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Porgers

28 May 2011
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Suspected sockpuppets

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The editor in question (hence to be named "Editor") has a long history of purely disruptive editing, adding nonsense to articles without basis, ignoring discussions on Talk Pages, and deliberately trying to inflame other editors with provocative edits, mostly of a POV nature, but sometimes pure nonsense. Editor uses dishonest edit summaries to mask [his] true intentions, by pretending to follow the protocol when in fact the opposite is true. An example is a recent edit made by one of [his] new sockpuppets at Jean Chrétien, with the edit summary="rv due to small error". This edit completely altered material that had already been discussed in the Talk Page, and went against the consensus of other editors. "Small error" indeed! An earlier sockpuppet of Editor provided this misleading edit summary "rv as evidence from stats Canada", when evidence from Stats Canada contradicted that, as revealed later by discussion at "Positive economic conditions" as a reason for deficit elimination. In this edit, Editor did not provide any reference or even attempt to back up his false claim.

Editor attempts to compromise other Users accounts by posing as other users and making bogus requests for password changes and/or blocks of accounts on various projects within the Wikimedia domain.

The following discussions about this editor will explain the history of this sockpuppetry. -- User:Porgers reported by User:Mr. Stradivarius; User Porgers attempting to crack my account; More socks of Porgers active; most recently, one of the confirmed sockpuppets of Porgers (talk · contribs) has been trying to get my password changed by Wikimedia at Wikiversity, and has made suspicious edits at Wikiversity, all while supposedly being blocked for a month (for IP address -- User:70.48.238.196). All these latest edits were quickly reverted by other watchful editors due to blanking and replacement of content (pure disruption). Skol fir (talk) 07:09, 28 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

One of those recent edits at Wikiversity was an attempt to create a page for Wikiversity:User:Toddst1, which has just been deleted due to the obvious slurs directed at Toddst1, in retaliation for that editor blocking Porgers (talk · contribs) originally on May 19 (Zulu time) for 3RR followed by more permanent blocks for obvious disruption. --Skol fir (talk) 16:24, 28 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]
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Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments
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I'm not really sure what you're requesting here. Could you please elaborate? Except for one IP which looks stale now, all the other IPs are blocked. Elockid (Talk) 12:07, 28 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I spent over an hour presenting the evidence above. I don't know what else I need to add. I opened this investigation because an IP address User:70.48.238.196 blocked only at Wikipedia needs to be blocked at all projects because they tried to get my password changed on Wikiversity. All this information is already in my original submission above. I can also point you to the person who suggested that I post this problem here -- User_talk:Skol_fir/Archive_3#re_More_socks_of_Porgers_active.--Skol fir (talk) 15:47, 28 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Sorry if it seemed like I made you waste your time, but it wasn't the evidence that was lacking. I needed what you wanted to be done which you stated second sentence you wrote in the reply you gave to me. Hopefully this will adequately answer your concerns. Blocking the IPs from all projects is beyond admin power here on English Wikpedia. Blocking of IPs from all projects can only be done by Stewards at Meta. You can requests global blocks here. To my knowledge, Stewards can't block IPs from sending password retrieval requests. I think these are the developers. In the meanwhile, a tip I can give is just ignore them. You could also disable your email. This will prevent password requests from being sent. Alternatively, you could also set a filter in your email. Elockid (Talk) 21:39, 28 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]
16 June 2011
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Suspected sockpuppets

The suspected editor has already been the subject of a Sockpuppet investigation. Previously known to have numerous sockpuppets connected to Porgers (talk · contribs), this editor has resumed his disruptive activities under new names and appears to be also hiding behind a new IP address. His pattern of behavior is to troll my correct and proper edits and to revert them for no reason other than harassment. He is deliberately trying to annoy me, but it won't work, because I am just interested in making improvements to Wiki articles, not responding to a nasty editor. He left one comment today with his anonymous IP address 70.48.239.24, at my Talk Page diff here, which was clearly meant to antagonize me. Another editor saw it as a disruptive, useless comment and sensibly removed it.

Recent examples of his pointless edits are diff 1, diff 2, diff 3, diff 4, diff 5, diff 6. All these edits ignore common sense, as well as any previous discussion at the relevant talk pages that led to my well-intentioned and purposeful edits, now arbitrarily reverted by this sockpuppet, for no other reason but to harass me. Some examples of the user's wily use of edit summaries to mask his true intentions are: "minor cleanup -- small correction -- this is better."

This suspected editor is also following a previous pattern of removing warnings from his Talk Page placed correctly by other editors.

I propose that all suspected sockpuppets of Porgers be monitored and blocked as they appear at Wikipedia. Whoever this editor is, he is on a mission to deliberately revert any edits made by myself, User:Skol_fir, regardless of their merit. This serves only to disrupt the Wikipedia project. Skol fir (talk) 19:51, 16 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments
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  Clerk note: Accounts already blocked. The IP is autoblocked. Please continue to report possible socks/IP addresses. Elockid (Talk) 02:39, 17 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I shall keep a lookout for any more like this. --Skol fir (talk) 03:39, 17 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]
21 June 2011
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Suspected sockpuppets


Even after the latest round of blocks placed on the sockpuppets of Porgers (talk · contribs), this editor has surfaced once again as Timetogohome989 (talk · contribs). The articles he targets, and the editing pattern are the same as before. His editing serves no purpose but to disrupt. For example, with the latest edit on the CJOB article he inserted totally incorrect unsourced information, replacing my own carefully researched edits. He changed the Board of Governors for a Canadian station to an American one, among other useless and unhelpful edits, such as changing a completed past event into a future event! This person has only one purpose for his sockpuppets, which is to revert any edits made by myself, User:Skol_fir. This only causes a disruption in the improvement of the articles at Wikipedia, which does not benefit the community of Wikipedians at all. Another recent edit he made at Steinbach, Manitoba was already spotted by another editor as the pointless work of a sockpuppet.

I request the immediate blocking of the new sockpuppet, User:Timetogohome989. Skol fir (talk) 01:43, 21 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments
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This is a little convoluted, but here we go.   Confirmed that Golfer45time (talk · contribs), Timetogohome989 (talk · contribs), and Yyui89a (talk · contribs) are the same. Its also confirmed that Porgers (talk · contribs) and Golfer787 (talk · contribs) are the same (among others). Given the user name similarities and other technical data, I'd say the two groups are   Likely matches to each other. TNXMan 12:57, 21 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

  Administrator note Accounts blocked and tagged. Elockid (Talk) 15:30, 21 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

24 August 2012
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Suspected sockpuppets
-- DQ (ʞlɐʇ)  03:49, 24 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]
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