Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/4ubusybodies/Archive

Report date June 15 2009, 07:11 (UTC)

 * Suspected sockpuppets


 * Evidence submitted by Themfromspace

I must have ticked somebody off as there's recently been obvious socks and impersonators going around doing petty vandalism with some of the articles I have created. The IP address is the oldest, logging his vandalism in during April. The two imposter accounts basically just reverted to this version of the articles and have been blocked for their usernames. The latest name to enter this, who I listed as the puppetmaster, has made similiar edits. The signal to noise ratio of the IP's edits is also very faint. All together the socks have violated 3RR. I'd like checkuser evidence here to sniff out any other related accounts, as several have popped up over the past few days.


 * Comments by accused parties    See Defending yourself against claims.


 * Comments by other users

Requested by  Them From  Space  07:12, 15 June 2009 (UTC)
 * CheckUser requests

While this is an obvious case, and all listed accounts are blocked, checkuser would be helpful to reveal any sleeper accounts and/or whether any underlying IP block is possible. Thanks. Peter Symonds ( talk ) 09:41, 15 June 2009 (UTC)

Additional information needed: Please provide a code letter. SPCUClerkbot (talk) 07:12, 15 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments


 * Accounts listed are ✅, for what it's worth. Blocked an IP or two, but no obvious sleepers lurking in the mist. – Luna Santin  (talk) 21:09, 15 June 2009 (UTC)

Accounts tagged. 72.11.144.119 was already blocked as a proxy. I blocked 72.255.9.164 for one week. Icestorm815 •  Talk  23:12, 15 June 2009 (UTC)


 * Conclusions

Report date July 7 2009, 22:44 (UTC)

 * Suspected sockpuppet


 * Evidence submitted by Vicenarian

has solely edited (at the time of this report) Praise Song for the Day, the target of and subsequent socks. The edits follow the same disruptive pattern as those in the previous case. Vicenarian (T · C) 22:44, 7 July 2009 (UTC)


 * Comments by accused parties    See Defending yourself against claims.


 * Comments by other users


 * Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments


 * Conclusions
 * Blocked and tagged. I also took the liberty of semi protecting the article for one week. Cheers, Tiptoety  talk 22:47, 7 July 2009 (UTC)

Report date July 20 2009, 18:53 (UTC)

 * Suspected sockpuppets

Reopening case, mostly to establish who I believe to be the puppetmaster. DWHermann just resumed similiar vandalism to these sockpuppets, tagging an article I created with a COI tag on his first edit. Looking at the IP address which I reported before, 66.166.183.7, I now see that it has promoted  articles which I discovered to be a result of paid editing on the part of ChulaOne. I believe ChulaOne to be the puppetmaster behind all these socks attacking several of my articles, apparently because he is upset that I disrupted his business. Background information on this paid editing case can be found here. Is there any way to rearrange the case to establish that ChulaOne was the original puppetmaster?  Them From  Space  18:53, 20 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Evidence submitted by Themfromspace


 * Comments by accused parties    See Defending yourself against claims.


 * Comments by other users


 * Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments
 * I blocked the IP and the Hermann account. Pretty clearly sockpuppets. The Chula account will require further examination. Comments from others welcome.  Enigma msg  00:08, 21 July 2009 (UTC)


 * Conclusions
 * Per 2005 Chula is from Atlanta, Georgia, IP is from Cali, so most likely unrelated. Otherwise Enigma handled everything else.  MBisanz  talk 20:48, 23 July 2009 (UTC)