Wikipedia:Requests for checkuser/Case/Tom Sayle

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Tom Sayle

request links: main • edit • links • history • watch Filed: 01:44, 19 October 2008 (UTC)

• Tom Sayle (talk⁺ · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log · CA · CheckUser(log) · investigate · cuwiki)
• 79.74.0.0/17 (talk⁺ · tag · contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RBLs · proxy check · block user · block log · cross-wiki contribs · CheckUser (log))

• Code letter: C

• Supporting evidence: See: this ANI report. User:HalfShadow has been receiving numerous threatening vandalisms from the above IP range, and it seems likely that this range is used extensively by Tom Sayle. See [1]. A /17 range is quite large; if we could narrow this down to smaller ranges which could still be effective, perhaps it would remove the nuisance from a long-time sockpuppeteer and vandal. Per a suggestion from User:Rlevse, I have started this RFCU. --Jayron32.talk.contribs 01:44, 19 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I semi-prot'd Half's talk page for a month last night. All the range block possibilities I tried came up /17 which would block over 32K IPs, which I'm not comfortable with. Therefore, this is  Deferred another CU for additional input. — Rlevse • Talk • 11:57, 19 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

• First off,  Likely--> Confirmed that Tom Sayle is a reincarnation of Andy Bjornovich (talk · contribs), Chris Wattson (talk · contribs) and Mr. Secondattempt (talk · contribs), both indef blocked for vandalism and harassment. Further new accounts include Disliker of humanities (talk · contribs), Mathematiquizard (talk · contribs), Mr. Opensockpuppeter (talk · contribs). AS far as the range is concerned, there are a handful of other editors besides Tom Sayle, and it is not possible to tie the vandal to any of them with a reasonable degree of certainty. There is a fair amount of IP vandalism from that range as well, so an anon only block would probably cause relatively little inconvenience for good faith users. Thatcher 13:42, 19 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

 Clerk note: Interesting that there is no user creation log for User:Mr. Secondattempt. Part of an ancient sleeper sock drawer? —Wknight94 (talk) 13:49, 19 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

User:Mr. Secondattempt is an SUL account created on wiktionary. Thatcher 18:09, 19 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

You learn something new every day... —Wknight94 (talk) 18:48, 19 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Just to clarify, Thatcher, are you saying that you would, based on the checkuser evidence of the range listed above, support a 79.74.0.0/17 anon-only rangeblock? Just want to be clear that this is a good idea before we do it... --Jayron32.talk.contribs 17:53, 19 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

If the problem can be dealt with by semi-protecting Half's talk page, that would be the more conservative approach. On the other hand, an anon block on the range will have little collateral damage. Thatcher 18:09, 19 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. If the problems stay contained to Half's talk page, then we shouldn't need to rangeblock. His talk page is semi-protected now. If this guy starts acting up again, and starts causing more wide ranging problems, I will consider it. Thanks. --Jayron32.talk.contribs 18:43, 19 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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