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Steve Wajkelszc

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23 September 2013
Suspected sockpuppets


All these users have displayed similar behaviour in their editing of articles relating to York and Selby area. None of them reference their entries, especially those relating to population. Two of the suspected users have been reverting infobox images whithout reason and where other users have indicated they are not the best images that were available. I know that is a subjective statement, but i believe it to be relevant as other articles of those areas that did not have images in the infoboxes are of derelict and grafitti ridden sites. The Article Histories of Areas of the City of York, North Yorkshire, Holgate, North Yorkshire, Acomb, North Yorkshire, Ulleskelf, Drax, North Yorkshire etc. provide the initial list of DIFFS to backup the argument and not all reversions have been an UNDOThere are also other suspected, but rarely used user names associated with these editing behaviours such as Opionm. A small amount of edits have been negative though. Happy to supply more examples if required. Rimmer1993 ( talk) 21:59, 23 September 2013 (UTC) reply

Noted request for Diffs. This will take a couple of days, as i will be without internet access for that time. Please keep open.

Example of similar behaviour between anon user 217.43.245.118 and Haitypol in adding unreferenced population additions are [1], [2], [3], [4], [5], [6] for anon user 217.43.245.118 and [7], [8] for Haitypol and possibly this for Foxwoodeditor [9]
Also there is this particular identical edit from Haitypol and Opionm ( who may be another sockpuppet, but i haven't enough evidence). Diff 1 is [10] and Diff 2 is [11]. Note both users have the edit tagged as "mobile". Some of Haitypol mobile edits were time stamped around the same time as those for 217.43.245.118 which are not mobile tagged and so most likely a fixed device. It is not impossible therefore that these two devices are being used by the same person to hide that fact.
The diffs for Steve_Wajkelszc i can no longer find, so my apologies. Rimmer1993 ( talk) 13:35, 27 September 2013 (UTC) reply

PLease add new suspect user Thomas Ryebridge who has just made idetical edits to suspect Haitypol on List of cities in the United Kingdom. The diffs are [12] made by Haitypol and this today [13] by Thomas Ryebridge. Please note, like other edits these are all tagged as mobile edits. Rimmer1993 ( talk) 17:27, 6 October 2013 (UTC) reply

Accused parties may also comment/discuss in this section below. See Defending yourself against claims.


Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments
  •  Clerk note: CheckUsers cannot comment on IP addresses. It may make sense to retitle this to one of the accounts, instead. L Faraone 22:31, 23 September 2013 (UTC) reply
    • Moved to the oldest account name. ​— DoRD ( talk)​ 12:06, 24 September 2013 (UTC) reply
  • no Declined with respect to 217.43.245.118 as we cannot publicly connect named accounts to IP addresses. In addition, please supply some diffs showing how these users could be the same person. Thanks ​— DoRD ( talk)​ 12:06, 24 September 2013 (UTC) reply
  •  Additional information needed - Rs chen 7754 17:40, 24 September 2013 (UTC) reply
  •  Clerk declined - Insufficient evidence presented (most of it for a check on the IP, which cannot be done, as was explained already). Rs chen 7754 21:52, 27 September 2013 (UTC) reply
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