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23 August 2011
Suspected sockpuppets

Previous confirmed use of sockpuppet User:Singlesource blocked on October 1, 2010 - Estheroliver was created on October 3, 2010 and immediately began editing female celebrity articles, the majority of which had been edited by Dasani previously. Dasani then edited some of the same articles again, so this is not a case of one account being used, then abandoned, see Nozomi Tsuji for example. IP addresses beginning 75.4 and 75.5 frequently edit articles that both Dasani and Estheroliver edit and all give Geolocate of RBACK34A.IRVNCA SBCGLOBAL.NET Evidence of Dasani and Estheroliver contributing to same pages is overwhelming with IPs in the range I have given, often chiming in. Examples: Nozomi Tsuji # of edits: Estheroliver (52); Dasani (22); IP 75.5.12.91 (10); IP and IP 75.4.237.151 (4) - Tang Wei # of edits: Dasani (59); Estheroliver (9); IP 75.4.244.40 (28). Eileen Chang #of edits Dasani (86); Esteroliver (20); IP 75.4.241.18 (7). This is getting too lengthy so I will just list some of the other articles with edits in common.

Taylor Swift Emi Suzuki Jeffree Star Namie Amuro James Dougherty (police officer) Bristol Palin Frances Bean Cobain Marilyn Monroe Kimora Lee Simmons Ashlee Simpson Nicole Richie

Lynsi Martinez
Sarah Palin Bristol Palin Marya Hornbacher

Edits mainly consist of adding details to celebrity bios and less often, but not infrequently, removing unfavorable sourced information. I have further examples of bad faith and tendentious edits, but chose to make this complaint based on sockpuppetry alone because it is so obvious and so frequent. KeptSouth (talk) 23:09, 23 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Comments by other users

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Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments
  •  Clerk note: Estheroliver hasn't edited since the beginning of June. Only three of those IPs have edited in the last three months, and none of them have edited in the past month. It's good that you reported this so we can keep a log, but due to everything being fairly stale, there isn't much that's really actionable. I'm closing without any action taken, but relist if that account or other IPs become active. — HelloAnnyong (say whaaat?!) 02:32, 24 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Response: I believe your fast close ignores the strong behavioral evidence, and the fact that the master account, Dasani, is still very active. Dasani admitted she was using an IP from the same range just a few days ago.[1] 75.4.235.91. The second account, Estheroliver, was used on more than 70 pages that Dasani edited. IP addresses in the same range were used on articles edited by both Dasani and Estheroliver hundreds of times. If this is a case, where "here isn't much that's really actionable" then SPIs are completely meaningless.KeptSouth (talk) 04:38, 24 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]
  • If you had taken any of this to AIV, they would've turned it down for being stale. Blocking accounts that haven't edited in months serves no real purpose, and that's even more true of IPs. SPI cases, like most incident reports, are time-sensitive, so it's not meaningless at all. As I stated before, relist if any of the IPs or other accounts (i.e. not Dasani) become active, or if new IPs show up. — HelloAnnyong (say whaaat?!) 02:15, 26 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]
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