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Quick checkuser

Would you mind running a quick checkuser on Osarius? This is a WP:SPI#Quick CheckUser requests situation, but I'm making it privately because I'm about to go on the road with family, and I'd like to respond to Osarius before I leave instead of waiting for someone to check the SPI page. Osarius has seemingly been caught in an autoblock, and I'm inclined to grant IPBE at his request; I just want to make sure that everything's clear to grant the right. Please leave me a talkback, and if I don't respond quickly (I don't know when I'm leaving; I'm not the driver), I'd appreciate it if you'd grant the right or deny the unblock request. Nyttend (talk) 14:50, 27 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

@Nyttend: I see nothing that would disqualify Osarius for IPBE. Please make a note at WT:IPBE/log if you grant it. Cheers —DoRD (talk) 15:00, 27 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Weird: I didn't get any Notification, so I only saw this by hitting Refresh. Thanks for the help; I've unblocked and logged it. Nyttend (talk) 15:05, 27 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

That is odd. Well, have a safe trip! —DoRD (talk) 15:07, 27 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Giatharodaki is back

I am suspicious that giatharodaki has built a new account named Daki122,I request a checkuser,I am sure the account is a sock puppet.Alhanuty (talk) 22:01, 1 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I have just filed a report about his new account Daki122.Alhanuty (talk) 22:01, 1 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I'm a bit pressed for time at the moment, but I'll take a look at the report later if someone else doesn't do something about it first. Thanks —DoRD (talk) 23:50, 1 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

The report has been out for three days and nobody is responding or using the checkuser to confirm that Daki122 is a sockpuppet.Alhanuty (talk) 18:22, 2 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

A barnstar for you!

	The Admin's Barnstar
	To DoRD, for diligently and quietly updating the functionary activity statistics, I award this Admin's Barnstar. Thank you for all your work! AGK [•] 11:48, 2 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you ;) —DoRD (talk) 13:06, 2 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Hear! Hear!--Jezebel'sPonyo^{bons mots} 20:26, 2 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Autoblocked user - checkuser powers required

Hi DoRD. Would you mind taking a look at WilliamH's block of the 68.247.0.0/16 range here? I'm currently looking into an unblock request from User:Etonmessisthebest, who's caught in that particular rangeblock. Please could you amend the block to remove autoblock or grant him IP exemption if you deem it wise? Cheers, Yunshui 雲‍水 09:09, 6 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I modified the block to allow logged-in users to edit, so they should be good to go now. —DoRD (talk) 15:08, 6 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Odd socks

Hi DoRD,

Over at Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Cognoscerapo, you said that User:Cannot be detected was likely to be Sinbad Barron.
How did you make the Cognoscerapo - Sinbad Barron connection? I'd like to detect socks better, and I'm not very familiar with Sinbad Barron. Presumably Sinbad Barron is stale from a checkuser perspective so there are fewer privacy concerns, but if you're not allowed to say, you don't have to.
In the past there has been some confusion around who controls which socks - there are several examples like Neutral Fair Guy. I'm certainly not criticising other people who have tried to identify sockmasters and clean up the mess - it's just that an environment with multiple overlapping sockmasters (and a few false-flag accounts) makes it very difficult to be certain of the owner 100% of the time...

Have fun; bobrayner (talk) 20:04, 9 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Well, after going back over the evidence, I have had to change my conclusions in the case. I'm not very familiar with Sinbad Barron, either, but I did see one possible connection from Cannot be detected. However, the account's contributions and some other technical evidence point squarely at Evlekis, so I amended my statement. Granted, it is sometimes difficult to sort out the true master behind sock accounts, particularly with certain ISPs, but I took my best guess. Unfortunately, it was wrong this time. Thank you for prompting me about this. —DoRD (talk) 21:29, 9 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Is a user being a jerk and kicking up a huge fuss about things against any rules?

I have send user User:Niteshift36 a message about his behaviour that was just so horrible that I just could not resist speaking up. He resorted by calling me a troll. So I do not think he'll respond to users calling him out on his behaviour. I'm not sure if there's a wikipedia policy handling douchebaggery, so I'm asking you here. :)

An example of his lovely demeanour: Talk:Fox_News_Channel--2001:980:A4CB:1:C4D6:2A5D:5305:7D91 (talk) 18:28, 13 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]