Wikipedia talk:Requests for investigation/Archives/2006/04

Unregistered users

Anon user at 66.228.245.85 had a similar pattern before being blocked as a vandal. Amcfreely 03:35, 24 April 2006 (UTC)
Is it possible to verify the information either way? Petros471 19:20, 25 April 2006 (UTC)

These are some of the articles

Battle of kursk He removes 300 thousand casulites for the german side wihtout useing any source which can be seen here http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Battle_of_Kursk&diff=47294776&oldid=47142802

Winter war he alters the figures and removes 2 key paragraphs which are Finnish President Urho Kekkonen stated in September 1963, "When now, after more than 20 years, we put ourselves in the position of the Soviet Union, then in light of Hitler's invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941, the concern that the USSR had, and should have had, in relation to its safety at the end of the 1930's becomes understandable." AND It was recently confirmed in a study by Finnish historian Lasse Laaksonen that the Finnish army was on the verge of total collapse when the armistice was signed.[1] It is speculated that since Stalin had practically wiped out his intelligence apparatus in Finland during the purges, he was not aware that continuing the war for only a week longer would have led to the inevitable and total defeat of the Finnish army. Despite the heroic resistance of the Finns, the Soviets would have inevitably won through attrition. This last part has been sourced and can easily be varified here http://www.hs.fi/english/article/1101978837065

Battle of Berlin he alters sourced figures without stateing any source which can be seen here http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Battle_of_Berlin&diff=47120722&oldid=46740056

He has done the same in many article if there is any doubt that this is sneaky vandalism then I can provide more articles where he has done the same thing, altered sourced figures without himself proveding any source. (Deng 09:49, 8 April 2006 (UTC))

Registered users

  • Merecat (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) has crossed the line from a mere content dispute to breaking the rules by deleting without cause my comments to a talk page. Additionally, Merecat is lying about this, and other things, using veiled ad hominems, is gaming the system. Merecat is apparently willing to do whatever it takes to obstruct progress on the rationale to impeach article, including break the rules and hope to slip by. This brazen rule breaking leads me to believe that merecat has been getting away with murder for some time now, and I request that merecat at least be recused from that article, and that whatever the process is to determine whether or not a user should be banned start. Nobody should have to quit adding comments or working on a project because as far as they know, anything they do ill just be deleted without cause. (and obviously and only for the purpose and obviously and only because those comments were inconvenient to merecats case, not because there was any good reason to delete.) Prometheuspan 17:35, 25 April 2006 (UTC) Wikipedia talk:Requests for comment/Merecat
    • The request for comment is receiving quite a lot of attention. If you need a block it would probably be best to post to WP:AN/I (as a block could be controversial) unless you can point to specific edits that are vandalism. Petros471 19:32, 25 April 2006 (UTC)
He has now attempted to remove the issues on his talk page rather than deal with them. --Kickstart70·Talk 02:09, 10 April 2006 (UTC)
A couple more points about this editor: 1) I believe it probable that he's a sockpuppet of a nameblocked user, because on his third day after registration he complained here on Jimbo's talk page about Curp's blocking usenames with "shit" in them. (2) he's edited some pretty fraught areas (espcially around Lolicon and the image deleted by Sam Korn in a really unhelpful way, e.g. "Ya, remove child porn is censorship" (sentiment and illiteracy typical) (3) this diff (both sides) and this block log indicate he's also likely nameblocked user "Child p0rnographer" (which in turn is one of many similar variations on that username, all blocked, used by one person) Herostratus

He uses ambiguous sources and although I asked him several times not to do so:

Again another claim in an article:

He confesses that "that indicates (points to) Virchow being a Freemason" but indication is speculation. He still pushes these unproven claims: [7]

He claims, that I have to proove that these ambiguous sources are not reliable and blames me that I cannot read: [8]

I would be glad if Virchow was a Freemason, but I cannot see a credible proove nor the relevance for these articles. Normally you should be able to mention at least the Lodge where a Mason was initiated. I am from Germany and I have lots of sources to check if somebody was a Freemason in Germany, but although Virchow was mentioned as the creator of the word Kulturkampf and as a friend of some individual Freemasons, he is not listed as a Freemason. There was not even a speculation eg. in contrast to Beethoven or Schiller where we still have no proof. As a Freemason, I have neither the time nor the interest in an edit war so I will no longer revert those non-encyclopedic claims and leave this case to you. But I hope you will be interested in quality like me.

I have the same account in the German Wikipedia with lots of edits and even got an award for my support recently: "Aktion Winterspeck" so I think I should be quite unsuspicious to be unreliable. Perhaps he's even another sockpuppet since JASpencer is a single purpose account and spreads his conspiracy theories against freemasonry like the other accounts? These socks seem to reincarnate faster than they can be blocked. --SGOvD webmaster (talk) 21:11, 1 April 2006 (UTC)

First I've heard of this. Needless to say that there has been no dispute resolution tried on what is essentially a content dispute as to whether an assertion is properly and reliably sourced. As for being a sock or a single purpose account, as I have been around since 2003 so the allegations surprise me. Please let me know of the outcome. This user has been trying to throw dirt at me because of a series of content disputes. JASpencer 12:26, 7 April 2006 (UTC)
Could this please be removed as (1) I was not warned and (2) this is a content dispute and there has been no RFC done on this. JASpencer 19:44, 7 April 2006 (UTC)
  • Xino User Xino has, in essence taken over the Shadow the Hedgehog page, if anyone makes any edit, especially to the Super Shadow section of the page, he reverts the edits and starts either insulting people or threatens to get admin action to ban them. I'm not sure if this is the right place for this, but in my opinion Xino's behavior works against Wiki's ideals. --Zikar 02:38, 4 April 2006 (UTC)
    • I copyedited and cleaned up the section of that page (Super Shadow) in question, however some of it is unnecessary, such as the list of proof it's really-super-not-hyper-because-i-made-it-a-list. Based upon the result of my actions, I hope a resolution can be found to this conflict. --ZsinjTalk 08:32, 4 April 2006 (UTC)
    • I have not seen any edits by Xino since this report. Archiving in 24 hours. --ZsinjTalk 17:20, 9 April 2006 (UTC)


  • There is a complex pattern of vandalism going on at the Dalip Singh page (history) -- a good number of IP addresses are showing up and inserting (among other things) the text "HE KILLED A GUY!" These IP addresses have been warned repeatedly, and, once warned, the text starts coming from another IP. The IPs involved so far (from most recent to least recent):
68.206.131.247 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log)
64.90.150.142 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log)
72.56.69.104 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log)
152.163.101.10 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log) -- AOL IP
141.219.72.176 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log)
172.144.14.129 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log) --   Blocked for 48 hours.
129.15.122.152 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log).

Others include Wikipedia users Babarossa27 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) (  Indefinitely blocked) and David Madden (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log). And that's just in the last two hours! The page history shows that this has apparently been going on since 2138 UTC on 7 April 2006. Yansa 04:59, 8 April 2006 (UTC)

Following are all probably related (sockpuppets) to the 3RR ban of User:The Psycho here:

--Kickstart70-T-C 23:48, 10 April 2006 (UTC)

as well as:
152.17.52.140 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log)
152.17.139.112 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log)
152.17.53.190 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log)

They seem to insert and delete nonsense text. The IPs are from Wake Forest University. It could be one guy in the library or a group of them in the dorms. Bucketsofg 12:49, 10 April 2006 (UTC)