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User:218.188.90.194

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Suspected sockpuppeteer

218.188.90.194 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log)

Suspected sockpuppets

Note:162.84.162.32 has already been blocked for 2 days for being a sockpuppet of Nefbmn. (as of 23/7/2008 1650 UTC)

Report submission by

David873 (talk) 10:49, 18 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Evidence

The edits listed below ~~All edits~~ display strong anti-Vietnam bias and have occurred over an alarming short period of time. ~~occurred within the space of 3 days, beginning at 17/07/08 0241 UTC and ending at 19/07/08 1205 UTC.~~ At least eight of them were extremely racist and constituted defamation. Many of the comments made simply echo the ideas of another. All but the last four of the IP addresses resolve to hosts in the same locale. 68.160.248.199, 141.155.157.83, 162.84.162.32 and 162.83.163.42 seem to be meatpuppets of the other 'IP accounts'.
The relevant edits are as follows.

[1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12] [13] [14] [15] [16] [17] [18] [19] [20] [21] [22] [23] [24] [25] [26] [27] [28] [29] [30] [31] [32] [33]

The editor who was previously User:141.155.157.83 then confessed to creating a user account with an inappropriate username as shown here[34][35]. When the later user account was indefinitely blocked due to username policy violations, User:Nefbmn ~~then~~ surfaced as shown here[36].

Nefbmn then proceeded to the usual routine of serial abuse that had occurred under three previous user accounts (both registered and anonymous IP). When this user was blocked for one week, two IP accounts turned up with the same patttern of abuse as Nefbmn: 162.84.162.32 and 162.83.163.42. 162.84.162.32 has since been blocked but as of 24/7/2008 0100 UTC, 162.83.163.42 remains unblocked. The contributions listings for the three user accounts mentioned in this paragraph along with that for the user account blocked for having an objectionable username speak for themselves[37][38][39][40]. David873 (talk) 01:20, 24 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Some twenty hours later User:162.84.137.211 turned up and inserted a superfluous expression into Vietnamese people as shown here[41]. This edit shares the same agenda as this user account and Nefbmn.

Comments

The editing pattern just described is highly suspicious given that Talk:Cantonese people, Talk:Guangdong and Talk:Nanyue rarely experience high levels of activity and certainly not at the same time! The suspected sockpuppeteer has continued making disruptive edits (often in a propagandist manner) since this report was filed and it is highly likely that this editing pattern will continue. Many attempts to remove the suspected sockpuppeteer's disruptive edits have failed either because the IP editor returns to cause more trouble or some established user unconnected to the suspected sockpuppeteer reinstates their improper edits, claiming that the IP editor's comments are 'valid'. —Preceding unsigned comment added by David873 (talk • contribs) 10:11, 19 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

This user (or users as there seems to be meatpuppets involved) obviously will not stop their abusive acts. Apparently, inserting abusive comments into user talk pages now seems to be one of his preferred ways of abuse. Some articles have also been targetted. David873 (talk) 12:57, 19 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

~~The disruption has now spread to Talk:Hoa. David873 (talk) 02:56, 21 July 2008 (UTC)~~[reply]

So far, the following Wikipedia pages have been vandalised or spammed by the suspected sockpuppeteer or their sockpuppets:

David873 (talk) 00:59, 22 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

This is 68.160.248.199 (talk) 02:43, 22 July 2008 (UTC), on my talk page i have definitive proof that i am not any of these sockpuppets, i demand an apology for this blatant accusation which i proved wrong, because the user in question you are talking about is in hong kong, and i am in the USA, jeez some people are just so rude.......[reply]

This user account is obviously abusive. ~~The next~~Later in the day, more abusive comments appeared, this time in the user talk page itself[42]. A minute later, the user account with the objectionable username appeared. David873 (talk) 23:40, 22 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

User:Vietnameseischinesenotcantoneseisvietnamese was blocked due to a violation of the username policy, it would be inappropriate to call that account a sockpuppet. --lifebaka (talk - contribs) 13:14, 23 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The user account that was blocked for username policy violations was listed here as I had already suspected it to be a sockpuppet before it was even blocked, given its similar record of serial racial abuse compared to the IP editors. David873 (talk) 23:58, 23 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

you have no proof of meatpuppetry, its not highly suspicioius, due to the fact that the comment about cantonese being vietnamese ALSO APPEARED RECENTLY, LEADING TO INFLAMED TENSIONS OF CONTROVERSIAL EDITS — Preceding unsigned comment added by Nefbmn (talk • contribs) 13:23, July 23, 2008 (UTC)

Wrong! No one ever said that the Cantonese people are part of the Vietnamese people at the talk pages concerned. See the edit histories for Talk:Cantonese people, Talk:Guangdong and Talk:Nanyue. The editors responsible for causing the chaos just described have been listed in this report. David873 (talk) 23:58, 23 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Conclusions

There is not enough manpower on a volunteer-run encyclopaedia to deal with this. Please consult WP:RfPP if you wish to stop the IPs. Enigma ^message 17:41, 31 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]