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Category:Suspected Wikipedia sockpuppets of Diacrit

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To add a sockpuppet to this category, use {{Sockpuppet|Diacrit|blocked}}. These are probably the same person as the "anagram vandal" (see AN topic), and almost certainly the same person as User:Wik (see Category:Suspected Wikipedia sockpuppets of Wik). These newly created users have been systematically and unilaterally removing {{foreignchar}} templates from articles. Most have no other edits. It is currently not known which, if any, established Wikipedia user these accounts are sockpuppets of. They are nonetheless almost certainly the same person.

IP address

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The "anagram vandal" (who now rarely uses anagrams anymore) slipped up in his latest series of reverts: one edit was made with an IP address instead of a sockpuppet name [1]. There's no doubt it's him: he made this revert halfway through a series of about 120 reverts (always the same set of articles) from 11:55 to 12:15 UTC. Examining the RIPE WHOIS database, we get [2]:

Abuse Contact: http://www.t-com.de/ip-abuse in case of Spam, Hack Attacks, Illegal Activity, Violation, Scans, Probes, etc. If you contact them, cite the following information

  • IP = 84.172.240.205
  • Timestamp = 8 November 2005, 12:05 UTC (GMT) = 13:05 local time in Germany

Mention that this is a banned user violating Wikipedia site policy who is abusively evading the ban by using multiple fake names (more than 200 so far), and that this is just one of a long series of similar incidents that have taken many users many hours to deal with. Another IP address, 207.166.197.6, also seems to have been used by this vandal. This one appears to be an open proxy.

Pages in category "Suspected Wikipedia sockpuppets of Diacrit"

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