User:Tyrenius/Satchel Cohen hoaxer

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This page documents several cleverly-mastered hoax articles created by a ring of sock puppets, editing each other's articles and sometimes cross-referencing them.

This investigation was started after some brilliant detective work by Yanksox, which is documented on Articles for deletion/Christian Portland (July 2006) and also copied below.

Kjkolb also worked to uncover this web.

Initial research by Yanksox
Copied from Articles for deletion/Christian Portland.

Christian Portland Also nominated are Davis Tellman and Lorne Halladay. To put it simply this is a bizzarre case. I originally wondered upon the Portland article when doing New page patrol and asked for sources and was supplied such. When I went to a library near where I worked I actually stumbled upon one of the sources and checked out the book out of curiousity. When I read the book (three times for good measure) I found no mention of these subjects. Confused, I picked the other source and, again, nothing popped up. Concerned, I e-mailed both the Chicago Historical Society and the Chicago Photographic Collectors Society, asking about all three subjects and the Chicago Photographic Society. The CPCS Vice President responding stating, he had no idea whom the people were and that he had never heard of the Chicago Photographic Society, stating that the CPCS (which the article claims was the Chicago Photographic Society), was formed in 1971. After my e-mail with the Chicago Historical Society, I had a phone conversation with them that echoed the same concerns. It appears as far as I can tell, these subjects are ficitious and a hoax. Delete If any information is needed, I will supply it. Yank sox  03:54, 3 July 2006 (UTC)

Blocked sock puppets
With the articles which each sockpuppet contributed to


 * Verbatim24, CP, all edits checked
 * Becbec3, WP, SC, BLW, CP, WSC, all edits checked
 * Doctor343 RM, CP, TM, (NPM), all edits checked
 * Skeetmaster, T.N, (AW), all edits checked
 * MartiniDrinker100, SP.N, (AW), (TAW), (CD), (Abuse on (UTE))
 * MartiniDrinker200, UTE, TAW, all edits checked
 * Dunnbass, SP.N, DT, all edits checked
 * Hansgw, SC, all edits checked
 * Gardinni, BLW, SC, KM, all edits checked
 * Mitchelmac, HR, SC, LH, (LCP), all edits checked
 * Doctor343 RM, TM, CP, (NPM), all edits checked
 * Joysire WSC, all edits checked


 * 74.118.60.175 blanked Shadedpixel.net but this was unrelated vandalism. Sole edit.

Deleted hoax articles
Referenced above with the article initials as shown
 * Christian Portland CP, editors checked
 * Davis Tellman DT, editors checked
 * Lorne Halladay LH, editors checked
 * Winter Peace WP, (poem by SC), editors checked
 * Satchel Cohen SC, editors checked
 * Barbarossa's Last Words BLW, (poems by SC), editors checked
 * Tyman.net T.N, editors checked
 * Kenneth Marlowe KM, editors checked
 * Hermann Rudiger HR, editors checked
 * Radio Mons RM, editors checked
 * Theodore Masley TM, editors checked
 * Satchel Cohen, WSC, editors checked
 * Shadedpixel.net SP.N, editors checked. (This could be based on something real.)

Genuine articles (vandalised)
Genuine articles which were vandalised by the sock puppets
 * List of Canadian Poets (LCP), Satchel Cohen listed, reverted
 * Andrew Williamson (AW) and on talk page (TAW)
 * User talk:Eiffelle (UTE)
 * Child development reverted (CD)
 * Neuquiño People's Movement (NPM) probable vandalism, reverted

Satchel Cohen on wikipedia
Satchel William Cohen (1922 - 1965) was a Canadian post-modernist poet and writer. He was born in in Toronto, Ontario. While Cohen remained a highly obscure literary figure throughout his lifetime, his publication of Barbarossa's Last Words (1945), a collection of thematically related short poems, earned him a small following in the years after the Second World War. For fifteen years of his life he published nothing and reputedly wrote little, living for a time in Ireland. During the last years of his life he returned to poetry, adopting a short meter style used extensively in his last work Winter Peace (1961).

Satchel Cohen on wikiquote
From "Barbarossa's Last Words" (1945) "Climb brick must I walls the walls the brick must climb I, brick the walls climb I must must I climb the walls brick, I must climb the brick walls the brick walls I must climb."

"As the typewriters of German engineers hum the continuation of their war outside, the phonograph on the bookshelves emits the noise of comfortable furniture entwined by the hairs of an old carpet."

"Help I'm drowning."

From "Winter Peace" (1961) "What are you doing she said. Why building a bomb shelter of course I replied. Oh she said. Yes I said. Watch the gardenias. I will don't worry, dear."