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07 August 2011
Suspected sockpuppets


Jonathan Yip ( talk · contribs) has pursued a campaign to assert that U.S. Route 101 in California still continues to the border with Mexico. (It hasn't since the 1960s.) He has also edited several articles on airports, many of those edits were reverted because they added incorrect information into the articles. The account was indefinitely blocked by Rschen7754 ( talk · contribs) because of this issue of constantly reinserting false information. Alec Skywalker ( talk · contribs) has recently edited the US 101 article, and this account has also inserted incorrect information into several airport articles. This edit was made by Alec Skywalker to Jonathan Yip's user page as well. Imzadi 1979  → 01:00, 7 August 2011 (UTC) reply

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Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments
09 February 2012
Suspected sockpuppets

I ran across this editor while they were making numerous small edits to various Disney theme park articles, such as two dozen in a row at Walt Disney Parks and Resorts, as indicated in this string. Editor never leaves an edit summary explaining their contents, and while some are good-faith, most are extraneous and some are unsourced. Editor's most recent edit here at Disneyland is downright false.

Soon after this account appeared in November 2011, it was tagged as a possible sock by User:HkCaGu here. Almost immediately, the editor begins composing a Wikipedia-like article on a fictional airport here. HkCaGu reverts, but user recreates here. Pattern repeats itself three more times. This is almost identical to edits seen at User:Alec Skywalker, a previously-banned sock of User:Jonathan Yip, as indicated here. This proclivity for fictional airports, combined with name similarity, gets me hearing quacking. -- McDoob AU 93 04:20, 9 February 2012 (UTC) reply

Update: Editor returned to editing, making similar false edits to Disneyland here. While editing, it appears they logged out yet continued editing, as evidenced by the IP added above. IP was previously blocked for 3 months by User:Rschen7754 as a probable sock of Jonathan Yip; that block has expired within the last week. -- McDoob AU 93 05:18, 11 February 2012 (UTC) reply

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I'd recommend blocking per WP:DUCK; no need for CheckUser unless you're looking for an underlying IP or something like that. -- Rs chen 7754 04:28, 9 February 2012 (UTC) reply

Just to pile onto the WP:DUCK determination, Alec Skywalker ( talk · contribs) and Diarmuid Skywalker ( talk · contribs) may be derived from Alec Guinness and Ian McDiarmid, both actors from the Star Wars films. — KuyaBriBri Talk 15:39, 9 February 2012 (UTC) reply

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

I know checkuser has not been officially requested, but just a note that the accounts in the archive are from August and thus  Stale. TN X Man 14:21, 9 February 2012 (UTC) reply

12 February 2012
Suspected sockpuppets


Account started on New Year's Eve 2011, but with only three edits within 24 hours, all nonsense on their talk page about fictional airports, as seen on other socks' talk pages. Account resumed editing today, apparently after discovering most recent sock, User:Diarmuid Skywalker has been indef'ed for sockpuppetry. Editing targets remain the same as with recent socks, Disney theme park articles. Edits so far appearing to be good faith, as shown here, but this editor is still evading their block. Last name of Skywalker, fictional airports, Disney articles ... quack, quack. McDoob AU 93 23:55, 12 February 2012 (UTC) reply

I stand corrected ... here he goes again with a total falsehood edit on Disneyland. I've issued a final warning for vandalism. -- McDoob AU 93 00:02, 13 February 2012 (UTC) reply

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Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments
10 March 2012
Suspected sockpuppets
  • Revision history for U.S. Route 66 in California, specifically since March 3rd, 2012, showing the same edit being inserted by multiple usernames and IP's
  • Revision history for U.S. Route 66, also since March 3rd, 2012, showing the same pattern.
  • One of these IP's 207.62.246.90 ( talk · contribs) has been connected with blocked sockpuppeter Jonathan Yip ( talk · contribs) in a case that also involved road articles.
  • Both the blocked Jonathan Yip and the article talk page for the user accused [1] [2] show a fascination for fictional airports and/or fictional features and services at real airports. Both have also made questionable edits to Disneyland related articles that were quickly reverted by others. [3] [4]
  • In both cases suspected sockpuppets involved usernames containing the word "skywalker".

In a nutshell, an editor/editors have been trying to insert nonsensical information into the infobox for U.S. Route 66 and U.S. Route 66 in California, specifically info with anachronisms. Under the username Route 6654152 ( talk · contribs) this editor restored reverted ip edits within seconds of U.S. Route 66 in California being protected.

Myself and others have on multiple occasions attempted to get whomever is doing this to discuss this on the appropriate talk pages. We have pointed out the most obvious error in the edits: the claim that US Route 66 bisected Interstate 15 in Rancho Cucamonga, California. For the record, as is documented in the relevant articles, US 66 was decommissioned through California in 1964 with signs removed by 1974. Rancho Cucamunga was not formed until 1979. Dave ( talk) 22:16, 10 March 2012 (UTC) reply

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Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 Confirmed the same are

The latter two are blocked socks of Jonathan Yip.
Regarding the IPs that aren't blocked yet, can you provide diffs that show that they are related to the person at hand?<br Amalthea 22:40, 12 March 2012 (UTC) reply

Thank you for doing that. With your request for evidence on the IP's:
Edit made by accused sockmaster: [5]
Identical (or very similar) edits made by ip's:
  • 12.22.29.9: [6]
  • 75.208.158.229: [7]
  • 207.62.246.80: [8]
Edit made by accused sockmaster: [9]
Identical (or very similar) edits made by ip's:
Please advise if you require anything more, and again, thank you. Dave ( talk) 03:11, 14 March 2012 (UTC) reply
25 March 2012
Suspected sockpuppets

New user is making the same edits a now blocked anon account was making just yesterday JOJ Hutton 22:32, 25 March 2012 (UTC) reply

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More suspected indefblock evaders, on Walt Disney Parks and Resorts persistently adding infoboxes for individual theme parks, adorned with infobox flags in violation of WP:INFOBOXFLAG

  — Jeff G. ツ (talk) 03:01, 26 March 2012 (UTC) reply

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

information Administrator note Han Vader blocked indef. Made a couple of protections. Could a clerk please move this to Jonathan Yip please? Thanks. Elockid ( Talk) 23:11, 25 March 2012 (UTC) reply

Based on the IPs listed and the ones in the archive, the 166.205.136.0/22 was the only range that I found that we could block. However, there was quite a bit of collateral, so I protected the articles as a result. Rangeblocks doesn't look like a feasible option. Instead, for future reference, I recommend requesting for protection on the heavily targeted articles. Elockid ( Talk) 03:18, 26 March 2012 (UTC) reply
02 April 2012
Suspected sockpuppets

Similar pattern of editing to articles related to The Walt Disney Company, including [14] [15] [16] and many more — KuyaBriBri Talk 19:37, 2 April 2012 (UTC) reply

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Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments
15 April 2012
Suspected sockpuppets


Jonathan Yip ( talk · contribs) continues to create new sock accounts to evade his block. Nigel Gearsley ( talk · contribs) was started up and began editing Disneyland-related articles earlier today, and has been blocked indefinitely as a sock of Jonathan Yip. This new account, like the last, is named after a character in Cars 2, which most likely will become his sockpuppet username pool after exhausting names sounding like they were from Star Wars. McDoob AU 93 03:32, 15 April 2012 (UTC) reply

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I don't even know who Jonathan Yip is. I come to editing to help Wikipedia. Not to hurt. Jonathan Yip is incorrect that U.S. Route 101 hopes to Mexico. - Shu Toddroki — Preceding unsigned comment added by Shu Toddroki ( talk • contribs)


Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

I've got an intersection with a set of blocked vandals, and accounts that edited once or twice then stopped. Someone want to comment on whether they think any of these are Jonathan Yip -- Elen of the Roads ( talk) 15:46, 15 April 2012 (UTC) reply

Added above by User:Elen of the Roads

The ones blocked for vandalism fit the pattern and I'd call per Duck on those. JohnSmith57 doesn't fit the pattern of Jonathan Yip and I agree with your suspicion that this may be a false positive. Dave ( talk) 17:19, 16 April 2012 (UTC) reply

Disneyland Hotel (California), Disney's Grand Californian Hotel & Spa, and Walt Disney Parks and Resorts have now been full-protected for the duration of their original protection lengths. -- MuZemike 19:04, 15 April 2012 (UTC) reply

Marking for close. TN X Man 15:35, 17 April 2012 (UTC) reply
07 January 2013
Suspected sockpuppets

Edits the same genres of articles, lots of careless edits (vandalism?) [17] [18] Also username similar to past ones. Rs chen 7754 21:37, 7 January 2013 (UTC) reply

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I still remember his location, ISP(s), etc. and I would say Red X Unrelated. I think there's a more recent check I did. I'll try and dig it up. Elockid ( Talk) 04:35, 8 January 2013 (UTC) reply

18 September 2016

Suspected sockpuppets

quack quack - CU mainly to check for proxies/sleepers. Jasper Deng (talk) 07:12, 18 September 2016 (UTC) reply

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Here are just a few more sample recently created sock accounts: Sole Proxy Account ( talk + · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · spi block · block log · CA · CheckUser( log) · investigate · cuwiki), Sudo dhclient -r ( talk + · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · spi block · block log · CA · CheckUser( log) · investigate · cuwiki) 互聯網代理帳戶 ( talk + · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · spi block · block log · CA · CheckUser( log) · investigate · cuwiki), Sephora 1234 ( talk + · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · spi block · block log · CA · CheckUser( log) · investigate · cuwiki), Remote_proxy_account ( talk + · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · spi block · block log · CA · CheckUser( log) · investigate · cuwiki). I know that everyone has already been blocked, but if a blockable IP range could be found I think that would be nice because there's been a lot of abuse coming from this person especially lately. Sro23 ( talk) 16:26, 18 September 2016 (UTC) reply

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 Clerk endorsed - everything in the archive is stale, but please check the other named and blocked accounts here against each other, and see if some sleepers can be put to rest permanently. Some of these accounts have already been linked to the master based on behaviour. CU would not be useful for designing a rangeblock as that would require revealing the users' IP addresses. Ivanvector ( Talk/ Edits) 17:03, 19 September 2016 (UTC) reply

Closing.-- Bbb23 ( talk) 13:55, 20 September 2016 (UTC) reply
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Jonathan Yip

Jonathan Yip ( talk + · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · spi block · block log · CA · CheckUser( log) · investigate · cuwiki)
07 August 2011
Suspected sockpuppets


Jonathan Yip ( talk · contribs) has pursued a campaign to assert that U.S. Route 101 in California still continues to the border with Mexico. (It hasn't since the 1960s.) He has also edited several articles on airports, many of those edits were reverted because they added incorrect information into the articles. The account was indefinitely blocked by Rschen7754 ( talk · contribs) because of this issue of constantly reinserting false information. Alec Skywalker ( talk · contribs) has recently edited the US 101 article, and this account has also inserted incorrect information into several airport articles. This edit was made by Alec Skywalker to Jonathan Yip's user page as well. Imzadi 1979  → 01:00, 7 August 2011 (UTC) reply

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Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments
09 February 2012
Suspected sockpuppets

I ran across this editor while they were making numerous small edits to various Disney theme park articles, such as two dozen in a row at Walt Disney Parks and Resorts, as indicated in this string. Editor never leaves an edit summary explaining their contents, and while some are good-faith, most are extraneous and some are unsourced. Editor's most recent edit here at Disneyland is downright false.

Soon after this account appeared in November 2011, it was tagged as a possible sock by User:HkCaGu here. Almost immediately, the editor begins composing a Wikipedia-like article on a fictional airport here. HkCaGu reverts, but user recreates here. Pattern repeats itself three more times. This is almost identical to edits seen at User:Alec Skywalker, a previously-banned sock of User:Jonathan Yip, as indicated here. This proclivity for fictional airports, combined with name similarity, gets me hearing quacking. -- McDoob AU 93 04:20, 9 February 2012 (UTC) reply

Update: Editor returned to editing, making similar false edits to Disneyland here. While editing, it appears they logged out yet continued editing, as evidenced by the IP added above. IP was previously blocked for 3 months by User:Rschen7754 as a probable sock of Jonathan Yip; that block has expired within the last week. -- McDoob AU 93 05:18, 11 February 2012 (UTC) reply

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I'd recommend blocking per WP:DUCK; no need for CheckUser unless you're looking for an underlying IP or something like that. -- Rs chen 7754 04:28, 9 February 2012 (UTC) reply

Just to pile onto the WP:DUCK determination, Alec Skywalker ( talk · contribs) and Diarmuid Skywalker ( talk · contribs) may be derived from Alec Guinness and Ian McDiarmid, both actors from the Star Wars films. — KuyaBriBri Talk 15:39, 9 February 2012 (UTC) reply

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

I know checkuser has not been officially requested, but just a note that the accounts in the archive are from August and thus  Stale. TN X Man 14:21, 9 February 2012 (UTC) reply

12 February 2012
Suspected sockpuppets


Account started on New Year's Eve 2011, but with only three edits within 24 hours, all nonsense on their talk page about fictional airports, as seen on other socks' talk pages. Account resumed editing today, apparently after discovering most recent sock, User:Diarmuid Skywalker has been indef'ed for sockpuppetry. Editing targets remain the same as with recent socks, Disney theme park articles. Edits so far appearing to be good faith, as shown here, but this editor is still evading their block. Last name of Skywalker, fictional airports, Disney articles ... quack, quack. McDoob AU 93 23:55, 12 February 2012 (UTC) reply

I stand corrected ... here he goes again with a total falsehood edit on Disneyland. I've issued a final warning for vandalism. -- McDoob AU 93 00:02, 13 February 2012 (UTC) reply

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Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments
10 March 2012
Suspected sockpuppets
  • Revision history for U.S. Route 66 in California, specifically since March 3rd, 2012, showing the same edit being inserted by multiple usernames and IP's
  • Revision history for U.S. Route 66, also since March 3rd, 2012, showing the same pattern.
  • One of these IP's 207.62.246.90 ( talk · contribs) has been connected with blocked sockpuppeter Jonathan Yip ( talk · contribs) in a case that also involved road articles.
  • Both the blocked Jonathan Yip and the article talk page for the user accused [1] [2] show a fascination for fictional airports and/or fictional features and services at real airports. Both have also made questionable edits to Disneyland related articles that were quickly reverted by others. [3] [4]
  • In both cases suspected sockpuppets involved usernames containing the word "skywalker".

In a nutshell, an editor/editors have been trying to insert nonsensical information into the infobox for U.S. Route 66 and U.S. Route 66 in California, specifically info with anachronisms. Under the username Route 6654152 ( talk · contribs) this editor restored reverted ip edits within seconds of U.S. Route 66 in California being protected.

Myself and others have on multiple occasions attempted to get whomever is doing this to discuss this on the appropriate talk pages. We have pointed out the most obvious error in the edits: the claim that US Route 66 bisected Interstate 15 in Rancho Cucamonga, California. For the record, as is documented in the relevant articles, US 66 was decommissioned through California in 1964 with signs removed by 1974. Rancho Cucamunga was not formed until 1979. Dave ( talk) 22:16, 10 March 2012 (UTC) reply

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Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 Confirmed the same are

The latter two are blocked socks of Jonathan Yip.
Regarding the IPs that aren't blocked yet, can you provide diffs that show that they are related to the person at hand?<br Amalthea 22:40, 12 March 2012 (UTC) reply

Thank you for doing that. With your request for evidence on the IP's:
Edit made by accused sockmaster: [5]
Identical (or very similar) edits made by ip's:
  • 12.22.29.9: [6]
  • 75.208.158.229: [7]
  • 207.62.246.80: [8]
Edit made by accused sockmaster: [9]
Identical (or very similar) edits made by ip's:
Please advise if you require anything more, and again, thank you. Dave ( talk) 03:11, 14 March 2012 (UTC) reply
25 March 2012
Suspected sockpuppets

New user is making the same edits a now blocked anon account was making just yesterday JOJ Hutton 22:32, 25 March 2012 (UTC) reply

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More suspected indefblock evaders, on Walt Disney Parks and Resorts persistently adding infoboxes for individual theme parks, adorned with infobox flags in violation of WP:INFOBOXFLAG

  — Jeff G. ツ (talk) 03:01, 26 March 2012 (UTC) reply

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

information Administrator note Han Vader blocked indef. Made a couple of protections. Could a clerk please move this to Jonathan Yip please? Thanks. Elockid ( Talk) 23:11, 25 March 2012 (UTC) reply

Based on the IPs listed and the ones in the archive, the 166.205.136.0/22 was the only range that I found that we could block. However, there was quite a bit of collateral, so I protected the articles as a result. Rangeblocks doesn't look like a feasible option. Instead, for future reference, I recommend requesting for protection on the heavily targeted articles. Elockid ( Talk) 03:18, 26 March 2012 (UTC) reply
02 April 2012
Suspected sockpuppets

Similar pattern of editing to articles related to The Walt Disney Company, including [14] [15] [16] and many more — KuyaBriBri Talk 19:37, 2 April 2012 (UTC) reply

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Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments
15 April 2012
Suspected sockpuppets


Jonathan Yip ( talk · contribs) continues to create new sock accounts to evade his block. Nigel Gearsley ( talk · contribs) was started up and began editing Disneyland-related articles earlier today, and has been blocked indefinitely as a sock of Jonathan Yip. This new account, like the last, is named after a character in Cars 2, which most likely will become his sockpuppet username pool after exhausting names sounding like they were from Star Wars. McDoob AU 93 03:32, 15 April 2012 (UTC) reply

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I don't even know who Jonathan Yip is. I come to editing to help Wikipedia. Not to hurt. Jonathan Yip is incorrect that U.S. Route 101 hopes to Mexico. - Shu Toddroki — Preceding unsigned comment added by Shu Toddroki ( talk • contribs)


Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

I've got an intersection with a set of blocked vandals, and accounts that edited once or twice then stopped. Someone want to comment on whether they think any of these are Jonathan Yip -- Elen of the Roads ( talk) 15:46, 15 April 2012 (UTC) reply

Added above by User:Elen of the Roads

The ones blocked for vandalism fit the pattern and I'd call per Duck on those. JohnSmith57 doesn't fit the pattern of Jonathan Yip and I agree with your suspicion that this may be a false positive. Dave ( talk) 17:19, 16 April 2012 (UTC) reply

Disneyland Hotel (California), Disney's Grand Californian Hotel & Spa, and Walt Disney Parks and Resorts have now been full-protected for the duration of their original protection lengths. -- MuZemike 19:04, 15 April 2012 (UTC) reply

Marking for close. TN X Man 15:35, 17 April 2012 (UTC) reply
07 January 2013
Suspected sockpuppets

Edits the same genres of articles, lots of careless edits (vandalism?) [17] [18] Also username similar to past ones. Rs chen 7754 21:37, 7 January 2013 (UTC) reply

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Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

I still remember his location, ISP(s), etc. and I would say Red X Unrelated. I think there's a more recent check I did. I'll try and dig it up. Elockid ( Talk) 04:35, 8 January 2013 (UTC) reply

18 September 2016

Suspected sockpuppets

quack quack - CU mainly to check for proxies/sleepers. Jasper Deng (talk) 07:12, 18 September 2016 (UTC) reply

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Here are just a few more sample recently created sock accounts: Sole Proxy Account ( talk + · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · spi block · block log · CA · CheckUser( log) · investigate · cuwiki), Sudo dhclient -r ( talk + · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · spi block · block log · CA · CheckUser( log) · investigate · cuwiki) 互聯網代理帳戶 ( talk + · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · spi block · block log · CA · CheckUser( log) · investigate · cuwiki), Sephora 1234 ( talk + · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · spi block · block log · CA · CheckUser( log) · investigate · cuwiki), Remote_proxy_account ( talk + · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · spi block · block log · CA · CheckUser( log) · investigate · cuwiki). I know that everyone has already been blocked, but if a blockable IP range could be found I think that would be nice because there's been a lot of abuse coming from this person especially lately. Sro23 ( talk) 16:26, 18 September 2016 (UTC) reply

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 Clerk endorsed - everything in the archive is stale, but please check the other named and blocked accounts here against each other, and see if some sleepers can be put to rest permanently. Some of these accounts have already been linked to the master based on behaviour. CU would not be useful for designing a rangeblock as that would require revealing the users' IP addresses. Ivanvector ( Talk/ Edits) 17:03, 19 September 2016 (UTC) reply

Closing.-- Bbb23 ( talk) 13:55, 20 September 2016 (UTC) reply
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