Wikilifespan | June 2014 - Present |
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ISP | Fairpoint Communications Inc. |
Known IPs | 64.222.150.* 64.222.151.* 166.216.130.* |
Physical location | New Hampshire, United States |
Sockpuppet investigations | Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/I Love Bridges |
Instructions | Suspected socks should be tagged and reported to sockpuppet investigations for confirmation. When reporting, please link to this long-term abuse report. When the active abuse has been taken care of, please update this report with the latest information. |
Status | Active |
Basic information
I Love Bridges (talk • contribs • block logauto • spi confirmed socks
suspected socks)
Love Bridges Comprehensive edits analysis
Creation of hoax bridge articles, and meddling with existing ones. There was a wave of them in February 2015, involving I Love Bridges1 and the first eight IPs on the list, all from the range 166.216.130.* geolocating to Wichita. I Love Bridges 2 surfaced on 19 Mar 2015 and spent most of his edits adding spurious db tags to existing article Lordville-Equinunk Bridge. Two IPs, 64.222.150.* have also been involved, but geolocate differently, to Greenville, NH.
Targeted areas, pages, themes
- Articles of bridges.
Habitual behavior
- This user often tends to avoid editing articles on bridges, probably to cover himself up.
- The user tends to poke around in the "backstage" areas, so to speak.
- The user's most common form of block evasion is actually using IP's rather than creating more accounts (although account creation is still active)
Cases
Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/I Love Bridges is the most prominent case. This person often picks usernames that describes their claimed involvement in Wikipedia or the areas they claim they will edit.
Other notes
- (2015) Most recent confirmed sock was Poño Gázabelé. This user did not edit bridge-related articles, but CheckUser Ponyo looked at the user after they posted Wikipedia:Village pump (policy)/Archive 123#Sockpuppetry blocks and called the user a
Confirmed sock, therefore blocking it indefinitely.
- (January 2016) Most recent sockpuppet, which was also globally locked is User:WikiInternetWeb. The user came to IRC from an IP located in Budapest (73.47.71.127) and confessed that that sock-account was his.
- (February 2016) Yet another confirmed sock puppet was found by DoRD, User:Wikipedia is under attack. Unlike previous socks, this user went on a vandal spree, probably to try and disclose himself. Shortly after, this came about, but was closed per WP:DENY. That same Budapest IP is now blocked for 3 months for evasion. Also, another account, 1234567890ab was a suspected sock at one point, but was deemed unrelated by Huon.
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- Actually, the most recent sock now is User:I Love Bridges 3. It's pretty obvious from the username that it's the same user, and in fact the user placed a sock tag on his own userpage. Admin OhNoitsJamie is showing no slack, and revoked talk page access with the reason "no one cares". Also, 1234567890ab is now once again a suspected sock.
- (February 2017) Most recent sock is User:Treveyor. - Boing! said Zebedee (talk) 16:57, 21 February 2017 (UTC)
- (May 2017) User:Mr. Seth is now the most recent sock.
Confirmed and suspected accounts
- Sockpuppet category (if any): Category:Wikipedia sockpuppets of I Love Bridges
- Suspected sockpuppet category (if any): Category:Suspected Wikipedia sockpuppets of I Love Bridges