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Pigsonthewing

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11 January 2014

– This SPI case is open.

Suspected sockpuppets

• 80.249.48.109 (talk⁺ · tag · contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RBLs · proxy check · block user · spi block · block log · cross-wiki contribs · CheckUser (log))
• 80.249.48.108 (talk⁺ · tag · contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RBLs · proxy check · block user · spi block · block log · cross-wiki contribs · CheckUser (log))
• 80.249.52.108 (talk⁺ · tag · contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RBLs · proxy check · block user · spi block · block log · cross-wiki contribs · CheckUser (log))
• 80.249.52.109 (talk⁺ · tag · contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RBLs · proxy check · block user · spi block · block log · cross-wiki contribs · CheckUser (log))

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Per WP:DUCK.

In September 2013 User:Pigsonthewing (also known as Andy Mabbett) received a sanction from ArbCom banning him from adding infoboxes to any article: "Pigsonthewing is indefinitely banned from adding, or discussing the addition or removal of, infoboxes."[1].

Since late September 2013 a number of anonymous IPs have been adding infoboxes to articles Pigsonthewing has recently edited. The IPs locate to a shared computer at an educational address in Birmingham, UK (Birmingham Grid for Learning). By his own admission on his Wikipedia user page, Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing) is a resident of Birmingham, UK with links to education [2].

Examples of suspicious behaviour (this list is far from exhaustive):

• Denville Hall in December 2013. Pigsonthewing makes a series of edits, mostly clustered between 5 December and 16 December [3]. On 10 December, IP 80.249.48.108 makes its only edit to the article, the addition of an infobox [4].
• Late September on David Bradley (UK journalist): IP 80.249.48.109 adds an infobox to [5]. This (and an immediate minor correction) is the IP’s only contribution to the page, in the middle of a number of edits by Pigsonthewing.
• The only edits to Birmingham Union workhouse are [6] in late October 2013 by Pigsonthewing and a single edit by IP 80.249.48.108 [7]. The IP’s edit is the addition of an infobox.
• A similar situation on Sir Richard Ranulph FitzHerbert, 9th Baronet in early October. Barring a minor fix, all the edits to the article are by Pigsonthewing (Andy Mabbett) with the exception of one edit by IP 80.249.48.109 [8]. Again, it is the addition of an infobox.
• Same situation on Nicholas Hammond (ornithologist) in November [9].
• Same situation on Lawrence Shove in November [10]
• Same situation on William Stork in late October [11]
• John Blanke: look at history from 25 to 27 September [12]. IP's only edit: adding infobox [13].
• Michael Rosenblum: look at history from 30 September to 11 October [14]. IP's only edit: adding infobox [15]
• Snettisham RSPB reserve: look at history between 17 and 19 November [16]. IP's only edit: adding infobox [17].
• Strumpshaw Fen RSPB reserve: look at history between 17 and 19 November [18]. IP's only edits: adding infobox [19]. Folantin (talk) 14:26, 11 January 2014 (UTC)
• Template:Infobox NHS trust/doc Created by Pigsonthewing 2 December 2013. Edited by IP 80.249.48.108 on 10 December [20]. Only one other editor has made a single edit to this page.--Folantin (talk) 15:42, 11 January 2014 (UTC)

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