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20 December 2015

– This SPI case is open.

Suspected sockpuppets


Above appears to be giving inaccurate results!? shows 0 edits for all but 1 of the IPs.
Following appears to be giving inaccurate results too!? shows 0 edits for both of the IPv4s.

This case was formerly opened under the above listed IP and has been moved to the above named account of the vanished user. So far, the only thing that I have seen in their behavior which may be confirmed to be wrong is that they have not followed our vanishing guideline correctly but I'm not sure that would be something to block over. Some evidence has been presented in the archive but I haven't seen convincing evidence of IP socking or other illegitimate uses so far. I will add IPs below but will leave it to the original filer or other investigators to show clear sockpuppetry if it exists. One can compare this version of their deleted user page with their statements here as well as compare the articles that they edit to see that this is the same user.

Collection of IPs used by editor
Ranges
Single IPv6s taken from this range
  • There is a handful of distinct editors using this range anonymously; one edits plant articles, one is a game developer, one is a long term abuse vandal, one owns a sex enterprise, one edits German subjects (either the plant guy or our chemical doctor being looked at) and our Chem PhD that is the subject of the SPI. Some of ChemPhD's edits may still be in this range but with less certainty, I have not included those here. Those listed below are the ChemPhD unless otherwise noted.
  • This account used to be known as Formerly 98 but that is now an unregistered account so linking to it would do no good. I refer to him above as the ChemPhD guy. This is strictly about behavior and does not involve checkusers as I see nothing that they could do here.
     — Berean Hunter (talk) 23:02, 20 December 2015 (UTC)

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This account that used to be known as Formerly 98 is the one I initially reported as Unknown regular user(s) temporarily logged out - active on MEDRS pages and opposed to rigorous evidence based-medicine when I first opened the first SPI on this user.


Do take note: the archived diffs show it's done abusive things socks typically are used to attempt/do - including avoid scrutiny, give the impression of more support for a position than actually exists, edit project space, avoid sanctions, contribute to the same page or discussion in a way that suggests they are multiple people, editing logged out to mislead.

If anyone knows how to fix this page so the User compare report works properly, please do so. I'm giving it a shot. Update: Adding entries like I just did up at the top with the 3 IPs that were in the very stale User compare report that was appearing improved it somewhat - to 7 entries - but the numbers still show as off e.g. still 0 for the 2600:1010: IPs (@archive/D68i8).

ISPs
  • 169.230.155.123 is AKA udp071243uds.ucsf.edu .
  • 2600:1010 is Verizon.
  • 73.162.132.47 is c-73-162-132-47.hsd1.ca.comcast is Comcast.
  • 2601::/20 is Comcast, but a different type of IP.

That's at *LEAST* three different ISPs this one user is using.

--Elvey 03:38, 21 December 2015 (UTC)

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