Board Thread:Wiki - Running & Policies/@comment-25122955-20170119150207/@comment-4041822-20171106005650

Hi all, for those of you who don't know, I have caught a Sock Master under the username Balochistan as well as the user's minions, most notably GajaMada. Having succeeded in finding the perpetrator, I figure that my help in providing Sockpuppet Investigations will be critical if we are interested in minimizing the threat of Vandals on this wiki.

I have conducted a preliminary investigation several months ago, & was surprised to have found that the editing styles & username patterns kept continuing. You can find that out yourself by looking at this page which provides an archive/history of all blocked accounts. I will be monitoring this page very closely to investigate the Master behind these attacks, & will inform the CheckUser on behalf of this wiki.

In the meantime, I will be learning how to execute a range block, since I suspect that perpetrators of Sockpuppet Vandalism here are confined within a specific geographic area. By knowing each specific IP who have conducted these attacks, we can prevent editing from that location. If I were to succeed, I'm in favor of imposing a 5 year range block as a result of the amount of destruction caused to this wiki during the past year. I will continue to inform you all as I continue with this investigation. Thanks for reading & have a nice day!