Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/99.147.29.158/Archive

07 May 2013

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All IPs are owned by Suburban Express. Multiple accounts and [//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:99.147.29.157] have warnings for vandalism. All accounts edit mostly the Suburban Express article or related businesses (Such as making it's competitors look bad [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Champaign-Urbana_Mass_Transit_District&diff=prev&oldid=278054984], [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lincoln_Land_express&diff=prev&oldid=523003529]). This business has had sockpuppet issues and [//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard/IncidentArchive794#Disruptive_IP_Editor_at_Suburban_Express othe disruptive IP editors] in the past. I have no direct evidence that Thenightchicagodied is the same, but he acts it. I have requested CheckUser because I think it likely that the named account, or one of the ones in previous investigations, is used by these IPs. I realize this can cause problems with WP:CheckUser, but I figure since this would link a business, not a person, to the account maybe that's alright. NegatedVoid (talk) 22:49, 7 May 2013 (UTC)

Additional Evidence (since submission)
One of the IP editors was used to correct one of Thenightchicagodied's comments [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Suburban_Express&diff=554204638&oldid=554062869 here]. NegatedVoid (talk) 23:36, 8 May 2013 (UTC)

Comments by other users
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 * Not a clerk but IPs won't be connected to accounts. Ramaksoud2000 (Talk to me) 04:39, 8 May 2013 (UTC)

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * - In a way this is even worse, because you're now trying to figure out who someone's employer is with technical information. I see no need to use CU to determine if the two are connected; use behavior. Rschen7754 04:55, 8 May 2013 (UTC)
 * I don't think there is any question that they are all linked, such as when the IP corrects the named account here . The article was semi-protected, which encouraged him to get an account, but I don't see overlap.  The IPs resolve to the same company that the article is about, so there is a definite COI.  I think he edited logged out but it doesn't look like he is trying to abuse multiple accounts.  This should be dealt with in other venues, as socking isn't the primary problem. Dennis Brown - 2¢  © Join WER 10:33, 11 May 2013 (UTC)