Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Xanderliptak/Archive

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• {{checkuser|1=Η936631}}

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(I haven't made such a report before - if there are procedural issues, do bear with me!) Earlier this year, User:Xanderliptak was banned following a discuss on ANI; a user with whom I have interacted before, but not in any particularly meaningful way, nor was involved in the least with the ban. I have considerable suspicion that the above mentioned User:Η936631 is the same person, although as we know there could be a possibility they aren't related, for the following reasons:

• Account creation time: the block was on the 7 November, Η936631's first contribution was the 14 January;
• Η936631's contributions show no indication of being a new user (straight into AfDs, edit summaries reveal knowledge of policy, for example) and no acknowledgement of any form is given;
• Pages (heraldry, for example, and American pages) in terms of topic similar; several pages (e.g. Emblem of Bahrain), http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_heads_of_state_and_government_by_net_worth&limit=250&action=history List of heads of state and government by net worth] edited by both accounts [FDR among Η936631's, Theodore Roosevelt ‎among Xanderliptak's] ;
• The stated aim at Template_talk:Infobox_heraldic_achievement by Xanderliptak to migrate the uses of the template to another ("Emblem"), as carried out by Η936631 in [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Coat_of_arms_of_Baden&diff=prev&oldid=417913270 this edit], [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Coat_of_arms_of_Russia&diff=prev&oldid=417913083 this edit] and [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Coat_of_arms_of_Montreal&diff=prev&oldid=417912673 this edit], and others.

I would welcome any input from more experienced users in this area because of my novelty in this area. Grandiose (me, talk, contribs) 21:03, 9 March 2011 (UTC)

:Oh, the discussion wasn't for a full community ban. I'm not sure what position that leaves us in (not acknowledging "his" (as the case may be) former account could be a problem, no?. Help, please? Grandiose (me, talk, contribs) 21:37, 9 March 2011 (UTC)

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{{confirmed}} that Η936631 is a match to Xanderliptak. TNXMan 16:49, 10 March 2011 (UTC)

• Blocked and tagged. /ƒETCHCOMMS/ 17:34, 10 March 2011 (UTC)

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;Suspected sockpuppets

• {{checkuser|1=Dave Pritchard}}

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This seems fairly obvious. Xanderliptak was originally banned by the community, with a set of restrictions imposed should he seek an unblock. A similar situation obtained on Commons.

This user is uploading multiple images by the same person, importing them from a blog which imposes licencing constraints incompatible with Wikipedia policy, particularly WP:WATERMARK, a bugaboo of Xanderliptak; he felt his signature should remain on all work and the licencing he forces on his blog indicates the same.

He has socked around his block before, and I only just happened to notice the addition of a Xanderliptak file on a page I hadn't removed from my watchlist. CU is needed, perhaps an underlying IP can be hardblocked. →ROUX ₪ 06:14, 13 June 2011 (UTC)

:Dammit. Wish I'd seen the edits a few days earlier then. So what do we do? Block per the overwhelming sound of ducks? Ignore the fact that he's socking (again) around a community ban? → ROUX ₪ 17:59, 13 June 2011 (UTC)

::Question: User:173.24.117.126 is an acknowledged IP that Liptak has used while logged out. Does this help? → ROUX ₪ 20:40, 13 June 2011 (UTC)

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The accounts in the archive are {{IPstale}}, but this user is using the same ISP that I checked last time. There are no other sleepers, but there is other activity on the range, so I'm a little hesitant about IP blocking. TNXMan 14:10, 13 June 2011 (UTC)

• Add behavoir and I think we have cleared it. -- DQ (t) (e) 01:59, 15 June 2011 (UTC)
• {{clerknote}} Archiving due to lack of further action to be able to take in regards to the IP, per CU comments. Steven Zhang ^{The clock is ticking....} 05:00, 17 June 2011 (UTC)

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;Suspected sockpuppets

• {{checkuser|1=Pratt232}}
• {{checkuser|1=JDF6574}}

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{{diff|Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents|prev|482673822|CU performed by Alison}} - ruled likely, and confirmed that Pratt and JDF are the same SarekOfVulcan (talk) 06:21, 19 March 2012 (UTC)

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Pro forma report, already bagged and tagged --SarekOfVulcan (talk) 06:21, 19 March 2012 (UTC)

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