Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Sprayitchyo

Sprayitchyo

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For archived investigations, see Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Sprayitchyo/Archive.

06 February 2020

– This SPI case is open.

Suspected sockpuppets

• Skunkworks22 (talk⁺ · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · spi block · block log · CA · CheckUser(log) · investigate · cuwiki)
• 2605:8D80:648:1B4D:5360:2F1D:EF2F:174C (talk⁺ · tag · contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RBLs · proxy check · block user · spi block · block log · cross-wiki contribs · CheckUser (log))
• 2605:8D80:662:ACD5:EC67:A45D:ED37:E919 (talk⁺ · tag · contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RBLs · proxy check · block user · spi block · block log · cross-wiki contribs · CheckUser (log))
• 2605:8d80:642:624c:8a03:18c8:d847:5358 (talk⁺ · tag · contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RBLs · proxy check · block user · spi block · block log · cross-wiki contribs · CheckUser (log))

• Tools: Editor interaction utility • Interaction Timeline • User compare report Auto-generated every hour.

The most recent sock of this user was "Human Taxonomist", identified and banned in January. That user had been IP socking too from both IPv4 and IPv6 ranges, all geolocated to Toronto, Ontario. The IPv6 range was the same as the above. An example of the IPs being 2605:8D80:664:E4A6:BF9E:B2C:F736:CA48.

This editor returned this week and immediately took up his old habits on Human Genetic Clustering.[1]. The page was protected by Doug Weller to prevent further socking. Note that the three reverts and then switch to a new IP is typical of this sock. He reverts freely but (not very transparently) circumvents 3RR by rotating socks and IPs.

This diff shows his IPv4 sock edits on that same page, showing he tried the same edit this week as he had previously tried in November (scroll to the end).[2]. Note that the IPv4 address 142.116.165.244 geolocates to Toronto. IP socking from that range was described by admins as egregious, and includes this one among others:[3]. The page just before the deletion on 3 November being particularly charming.

This sock is always interested in race and genetics so unsurprisingly the IP is now editing the AFD for Race and intelligence. My only evidence for supposing Skunkworks22 is related is as follows: (1) minimal edit history shows the same subject interest in race and genetics, (2) seems to know their way around wikipedia as the first thing they did was create a page and now found their way to AfD. Not sure that is enough for checkuser, and happy for them to be dropped from the report, but the IPs definitely  Looks like a duck to me. The IPs have a clear chain of connection trying the same edits on the same pages all the way back to last September. Sirfurboy (talk) 22:59, 6 February 2020 (UTC)

Comments by other users

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Greetings. I grant that I've similar interests to some of these users I'm accused of being a puppet of. They're popular areas of debate right now, for sure. But I'm not them (Note: I contend more than one of these suspects here are not the same people either!). I've already informed how I edited human clustering by attempting to remove an unsupported statement. Someone else evidently did so too? My IP is from my mobile carrier, called Rogers. It shifts when I'm on data. It's based in Toronto, but the IP ranges cover Rogers customers in GTA, the rest of Ontario, Quebec, and other areas. Millions of people. I myself am not in Toronto, as an example, but in Ottawa valley area. I hope this helps! 2605:8D80:648:1B4D:5360:2F1D:EF2F:174C (talk) 23:33, 6 February 2020 (UTC)

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