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VegitaU 15:48, 3 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]
This is one of the most annoying things I've come by…a real mess. I can't tell whether the above clowns are sock puppets, meat puppets, straw puppets or just a bunch of separate clowns all hailing from Great Britain. They've all descended upon the Iraq War talk page and just wreaked havoc. It all began innocently enough: some unregistered user (User:86.25.50.222) trying to voice his opinion. Soon, however, it began to unravel. User:86.29.246.148 added this offtopic nonsense. Some time later, User:86.29.248.245 added this personal attack, reverted it, and added it again. Next day, User:86.29.244.175 added this garbage. Later the same day, User:86.29.251.25 added all this nonsense over the course of several edits. Other users decided to embroil themselves and soon added further piles of trash. After a few minutes, User:86.29.255.64 added unnecessary tags. I promptly reverted all the nonsense. Things went well for a couple days…didn't receive any vandalism for a while. Then, they came back with a post about Iraqi feminists, veterans, and a picture of a dead Iraqi. For a few days, nothing happened, but yesterday they came back. At this time, we had begun a discussion dealing with what picture we wanted to have as our lead on the Iraq War article. I had hoped this would be a dignified discussion to lead to an agreement. A few posts by User:86.29.247.13 and User:86.25.54.26 began to come in. Then, User:86.29.241.244 posted this nonsense which I promptly reverted. He added this which I also reverted out of a bad faith suspicion. User:86.29.241.253 added this, and User:86.29.241.114 all this and this. User:86.25.52.233 came in, making more edits. User:86.25.52.233 added his subjective remarks, followed by User:86.29.246.193 with this and this garbage. User:86.29.240.56 decided it would be nice to blank the entire talk page (reverted). Then, User:83.56.232.180 walked in on his soapbox. Finally, User:86.29.240.115 finished up with and edit agreeing to another unregistered user's comments. I've used him as "puppeteer" because, unfortunately, I haven't seen any centralized puppet master. This just looks like a multitude of nonsense that fell on the talk page. Maybe a semi-protect would solve the problem, but I don't have an issue with the comments so much as all the IP addresses looking the same and all adding to a childish and misspelled bickering on the site. Looking at the talk pages of some of these users, you see the insults they like to throw at each other. If you can help me with this, I appreciate it. Thanks.
Update: User:86.25.51.217 just recently added vandalism to the page again. Interestingly found that User:86.29.253.55 is suspected of being User:Elspeth Monro's sock puppet. Though not a party to this issue, the question emerges: is this a related case? -- VegitaU 16:12, 3 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]
I believe User:Freetown may be the scokpuppeteer. The problems continue on the Iraq War talk page. -- VegitaU 14:54, 12 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]
86.29.251.25 is on this list. This same IP has been making arguments on some of the same pages as these other sockpuppets. Such as the talk page on Iraq War. My report Wikipedia:Suspected sock puppets/Toddy Ball 2 is merged into this report.