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'''Adding user''' {{user|Doyouevenlift84}}, due to the timing of the account creation and their actions (PRODing any pages Another John S created, and only pages created by that user), a behavior consistent with the IP's "please ban me" rationale below. - [[User:SudoGhost|Sudo]][[User_talk:SudoGhost#top|Ghost]] 15:50, 8 November 2012 (UTC) |
'''Adding user''' {{user|Doyouevenlift84}}, due to the timing of the account creation and their actions (PRODing any pages Another John S created, and only pages created by that user), a behavior consistent with the IP's "please ban me" rationale below. - [[User:SudoGhost|Sudo]][[User_talk:SudoGhost#top|Ghost]] 15:50, 8 November 2012 (UTC) |
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::Given the recent large number of new editors suddenly editing the talk page trying to achieve consensus on something, [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk%3ABitcoin&diff=522141534&oldid=522120956 making personal attacks] against other editors, I would also ask that a checkuser check for other accounts as well, seeing as how the last two SPIs have shown that HowardStrong does not edit with just one account at a time, but several. - [[User:SudoGhost|Sudo]][[User_talk:SudoGhost#top|Ghost]] 15:41, 9 November 2012 (UTC) |
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Revision as of 15:41, 9 November 2012
HowardStrong
- HowardStrong (talk · · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · spi block · block log · CA · CheckUser(log) · investigate · cuwiki)
- Populated account categories: confirmed
01 November 2012
– This SPI case is closed and will be archived shortly by an SPI clerk or checkuser.
- Suspected sockpuppets
- Bitcoin (talk · · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · spi block · block log · CA · CheckUser(log) · investigate · cuwiki)
- Another John S (talk · · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · spi block · block log · CA · CheckUser(log) · investigate · cuwiki)
- Anonymous68th (talk · · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · spi block · block log · CA · CheckUser(log) · investigate · cuwiki)
- Barry McGuiness (talk · · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · spi block · block log · CA · CheckUser(log) · investigate · cuwiki)
- 74.196.114.169 (talk · · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · spi block · block log · CA · CheckUser(log) · investigate · cuwiki)
- 74.192.137.215 (talk · · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · spi block · block log · CA · CheckUser(log) · investigate · cuwiki)
- 66.87.121.134 (talk · · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · spi block · block log · CA · CheckUser(log) · investigate · cuwiki)
- 66.87.120.203 (talk · · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · spi block · block log · CA · CheckUser(log) · investigate · cuwiki)
- Sarah Nordic (talk · · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · spi block · block log · CA · CheckUser(log) · investigate · cuwiki)
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User's contribs indicate edits solely to BitCoin and related items for all accounts. The socls started editing when HowardStrong was blocked for 48 hours. The user Bitcoin has subsequently been username blocked after "retiring," and Another John S has supposedly "retired" as well. I would also note Anonymous68th made 10 edits to the sandbox in a minute (to get autoconfirm) and then immediately went to Bitcoin thereafter (a protected article). Barry McGuinness is either a sleeper or a hijacked account, as after 12 prior edits and a 2 month absence, he went right to Bitcoin. MSJapan (talk) 21:18, 1 November 2012 (UTC)
I have also added Sarah Nordic, as I am becoming increasingly skeptical of new users coming in and somehow instinctively knowing to go do stuff with Bitcoin-related citations. MSJapan (talk) 17:37, 2 November 2012 (UTC)
- The Sarah Nordic account picked up editing the same article as the 74.196 IP address above, making the same edit as the IP. The account was also created a few minutes after the IP commented here. - SudoGhost 19:27, 2 November 2012 (UTC)
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- Comment - The User:Another John S account was created the day HowardStrong was told to stop edit warring over a symbol on the Bitcoin article. User:Another John S's first actions on Wikipedia were to create their account, wait the required number of days and then to edit their userpage 10 times with pointless edits, and then immediately continue HowardStrong's edit war over the symbol (Bitcoin was semi-protected at the time). Aside from one other edit, User:Another John S did not edit Wikipedia again until HowardStrong was blocked for 48 hours, and then resumed editing. - SudoGhost 21:19, 1 November 2012 (UTC)
- Comment — For reference purposes, I would also like to point out the following noticeboard discussions about the users in question, including this active one, with regard to User:Bitcoin, and these 3RR discussions about HowardStrong: first one and second one. – Zntrip 21:44, 1 November 2012 (UTC)
- Comment Whatever the relationship between these various users, some of them are clearly not "new users". For example, in the first 24 hours of User:Bitcoin's editing career, he's altered a long-closed Afd [1]; closed another AfD [2], implemented it [3], created a new article with perfectly formatted refs [4], and edited a DAB page [5]. Ditto User:Another John S who redirects an article in response to a merge tag [6], moves a page [7], creates a new page with perfectly formatted refs [8], and creates a new category [9]. Voceditenore (talk) 22:50, 1 November 2012 (UTC)
- Comment — I'm adding 74.196.114.169 (talk · contribs) to the list, as the IP is exhibiting similar behavior to the user accounts. The IP's first edit was today to the AfD discussion for Room 77 to keep the article. The article was created yesterday by User:Bitcoin. Less than five minutes later, the IP voted for renaming at the CfD section for Category:Bitcoin companies and organizations, a category created two days ago by User:Another John S. Aside from editing the two deletion discussions, the only other edit done by the IP thus far has been Bitcoin-related. – Zntrip 05:59, 2 November 2012 (UTC)
- Comment* -- We're roommates and we're done. We share a computer and we edit on Wikipedia when we wait on Howard to get us material. We all work on Bitcoin stuff. -Another John S (talk) 07:59, 2 November 2012 (UTC)
- Nobody here is Barry though. -74.192.137.215 (talk) 08:08, 2 November 2012 (UTC)
Lol Howard leaves for a few days and you guys screw him on Wikipedia. Please don't bn him. It's our fault. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.87.120.203 (talk) 08:44, 2 November 2012 (UTC)
- yeah howard is going to be pissed when he gets back next month don't ban him we will stop editing we just wanted to help66.87.121.134 (talk) 09:24, 2 November 2012 (UTC)
- Comment I've added the IPs for the above messages to the list. So, this lot claims they are all roommates holed up in the same apartment (somewhere in Texas, presumably?) with only one computer between them and have spontaneously decided to edit war on behalf of User:HowardStrong who just happens to be "away for a few days", an absence which unsurprisingly coincides with his 48 hour block. I'd suggest a checkuser here in case any more of the apartment's "residents" are lurking around on WP. For what it's worth, User:Barry McGuiness, may well have been simply caught in the cross-fire. His addition to the article was quite different and involved adding background on the precursors of Bitcoin. Voceditenore (talk) 12:18, 2 November 2012 (UTC)
Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments
- The shared IP story is well frankly, bullshit. You don't edit from one device, you edit from three, and you even cross them between accoutns. Confirmed the following:
- Another John S (talk · · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · spi block · block log · CA · CheckUser(log) · investigate · cuwiki)
- John Advancement (talk · · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · spi block · block log · CA · CheckUser(log) · investigate · cuwiki)
- Bitcoin (talk · · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · spi block · block log · CA · CheckUser(log) · investigate · cuwiki)
- Anonymous3633 (talk · · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · spi block · block log · CA · CheckUser(log) · investigate · cuwiki)
- Anonymous68th (talk · · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · spi block · block log · CA · CheckUser(log) · investigate · cuwiki)
- HowardStrong (talk · · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · spi block · block log · CA · CheckUser(log) · investigate · cuwiki)
- Max Almighty (talk · · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · spi block · block log · CA · CheckUser(log) · investigate · cuwiki)
- Likely to each other and to the above: JamesReaves (talk · contribs), BitcoinNodeDev (talk · contribs), Sarah Nordic (talk · contribs).
- Unrelated to all Barry McGuiness (talk · contribs).
- No comment with respect to IP address(es). -- DQ (ʞlɐʇ) 03:46, 4 November 2012 (UTC)
- Indeffing socks with tags, giving master 1 week and 72 hours for all IPs involved. Closing.
— Berean Hunter (talk) 03:55, 4 November 2012 (UTC)
05 November 2012
– This SPI case is closed and will be archived shortly by an SPI clerk or checkuser.
- Suspected sockpuppets
- Callicokamaichi3 (talk · · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · spi block · block log · CA · CheckUser(log) · investigate · cuwiki)
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Just a heads up before anything else, many of the diffs by the IPs, 50.97.101.196 (talk · contribs · WHOIS) in particular, contain images that are NSFW. HowardStrong was blocked on 4 November for using ~10 sockpuppets. Immediately afterwards, the talk page Talk:Bitcoin came under frequent vandalism from IP contributors, most of them appearing to be web proxies (the article is currently full-protected). The talk page was semi-protected for 24 hours, and today after the talk page's semi-protection expired, the vandalism immediately resumed. The article's talk page had not been subject to any vandalism until HowardStrong's block. The last IP address listed, 66.87.121.223 (talk · contribs · WHOIS), was unrelated to the talk page vandalism, but was used to remove the PROD from an article HowardStrong created, since his account was blocked. HowardStrong has not outright identified as an IP address, but has used IP addresses to claim to be his "roommates", which were identified as sockpuppets. The only IP addresses that don't appear to be proxies, the 66.187 addresses, are all from the same range and ISP that HowardStrong previously used to comment as "roommates" of HowardStrong. All of these IP addresses and the single account appear to be used for block evasion and vandalism in retaliation for being blocked. - SudoGhost 15:50, 5 November 2012 (UTC)
Comments by other users
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please ban howard he doesnt care about wikipedia only bitCoins. thanks198.105.216.188 (talk) 16:23, 5 November 2012 (UTC)
Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments
- Oh, jolly dee. Here we go again.
- 198.105.216.188 is a webhost, so blocked for a year.
- 206.214.93.226 is a webhost, with a barracuda blacklist to boot, so sidelined this for a year as well
- The 66s belong to Sprint, a mobile phone provider. By coincidence, your one named editor edits via his iphone. I get the impression it's a fast rotating range, so probably no value in lenghty blocks. I#ll have a look at a rangeblock, see how many of the late Mr Jobs customers it would inconvenience.
- 50.97.101.196 belongs to a company operating out of Houston Texas. Blocked that for six months. (Materialscientist blocked it 3yrs as a proxy)
Ain't we got fun (as Peter van Buskirk) would say. Elen of the Roads (talk) 21:54, 5 November 2012 (UTC)
08 November 2012
– An SPI clerk has endorsed a request for CheckUser. A checkuser will shortly review the case.
- Suspected sockpuppets
- Doyouevenlift84 (talk · · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · spi block · block log · CA · CheckUser(log) · investigate · cuwiki)
Adding user Doyouevenlift84 (talk · contribs), due to the timing of the account creation and their actions (PRODing any pages Another John S created, and only pages created by that user), a behavior consistent with the IP's "please ban me" rationale below. - SudoGhost 15:50, 8 November 2012 (UTC)
- Given the recent large number of new editors suddenly editing the talk page trying to achieve consensus on something, making personal attacks against other editors, I would also ask that a checkuser check for other accounts as well, seeing as how the last two SPIs have shown that HowardStrong does not edit with just one account at a time, but several. - SudoGhost 15:41, 9 November 2012 (UTC)
Comments by other users
Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments
- Self-endorsed by clerk for checkuser attention I'm asking for checkuser to compare to HowardStrong (talk · contribs) because, if this is him, I'll up his block to indefinite. Reaper Eternal (talk) 15:02, 9 November 2012 (UTC)