Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Belteshazzar

Belteshazzar

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For archived investigations, see Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Belteshazzar/Archive.

A long-term abuse case exists at Wikipedia:Long-term abuse/Belteshazzar.

16 May 2023

– This SPI case is open.

Suspected sockpuppets

• 49.50.164.83 (talk⁺ · tag · contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RBLs · proxy check · block user · spi block · block log · cross-wiki contribs · CheckUser (log))
• 181.163.18.64 (talk⁺ · tag · contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RBLs · proxy check · block user · spi block · block log · cross-wiki contribs · CheckUser (log))
• 181.163.14.8 (talk⁺ · tag · contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RBLs · proxy check · block user · spi block · block log · cross-wiki contribs · CheckUser (log))
• Tools: Editor interaction utility · Interaction Timeline · SPI Tools

This is continued Belteshazzar block-evasion on a VPN who is continuing to stalk my recent edit history and edit the same articles as me. This has been mentioned in many previous SPI's. I am not happy about this stalking any longer, it's been going on nearly 2 years now. I would like to email the WMF, I believe this user Belteshazzar should be globally banned because this is long-term harassment.

Examples: 3HO [1], Hulda Crooks [2], Joe Greenstein [3] all edited after me.

Another target of Belteshazzar is the user DanielRigal which would explain the edit at For Women Scotland [4].

As per the previous SPI he also edits the article Li Ching-Yuen where he has been blocked many times [5], [6]. It might be worth protecting that article, I may request that. Psychologist Guy (talk) 21:21, 16 May 2023 (UTC)

Belteshazzar is now using another proxy [7] to follow me around. WP:PSPITFALLS is also another target of his that he has edited in the past [8], [9]. Psychologist Guy (talk) 18:49, 18 May 2023 (UTC)

Comments by other users

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Most of the other edits looks like innocuous edits to either to deflect attention or to annoy but the edit to Li Ching-Yuen is a very standard edit to one of his standard targets. That's definitely him. --DanielRigal (talk) 21:34, 16 May 2023 (UTC)

I've added 181.163.18.64 as that is also clearly him, hitting several of the usual targets. --DanielRigal (talk) 19:35, 17 May 2023 (UTC)

I've nuked the majority of edits by both IPs which were not obvious and entirely uncontroversial improvements so as not to encourage him. I have left a very few edits where reverting would not be in the interest of the articles in question. DanielRigal (talk) 19:44, 17 May 2023 (UTC)

He's back on his Who Wants To Be A Millionaire related bullshit too at James Plaskett. DanielRigal (talk) 22:17, 17 May 2023 (UTC)

User:Guy Macon/One against many (AKA WP:1AM) appears to be one of his targets. See [10] and [11] --Guy Macon (talk) 02:00, 18 May 2023 (UTC)

The edit summary here shows a willingness to make this personal and also that he is just playing stupid games with us. The disruption in ongoing.

Please can somebody block the two remaining IPs and maybe extend the block on the first one? I assume that all three are proxy or VPN IPs and Belteshazzar has shown a pattern of reusing IPs after blocks expire, so blocking them all for a longer period seems advisable. DanielRigal (talk) 21:31, 18 May 2023 (UTC)

The ironic part is that if someone who isn't a disruptive sockpuppet were to raise a question -- on User talk:Guy Macon/One against many, not through edit warring -- about whether I should use "he" or "they" in my essay, we could have a nice civil discussion and I might very well agree with the change. Once you have shown us that you are willing to disrupt Wikipedia, you lose my willingness to even consider any changes you might want. --Guy Macon (talk) 05:32, 19 May 2023 (UTC)

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