC)
Another IP reinstating reverted edits made by blocked IPs and sockpuppets belonging to Belteshazzar. e.g. this diff which reinstates an edit made by User:200.17.137.40 which was itself a reinstatement of some edits made by User:DefThree. They continue to argue the toss in their edit summaries. They are not getting the message that the content of their edits is no longer at issue because sockpuppetry and block evasion are not acceptable under any circumstances. DanielRigal ( talk) 23:27, 15 January 2023 (UTC)
Another IP sock reinstating the reverted edits by various other Belteshazzar socks. Please can we get semi-protection on all their main targets so that they can't keep doing this with IPs? DanielRigal ( talk) 11:56, 17 January 2023 (UTC)
Recent IP socks of Belteshazzar have used IPs in Argentina, Brazil and Taiwan. Are there some proxy ranges we need to be blocking? -- DanielRigal ( talk) 16:57, 17 January 2023 (UTC)
Turns up on the request for page protection to try to argue the toss as if being a blatant sock of a blocked user wasn't even an issue. Same old nonsense. Same old chutzpah. DanielRigal ( talk) 20:55, 17 January 2023 (UTC)
Reinstating edits by previous socks, yet again. Same old same old... DanielRigal ( talk) 18:08, 18 January 2023 (UTC)
Block evasion from Belteshazzar who is continuing to use a VPN to evade his block. He's now on the talk-page of Addiction Rare in Patients Treated with Narcotics [61], at his usual obsession Charles Ingram and is again stalking my recent editing history and editing articles I have edited, i.e. [62]. There is no doubt this is Belteshazzar. Psychologist Guy ( talk) 15:06, 21 January 2023 (UTC)
I also notice that that IP has made edits to a couple of articles that I have been involved with and which Belteshazzar has previously shown no interest in. I wouldn't call it stalking in my case, at least not yet, but that does corroborate what Psychologist Guy was saying. -- DanielRigal ( talk) 20:28, 21 January 2023 (UTC)
Obvious block-evasion from Belteshazzar who is continuing to use a VPN service to evade his block and edit Addiction Rare in Patients Treated with Narcotics, Charles Ingram, Wikipedia:Avoid instruction creep etc. His tactic now appears to make only 1 edit and then change IP. Psychologist Guy ( talk) 19:58, 28 January 2023 (UTC)
61.220.170.133 went on an editing spree, including reversions, in the last 24h. That's going to take some unpicking. It would be better to block it sooner than later. -- DanielRigal ( talk) 09:07, 31 January 2023 (UTC)
Continued block-evasion from Belteshazzar who is obsessed with editing Charles Ingram and has been making this same edit [64] on his previous blocked IPs. It's obvious that this is also Belteshazzar because they are now editing Timeline of disability rights outside the United States, Timeline of transgender history and Timeline of women's legal rights in the United States (other than voting). These 3 articles I mentioned in Dante8's SPI [65] on 7 February. A few hours later that I mentioned these articles on the Dante SPI - Belteshazzar is editing these articles (as established in 3 previous SPI's he just follows me around everywhere and edits the same articles I edit or mention).
It's probably worth getting page protection on Charles Ingram because Belteshazzar's obvious block evasion is just wasting other users time. Psychologist Guy ( talk) 01:23, 10 February 2023 (UTC)
I'm certain that this is another sockpuppet IP of Belteshazzar. I assume the IP is a proxy. The editing around Charles Ingram and related topics is pretty conclusive, particularly reinstating an edit from one of his previous sockpuppet IPs. Also some of the seemingly "random" other articles edited correspond to articles that I have recently edited. That fits his pattern of stalking the edits of people who have reported him in the past. (One of the articles he has made an innocuous edit to is a new and quite obscure one which I really can't believe that he stumbled over any other way.) DanielRigal ( talk) 01:48, 10 February 2023 (UTC)
The usual nonsense from Belteshazzar. He even confesses to it here! This is the second (maybe third) time this IP has been used by Belteshazzar. He likes to hop IPs but, for some reason he keeps returning to this one. I think it needs to be blocked for a good few months this time. DanielRigal ( talk) 23:01, 13 February 2023 (UTC)
Obvious SOCK. tgeorgescu ( talk) 08:50, 22 February 2023 (UTC)
@ Bbb23: I was rather tired today, sorry, sometimes it is tedious to restate the obvious. tgeorgescu ( talk) 19:28, 22 February 2023 (UTC)
Continued block evasion from Belteshazzar who was recently editing The Carpenter's Pencil (film) and Charles Ingram on the blocked account One Ten Nine Ten. As you can see the IP (which is an open proxy) is editing the same articles [66], [67]
As established in 4 previous SPI's an obsessive editing behaviour of this user is to stalk other users recent edits, you can see he has followed the user Tgeorgescu to the article Perpetual virginity of Mary [68]
If you run an internet search on 89.17.214.10, it is listed as an proxy IP for hire so I think it should qualify to be blocked for longer. Psychologist Guy ( talk) 00:39, 25 February 2023 (UTC)
Has edited Addiction Rare in Patients Treated with Narcotics and Wikipedia:Increase your chances, which are both past targets, in a similar way to before. This is an unlikely pattern of overlap for anybody who is not Belteshazzar. The other edits are probably just intended for distraction. DanielRigal ( talk) 18:23, 28 February 2023 (UTC)
Belteshazzar has used this IP address before. He is returning to abuse it again by targeting the usual topic areas around Charles Ingram. As Charles Ingram is semi-protected he has taken this to related article James Plaskett. Also returning to Wikipedia:Increase your chances. What is new is that he is trying to solicit help in his obsessive quest around Addiction Rare in Patients Treated with Narcotics by bothering User talk:Z1720 with his nonsense. I assume this is a proxy IP. I suggest a good long block. DanielRigal ( talk) 23:28, 1 March 2023 (UTC)
As always, its the Who Wants To Be A Millionaire nonsense and the Addiction Rare in Patients Treated with Narcotics nonsense plus stalking my recent edits to find Talk:List of unusual biological names. This ticks all the boxes for a Belteshazzar sock and the other edits are just random track covering. DanielRigal ( talk) 22:19, 6 March 2023 (UTC)
Furthermore, I think this goes beyond the usual contribution stalking and rises to the level of actual harassment thus raising the question of whether we need to formalise Belteshazzars' many, many blocks as an actual complete ban. -- DanielRigal ( talk) 22:23, 6 March 2023 (UTC)
The usual pattern except that this time he finds that many of his preferred targets are semi-protected so he goes for the talk pages instead. He asks, as if he doesn't already know, why his previous edits were reverted. ( Diff and diff.) He also stalks Psychologist Guy to Isis Unveiled ( diff) and myself to James Stephanie Sterling where he misgenders Sterling in the edit summary ( diff) although I suspect that this is because he has absolutely no idea who Sterling is, not because of any intent to misgender. DanielRigal ( talk) 19:54, 9 March 2023 (UTC)
Redoing edits of the indeffed socks. tgeorgescu ( talk) 15:15, 11 March 2023 (UTC)
Now it is blocked for three months. Also a WP:PROXY. tgeorgescu ( talk) 15:37, 11 March 2023 (UTC)
I have added 154.202.98.218 to the list. That seems close in IP to the other one so maybe a rangeblock is possible? I'm also thinking of making an LTA entry. -- DanielRigal ( talk) 16:41, 11 March 2023 (UTC)
Returning to Shigechiyo Izumi with the same old same old. Also, editing Jamie Raines in a trivial way, which he almost certainly found by stalking my edits. DanielRigal ( talk) 19:18, 13 March 2023 (UTC)
This is obvious Belteshazzar block-evasion. Firstly, 45.173.12.138 is a proxy IP and he is yet again editing his favourite targets Shigechiyo Izumi and Christian Mortensen (leaving the same kind of edit summaries) [72], [73]) similar to his last blocked proxy socks [74], [75]. The same IP has now also followed me onto the Shirali Muslimov article which I edited recently. Psychologist Guy ( talk) 11:55, 25 March 2023 (UTC)
This is continued block-evasion from Belteshazzar who now resorts to using vpns and proxy IPs. 103.189.231.206 is editing Belteshazzar's previous targets Daniel M. Lavery which he has edited on previous blocked socks [76]. Also established in several previous SPI's Belteshazzar is obsessed with editing articles that DanielRigal or myself have edited recently, so that would explain this recent edit [77].
He has then followed me onto the Victoria Braithwaite article [78]. Another target of Belteshazzar is Dwight Gooden which he has been blocked on this account for editing in the past [79].
He has also edited Wikipedia:Fringe theories [80] which he previously edited on the blocked account DefThree [81]. Psychologist Guy ( talk) 23:52, 8 April 2023 (UTC)
Here we go again. Has hit Wikipedia:Everything you need to know, which is a regular target. This IP was blocked for a week and Belteshazzar resumed using it on the day the block expired. I suggest a longer block this time. DanielRigal ( talk) 22:21, 18 April 2023 (UTC)
Continued block-evasion on this proxy IP by Belteshazzar which had previously been blocked [83] in January. He is editing previous targets of his Steven Crowder, Wikipedia:Fringe theories [84] and followed me onto the carnivore diet article [85]. Psychologist Guy ( talk) 18:54, 27 April 2023 (UTC)
Yeah, that's him. Most of the edits are innocuous but I've nuked the edits to Wikipedia:Dealing with sockpuppets as that is probably the single most inappropriate thing imaginable for him to be editing, irrespective of the edit content. I find it interesting that he is reusing a previously used proxy IP. That implies that he has quite a limited pool of usable addresses available to him. Probably most of those he could use are already blocked. There is hope that a really long block on this IP, and maybe just a few others, might see the back of him for a while. -- DanielRigal ( talk) 19:38, 27 April 2023 (UTC)
This is obvious block evasion from Belteshazzar who has yet again followed me onto the carnivore diet article [86] but this time using the talk-page as the article is protected and Li Ching-Yuen [87] which he has edited many times before on IPs a few hours after me. The previous blocked IP he was using last week [88] you can see it is Belteshazzar.
Another target of his is Wikipedia:Dealing with sockpuppets [89] which he has been blocked on quite a few IPs going back to January. Psychologist Guy ( talk) 00:02, 5 May 2023 (UTC)
This is continued Belteshazzar block-evasion on a VPN who is continuing to stalk my recent edit history and edit the same articles as me. This has been mentioned in many previous SPI's. I am not happy about this stalking any longer, it's been going on nearly 2 years now. I would like to email the WMF, I believe this user Belteshazzar should be globally banned because this is long-term harassment.
Examples: 3HO [90], Hulda Crooks [91], Joe Greenstein [92] all edited after me.
Another target of Belteshazzar is the user DanielRigal which would explain the edit at For Women Scotland [93].
As per the previous SPI he also edits the article Li Ching-Yuen where he has been blocked many times [94], [95]. It might be worth protecting that article, I may request that. Psychologist Guy ( talk) 21:21, 16 May 2023 (UTC)
Belteshazzar is now using another proxy [96] to follow me around. WP:PSPITFALLS is also another target of his that he has edited in the past [97], [98]. Psychologist Guy ( talk) 18:49, 18 May 2023 (UTC)
He is back editing R v Ingram, C., Ingram, D. and Whittock, T.. This should be a quick block. There is no doubt these proxy IPs are Belteshazzar. Psychologist Guy ( talk) 10:35, 19 May 2023 (UTC)
Most of the other edits looks like innocuous edits to either to deflect attention or to annoy but the edit to Li Ching-Yuen is a very standard edit to one of his standard targets. That's definitely him. -- DanielRigal ( talk) 21:34, 16 May 2023 (UTC)
Note: The stalking is getting out of hand so I have opened a case on ANI about that: Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents#Stalking by sockpuppets of Belteshazzar. -- DanielRigal ( talk) 17:40, 19 May 2023 (UTC)
I've added 223.207.103.125. Same old, same old. Ugh... -- DanielRigal ( talk) 18:17, 27 May 2023 (UTC)
I'm pretty certain that 194.124.36.26 is Belteshazzar. Wikipedia:Guide to addressing bias is a frequent target. Their one other edit is to an article about a baseball player. Several of the previous socks have also made edits to articles about baseball players. I am fairly confident that 103.167.170.202 is also him. Wikipedia:Dealing with sockpuppets is a topic close to Belteshazzar's heart (for obvious reasons) and that IP has been blocked as a proxy in the past. Even so, it would be good to get a checkuser to make sure. DanielRigal ( talk) 00:22, 8 June 2023 (UTC)
These proxy IPs are definitely Belteshazzar block evasion. A favourite target of his is Li Ching-Yuen [102] which he followed me onto and has been editing for months on many proxies. Psychologist Guy ( talk) 17:25, 8 June 2023 (UTC)
Here we go again. He is reverting to his preferred versions made by his previous, now blocked, sock account. Doesn't he ever get bored with this nonsense? DanielRigal ( talk) 15:40, 19 June 2023 (UTC)
Reverting to reinstate the previous blocked IP's attempts to trick another user into helping him on User talk:Morganfitzp. DanielRigal ( talk) 13:39, 20 June 2023 (UTC)
45.166.16.228 is a proxy IP. The edits made on 20 June 2023 are definitely Belteshazzar. The edits made on the 8, 9, 11 and 18th of June are not Belteshazzar they are another banned sock-puppeteer who has an obsession with editing Japanese superhero character lists. This same user has shared proxy IPs with Belteshazzar in the past on multiple proxies. The best thing to do here is give 45.166.16.228 a long block. Psychologist Guy ( talk) 22:28, 20 June 2023 (UTC)
Looks like he has yet another IP sock and is using it to reinstate reverted edits by the previous IP socks. So far, he is only reinstating some of his baseball related edits, which is often a prelude to reinstating the other, weirder, nonsense. Weird thing is that I'm pretty sure that he only started doing baseball edits as cover, or out of casual interest in the topic, but now he seems to be becoming obsessed with defending those edits too. The IP is probably a proxy. If so, I recommend a long block, either of the individual IP or of a range of proxy IPs that it is in. DanielRigal ( talk) 12:49, 25 June 2023 (UTC)
Belteshazzar, if you see this, then please try to understand that you are not only wasting everybody's time by continuing to try to edit Wikipedia. This is not healthy for you. Please find some other activity that you can do instead. If you really do care about baseball then maybe participate in some baseball related forums, fan wikis or something like that? If you can't let go of Wikipedia on your own then please seek appropriate professional help to do so. It will be better for everybody, but mostly better for you, if you can do this. There is nothing for you here and staying here is only holding you back from finding somewhere else where you can achieve something more worthwhile than constantly having your efforts reverted. -- DanielRigal ( talk) 12:57, 25 June 2023 (UTC)
Returning to Das Fürlines (a recent repeat target) and also an edit about baseball. Similar tone in the edit summaries. Even after only two edits I'm confident that this is Belteshazzar again. DanielRigal ( talk) 11:26, 29 June 2023 (UTC)
Five edits to three articles, all three of which are previous targets of his socks and which are otherwise mostly unrelated. DanielRigal ( talk) 18:04, 3 July 2023 (UTC)
I'm not 100% sure about this one, hence the request for a checkuser, but this IP has been editing in the WP space for a few days and hitting a couple of the usual targets pretty hard, Wikipedia:Avoid instruction creep and Wikipedia:Increase your chances. The style of the edit summaries seems suspiciously similar to past socks. No sign of any baseball related edits but maybe he is finally learning that those are counterproductive when trying to cover his tracks. No sign of the ophthalmology stuff yet but I think four days in enough rope. I'm not nuking the edits this time, yet, just in case this is not him but the chances of an anonymous editor taking such an interest in the WP space legitimately is pretty low. DanielRigal ( talk) 13:01, 9 July 2023 (UTC)
Note: I've added 110.136.216.110. This is clearly in a fairly adjacent IP address range. This suggests the need for a good long rangeblock if such a large range can be blocked safely without hurting legitimate users. -- DanielRigal ( talk) 11:22, 14 July 2023 (UTC)
Note: I've added 103.178.42.233 which is more of the same nonsense. -- DanielRigal ( talk) 21:02, 18 July 2023 (UTC)
Here we go again. He is hitting many of the usual targets and reinstating his usual stuff, even after being reverted. His attempt to bend Wikipedia:Increase your chances to his own ends is the smoking gun here. As is often the case, he is being vocal in the edit summaries about everything except acknowledging that he is block/ban evading and hence has no right to edit Wikipedia. I did hold off reporting this one as reporting his IPs seems to do limited good as he has a reasonable sized pool of proxy IP addresses to cycle between. I had hoped that he would just go away for a bit if I nuked his edits but that isn't working and so I think that this IP does need a good long block although he'll probably be back with a new one next week... DanielRigal ( talk) 13:49, 29 July 2023 (UTC)
Baseball related edits, some reinstating previous edits by previous socks. Also, Das Fürlines again and, of course, fiddling around in the Wikipedia namespace at Wikipedia:Recentism. DanielRigal ( talk) 23:57, 7 August 2023 (UTC)
This IP was given a short block three days ago. The block has expired and Belteshazzar picked up right where he left off editing Jerry Reinsdorf and then, for some reason, moved on to The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. Unfortunately for him, we are paying attention to the man behind the curtain. I suggest a rather longer block his time. DanielRigal ( talk) 14:05, 13 August 2023 (UTC)
Reporting 110.136.218.207 for reinstituting similar edits with similar edit summaries. Just glancing at the history of 1994 World Series and 1997 World Series makes this obviously Belteshazzar. Same thing with The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. Leijurv ( talk) 01:54, 14 August 2023 (UTC) Leijurv ( talk) 02:02, 14 August 2023 (UTC)
Same old same old. Baseball stuff and some other repeat targets. Smoking gun is this edit reinstating an edit made by a previous sockpuppet IP. Bullseye says: "proxycheck: True" so I think a long block is needed. DanielRigal ( talk) 00:06, 17 August 2023 (UTC)
Clearly belteshazzar: reinstituted the exact same edit to WP:RECENTISM, and also made some edits to players in the 1997 baseball world series. Leijurv ( talk) 18:16, 17 August 2023 (UTC)
Despite only having made three edits using this IP address there is absolutely no doubt that this is Belteshazzar. -- DanielRigal ( talk) 18:29, 17 August 2023 (UTC)
Usual repeat targets. Reinstating edits by previous socks. DanielRigal ( talk) 18:49, 22 August 2023 (UTC)
proxycheck.io lists this as a Compromised Server Proxy. [104]: Suggest lengthy block and closure. And a big thanks goes out to Belteshazzar, who single-handedly has helped us to identify and block multiple proxies, thus making it harder for other people to abuse Wikipedia. -- Guy Macon ( talk) 19:45, 22 August 2023 (UTC)
Clearly Belteshazzar: reinstituted the exact same edit to Roy Halladay's perfect game and Addiction Rare in Patients Treated with Narcotics, as well as some other articles. Leijurv ( talk) 19:30, 28 August 2023 (UTC)
Same and related targets. Similar edit summaries. IP is in the same /16 as a recent previous sock, 110.136.150.254. DanielRigal ( talk) 22:18, 30 August 2023 (UTC)
The sockpuppeteer has been labeled a WMF-legal banned user. I don't know what the charges are, but this is only done for very serious charges. tgeorgescu ( talk) 17:51, 4 September 2023 (UTC)
This is obvious block evasion from Belteshazzar. 1.54.250.26 is likely to be a proxy [105]
Belteshazzar is globally banned [106]. I will not disclose any specific details but I have been stalked by this user on site and harassed by them off-site. They still seem to be using proxies/vpn to evade their block.
On Commons, Belteshazzar was using this IP [107] but it has now been blocked as a proxy. Psychologist Guy ( talk) 19:44, 16 September 2023 (UTC)
Already blocked ducky sock. Just noting it for the record; as it's been a while since there's been a registered account puppet. CU check requested in case there are sleepers. Firefangledfeathers ( talk / contribs) 18:02, 26 September 2023 (UTC)
Trying to censor their own LTA report ( diff1, diff2) is cheeky even by their standards of chutzpah. This is particularly egregious because they, a globally banned editor, are casting baseless aspersions as to the trustworthiness of another editor in good standing. DanielRigal ( talk) 22:46, 30 September 2023 (UTC)
Does anyone have a theory as to where this LTA is finding new proxies? Or are they just so easy to find that any attempt to proactively identify and block proxies would be playing a game of Whac-A-Mole? -- Guy Macon Alternate Account ( talk) 18:26, 2 October 2023 (UTC)
Hitting a couple of the usual targets in the usual ways. DanielRigal ( talk) 22:24, 1 October 2023 (UTC)
IP now blocked. Closing.-- Bbb23 ( talk) 18:51, 2 October 2023 (UTC)
Returning to previous targets in the usual manner. DanielRigal ( talk) 11:35, 11 October 2023 (UTC)
The usual behaviour. 3/4 edits are to recent previous targets. DanielRigal ( talk) 15:51, 17 October 2023 (UTC)
Usual behaviour. Several of the usual targets. DanielRigal ( talk) 11:34, 19 October 2023 (UTC)
Same old same old. Literally reinstating edits by previously blocked and reverted sock 45.181.123.97 on Presbyopia and Opioid epidemic in the United States. DanielRigal ( talk) 03:47, 28 October 2023 (UTC)
Making identical edits to Wikipedia:Everything you need to know, with identical edit summaries Panian513 20:52, 28 October 2023 (UTC)
Usual targets. Usual nonsense. DanielRigal ( talk) 17:05, 31 October 2023 (UTC)
The same nonsense. The literal same edit summaries as the last sock in at least some cases! DanielRigal ( talk) 18:02, 1 November 2023 (UTC)
Identical edits and edit summaries to sockpuppets identified in the past couple of weeks. Panian513 19:25, 2 November 2023 (UTC)
This is still ongoing, with him popping back every few hours to try his luck (and our patience) again. Is anybody able to deal with this? @ Firefangledfeathers: maybe? -- DanielRigal ( talk) 02:24, 3 November 2023 (UTC)
Some of the baseball articles are protected now but this is clearly Belteshazzar returning to some of the others and some new, related, articles. Note this diff all but exactly restoring edits be one of his previous blocked socks (185.189.199.77). Also, several of the edits have the same argumentative, self-justifying tone in their edit summaries. DanielRigal ( talk) 20:44, 4 November 2023 (UTC)
No sooner does one IP get blocked than another turns up. Mostly the usual targets, and some of the same edit summaries, as before. Hitting Private Eye is new though. DanielRigal ( talk) 16:40, 6 November 2023 (UTC)
He had the astonishing, unmitigated, brazen chutzpah to try to report me to the BLP noticeboard for reverting his ban evading edits ( diff). The affronted tone is clearly his, as is his insistence on trying to defend his individual edits while completely ignoring the fact that he is banned. This was a personal attack but I'm not going to make a big deal about that. It has already been reverted and it's not like he can get any more banned than he already is. Please can we just do the usual and block the IP for a good long time? IPCheck says it is a proxy. DanielRigal ( talk) 04:35, 10 November 2023 (UTC)
Only three edits but they all hit previous targets and reinstate the same or similar content as previous socks with similar style of edit summaries. Despite not noticing and reporting this one right away it seems to have gone quiet after those three edits. DanielRigal ( talk) 01:03, 20 November 2023 (UTC)
Reinstating edits by previous sock IPs even with the same edit summaries. Also attempting to trick ElKevbo into reinstating his edits at User talk:ElKevbo#Reverts. DanielRigal ( talk) 15:21, 26 November 2023 (UTC)
IP stirring trouble at WP:HD#Reverts and extended-confirmed protection, requesting prior edits by blocked sock StuckWithBadVersions be reinstated. * Pppery * it has begun... 05:32, 30 November 2023 (UTC)
Usual edits, usual subjects Panian513 19:46, 6 December 2023 (UTC)
Same old same old. Baseball, fringe ophthalmology and kvetching about previous socks being reverted in the hope of recruiting unwitting assistance from whatever places that he hopes that he is not already known and recognised in. The baseball edits are incredibly nitpicky tweaks to spacing and pluralisations. That is not the work of a true baseball fan. That is him trying to probe what edits he can get away with and hoping to make us look petty by reverting him. It is intentionally disruptive. -- DanielRigal ( talk) 20:12, 6 December 2023 (UTC)
Also, I note that he is clearly using a timer so that he can get back in and revandalise protected articles as soon as the protection expires. He even got in a few minutes before MusikBot II took the protection tags off on a couple of the articles. This is taking vandalism to an obsessive level. I know we shouldn't speculate about people's mental health but, Belteshazzar, if you see this, please seek help to break out of this pointless cycle of behaviour and to find something more healthy, productive and enjoyable to occupy your mind and your time. It will be better for Wikipedia but, mostly, it will be better for you. -- DanielRigal ( talk) 20:25, 6 December 2023 (UTC)
More baseball. More opioid stuff. More "Subject-verb agreement" in the edit summaries. IP is a proxy. DanielRigal ( talk) 16:16, 8 December 2023 (UTC)
Another proxy IP. He is trying to be a bit sneaky this time by editing some articles not previously hit before moving on to reinstating edits on previous targets. This edit summary is the smoking gun. -- DanielRigal ( talk) 22:13, 9 December 2023 (UTC) DanielRigal ( talk) 22:13, 9 December 2023 (UTC)
Same edits. Same edit summaries. Same globally banned nuisance. DanielRigal ( talk) 20:12, 10 December 2023 (UTC)
Another spree of trivial edits and then returning to previous targets to reinstate previous sock edits with the same edit summaries. This example is a smoking gun due to the edit summary kvetching about being reverted on some of his main targets. Is there anything we can do to get rid of him? His willingness to range widely makes it impossible to protect everything he touches. We can't protect every single baseball article, never mind all the other stuff. DanielRigal ( talk) 12:00, 15 December 2023 (UTC)
Some of the same edit summaries. DanielRigal ( talk) 01:12, 17 December 2023 (UTC)
This IP is literally the next one along from the last one (177.93.44.69) and the editing pattern is the same, including the same offended tone in the edit summaries. DanielRigal ( talk) 22:19, 19 December 2023 (UTC)
Using edit summaries to vent frustrations about previous reverts made against previous sockpuppets Panian513 01:55, 21 December 2023 (UTC)
That's him. I guess his increased recent activity corresponds to a school holiday. -- DanielRigal ( talk) 01:58, 21 December 2023 (UTC)
He straight up admits it here, even while blatantly lying about who/why he got banned. DanielRigal ( talk) 19:32, 21 December 2023 (UTC)
Usual targets, baseball, etc. Reinstating edits of previous socks. Sounds like a duck quacking into a megaphone to me Seawolf35 T-- C 16:48, 22 December 2023 (UTC)
Quack! See User_talk:PaleoNeonate#Bad_reverts which links [109] which directly references this LTA. Seawolf35 T-- C 21:47, 29 December 2023 (UTC)
Yeah. That's him. Can't he even take a break for xmas? -- DanielRigal ( talk) 22:46, 29 December 2023 (UTC)
See, for example, User talk:Roo60, where he is focused on welcoming back an inactive user, and Jake Westbrook, where there is an identical edit summary in the page history associated with a sock. Larry Hockett ( Talk) 01:58, 7 January 2024 (UTC)
Tweaking spacing to tweak our noses. Also pretty much the same edits with the same edit summaries as some of the previous socks on the edits with more substantial edit summaries. DanielRigal ( talk) 00:14, 8 January 2024 (UTC)
Looks like the proxy bot threw a local rangeblock on top of the global one as well. Imma close here. Jo-Jo Eumerus ( talk) 14:34, 10 January 2024 (UTC)
Previously blocked sockpuppet is targeting the usual targets again upon the block's expiry. Panian513 17:19, 11 January 2024 (UTC)
See the page history at Jake Westbrook, among others. Larry Hockett ( Talk) 02:40, 16 January 2024 (UTC)
Yes, that's him. Usual edit summaries and several of the usual target articles. -- DanielRigal ( talk) 14:03, 16 January 2024 (UTC)
Obvious block-evasion from Belteshazzar continuing to edit the same articles they were editing before they were blocked on their previous proxy [110]. Same pattern of disruptive obsessive trolling. Editing their usual targets Wikipedia:Avoid instruction creep, Lenny Webster etc.
Off-site Belteshazzar has been posting on a blog that he wanted to join the forum wikipediasucks.co for recruitment purposes. It's probably worth watching his usual targets for possible meat-puppetry. Psychologist Guy ( talk) 16:36, 18 January 2024 (UTC)
Trying to embroil PaleoNeonate again. "Unneeded space" again. Baseball again.
Proxycheck.io says it is not a proxy but IPQualityScore says that it is. I'm not sure what to make of that. DanielRigal ( talk) 00:31, 22 January 2024 (UTC)
WP:DUCK. Reinstated edits, several with the exact same edit summary, on Mark Geragos, Presbyopia, Wikipedia:Guide to addressing bias, Wikipedia:Increase your chances, Wikipedia:Everything you need to know, Opioid epidemic in the United States, Addiction Rare in Patients Treated with Narcotics, and Charles Ingram. I really don't understand this, it's the EXACT same edits with edit summaries. WP:GAMING an account up to extended confirmed doesn't make it any less obvious when I have all these pages watchlisted. Noticed within ten minutes?? Leijurv ( talk) 00:32, 23 February 2024 (UTC)
I've been watching this one for a bit as I was suspicious of the stats update to James Stephanie Sterling, which Belteshazzar has done before, but that's not conclusive. Lo and behold, the update to Presbyopia proves me right. It's him again. DanielRigal ( talk) 19:44, 25 February 2024 (UTC)
Same targets. Same edit summaries. Same pest. DanielRigal ( talk) 21:38, 27 February 2024 (UTC)
Manual reverts on recent targets such as Mark Geragos. Panian513 00:38, 2 March 2024 (UTC)
WP:DUCK reinstating reverted edits on: David Justice, Jake Westbrook, Roy Halladay's perfect game, Manny Ramirez Leijurv ( talk) 03:19, 17 May 2024 (UTC)
Baseball related again. Opioid related again. Fiddling with the same policies that previous socks have. This is one of his less subtle sockpuppets. Detailed, argumentative, edit summaries on the articles he actually cares about but not on the earlier random edits which were clearly just to test the water. DanielRigal ( talk) 13:03, 29 May 2024 (UTC)