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90.209.222.248
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29 August 2010[edit]
Suspected sockpuppets [edit]
Evidence submitted by Backtable [edit]
The editor behind these accounts has edited genre information for articles of bands that are usually in the grunge and alternative rock/metal area (band and respective album pages of, for instance, Nickelback, Mudvayne, Silverchair) of music or the area of death/doom, gothic, (for instance, pages of or relating to My Dying Bride, Paradise Lost, Anathema, Cemetary, Cathedral, Katatonia) and thrash metal (for instance, pages relating to the bands Metallica, Megadeth, Slayer, Flotsam & Jetsam, Annihilator, Celtic Frost). The person edits the places on articles that give information on genres (especially in the infobox); this has been going on with these accounts since at least January 17, 2009, when there was editing of the My Dying Bride page and respective album pages. This is the oldest I can find done through an account fitting the descriptions mentioned here. Edits such as this and this consist of this person's usual mode of operation. A majority of them do have very similar formats of editing.
As for the person's attitude toward invisible messages, the person either ignores them (example), eliminates them (example), or rephrases them for self-serving reasons (example 1, example 2, example 3). The fact that this person often changes invisible messages like this brings me to my next point, that being that this person rarely disscusses the genre changing that is perfomed. Despite being personally messaged multiple times, the IP user has only communicated his/her reasons for the pervasive genre changing by manipulating the aforementioned invisible text, and that's not even done as a first resort.
It is worth noting that the person's IPs are usually 90.2xx.xxx.xxx, most of the time being 90.21x.xxx.xxx. Also, this person has used over 40 accounts, all of which are anonymous, to do his or her bidding. Backtable Speak to meconcerning my deeds. 04:59, 29 August 2010 (UTC)
Comments by accused parties [edit]
See Defending yourself against claims.
Comments by other users [edit]
Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments [edit]
This looks like the same user, though I haven't investigated every edit from the IPs listed above (90.246.240.231 looks like a typo). The IPs belong to BSkyB in a range of over a quarter of a million IP addresses. Some of the IPs appear to have been static over a gap of six months, but I don't think that justifies any blocks. The IP ranges are too big to block; the list of articles is likely too big for sweeping semi-protection. Sorry there's little that can be done here. -- zzuuzz (talk) 18:08, 1 September 2010 (UTC)