Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Belteshazzar
Belteshazzar
- Belteshazzar (talk+ · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · spi block · block log · CA · CheckUser(log) · investigate · cuwiki)
29 July 2023
– This SPI case is closed and will be archived shortly by an SPI clerk or checkuser.
Suspected sockpuppets
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)
- In my opinion, the solution is to block the IPs as quickly as possible per Wikipedia:Open proxies, and whenever possible make the blocks range blocks. Eventually he will run out of proxies, and if many proxies are blocked it will tend to stop other abusers before they get started. It could even be that he is paying for proxies and we could exceed his budget.
I also question decisions such as this:[1] I think the answer should have been "we do not connect named accounts and IP addresses, but I checked the IP and it does not appear to be a proxy" (or "...is a proxy. Blocked").(stricken because as explained below, you don't need a CU to do that. Thanks Girth Summit for the clarification!)
- Are there any better tools we ordinary users can use to check to see if an IP is an open proxy? -Guy Macon (talk) 18:04, 29 July 2023 (UTC)
Comments by other users
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Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments
- Guy Macon - nice to see you around. Blablubbs' decline was correct - you don't need to request a CU to have an IP checked to see if it's a proxy. I use this tool, which anyone can use (and there are others out there). In this case, Shodan labels it a PPTP, and the behaviour is suspect, so I'll give it a few month off. Closing. Girth Summit (blether) 19:59, 29 July 2023 (UTC)