Seems to me that the experienced IP needs to show us how clever and powerfull it is. As the dimensions seem to be big, it seems wise to see if these IPs/ Usernames are involved. If there are more IPs/ Usernames involved. If this thing is dreadful big or just a kid's stuff. -- Chris.urs-o ( talk) 08:44, 16 June 2010 (UTC)
The action seems to harass editors. Experience use of templates, categories and WP abbreviations. Althouth User:Killiondude praised 71.219.172.174, this kind of editing has the advantage of not needing research. Some highlights:
See Defending yourself against claims.
Don't see User:Look2See1 as involved. Further info avaiable on my talk, see [1] and [2] Vsmith ( talk) 13:36, 16 June 2010 (UTC)
Even if the IP wasn't engaging in sockpuppetry, this person demonstrates a severe lack of good faith and often resorts to calling other users vandals and discredits any rationale you try to give him (her). He refuses to compromise or listen to sense or even respond to one's comments on his talk page. In my view, he shouldn't get away with such an attitude. Pardon if I'm biased, but he's incredibly frustrating. CL ( T · C) — 16:35, 16 June 2010 (UTC)
Clerk note: IP range appears to be
71.219.160.0/19 (
block range ·
block log (
global) ·
WHOIS (partial)).
Look2See1 (
talk ·
contribs) seems to have been taking an active part in reverting the edits made by the IP, could you please explain what leads you to believe they may be the IP user?
Spitfire
Tally-ho!
10:26, 16 June 2010 (UTC)
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I have been approached by several editors who are concerned that User:Hike796 and/or User:Mmcannis may be sockpuppets of the permanently blocked User:US40AL-01. I'm not overly familiar with any of the 3 users, but my understanding is that all 3 have focused their edits on a very specific topic—watersheds in Nevada and the Western U.S., focusing on use of USGS terminology. There have been suggestions that they all use similar language to express themselves. What makes this kind of weird is that User:Hike796 and User:Mmcannis have recently disruptively edit warred against each other ( e.g.), which could suggest a very intricate sockpuppeting scheme, or it could simply mean that one is a sock and the other is not (or neither are). I have asked both users and both deny having ever used any other account. The duck test isn't quite sufficient for me in this case to know what to do. I think I know, but the complexity is making me question, so I feel this needs to be resolved via CU one way or the other. Good Ol’factory (talk) 05:07, 5 November 2010 (UTC)
See Defending yourself against claims.
I noticed some odd categories being added to several articles. Like some of the categories created by User:US40AL-01 they frequently did not have a main article and were trying to use the category name space for information that should be in articles. An example by User:US40AL-01 is in this edit. For a similar one for User:Hike796 try this edit. An example for User:Mmcannis is here. While many of the edits are specific to USGS unit there are other areas with odd edits like the example I provided for Hike796. Many of the added categories and maybe articles have names that only exist on this wiki. So something is rather odd with this mess. Vegaswikian ( talk) 05:47, 5 November 2010 (UTC)
Nothing really new to add but want to second the comment above, I also noticed the using category space to create pseudo articles. Kmusser ( talk) 12:27, 5 November 2010 (UTC)
Category spaces are probably being used as sandbox or something, I've seen some of the cats' content being moved to article space (such as, I think, Walker River Basin. By the way, that one has been edited by both Hike796 and Mmcannis. If an article has been edited by one it's most likely it's been edited by the other. Does this discussion really need to take place? It's all too obvious this is multi accounting, although admittedly I don't see him abusing multiple accounts very much.) Shannon talk contribs 00:09, 6 November 2010 (UTC)
Hike796 and Mmcannis are
Unrelated. –
MuZemike
03:52, 8 November 2010 (UTC)
Seems to me that the experienced IP needs to show us how clever and powerfull it is. As the dimensions seem to be big, it seems wise to see if these IPs/ Usernames are involved. If there are more IPs/ Usernames involved. If this thing is dreadful big or just a kid's stuff. -- Chris.urs-o ( talk) 08:44, 16 June 2010 (UTC)
The action seems to harass editors. Experience use of templates, categories and WP abbreviations. Althouth User:Killiondude praised 71.219.172.174, this kind of editing has the advantage of not needing research. Some highlights:
See Defending yourself against claims.
Don't see User:Look2See1 as involved. Further info avaiable on my talk, see [1] and [2] Vsmith ( talk) 13:36, 16 June 2010 (UTC)
Even if the IP wasn't engaging in sockpuppetry, this person demonstrates a severe lack of good faith and often resorts to calling other users vandals and discredits any rationale you try to give him (her). He refuses to compromise or listen to sense or even respond to one's comments on his talk page. In my view, he shouldn't get away with such an attitude. Pardon if I'm biased, but he's incredibly frustrating. CL ( T · C) — 16:35, 16 June 2010 (UTC)
Clerk note: IP range appears to be
71.219.160.0/19 (
block range ·
block log (
global) ·
WHOIS (partial)).
Look2See1 (
talk ·
contribs) seems to have been taking an active part in reverting the edits made by the IP, could you please explain what leads you to believe they may be the IP user?
Spitfire
Tally-ho!
10:26, 16 June 2010 (UTC)
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This case has been marked as closed. It has been archived automatically. |
I have been approached by several editors who are concerned that User:Hike796 and/or User:Mmcannis may be sockpuppets of the permanently blocked User:US40AL-01. I'm not overly familiar with any of the 3 users, but my understanding is that all 3 have focused their edits on a very specific topic—watersheds in Nevada and the Western U.S., focusing on use of USGS terminology. There have been suggestions that they all use similar language to express themselves. What makes this kind of weird is that User:Hike796 and User:Mmcannis have recently disruptively edit warred against each other ( e.g.), which could suggest a very intricate sockpuppeting scheme, or it could simply mean that one is a sock and the other is not (or neither are). I have asked both users and both deny having ever used any other account. The duck test isn't quite sufficient for me in this case to know what to do. I think I know, but the complexity is making me question, so I feel this needs to be resolved via CU one way or the other. Good Ol’factory (talk) 05:07, 5 November 2010 (UTC)
See Defending yourself against claims.
I noticed some odd categories being added to several articles. Like some of the categories created by User:US40AL-01 they frequently did not have a main article and were trying to use the category name space for information that should be in articles. An example by User:US40AL-01 is in this edit. For a similar one for User:Hike796 try this edit. An example for User:Mmcannis is here. While many of the edits are specific to USGS unit there are other areas with odd edits like the example I provided for Hike796. Many of the added categories and maybe articles have names that only exist on this wiki. So something is rather odd with this mess. Vegaswikian ( talk) 05:47, 5 November 2010 (UTC)
Nothing really new to add but want to second the comment above, I also noticed the using category space to create pseudo articles. Kmusser ( talk) 12:27, 5 November 2010 (UTC)
Category spaces are probably being used as sandbox or something, I've seen some of the cats' content being moved to article space (such as, I think, Walker River Basin. By the way, that one has been edited by both Hike796 and Mmcannis. If an article has been edited by one it's most likely it's been edited by the other. Does this discussion really need to take place? It's all too obvious this is multi accounting, although admittedly I don't see him abusing multiple accounts very much.) Shannon talk contribs 00:09, 6 November 2010 (UTC)
Hike796 and Mmcannis are
Unrelated. –
MuZemike
03:52, 8 November 2010 (UTC)