Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/72.177.177.76/Archive

Evidence submitted by Omhseoj
On entry Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. user 72.177.177.76 revised article on 6 July 2010 to include a statement (not backed by sources or references) regarding the book's editor being 'inspired' by a book called "The Art of War Against Fat".

The same revision was made on 4 June 2010 by user 72.181.88.130, on 16 May 2010, 5 April 2010, 13 March 2010, and 20 February 2010 by user 72.181.88.143.

Both "previous users" were warned by Wikipedia on their use of non-sourced statements (for example, on 22 February 2010 (Please do not add unsourced or original content, as you did to The Art of War. Doing so violates Wikipedia's verifiability policy. If you continue to do so, you will be blocked from editing Wikipedia. _LDS (talk) 08:03, 22 February 2010 (UTC))

On 21 April 2010 user Jrekulak reverted edits by user 72.181.88.143 and claimed to be the editor "Jason Rekulak" noted in the article as the editor of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, and the person user 72.177.177.76 said was 'inspired' by "The Art of War Against Fat." User Jrekulak commented "I am Jason Rekulak, the editor cited here, and I am deleting erroneous information inserted by a person who is trying to steer attention to his own (self-published) book."

I believe user 72.177.177.76 is the same editor as 72.181.88.130 and 72.181.88.143 and is engaging in sock puppetry in order to post the same edit over and over again each time it is reverted.

Omhseoj (talk) 05:17, 14 July 2010 (UTC)

Comments by accused parties
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Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments
these IPs were probably all operated by the same person. However, having a dynamic IP is not a violation of WP:SOCK per-say. It can be, if the IPs are used to evade blocks or to avoid scrutiny. However, in this case, I cannot see that the user behind these IPs has ever had a block applied to them, and in terms of avoiding scrutiny I don't think they are making a malicious attempt to do so. Marking as closed, SpitfireTally-ho! 11:32, 14 July 2010 (UTC)