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Report date October 15 2009, 19:16 (UTC)[edit]
Suspected sockpuppets [edit]


Evidence submitted by HelloAnnyong [edit]

Several weeks ago, 68.194 made this edit, and Observer later admitted that she had made the edit in an attempt to prove a point, and referred to it as her "silly game". Observer was later banned for incivility and other issues.

Recently, the IP made this edit. It's not a particularly significant edit, but that seems like block evasion to me. I brought this up at WP:ANI and was told to open an SPI. — HelloAnnyong (say whaaat?!) 19:16, 15 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]


Comments by accused parties [edit]

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Comments by other users [edit]

ObserverNY comments on "enrolled in vs attend" hereand edited anonymously on other pages here Most definitely is ObserverNY. Doesn’t matter if it is just a “grammar fix.” That IP needs to be blocked as well. La mome (talk) 20:49, 15 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments [edit]
Conclusions [edit]
  • information Administrator note - While it could quite possibly be ObserverNY, the edit is nothing more than a simple grammar fix. I don't see that any action is really necessary here, although I will leave this up for another administrator to take a look at. NW (Talk) 19:25, 15 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]
    IP tagged as a sock, if further edits are made it should be blocked. 03:39, 19 October 2009 (UTC)
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Report date February 8 2010, 21:10 (UTC)[edit]
Suspected sockpuppets [edit]


Evidence submitted by HelloAnnyong [edit]

Back in October 2009, ObserverNY (talk · contribs) was indef blocked for sockpuppeting as an IP and vandalizing as an IP to prove a point. Recently we've seen a bunch of edits by 68.194.254.7 on some articles where ObserverNY used to be active - namely IB Diploma Programme, International Baccalaureate and List of International Baccalaureate people. Further, ObserverNY first puppeted as 68.194.235.103, and now we're seeing edits from 68.194.254.7. The two addresses have the same subnet (68.194.0.0/16) and are from the same IP.

This seems to be a pretty straightforward case of block evasion. — HelloAnnyong (say whaaat?!) 21:10, 8 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]


Comments by accused parties [edit]

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Comments by other users [edit]
Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments [edit]

information Administrator note IP blocked 1 week. I cannot rangeblock as there are too many recent unrelated activity from other IPs. –MuZemike 00:04, 11 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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Report date March 26 2010, 00:13 (UTC)[edit]
Suspected sockpuppets [edit]
Evidence submitted by HelloAnnyong [edit]

This IP was blocked in Feb 2010 before as a sock of ObserverNY. They recently made another edit on the page which was ObserverNY's main battleground. — HelloAnnyong (say whaaat?!) 00:13, 26 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Update: IP edited again. — HelloAnnyong (say whaaat?!) 14:35, 26 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Update: IP edited a third time. — HelloAnnyong (say whaaat?!) 18:46, 27 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Evidence submitted by CinchBug [edit]

See this diff. ObserverNY is indef blocked and IP 68.194.254.7 was previously blocked for sockpuppetry on a related article. • CinchBug • 00:16, 26 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Comments by accused parties [edit]

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Comments by other users [edit]
Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments [edit]

 Clerk note: Merged from Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/68.194.254.7. Elockid (Talk) 00:34, 26 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

 Clerk note: Recommend hard block of IP for another three months. Auntie E. (talk) 01:11, 27 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Blocked 3 months. –MuZemike 19:58, 27 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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28 June 2010[edit]
Suspected sockpuppets [edit]


Evidence submitted by HelloAnnyong [edit]

This anon IP has been previously confirmed as ObserverNY. The IP has been blocked several times - first for 31 hours, then a week, then three months - and ObserverNY always comes back and edits again on the same page. — HelloAnnyong (say whaaat?!) 02:28, 28 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Comments by accused parties [edit]

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Comments by other users [edit]

Please do something about this, as the problem continues.Tvor65 (talk) 12:15, 28 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

  • Blimey, that was fast, Elockid! Thanks! TFOWR 12:21, 28 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments [edit]

information Administrator note Blocked 6 months. Elockid (Talk) 12:20, 28 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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04 October 2010[edit]
Suspected sockpuppets [edit]


Evidence submitted by TFOWR [edit]

Signed as "ONY" in this edit, all other edits are to IB articles. Note that I've already blocked per WP:DUCK: I'm reporting this "for the record". TFOWR 19:59, 4 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Comments by accused parties    [edit]

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Comments by other users [edit]
Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments [edit]