Wikilifespan | June 2019 - present |
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Physical location | IP addresses are from Michigan |
Sockpuppet investigations | BillyNorth |
Instructions | Suspected socks should be tagged and reported to sockpuppet investigations for confirmation. When reporting, please link to this long-term abuse report. When the active abuse has been taken care of, please update this report with the latest information. |
Status | Active |
Please report all ongoing incidents of abuse to AIV or ANI |
Basic information
editBillyNorth (talk · contribs · block log · arb · SPI confirmed suspected)
Comprehensive edits analysis
User makes edits to musician infoboxes adding the name "Clutch Kahn" or "Bradley Kahn" to the associated acts or former members field. This individual does not seem to exist, and if they do, there are no sources for notability nor ones associating them with any of the targeted musicians (Clutch Kahn itself is a redlink). Regularly makes new accounts or uses IP addresses to make these edits. Accounts make no other edits other than the inclusion of "Clutch Khan"
Targeted areas, pages, themes
editPrimarily targets the pages for 1980s alternative rock or blues rock artists, whose infoboxes are edited to include the fictional musician "Clutch Kahn" as an associated act or former member. The following pages are routinely targeted each time this vandal creates a new account or edits from a new IP address:
The Cure, Buddy Guy, The The, and Tones on Tail are the most frequent targets.
Other pages edited at least once to include "Clutch Kahn" or "Bradley Kahn" in the infobox:
- Hilton Valentine
- Jeff Beck
- Johnnie Bassett
- Morrissey
- Odds
- The Red Button
- Ronnie Wood
- The Smithereens
Habitual behavior
editThe edit reasons for these edits are almost always "Adding associated act" or "adding forgotten musician" or something along those lines, making these edits very easy to spot on the above pages.
Cases
editWikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/BillyNorth/Archive
Other notes
editConfirmed and suspected accounts
edit- Accounts that have made "Clutch Kahn" edits
- BillyNorth (talk · contribs) - Blocked indefinitely 1 July 2019
- Bennysparks (talk · contribs) - Not blocked; Only edit 25 November 2019
- Stigwood (talk · contribs) - Not blocked; Only edit 7 December 2019
- Buddyreynolds (talk · contribs) - Not blocked; Only edit 19 December 2019
- Bigbuddyryan (talk · contribs) - Blocked indefinitely 7 January 2020
- Redowens (talk · contribs) - Blocked indefinitely 8 January 2020
- Petewise8 (talk · contribs) - Blocked indefinitely 25 January 2020
- Stephenashe (talk · contribs) - Blocked indefinitely 1 February 2020
- Stevenlburns (talk · contribs) - Blocked indefinitely 4 February 2020
- Mriffalski (talk · contribs) - Blocked indefinitely 5 March 2020
- Bradley1964 (talk · contribs) - Blocked indefinitely 11 August 2022
- Known and suspected IPs
- 2600:1007:B11E:952B:8C3E:1582:A757:3AEB (talk · contribs · WHOIS) 19 June 2019
- 2600:1007:B121:450A:153F:BE9C:CAD5:6886 (talk · contribs · WHOIS) 14 July 2019
- 2600:1007:B11D:2061:1A6:A9D4:65D9:4233 (talk · contribs · WHOIS) 16 July 2019
- 2600:1003:B847:3774:9102:EA12:BBB4:7DF2 (talk · contribs · WHOIS) 5 August 2019
- 2600:1007:B124:D6FC:14EE:CA18:9248:883D (talk · contribs · WHOIS) 1 September 2019
- 2600:1007:B115:8E8:917C:E4E3:1C4B:D0FB (talk · contribs · WHOIS) 18 September 2019
- 2600:1007:B116:2E8D:A8F5:2A38:20C1:BDDB (talk · contribs · WHOIS) 2 October 2019
- 2600:1007:B11F:F8CB:B0BC:BCE0:85A8:CF85 (talk · contribs · WHOIS) 6 October 2019
- 2600:1007:B11B:C336:F1F2:6434:5BA1:A6A7 (talk · contribs · WHOIS) 24 October 2019
- 2600:1007:B125:B5F8:F4C8:FA81:F0F7:AC81 (talk · contribs · WHOIS) 13 November 2019
- 2600:1007:B01A:2950:354D:AF8A:1381:F3E7 (talk · contribs · WHOIS) 25 November 2019
- 2600:1007:B01A:2950:BC9D:DEAB:158D:FBF5 (talk · contribs · WHOIS) 9 December 2019
- 2600:1007:B127:5E0F:A5A1:2013:2A61:9879 (talk · contribs · WHOIS) 20 December 2019
- 2600:1007:B1A0:88D6:79DE:2094:CA37:F01B (talk · contribs · WHOIS) 9 February 2020
- 2600:1007:B008:FA6B:EC27:2F50:F434:AC15 (talk · contribs · WHOIS) 12 February 2020
- 2600:1007:B115:F78B:9087:DCDB:3870:65D9 (talk · contribs · WHOIS) 4 March 2020
- 2600:1007:B10F:2CC4:7427:85F1:D8E3:40FC (talk · contribs · WHOIS) 8 March 2020
- 2600:1007:B01B:F7F1:9D4:6259:E200:3ECF (talk · contribs · WHOIS) 14 March 2020
- 2600:1007:B113:4879:D4C:9DA6:50C6:3A4F (talk · contribs · WHOIS) 11 April 2020
- 2600:1007:B1A5:AE06:5AA:1DD5:DDF9:65B2 (talk · contribs · WHOIS) 23 May 2020
- 2600:8800:7D01:4300:B828:1B1A:DD7:A129 (talk · contribs · WHOIS) 12 July 2020
- 2600:1007:B129:D819:2CD4:C58B:8AC1:DF3 (talk · contribs · WHOIS) 31 July 2020
- 2600:1007:B12E:B959:F9C0:86B1:A880:D187 (talk · contribs · WHOIS) 16 August 2020
- 2600:1007:B1AB:494F:2104:E3DE:FC4B:1D4B (talk · contribs · WHOIS) 9 October 2020
- 2600:1007:B108:EC2B:A87D:92E5:49CA:4670 (talk · contribs · WHOIS) 15 October 2020 - IP /64 range blocked for 12 hours