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13 July 2012
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User:Tasketz Kayo edited mostly on pages related to the record label Anticon. I reported him for edit warring on these pages, mostly over discography changes, in this EDITWAR report, and on July 1 he was blocked for one week. After the one-week ban, Kayo continued edit warring and was blocked for a month almost immediately. The block was carried out on July 8 here. Kayo appealed this block and his appeal was denied on July 10.

On July 11, a crop of new editors appeared editing Anticon-related pages in much the same style Kayo was doing. Compare the following diffs:

There was also editing to Tobacco (musician) by new User:Rijkhamout, but the style of the edits appears to be sufficiently different that this may be another person. Since some of the above accounts only edited once or twice (but all edits they made were suspiciously similar to Kayo's style and were all on pages previously in Kayo's stomping grounds), I requested a checkuser (the admin who blocked Kayo also suggested this). The patterns are more visible over the gamut than within any single account action. Of these accounts, Kayo appears to be moving on with User:Poet4life as his primary block-evading sockpuppet, the only one to make edits for more than one day. Chubbles (talk) 16:56, 13 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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17 July 2012
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User:Tasketz Kayo/User:Cvlwr back again. The former user banned for disruptive edit warring on discographies, as noted in detail in previous report. Originally opened a SOCK case for Kayo on July 11th, and this investigation resulted in his being indefinitely banned for block evasion and use of multiple puppets.

Boom Baptist's first edit was an unremarkable change to a Sufjan Stevens template; his second was a revert of an IP on the page S / S / S, a page created by Tasketz Kayo. Given the behavior detailed in the previous report (new accounts returning to make significant edits on pages created by the users Cvlwr and Tasketz Kayo), I was already pretty sure he was back, and I left the standard welcome template on the user talk page (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Boom_Baptist&action=history). He responded by leaving a templated warning message about not following the Manual of Style, and added a note about the guideline Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Lists of works#Discographies. (diff). This is exactly the same edit war Kayo/Cvlwr and his puppets were carrying out; see e.g. this edit from blocked sockpuppet User:Poet4life, this edit from User:Tasketz Kayo citing the same guideline.

The remainder of his edits continue the edit war he fought as Kayo and as Poet4life. E.g. on Alias (artist), Boom Baptist reverts in exactly the same way Poet4life did (e.g. [8]). On Beans (rapper), Boom Baptist again cites the same guideline Kayo previously cited. On the page Darc Mind, we see the only editor of this page aside from myself is this person; the page was created by Cvlwr, edited by Kayo, then by blocked sock User:F C K Y after Kayo was blocked, and now with Boom Baptist, carrying on the longstanding edit war (though thankfully with diminishing returns; he's started adopting some of what I was advocating and for which I obtained consensus).

Boom Baptist has also brought the edit war to pages I recently created: [9], [10], [11]. He currently appears engaged in going through my edit history and changing the style on pages I've created: [12], [13], [14], [15], [16]. He is currently active and making a large number of edits at this time.

Since this is a case of block-evading sockpuppetry, I requested another checkuser as suggested in the page instructions. Chubbles (talk) 16:42, 17 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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22 August 2012
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Suspected sockpuppets

A little over a month ago, articles relating to the independent hip-hop label Anticon were besieged by a series of accounts operated by User:Tasketz Kayo/User:Cvlwr, eventually leading to a block of all the accounts for sockpuppetry, edit warring, and refusal to discuss changes. The previous investigation noted that he had also accumulated "a lot of logged out edits", but a rangeblock was not pursued at the time.

The operator of these accounts, I allege, did not leave. He continued editing under dynamic IP addresses, but since he had mostly dropped the edit-warring tendencies he showed earlier and was making more or less wikignomish edits that were uncontroversial, I didn't pursue the matter further. WP:AGF, right? Persistent editing on Anticon artists has continued, as well as his branching out into independent Canadian and American hip-hop artists in a rather narrow genre range, all from Tokyo-area IP addresses. To wit:

Cvlwr, thus, is back, or more appropriately, he never left. Am requesting a checkuser since it was recommended, and I did so, in the previous two investigations. Chubbles (talk) 04:03, 22 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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  • You should make short range-blocks if you believe you can, but the network address blocks are far too large to feasibly block; I did not see any addresses assigned to a block smaller than /11 or /10. I am also not aware of any urgent need to take preventative action against this socker, given that he has been almost inactive this month. AGK [•] 18:19, 27 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Chubbles isn't suggesting that 94.12.133.144 is User:Cvlwr, merely that the actions of 94.12.133.144 are a bit odd. memphisto 14:06, 29 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]
I fully realise that, and that's why I did my own research. The unanswered question remains. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 14:26, 29 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Answering my own question, the editor is fairly certain to be User talk:Hto9950 who appears not to have fulfilled the conditions imposed by the blocking declining admin at User talk:94.12.133.144. [User:Kudpung|Kudpung กุดผึ้ง]] (talk) 15:47, 29 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]
See also User talk:2.216.191.10. This is all possibly a case for another noticeboard. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 15:58, 29 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]
So 92.12.133.144 has been blocked, and Cvlwr began reverting 92's reversions; in the past couple of days, he's edited (WP:DUCK) as 118.8.45.35, 118.6.216.79, and 122.30.84.173. Chubbles (talk) 03:52, 1 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]
07 September 2012
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Longstanding block-evasion by Cvlwr/Tasketz Kayo continues as a dynamic IP. Cvlwr now creates articles as an IP and has them submitted and approved through AFC since we have blocked his dozens of puppet accounts. This is a pretty clear WP:DUCK if you've been through the previous reports, but to go through the motions:

114.164.227.26: Tokyo-area IP editing in North American independent hip-hop discographies, as we have seen in previous reports. Submits to AFC an immaculately-curated article about a compilation album. (Compare style to Giga Single, an almost identically formatted independent hip-hop compilation created by the banned sock Tasketz Kayo.) Is successful at AFC with this article. (I'm willing to bet nearly every artist linked in the Tags of the Times 3 comp has been edited by this user; we know from previous reports that 2Mex was edited by him as 123.225.58.135 and no doubt he is also 118.6.216.79, on Buck 65 he is probably 122.17.183.199, 122.26.230.24, and 124.85.229.159, he heavily edited Doseone under his own socks and as an IP, and on and on...).

60.46.40.193: Tokyo-area IP links to the Tags of the Times 3 compilation, created by the previous IP, on several pages, e.g. Mr. Dibbs, Doseone, Aesop Rock, 3 Melancholy Gypsys. Clearly the same person.

Rangeblocks have been recommended twice now but not pursued. Requesting checkuser has I have for all previous reports on this editor, and for the same reasons. Chubbles (talk) 18:07, 7 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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10 September 2012
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Tokyo-area IP editing North American independent hip-hop. Edits to K-the-I???, a page previously edited by socks Tasketz Kayo and Cvlwr (see history), and Pedestrian (rapper), a page created by Cvlwr (see history). Under this IP, the fellow has moved on to harassing another editor of independent hip-hop articles, Wetdogmeat (some seemingly ugly goings-on at Talk:Noah23/Temp). Chubbles (talk) 05:21, 10 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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What exactly are you asking for? You've only listed one IP address; are you suspicious of others? Or other registered accounts? SPI can't really do anything if you're just complaining about the conduct of a single IP, there are other venues for that. Basalisk inspect damage⁄berate 11:58, 10 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry, this is another report in an ongoing pattern of block-evasion. I've filed four or five reports in the past couple of months on User:Tasketz Kayo/User:Cvlwr (see archived material), who has created twenty-some accounts and, now that we've gone and blocked them all, is evading his blocks by editing under dynamic IPs, but nevertheless continues editing prolifically. I'm presuming that every time I find another WP:DUCK of him I should report it, as he seems to have no intention of leaving and is using the anonymity of dynamic IPs to get around all attempts we have made to stop him from editing (he submits new articles to AFC or creates them from redirects, and IP-hops to keep editing). Past reports have resulted in rangeblocks being suggested, but they have not been pursued. If rangeblocks are not the answer, I guess I'm asking, what is? Because blocking his accounts hasn't accomplished anything. Chubbles (talk) 18:01, 10 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]
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21 September 2012
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As per the last several reports, User:Cvlwr/User:Tasketz Kayo continues to edit with dynamic IP addresses, popping up every couple of days with a new IP and continuing edit wars. This is a classic WP:DUCK, a Tokyo-area IP editing in independent North American hip-hop. Here he edits a page previously edited by both of his main socks. Here is another example. He's been harassing User:Wetdogmeat, engaging in a rather concerted effort to be WP:TENDENTIOUS (have a look at all the warnings on Wetdogmeat's talk page, and see how many of them were placed by Tokyo-area IPs). I've been here an awful lot over this fellow, and wish I had a less labor-intensive way of dealing with him. Chubbles (talk) 20:19, 21 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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28 September 2012
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User:Cvlwr refuses to go away. These are Tokyo-area IPs editing in independent North American hip hop, often making discographical edits with characteristic formatting.

114.165.30.136: First edit is to Isaiah Toothtaker, an independent hip-hop artist whose article, I established in previous SPI cases, was created by this banned user as a dynamic IP at AFC. Edits to Nosaj Thing principally concerned with the formatting of discographies, in precisely the same style Cvlwr has used in all previous SPI cases. Edits to Daedelus also include major discography formatting changes, Free the Robots changes in the same style. Since this is a classic WP:DUCK of the banned user, I summarily reverted his edits...

114.164.225.165 ...and then this IP reverted them all back, in the classic combative style we saw in the first SPI case. one, two, three reverts and a templated warning calling my edits a joke.

Whenever I submit a report, it sits for a few days and then closes, and then he returns to editing again. He may be aware of these proceedings. Chubbles (talk) 18:49, 28 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Update, Oct 2 2012: new IP, 114.163.221.203, reverts Wetdogmeat to restore articles created by Cvlwr sock User:Tasketz Kayo: Alias & Tarsier, Serengeti & Poyphonic, Alias & Ehren. A WP:DUCK if ever I saw one. Chubbles (talk) 20:11, 2 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Update: new IP, 114.145.38.52, reverts all my reversions and template-warnings my talk page. See IP edit history. Chubbles (talk) 23:24, 2 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Update: new IP, 114.164.39.75, leaves templated warning message on my talk page. Chubbles (talk) 23:40, 2 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Update: Noticed suspicious discographical edits to Eligh by 123.225.77.69, and reverted them as a likely sock; soon after my edits were reverted by 114.164.34.223. Chubbles (talk) 22:51, 5 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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..and 114.145.38.52, too. Placing a few protections in place to thwart him.
 — Berean Hunter (talk) 23:34, 2 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Since when can IPs do range blocks? Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 16:36, 8 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]
14 November 2012
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WP:DUCK. Longstanding Tokyo-based dynamic-IP editing from this banned editor was quiet in the past few weeks, at least so far as my watchlist was concerned (correction - User:Wetdogmeat reported him here for harassment on November 6). This evening he came back with a spate of new edits under this IP. He began by editing at least a dozen pages I created - in fact, aside from The Waco Brothers, which was a page I edited heavily and which I link to on my userpage, it looks like Cvlwr was looking at my userpage list of self-created articles, clicking on links that interested him, and then editing the contents. Since most of his additions were formatting cleanup and addition of infoboxes, I thought it mostly counterproductive to revert him, though I suppose this might be considered borderline harassing, since it's focused around me and he's a banned editor. 114.164.14.154 edits Ashley Beedle, The U.M.C.'s, Kings Go Forth (band), Cristian Vogel, Dam-Funk, Ida Kavafian, Tami Lynn, Maureen Evans, Thomas Otten, Creative Construction Company, Vasily Polikarpovich Titov, and Barry Young (musician). These are all musicians which have no connection to each other except that I created all the articles and include them in a list on my userpage. Then he edits Anticon, the page he's focused his energies on since he was active in creating multiple accounts and abusing them months ago. Then he goes back to editing pages I created - Eleventyseven, Randy Brown (musician).

He's not done for the night. I don't know whether I should procedurally revert everything he's done since he is a banned user editing illegitimately; I'm not particularly unhappy with most of what he's done today. Nevertheless, I am absolutely done assuming good faith with this fellow, and am reporting his return to nip him in the bud, since waiting around until he did something really unsavory didn't work out for me too well in the past. Chubbles (talk) 07:26, 14 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Update: he just edited Jneiro Jarel, a previous target of his as an IP (under the addresses 124.102.105.223 and 123.224.224.117). He has edited this page today as 114.164.30.97 and 114.164.14.154. I reverted both edits; he simply reinstituted his changes in the second edit, in the same classic no-discussion reversion style we've seen from Cvlwr/Tasketz Kayo in previous SPI investigations. Chubbles (talk) 07:36, 14 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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I think it's time to do a range block. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 15:09, 17 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

22 November 2012
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Today, I redirected the title Bunky & Jake, intending it to point to the established article Bunky and Jake. I accidentally redirected the title to itself, however. This IP, a Tokyo-area address, redirected to the correct title. He then added a full infobox to this article; see previous similar behavior by established IP socks of Cvlwr (e.g., 114.164.14.154 on The UMCs, Kings Go Forth, etc.). The IP's third edit was to Anticon, the unwavering focus of Cvlwr's energies for the past year or more.  Looks like a duck to me. This also indicates, as did the previous SPI report, that the IP is stalking my edits. Chubbles (talk) 02:13, 22 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

This is only getting stranger...a new Tokyo-area IP, 60.46.55.63, directly follows up my edits to Ashley Cleveland with a correction. His only other edit was to his own talk page, apparently a headline about Barack Obama pardoning turkeys. It feels like the fellow is hounding me. Chubbles (talk) 20:56, 22 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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Soft blocked 1 week. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 05:54, 22 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

60.46.55.63 soft blocked 2 weeks. I'm going to do this systematically to all these now until, if ever, we get a complaint for collateral damage. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 00:49, 23 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

04 January 2013
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This fellow, it seems, is never leaving, and can't seem to accept that his edits are no longer wanted, good or bad. Tokyo-area IP in the 114.163 range (frequented by Cvlwr in previous SPI investigations) edits Illogic, an American underground hip-hop artist (Cvlwr's favorite area), adding discographical information in Cvlwr's characteristic formatting. I reverted; a new account, DJ Quietstorm, came along and restored the edits. More WP:DUCK, and if you've seen the previous SPI cases this should look pretty familiar. Chubbles (talk) 06:16, 4 January 2013 (UTC) Chubbles (talk) 06:16, 4 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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05 January 2013
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Immediately after the blocking of the above socks (reported on Jan 4), a new user returned to the Illogic page and reverted my edit again, mirroring the behavior of the sock User:DJ Quietstorm. The user seems to have a limitless patience for creating new accounts to pester me. Chubbles (talk) 22:14, 5 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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06 January 2013
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This user added the name "DJ Quietstorm" to his userpage, an obvious sock of the blocked accounts above, and then proceeded to needlessly redirect a bunch of things, including an article I had just written. Chubbles (talk) 20:52, 6 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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