Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/AlexLevyOne/Archive

Report date January 25 2009, 19:53 (UTC)

 * Suspected sockpuppets

Identical nit picking edits, and identical interests in Jews from Alsace, and obscure French Actors. Mayalld (talk) 19:53, 25 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Evidence submitted by Mayalld (talk)


 * Comments by accused parties    See Defending yourself against claims.


 * Comments by other users
 * I think AlexLevyOne has probably already abandoned this account, along with User:X.69, whom I've taken the liberty of adding to this case (and who has already been blocked as a sock on the French Wikipedia). They should still be blocked, though. We'll probably have to add one or more new ones before the case is closed. Deor (talk) 20:39, 25 January 2009 (UTC)
 * I agree that these are surely socks of AlexLevyOne and also that he has probably moved on from both of these accounts. Blocks are still in order, however.  JohnInDC (talk) 23:04, 25 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Added User:Johnny Rockfort based on inclusion on the French list, and edit pattern here. JohnInDC (talk) 00:14, 26 January 2009 (UTC)
 * And now User:Plavalaguna, based solely on French list here. JohnInDC (talk) 00:29, 26 January 2009 (UTC)


 * Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments

Blocked. Nishkid64 (Make articles, not wikidrama) 00:09, 26 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Conclusions
 * ✅ the following as AlexLevyOne:
 * Confirmed accounts blocked and tagged. Tiptoety  talk 00:14, 26 January 2009 (UTC)
 * is also ✅. Direct IP hit with . Nishkid64 (Make articles, not wikidrama) 00:23, 26 January 2009 (UTC)
 * ...blocked and tagged as well. Tiptoety  talk 00:35, 26 January 2009 (UTC)
 * is . Nishkid64 (Make articles, not wikidrama) 00:33, 26 January 2009 (UTC)

Tiptoety talk 04:35, 26 January 2009 (UTC)

Report date March 9 2009, 15:04 (UTC)

 * Suspected sockpuppets

User:GRB080 exhibits the same editing characteristics as prior incarnations of AlexLevyOne - the same general areas of interest (film and popular culture - no judaica yet though), the same editing intensity (very high) and the same style of editing (trivial changes made without any assessment of their merit or validity, often leaving the article worse). Some of his past puppets focused on wikifying - or de-wikifying - various terms or names; this puppet has been adding shorthand titles to footnote references. (It wouldn't be so bad if the shorthand references were competent, but they are not - they're usually just one word which is often far more obscure than the URL they replaced, and usually written without regard to ordinary rules of capitalization. It's just more work for someone else to clean up some day.)  Egs here:  diff; diff; diff.
 * Evidence submitted by JohnInDC (talk)

The archives above supply a good deal of additional background about this user and his puppets.


 * Comments by accused parties    See Defending yourself against claims.


 * Comments by other users
 * I concur that the editing style, overlap of articles edited, and shaky command of English clearly mark this editor as an AlexLevyOne sockpuppet. Note that he has already been blocked as such on the French Wikipedia. Deor (talk) 17:25, 9 March 2009 (UTC)

 Syn  ergy 21:40, 9 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments


 * Conclusions
 * ✅, as well as . Nishkid64 (Make articles, not wikidrama) 21:37, 9 March 2009 (UTC)

Report date March 16 2009, 21:34 (UTC)

 * Suspected sockpuppets

Same (first) name as original user id, same interests as original and subsequent puppets (mostly cinema and francophilia), same volume and style of edits - e.g., unhelpful abbreviations for references, see diff, diff, diff and diff. Please see archive for more.
 * Evidence submitted by JohnInDC (talk)


 * Comments by accused parties    See Defending yourself against claims.


 * Comments by other users

Mayalld (talk) 22:27, 16 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Requests for CheckUser


 * Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments
 * due to my previous extensive dealings tracking and reporting this users repeated socking, I feel that I ought to recuse from clerking on the case. I would note, however that there seems to be a distinct pattern of new accounts which suggests that he is waiting for the IP autoblock to expire, then registering a new account. Given how long this has been going on, a CU to identify and hardblock the underlying IP(s) seems justified, and I'm adding a request for CheckUser both on the grounds of block evasion, AND for identification of underlying addresses to block. I am recusing from endorsing the request Mayalld (talk) 22:27, 16 March 2009 (UTC)
 * You don't need to tell us you recuse, just simply don't edit the case. :) ——  nix eagle email me 05:23, 17 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Just wanted to be clear why I wasn't self-endorsing the CU :-) Mayalld (talk) 11:35, 17 March 2009 (UTC)
 *  Syn  ergy 01:48, 17 March 2009 (UTC)
 * ✅, obviously. The bad news is that his IP is very dynamic, across multiple /24 ranges. The good news is that he's almost the only user there, so I have blocked every range he's been editing from. Hopefully, that should annoy him enough to drive him away. -- lucasbfr  talk 09:59, 17 March 2009 (UTC)
 * clerk request: That's a French user, using Wanadoo, especially the "St Lambert Bloc 1" and "St Lambert Bloc 2" networks. Any google-savvy user that could find the list of all the ranges involved to consider a bigger rangeblock? -- lucasbfr  talk 09:59, 17 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Other ranges showing as part of the St Lambert netblocks;
 * 81.48.9.0/25
 * 81.48.35.0/24
 * 81.48.151.0/24
 * 81.48.161.0/24
 * 81.49.43.0/24
 * 81.49.63.0/24
 * 81.49.242.0/24
 * 81.50.80.0/24
 * 81.50.139.0/24
 * 81.50.170.0/24
 * 81.51.96.0/24
 * 82.120.64.0/24
 * 82.120.97.0/24
 * 82.120.199.0/24
 * 82.120.238.0/24
 * 82.124.35.0/24
 * 82.124.163.0/24
 * 86.205.54.0/24
 * 86.205.113.0/24
 * 86.217.37.0/24
 * 90.2.35.0/24
 * 90.2.41.0/24
 * 90.44.125.0/24

(Oh, almost forgot, ✅ and  too. If someone wants to list all the affected ranges, that'd be great :) - —Preceding unsigned comment added by Lucasbfr (talk • contribs)
 * Conclusions


 * 81.249.39.0/24
 * 81.249.103.0/24
 * 82.124.27.0/24
 * 82.124.30.0/24
 * 83.204.155.0/24
 * 83.204.157.0/24
 * 83.204.196.0/24
 * 83.204.254.0/24
 * 83.204.255.0/24
 * 86.205.37.0/24
 * 90.2.45.0/24
 * 90.2.105.0/24
 * 90.2.111.0/24
 * 90.35.61.0/24
 * 90.35.62.0/24
 * - —Preceding unsigned comment added by Mayalld (talk • contribs)


 * All, either soft or hard depending on his activity there. There's like 10 innocent users on that range, so take the blocks with a grain of salt. -- lucasbfr  talk 21:33, 17 March 2009 (UTC)



Report date March 26 2009, 01:49 (UTC)

 * Suspected sockpuppets
 * (just for the record as this one is already blocked for vandalism)
 * (just for the record as this one is already blocked for vandalism)
 * (just for the record as this one is already blocked for vandalism)



Chronic abuser - see archive for prior instances. This puppet exhibits the same interests (film & Judaica primarily), same high volume mixture of trivial and improper minor edits, same lack of edit summaries. JohnInDC (talk) 01:53, 15 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Evidence submitted by JohnInDC (talk)


 * Comments by accused parties    See Defending yourself against claims.


 * Comments by other users
 * Yep, that's him. Deor (talk) 02:26, 15 April 2009 (UTC)


 * Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments

Blocked. Tiptoety talk 02:39, 15 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Conclusions

Report date May 27 2009, 01:33 (UTC)

 * Suspected sockpuppets


 * Evidence submitted by JohnInDC

While this editor has been quiet for a while, he is back in full force with this puppet. Editor exhibits the same prolific style, making meaningless and / or confusing edits to (usually) film and popular culture articles, specializing (as he has most recently) in adding confusing shorthand tags to references. A brief review of the archive will show several other blocked users exhibiting these same characteristics. JohnInDC (talk) 01:33, 27 May 2009 (UTC)


 * Comments by accused parties    See Defending yourself against claims.

I agree with JohnInDC that the quacking is loud from this block-evading sockpuppet. Deor (talk) 02:11, 27 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Comments by other users
 * Note: I've notified the user of this report. Deor (talk) 02:22, 27 May 2009 (UTC)


 * Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments


 * Conclusions
 * ✅ and blocked. Nishkid64 (Make articles, not wikidrama) 02:53, 27 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Sy n 02:56, 27 May 2009 (UTC)

Report date August 21 2009, 11:59 (UTC)

 * Suspected sockpuppets

These edits bear all the hallmarks of AlexLevyOne. Meaningless edits (most typically, unhelpful ref abbreviations) coming in intense spurts, without edit summaries, to entertainment sites. Where he makes substantive edits, the English is, at best, labored, e.g. here and La_Maison_Rouge. See the archive for countless other examples of this editor's work.
 * Evidence submitted by JohnInDC


 * Comments by accused parties    See Defending yourself against claims.


 * Comments by other users
 * Why only a week's block (see below)? If this guy is an ALO sock—and I think he is, since he's quacking all over the place and the checkuser result seems corroborative—he needs to be indeffed like all the others. Recrudescences of indefinitely blocked sockmasters, who name themselves for famous hackers, now are set loose after a short block? That'll learn them! Deor (talk) 17:46, 21 August 2009 (UTC)
 * All the checkuser came back was likely. I don't know if I can indef based on that. I blocked based on the edit-warring. If another admin reviews the evidence and thinks it's conclusive that this is ALO, he or she can extend the block to indefinite.  Enigma msg  19:43, 21 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Ironically if it is him (no question in my mind) then he has already abandoned this account. I don't think in 25 puppets I've ever seen him come back to one once it's been flagged as a puppet.  JohnInDC (talk) 20:16, 21 August 2009 (UTC)
 * That's why I often do not set the expiry to indefinite if I can't be sure about whether it's a sock or not.  Enigma msg  21:50, 21 August 2009 (UTC)


 * Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments
 * I blocked for one week. Feel free to extend the block.  Enigma msg  17:23, 21 August 2009 (UTC)
 * In my opinion, when checkuser comes back as likely and behavioral evidence seems conclusive, an indefinite block is appropriate. In the rare case that we might be wrong, they always have unblock. I note that JamieS93 has blocked the sockpuppet indefinitely. NW ( Talk ) 22:03, 21 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Yes, I decided to extend the block to indef. The checkuser result is "likely", and it's generally the norm for SPI to indef block when behavioral/technical evidence all supports the claims of sockpuppetry. Jamie S93  be kind to newcomers 22:06, 21 August 2009 (UTC)


 * Conclusions
 * . Nishkid64 (Make articles, not wikidrama) 15:26, 21 August 2009 (UTC)

Report date September 17 2009, 14:53 (UTC)

 * Suspected sockpuppets

Same style of edits, same general focus as prior socks (films / French cultural articles). Already blocked on Wikipedia.fr under this same name - see this link. JohnInDC (talk) 14:53, 17 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Evidence submitted by JohnInDC


 * Comments by accused parties    See Defending yourself against claims.


 * Comments by other users


 * Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments
 * . Brandon (talk) 20:01, 17 September 2009 (UTC)
 * . Brandon (talk) 20:01, 17 September 2009 (UTC)
 * . Brandon (talk) 20:01, 17 September 2009 (UTC)


 * Conclusions
 * Blocked and tagged both. NW ( Talk ) 20:11, 17 September 2009 (UTC)

Report date September 18 2009, 10:59 (UTC)

 * Suspected sockpuppets

Account created on the heels of yesterday's block. The name - Luc Besson - is that of a frequent AlexLevyOne target article, and choosing a famous name or one of personal interest is another of his hallmarks. Edits are of the same variety and focus. JohnInDC (talk) 10:59, 18 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Evidence submitted by JohnInDC
 * Please comment whether Checkuser request is appropriate. It seems to be done in every AlexLevyOne case but I don't want to upset process if I shouldn't be asking.  JohnInDC (talk) 11:20, 18 September 2009 (UTC)


 * Comments by accused parties    See Defending yourself against claims.


 * Comments by other users

Requested by JohnInDC (talk) 10:59, 18 September 2009 (UTC)
 * CheckUser requests


 * Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments
 * . Brandon (talk) 23:03, 18 September 2009 (UTC)


 * Conclusions

Blocked and tagged. Peter Symonds ( talk ) 23:10, 18 September 2009 (UTC)

Report date September 21 2009, 14:08 (UTC)

 * Suspected sockpuppets

Account created following Friday's block of sockpuppet "Luc Besson" (see archive). Interests, nature of edits are the same as prior socks (Cinema - shaded toward French cinema; judaica). JohnInDC (talk) 14:08, 21 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Evidence submitted by JohnInDC


 * Comments by accused parties    See Defending yourself against claims.


 * Comments by other users


 * Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments


 * Conclusions

Looks very similar. Blocked and tagged. Peter Symonds ( talk ) 14:13, 21 September 2009 (UTC)

Report date September 21 2009, 21:26 (UTC)

 * Suspected sockpuppets

User Klearstream created within minutes of block of sockpuppet Sotigui earlier today; same kinds of edits. User Brahim Lattrache shows no activity but has been blocked on Wikipedia.fr as a sock of this individual. See this link. JohnInDC (talk) 21:26, 21 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Evidence submitted by JohnInDC


 * Comments by accused parties    See Defending yourself against claims.


 * Comments by other users


 * Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments


 * Conclusions

Both blocked/tagged. Peter Symonds</b> ( talk ) 21:29, 21 September 2009 (UTC)

Report date September 25 2009, 11:12 (UTC)

 * Suspected sockpuppets

Type of edits, type of articles (indeed the identity of articles), intensity of activity are all characteristic of AlexLevyOne and his many puppets. JohnInDC (talk) 11:12, 25 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Evidence submitted by JohnInDC
 * Also the username - District Nein, after the film District 9 - is distinctly in the ALO mode. JohnInDC (talk) 14:53, 25 September 2009 (UTC)


 * Comments by accused parties    See Defending yourself against claims.


 * Comments by other users


 * Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments
 * ✅. Brandon (talk) 17:29, 25 September 2009 (UTC)

Blocked and tagged. MuZemike 17:59, 25 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Conclusions

Report date September 28 2009, 13:43 (UTC)

 * Suspected sockpuppets

These two puppets of recent vintage display the same editing pattern and interests of all prior AlexLevyOne puppets. In addition these usernames have been identified on Wikipedia:fr as puppets of this person. See link. JohnInDC (talk) 13:43, 28 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Evidence submitted by JohnInDC


 * Comments by accused parties    See Defending yourself against claims.


 * CheckUser request

Self-endorsing for CheckUser attention. While the socking is clear, I want a check on any other sleepers since quite a few of them have popped up within the past two weeks. MuZemike 20:14, 28 September 2009 (UTC)


 * Comments by other users

✅ Also found. All blocked indefinitely. J.delanoy <sup style="color:red;">gabs <sub style="color:blue;">adds 01:54, 29 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments


 * Conclusions
 * Tagged. <b style="color:navy;">NW</b> ( Talk ) 02:04, 29 September 2009 (UTC)

Report date October 2 2009, 15:33 (UTC)

 * Suspected sockpuppets

Account created subsequent to block of preceding puppet. Characteristic interests, nature of edits, lack of edit summaries, etc. JohnInDC (talk) 15:33, 2 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Evidence submitted by JohnInDC
 * Elaborating on the foregoing - this is the latest puppet in a lengthy series of puppets by this chronic account abuser. See the archive for the extensive history.  This account was created on the heels of the most recent block and is plainly another puppet of the same person.  The interests - film and "art" (often French), current newsmakers - are the same as prior puppets.  The edits are the same as well, most typically the meaningless adding or removing of wikilinks, the addition or removal of blank lines or spaces in an article, and the haphazard and careless reduction of cited references down to minimal abbreviations.  Lately he has also been creating articles about lesser known individuals, and movies that are months - or years - away from production.  JohnInDC (talk) 12:12, 3 October 2009 (UTC)


 * Comments by accused parties    See Defending yourself against claims.


 * Comments by other users


 * Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments

Blocked and tagged. MuZemike 02:38, 4 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Conclusions

Report date October 5 2009, 12:49 (UTC)

 * Suspected sockpuppets



Brand new user, same interests (with a distinct shift toward Italy from France with this iteration), same pointless edits, same lack of edit summaries as all prior AlexLevyOne puppets. In addition this puppet included a helpful taunting message on my talk page, here. JohnInDC (talk) 12:49, 5 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Evidence submitted by JohnInDC
 * Incidentally. This fellow's been extraordinarily busy of late.  A while ago a range of IPs was blocked - did that block expire?  Does it need to be expanded or amended in a way so as to at least impede this endless succession of socks?  JohnInDC (talk) 15:56, 5 October 2009 (UTC)
 * "Prince of Egypt" - everything that's true about "Prince of France" holds for this puppet as well. JohnInDC (talk) 12:54, 7 October 2009 (UTC)
 * The same two user accounts have been listed as puppets at Wikipedia:fr, here. JohnInDC (talk) 14:02, 7 October 2009 (UTC)


 * Comments by accused parties    See Defending yourself against claims.


 * Comments by other users


 * Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments


 * Conclusions

I've reinstated the rangeblocks made by (several /24s). They expired recently. Peter <b style="color:#02b;">Symonds</b> ( talk ) 14:57, 7 October 2009 (UTC)

Report date October 9 2009, 15:28 (UTC)

 * Suspected sockpuppets

Although this editor has only made five edits, it's plainly a puppet - continuing an edit war begun by another ALO puppet (history here); name of famous person as user name; sufficient evidence on Wikipedia:fr to ban the same name as a sock. JohnInDC (talk) 15:28, 9 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Evidence submitted by JohnInDC


 * Comments by accused parties    See Defending yourself against claims.


 * Comments by other users


 * Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments
 * WP:DUCK, blocked accordingly. – Juliancolton  &#124; Talk 01:26, 10 October 2009 (UTC)


 * Conclusions
 * Thanks Julian. Archiving the case. <b style="color:navy;">NW</b> ( Talk ) 05:18, 10 October 2009 (UTC)

Evidence submitted by JohnInDC
Another of the many AlexLevyOne socks. (See archive for the extensive history.) A user with this same name was blocked at Wikipedia:fr as an obvious sock of their Albion, our AlexLevyOne. Link to :fr block here. User account of the same name created here at Wikipedia:en within an hour or two of the first edits by the account at :fr - compare the French contributions with the English creation log here. Requesting checkuser because there is no behavioral evidence here to go on. JohnInDC (talk) 01:43, 13 October 2009 (UTC)

Comments by accused parties
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CheckUser requests
Requested by JohnInDC (talk) 01:43, 13 October 2009 (UTC)


 * : Last CU was Sept 28th, found a previously unidentified sock. Endorse to check this one (which has not yet edited) and for other sleepers. <strong style="color:#0033CC">Nathan <strong style="color:#0033CC"> T 19:27, 13 October 2009 (UTC)

Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments
✅ and blocked. J.delanoy <sup style="color:red;">gabs <sub style="color:blue;">adds 22:31, 13 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Closing. <b style="color:navy;">NW</b> ( Talk ) 02:03, 14 October 2009 (UTC)

Report date October 14 2009, 18:58 (UTC)

 * Suspected sockpuppets

Created today, characteristic edit pattern (so far, reduction of to frequently unhelpful abbreviations); username blocked at Wikipedia:fr as puppet of the same individual (link to fr: user page here. JohnInDC (talk) 18:58, 14 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Evidence submitted by JohnInDC


 * Comments by accused parties    See Defending yourself against claims.


 * Comments by other users
 * This is getting ridiculous. Any possibility of a rangeblock, taking the IPs of the latest string of socks into consideration? Deor (talk) 19:04, 14 October 2009 (UTC)
 * I agree that these reports are getting a little tiresome, and a more comprehensive solution would be welcome. JohnInDC (talk) 19:59, 14 October 2009 (UTC)


 * Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments

Indefinitely blocked and tagged. I recommend getting in contact with a Steward to track these socks down across wikis. Reporting to the ISP may not also be a bad idea. MuZemike 01:26, 15 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Conclusions

Evidence submitted by JohnInDC
This new editor is continuing one of AlexLevyOne's favorite edit wars (here), and focuses on several of the well-known ALO subjects (Jews from Alsace, French art dealers, cinema). JohnInDC (talk) 14:42, 19 October 2009 (UTC)

Comments by accused parties
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Conclusions
Blocked and tagged. MuZemike 01:40, 20 October 2009 (UTC)

Evidence submitted by Deor
The usual behavioral evidence for this serial sockpuppeteer (see archived SPI cases). Black Desire has edited an article created by a previous sock and has already been blocked on French Wikipedia as a sock of the user known as AlexLevyOne here. Deor (talk) 13:35, 24 October 2009 (UTC)

Comments by accused parties
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Comments by other users
No question that's him. Thanks, Deor, for the report. JohnInDC (talk) 19:26, 24 October 2009 (UTC)

Conclusions

 * Appropriate actions taken, including this. <b style="color:navy;">NW</b> ( Talk ) 19:29, 24 October 2009 (UTC)

Evidence submitted by User:RCS
אלכסנדר לוי: Read: "Alexander Levy" (=Alex Levy). Same pattern of dealing with French actors, politicians, people of Jewish origin etc. --RCS (talk) 10:34, 28 October 2009 (UTC)

Comments by accused parties
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Conclusions
Blocked and tagged. Peter <b style="color:#02b;">Symonds</b> ( talk ) 11:55, 28 October 2009 (UTC)

Evidence submitted by JohnInDC
This user neatly fits the current AlexLevyOne paradigm - a new user with a username using (I gather) Hebrew characters; meaningless or destructive edits to articles about film and popular culture. A user by the same name has been identified as an ALO sock at Wikipedia:fr and blocked, as shown here. JohnInDC (talk) 17:20, 4 November 2009 (UTC)
 * The Hebrew caracters actually read Al (as in "Alex"), so there is no room for doubt (yes, i can read Hebrew, although only a little).--RCS (talk) 18:43, 4 November 2009 (UTC)
 * Probably the initials A.L., for Alex Levy. Deor (talk) 18:55, 4 November 2009 (UTC)
 * Could be, too. His preceding sock however was called "Alexander Levy", in Hebrew caracters, so maybe it *is* "Al". Doesn't' change anything, though. It is him. --RCS (talk) 19:06, 4 November 2009 (UTC)
 * This is in any case useful information for the next go-round, and the ones after that. Thanks for the insights.  JohnInDC (talk) 19:26, 4 November 2009 (UTC)

Comments by accused parties
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Conclusions

 * Blocked indefinitely and tagged. <b style="color:navy;">NW</b> ( Talk ) 22:21, 4 November 2009 (UTC)

Evidence submitted by JohnInDC
"Bruno" is characteristic AlexLevyOne and has been blocked at Wikipedia:fr. The second user ID (which I would not attempt to pronounce) is idle but was fairly recently created (October 27) and has also been blocked at Wikipedia:fr. JohnInDC (talk) 16:38, 8 November 2009 (UTC)
 * The second one is "Alex Levy" in Hebrew characters. Deor (talk) 16:45, 8 November 2009 (UTC)
 * Well, he's helpful in his little ways, isn't he? JohnInDC (talk) 16:59, 8 November 2009 (UTC)

Comments by accused parties
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Conclusions

 * Both users have been blocked and tagged appropriately.  ceran  thor 17:16, 8 November 2009 (UTC)

Evidence submitted by Deor
Another obvious AlexLevyOne sock. His only edit so far has been to insert a "keep" vote into an AfD that's been closed for more than a year, but the AfD'd article was recently recreated by another, now blocked, ALO sock (—the recreation has been speedily deleted), so it seems best to nip this one in the bud. Already blocked on the French Wikipedia. Deor (talk) 00:27, 14 November 2009 (UTC)

Comments by accused parties
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Conclusions
Blocked and tagged. MuZemike 03:35, 15 November 2009 (UTC)

Evidence submitted by JohnInDC
It's been a few weeks but the time hasn't changed this editor's signature traits. Trivial edits, focus on film, a user name relating to some current event (the 'ksm' is plainly Khalid Sheikh Mohammed). Blocked at Wikipedia:fr as a puppet of this puppetmaster. JohnInDC (talk) 04:01, 10 December 2009 (UTC)

Comments by accused parties
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Conclusions
Blocked and tagged. MuZemike 21:33, 11 December 2009 (UTC)

Evidence submitted by JohnInDC
Account created on heels of discovery of prior puppet; same trivial edits, same subject matter interest, also blocked at Wikipedia:fr. JohnInDC (talk) 15:19, 12 December 2009 (UTC)

Comments by accused parties
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Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments

 * Last CU was in October, so a checkuser might be of some use. <b style="color:navy;">NW</b> ( Talk ) 19:00, 12 December 2009 (UTC)

✅. I didn't find any sleepers. J.delanoy <sup style="color:red;">gabs <sub style="color:blue;">adds 19:07, 12 December 2009 (UTC)

Conclusions

 * Blocked and tagged. <b style="color:navy;">NW</b> ( Talk ) 19:14, 12 December 2009 (UTC)

Evidence submitted by JohnInDC
New account, trivial edits, characteristic subjects, blocked at Wikipedia:fr. JohnInDC (talk) 18:32, 13 December 2009 (UTC)

Comments by accused parties
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Conclusions
Blocked and tagged. MuZemike 03:47, 14 December 2009 (UTC)

Evidence submitted by JohnInDC
Account is of very recent vintage, edits and subjects are characteristic of this puppetmaster, and the account has been blocked at Wikipedia:fr. JohnInDC (talk) 20:48, 16 December 2009 (UTC)

Comments by accused parties
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Conclusions
Take a wild guess. MuZemike 03:05, 19 December 2009 (UTC)

Evidence submitted by JohnInDC
AlexLevyOne has evidently broadened the scope of his interests to Sinology and other things Chinese. That's the emphasis of this puppet. The edits are characteristically trivial; there are of course the typical edits to film and cinema articles as well. This ID has been blocked at Wikipedia:fr, where the subject matter of the edits are even more characteristic. See fr:Special:Contributions/Leonopteryx. JohnInDC (talk) 12:19, 28 December 2009 (UTC)
 * This swerve toward China was a bit mysterious but the point of departure would appear to be this article - José Frèches - who was a French historical novelist who set his stories in China. José Frèches was the target of several prior socks, including this one.  JohnInDC (talk) 13:39, 28 December 2009 (UTC)
 * This user recently created the (barely coherent) page Sliding Albion, an apparent reference to (or derivation of?) the name, Albion, by which this same puppetmaster is known on Wikipedia:fr. JohnInDC (talk) 03:25, 5 January 2010 (UTC)

Comments by accused parties
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Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments

 * <b style="color:navy;">NW</b> ( Talk ) 20:00, 4 January 2010 (UTC)


 * ✅ that is  -  A l is o n  ❤ 19:59, 5 January 2010 (UTC)

Conclusions

 * Blocked/tagged. <b style="color:navy;">NW</b> ( Talk ) 21:08, 5 January 2010 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets

 * - already blocked on French Wikipedia. Hégésippe &#124; ±Θ± 05:21, 9 March 2010 (UTC)

Evidence submitted by JohnInDC
I'm fleshing out a new sockpuppet report that was filed here by User:Hégésippe Cormier, not quite to the standard format (see at this diff) and which for that reason may have wound up being overlooked. It follows:


 * Wastiko, already blocked on French Wikipedia. Hégésippe &#124; ±Θ± 05:21, 9 March 2010 (UTC)

Hégésippe is knowledgeable about AlexLevyOne / Albion's puppetry at Wikipedia:fr. This editor's few contributions on Wikipedia:en don't definitively establish it as an AlexLevyOne sock but there are certainly common characteristics (cinematic subject matter interest, idiosyncratic edits repeated on many pages - this round was adding national flag icons to biographies; parallel accounts on Wikipedia:en and Wikipedia:fr). Given all that, plus the block at Wikipedia:fr, it looks like a sock. JohnInDC (talk) 11:00, 9 March 2010 (UTC)

Typical interests (cinema, Judaica), typical edits (minor additions or revisions; sometimes meaningless addition or removal of spaces or extra lines), awkward use of English when composing sentences, consistent lack of edit summaries, editor of same name blocked as sockpuppet of Albion at Wikipedia:fr (here). Editing not quite as frenzied as the usual ALO puppet but the shoe fits otherwise. JohnInDC (talk) 19:45, 12 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Synesthésie

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I have added Jake Sully. to the list as usernames from the film, Avatar, have been previously blocked as suspects of AlexLevyOne (User:Neytiri and User:Grace Augustine). Jake Sully has recieved vandalism warnings (for vandalism to the film, Avatar) but has been inactive since the end of January meaning that this may be a sleeper. SuperSonic SPEED (formerly known as ChaosControl1994). 18:00, 13 March 2010 (UTC)
 * I suppose it's worth checking, but ALO's puppets are usually much less overtly disruptive than that. Jake Sully. should really just be subject to a straight-up block.  JohnInDC (talk) 18:05, 13 March 2010 (UTC)
 * It might as well be checked as ALO has had socks with usernames that are characters from the film and they have been subject to vandalism. It may possibly be ALO is causing more disruption with Jake Sully. to avoid detection but as of Avatar character names have had history with ALO, I have added this account as it may be a sleeper trying to avoid detection and as of ALO's history with the film and if Jake Sully. has been found innocent, the account can be dealt with at WP:AIV. SuperSonic SPEED (formerly known as ChaosControl1994). 18:12, 13 March 2010 (UTC)
 * I have requested Checkuser to see if Jake Sully. is related to AlexLevyOne. SuperSonic SPEED (formerly known as ChaosControl1994). 20:11, 13 March 2010 (UTC)
 * I'm pretty sure that Sully isn't ALO. Our friend Alex isn't very proficient in English, whereas Sully seems quite fluent in American vernacular profanity. Deor (talk) 20:14, 13 March 2010 (UTC)
 * It is possible that Sully isn't ALO but it could be a sleeper who is acting different to avoid detection. this edit shows ALO having a mixed vocabulary (with one I'm being put as Im and another as i'm) but both users don't use capitals and ALO admits being an English speaking contributer meaning that he may have become more fluent over time. Besides, Checkuser will show the truth. SuperSonic SPEED (formerly known as ChaosControl1994). 20:19, 13 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Yes, we'll see. For now though I agree with Deor, and I'd be very surprised to find that this fellow is an ALO puppet.  JohnInDC (talk) 21:23, 13 March 2010 (UTC)

New French sockpuppet 2010-03-14 fr:Special:Contributions/Hengzhen, already blocked. See, on wp-EN, Special:Contributions/Hengzhen, sleeping sockpuppet. Hégésippe &#124; ±Θ± 11:58, 14 March 2010 (UTC)
 * The French user is plainly ALO. No contributions on :en as of yet.  JohnInDC (talk) 12:16, 14 March 2010 (UTC)
 * All suspected sockpuppets have been notified, including the ones blocked on the French Wikipedia. SuperSonic SPEED (formerly known as ChaosControl1994). 21:31, 14 March 2010 (UTC)

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Requested by SuperSonic SPEED (formerly known as ChaosControl1994). 20:02, 13 March 2010 (UTC)

– Might as well now, given the clear sock in the form of Hengzhen. –MuZemike 01:02, 16 March 2010 (UTC)


 * Something's very odd here, and I'd like a second checkuser to take a look at Hengzhen. If I'm reading the checkuser data correctly, that account was created using something that shouldn't have the ability to make any logged changes on a wiki. At first glance, though, I'd say the following:
 * ✅ as AlexLevyOne, or at least the same person:
 * - again, as far as I can tell.
 * All other accounts appear ❌; different OS and ISP, and in one case (Jake Sully.) a different country. <em style="font-family:Bradley Hand ITC;color:blue">Hers <em style="font-family:Bradley Hand ITC;color:gold">fold  (t/a/c) 18:13, 19 March 2010 (UTC)
 * - again, as far as I can tell.
 * All other accounts appear ❌; different OS and ISP, and in one case (Jake Sully.) a different country. <em style="font-family:Bradley Hand ITC;color:blue">Hers <em style="font-family:Bradley Hand ITC;color:gold">fold  (t/a/c) 18:13, 19 March 2010 (UTC)
 * All other accounts appear ❌; different OS and ISP, and in one case (Jake Sully.) a different country. <em style="font-family:Bradley Hand ITC;color:blue">Hers <em style="font-family:Bradley Hand ITC;color:gold">fold  (t/a/c) 18:13, 19 March 2010 (UTC)

for a second CU opinion SpitfireTally-ho! 19:52, 19 March 2010 (UTC)


 * ✅ as per Hersfold above with the exception that is  on SUL behaviour and block history. The checkuser log on enwiki shows something technically interesting but is not an edit. I recommend blocking per frwiki. Also, the following is ✅;


 * - A l is o n  ❤ 02:23, 20 March 2010 (UTC)

Evidence submitted by JohnInDC
Account created subsequent to most recent checkuser in archive above. Only one edit here on WP:en but several on WP:fr, sufficient to establish the ALO / Albion pattern and draw a block. See contributions page on :fr here. JohnInDC (talk) 12:56, 23 March 2010 (UTC)

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 * Special:Contributions/PALP = fr:Special:Contributions/PALP (already blocket on wp-FR). Hégésippe &#124; ±Θ± 17:57, 26 March 2010 (UTC)

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Requested by JohnInDC (talk) 12:56, 23 March 2010 (UTC)

Tim Song (talk) 18:07, 26 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Both newly listed accounts are ✅ matches for each other; behavioral cues or knowledge from frwiki will probably be helpful in deciding whether they're related to the original bunch. – <font color="#28f">Luna Santin (talk) 23:51, 26 March 2010 (UTC)

Both accounts indefinitely blocked and tagged as socks of AlexLevyOne. –MuZemike 20:04, 27 March 2010 (UTC)

Evidence submitted by JohnInDC
Conforming sockpuppet alert by Hégésippe to proper format. Characteristic interests, blocked on :fr, looks like your standard ALO puppet. JohnInDC (talk) 20:10, 29 March 2010 (UTC)
 * (Prior notice, in full:)


 * Special:Contributions/Charly Matteï, already blocked on wp-FR : fr:Spécial:Contributions/Charly Matteï. Hégésippe &#124; ±Θ± 16:57, 29 March 2010 (UTC) JohnInDC (talk) 20:12, 29 March 2010 (UTC)

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 * Charly Matteï is a match for some accounts labelled as confirmed matches in the case archive. As with the last report, behavioral cues will probably be more useful here. – <font color="#28f">Luna Santin  (talk) 00:57, 30 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Blocked and tagged. Tim Song (talk) 21:48, 30 March 2010 (UTC)

Evidence submitted by User:Hégésippe Cormier
Already blocked on wp-FR : fr:Spécial:Contributions/Nouvelle Star. Hégésippe &#124; ±Θ± 12:28, 3 April 2010 (UTC)

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 * Note: I pasted Hégésippe's material into the usual SPI format and added the checkuser request below, in case any unidentified or unused socks may be lurking about. Deor (talk) 15:28, 3 April 2010 (UTC)
 * It looks like a typical ALO sock to me. JohnInDC (talk) 16:16, 3 April 2010 (UTC)

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Requested by Deor (talk) 12:51, 3 April 2010 (UTC) to check the link and preform a sleeper check, please. Regards, SpitfireTally-ho! 17:17, 3 April 2010 (UTC)


 * Unless I'm missing something, this case is severly lacking in the evidence department. Can someone either provide more evidence linking these two accounts together, or inform me as to what I have missed? --Deskana (talk) 03:10, 5 April 2010 (UTC)
 * This is a well-known serial sockpuppeteer who creates global accounts and uses them to edit on the French and English WPs until each is discovered, at which point he abandons it and creates a new account. The editing interests and patterns of the accounts are familiar to anyone who has been following this saga. Blocking this particular account is a minor matter, since he will just move on to a new one, but discovering whether any additional accounts have been created may be somewhat useful. Deor (talk) 04:46, 5 April 2010 (UTC)
 * A quick look at the archive will illustrate Deor's point. JohnInDC (talk) 10:40, 5 April 2010 (UTC)

Thanks for the extra info. It is not possible for me to check the newest account directly against User:AlexLevyOne due to the IP information having gone stale, but the sock does match the patterns of some of the other confirmed socks from archived cases. There were no new sleepers found. --Deskana (talk) 15:53, 5 April 2010 (UTC)
 * Bagged and tagged. TN <b style="color:midnightblue; font-size:larger;">X</b> Man  18:36, 5 April 2010 (UTC)

Evidence submitted by JohnInDC
These two recent, automatically-created accounts bear the same characteristics of the many ALO socks (cinematic interests, meaningless or trivial edits, never an edit summary), and both have been blocked at Wikipedia:fr as puppets of Albion, ALO's nom de sock there. See Adèle BS and Patmo6. JohnInDC (talk) 20:20, 12 April 2010 (UTC)

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Between the evidence already uncovered by frwiki and the quackitude I see no need for a checkuser here. -- Sh i r ik ( Questions or Comments? ) 03:59, 13 April 2010 (UTC)

Both blocked. <b style="color:navy;">NW</b> ( Talk ) 03:57, 13 April 2010 (UTC)

Evidence submitted by JohnInDC
ALO hallmarks: Recent accounts created simultaneously on both Wikipedia:en and Wikipedia:fr; editorial interests (a bit more obvious on :fr than here); appropriation of a famous person's name as a user name; and finally, blocked at :fr as sock of Albion (see here.)  JohnInDC (talk) 16:53, 14 April 2010 (UTC)
 * Additional edits are consistent with the profile - no edit summaries, focus on Judaica, cinema and - somewhat more recently - pretenders to various royal positions in Europe and the Middle East. This is him.  JohnInDC (talk) 02:01, 15 April 2010 (UTC)

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All of the signs are there. Blocked and tagged. TN <b style="color:midnightblue; font-size:larger;">X</b> Man 19:59, 19 April 2010 (UTC)

Evidence submitted by JohnInDC
Account of recent vintage (May 1); parallel account at Wikipedia:fr. Nature, focus and intensity of edits are typical AlexLevyOne (cinema, music; middle eastern and Chinese interests). Checkuser underway at Wikipedia:fr on suspicion of sockpuppetry, here. JohnInDC (talk) 19:55, 3 May 2010 (UTC)

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blocked by NuclearWarfare and tagged, SpitfireTally-ho! 20:01, 3 May 2010 (UTC)

Evidence submitted by JohnInDC
Characteristic trivial edits; preoccupation with minor Continental royalty; blocked at Wikipedia:fr. See the extensive archive for more details on this sockmaster and his puppets. JohnInDC (talk) 18:33, 26 June 2010 (UTC)

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I've run into this guy before. Never responds to any concerns; he just keeps on with his idiosyncratic edit patterns until he's shut down. I've blocked the account per WP:DUCK. --PMDrive1061 (talk) 14:55, 29 June 2010 (UTC)

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Blocked and tagged by PMDrive1061. <b style="font-family:Calibri; font-size:medium; color:#4682B4;"> E lockid</b>  ( Talk ) 02:16, 30 June 2010 (UTC)

Evidence submitted by JohnInDC
Account created automatically on the heels of prior sockpuppet report; typical interests of this puppet master (currently cinema, judaica, continental nobility); blocked at Wikipedia:fr as puppet of same person. JohnInDC (talk) 01:35, 3 July 2010 (UTC)

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Blocked and tagged. –MuZemike 19:21, 3 July 2010 (UTC)

Evidence submitted by JohnInDC
Few edits from these accounts but they are typical ALO (trivial, cinema, no edit summaries), both were automatically created quite recently and are both blocked at Wikipedia:fr as puppets of their Albion. JohnInDC (talk) 18:18, 9 July 2010 (UTC)

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Blocked and tagged. <b style="font-family:Calibri; font-size:medium; color:#4682B4;"> E lockid</b>  ( Talk ) 13:30, 10 July 2010 (UTC)

Evidence submitted by JohnInDC
Recent and automatically created account here has but one edit here on :en; but at :fr the edits are characteristic ALO and the account has been blocked there as an Albion puppet. See fr:Special:Contributions/NINJA T. JohnInDC (talk) 14:56, 10 July 2010 (UTC)

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Blocked and tagged. <b style="font-family:Calibri; font-size:medium; color:#4682B4;"> E lockid</b>  ( Talk ) 00:05, 12 July 2010 (UTC)

Evidence submitted by JohnInDC
Both typical ALO. Accounts recently, automatically created; trivial edits to the usual types of subjects (this month, film, pop culture, celebrities), without edit summaries; blocked at Wikipedia:fr as a sock of their Albion. JohnInDC (talk) 10:48, 21 July 2010 (UTC)

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 * WP:DUCK; both blocked and tagged. Peter <b style="color:#02b;">Symonds</b> ( talk ) 21:01, 25 July 2010 (UTC)

Evidence submitted by JohnInDC
Recently created account, typical ALO interests & edits, name similar to earlier, banned puppet, blocked at Wikipedia:fr. JohnInDC (talk) 18:07, 28 July 2010 (UTC)

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Blocked and tagged. TN <b style="color:midnightblue; font-size:larger;">X</b> Man 17:32, 29 July 2010 (UTC)

Evidence submitted by JohnInDC
Typical ALO puppet - interests, types, frequency of edits. Blocked at wikipedia:fr. JohnInDC (talk) 02:07, 14 August 2010 (UTC)

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Blocked and tagged. –MuZemike 22:09, 18 August 2010 (UTC)

Evidence submitted by JohnInDC
Typical ALO puppet - trivial edits, no edit summaries; the usual interests (film, middle east, far east). Blocked at :fr. JohnInDC (talk) 01:13, 16 September 2010 (UTC)

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✅ This account is the same as, who was previously blocked as an ALO sockpuppet. TN <b style="color:midnightblue; font-size:larger;">X</b> Man 02:03, 16 September 2010 (UTC)
 * Blocked/tagged <b style="color:navy;">NW</b> ( Talk ) 02:19, 16 September 2010 (UTC)

Evidence submitted by JohnInDC
Robotpotato shares several traits of AlexLevyOne and spawn - interests in cinema, French Judaica to name two. There is also a notable correspondence in articles edited by this editor an ALO puppets. The account is *un*unsual in that about 15% of the time this editor actually includes edit summaries; and, has existed and been active for several months. Usually he betrays himself more quickly than that. The account is, however, like ALO a generally disruptive one and was recently blocked (12 hours) for violating WP:BLP. JohnInDC (talk) 18:13, 27 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Mister Gaga is of more recent vintage, is blocked at Wikipedia:fr, and looks like the typical ALO puppet (including obstinancy). JohnInDC (talk) 18:21, 27 October 2010 (UTC)

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✅ However, is ❌. TN <b style="color:midnightblue; font-size:larger;">X</b> Man 18:56, 27 October 2010 (UTC)
 * are the same.
 * are the same.
 * are the same.
 * I tagged and blocked the two confirmed accounts. —  Hello Annyong  (say whaaat?!) 19:17, 27 October 2010 (UTC)

07 December 2010

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This editor displays several of the usual ALO characteristics - an interest in cinema and popular culture; trivial edits (with over-compressed abbreviations of refs within articles, e.g., this change); and the complete lack of edit summaries. There is, as usual, a corresponding account at :fr, making the same sorts of edits (not yet blocked). The differences from prior puppets are slight - this account was dormant for a bit following its creation before it was used, and the volume of edits is not as frenzied as usual. Still it bears all of the other hallmarks. JohnInDC (talk) 14:35, 7 December 2010 (UTC)

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 * - That account was created one day after the last SPI case. Endorsing to match up, and also to check for sleepers. —  Hello Annyong  (say whaaat?!) 14:59, 7 December 2010 (UTC)
 * ✅. Tiptoety  talk 22:33, 8 December 2010 (UTC)
 * Blocked and tagged. —  Hello Annyong  (say whaaat?!) 03:06, 9 December 2010 (UTC)

11 February 2011

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This account was created in December 2010 shortly after the last ALO sock was detected and blocked. This editor has been working the usual ALO sites - cinema, royalty, and current events - in meaningless ALO fashion for several weeks. He also has an account at Wikipedia:fr, but has not been blocked there. JohnInDC (talk) 20:57, 11 February 2011 (UTC)

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 * ✅. Tiptoety  talk 21:02, 11 February 2011 (UTC)

29 April 2011

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Classic ALO behavior - trivial edits focusing on pop culture, royalty and - more recently among ALO puppets - Asian and Middle Eastern topics. Also the lack of edit summaries. The surname here - Levy - harkens back to the original puppetmaster account too. He's been editing for a while under this name rather quietly but has gone on a bit of a tear lately. Cutting against puppetry is that the account has existed since 2009 and usually his accounts do not lie dormant that long. But this account is blocked at Wikipedia:fr as a puppet of their Albion and that's, I think, the final nail in this coffin. See here. JohnInDC (talk) 00:43, 29 April 2011 (UTC)

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 * - Sure, endorsing for confirmation and sleepers. —  Hello Annyong  (say whaaat?!) 00:54, 29 April 2011 (UTC)
 * ✅. Dominic·t 02:55, 29 April 2011 (UTC)
 * Blocked and tagged. —  Hello Annyong  (say whaaat?!) 22:28, 29 April 2011 (UTC)

06 August 2011

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Prolific and usually trivial edits (often just blank lines) to articles on cinema and current and emerging actors; current events (Mubarak, Ghaddafi etc.). Characteristic revisions of refs to simple and uninformative website names, e.g. this diff. Typical ALO puppet. JohnInDC (talk) 00:06, 6 August 2011 (UTC)

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✅ plus:



–MuZemike 00:24, 6 August 2011 (UTC)

16 September 2011

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This is ALO. The account was created three days after the most recent puppet block here, the edits are of the same nature, and to the same sorts of pages, as ALO and nearly everyone of his puppets. He's recently begun to accumulate complaints and comments on his Talk page, so it's time for a block. JohnInDC (talk) 10:43, 16 September 2011 (UTC) JohnInDC (talk) 10:43, 16 September 2011 (UTC)
 * I should add that his User page consists of a listing of articles, most of them all-time favorite ALO targets.  JohnInDC (talk) 10:53, 16 September 2011 (UTC)

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 * I concur. See my message to John at User talk:JohnInDC Deor (talk) 11:16, 16 September 2011 (UTC)

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 * ✅ AGK  [</nowikI>&bull; ] 12:13, 16 September 2011 (UTC)
 * Blocked and tagged. ​—DoRD (talk)​ 15:31, 16 September 2011 (UTC)

29 September 2011

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Account created 2 days after last block, characteristic edits and interests (including several of the same pages). Recently escalated into outright disruption by seeking speedy deletion of a well-established article for - well - spurious reasons. Diff. JohnInDC (talk) 18:10, 29 September 2011 (UTC)

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 * ✅ and blocked. Tiptoety  talk 18:17, 29 September 2011 (UTC)
 * Marking for close. TN <b style="color:midnightblue; font-size:larger;">X</b> Man  19:32, 29 September 2011 (UTC)

26 October 2011

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Blocked on French Wikipedia as Albion's sockpuppet (the “bold” page is similar as this one on English Wikipedia. Hégésippe &#124; ±Θ± 17:58, 26 October 2011 (UTC)

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 * Comment - yes, that's him. JohnInDC (talk) 18:02, 26 October 2011 (UTC)

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✅ the following are the same:
 * TN <b style="color:midnightblue; font-size:larger;">X</b> Man 18:06, 26 October 2011 (UTC)
 * blocked and tagged Alexandria   (talk)  18:41, 26 October 2011 (UTC)
 * TN <b style="color:midnightblue; font-size:larger;">X</b> Man 18:06, 26 October 2011 (UTC)
 * blocked and tagged Alexandria   (talk)  18:41, 26 October 2011 (UTC)
 * blocked and tagged Alexandria   (talk)  18:41, 26 October 2011 (UTC)

30 October 2011

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Admittedly not much to go on here but after so many years and SSI reports, it only takes a couple of feathers from this duck to be pretty sure! It helps that this account has already been identified and blocked at Wikipedia:fr as an ALO puppet. Diff. JohnInDC (talk) 16:28, 30 October 2011 (UTC)

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 * - Blocked and tagged per WP:DUCK, but I'll endorse for confirmation and sleepers. —  Hello Annyong  (say whaaat?!) 16:33, 30 October 2011 (UTC)
 * ✅, nothing else to report. WilliamH (talk) 16:41, 30 October 2011 (UTC)

04 December 2011

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Blocked on wp.fr as a sock of Albion/AlexLevyOne. M AURILBERT <font face="Times">(talk)  21:31, 4 December 2011 (UTC)

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 * ✅ with . WilliamH (talk) 21:42, 4 December 2011 (UTC)
 * Both blocked and tagged. —  Hello Annyong  (say whaaat?!) 23:06, 4 December 2011 (UTC)

09 December 2011

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Freshly found and blocked on fr.wp. --M AURILBERT <font face="Times">(talk)  02:26, 9 December 2011 (UTC) M AURILBERT  <font face="Times">(talk)  02:26, 9 December 2011 (UTC)

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 * Blocked and tagged. —  Hello Annyong  (say whaaat?!) 02:53, 9 December 2011 (UTC)

09 December 2011

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A sleeper here (so far), but blocked and tagged at :fr. Link. JohnInDC (talk) 22:01, 9 December 2011 (UTC)

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 * It's pretty much ✅. WilliamH (talk) 22:06, 9 December 2011 (UTC)
 * Blocked and tagged -- DQ  (t)   (e)  22:10, 9 December 2011 (UTC)

20 December 2011

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Blocked at :fr as sock of their Albion. See fr:Wikipédia:Vérificateur d'adresses IP/Requêtes/décembre 2011 JohnInDC (talk) 19:32, 20 December 2011 (UTC)

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 * While I will admit that the Fr.wiki link was quite convoluted and hard to navigate, it does appear that = . So, ✅.  Tiptoety  talk 23:43, 20 December 2011 (UTC)
 * Tagged. —  Hello Annyong  (say whaaat?!) 04:04, 21 December 2011 (UTC)

22 February 2012

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The former of the two is an obvious AlexLevyOne sock. Apart from the telling clue of the shared name, this editor makes the same idiosyncratic edits, without edit summaries, to the same sorts of articles (in this case mostly cinema-related). Blocked at :fr here. The latter is a sleeper found on :fr, and blocked when Levybros was investigated. The account is dormant here. JohnInDC (talk) 11:48, 22 February 2012 (UTC)
 * I've just added the IP address, confirmed at :fr (but not evidently blocked) - here on :en, it made a typographical change to a long series of Talk page edits by Levybros, here. I think the behavioral evidence here is sufficient, no CU necessary on this.  JohnInDC (talk) 11:59, 22 February 2012 (UTC)

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✅ the following are :
 * No sleepers at a glance. TN <b style="color:midnightblue; font-size:larger;">X</b> Man  14:17, 22 February 2012 (UTC)
 * Blocked and tagged. -- DQ  (ʞlɐʇ)  14:46, 22 February 2012 (UTC)
 * No sleepers at a glance. TN <b style="color:midnightblue; font-size:larger;">X</b> Man  14:17, 22 February 2012 (UTC)
 * Blocked and tagged. -- DQ  (ʞlɐʇ)  14:46, 22 February 2012 (UTC)

09 April 2012

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Characteristic ALO edits in both substance and subject matter. Blocked at :fr as puppet of their Albion, here. JohnInDC (talk) 03:07, 9 April 2012 (UTC)

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✅ the following are the same:
 * (Globally locked)
 * (Globally locked)
 * TN <b style="color:midnightblue; font-size:larger;">X</b> Man 13:24, 9 April 2012 (UTC)
 * All blocked and tagged. ​—DoRD (talk)​ 14:10, 9 April 2012 (UTC)
 * All blocked and tagged. ​—DoRD (talk)​ 14:10, 9 April 2012 (UTC)

05 June 2012

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This account bears most of the hallmarks of ALO's socks but the match is not as clean as in the (many) prior cases I've reported, so I will go into a bit more detail here for reviewing admins. On the pro side we have 1) a general overlap of interests, specifically French cinema & minor European royalty; 2) many articles edited in common with ALO puppets, e.g., Charlotte Gainesbourg, Thibault de Montbrial, Alois Brunner; 3) a very great number of edits in a very short period of time 4) from a newly created account; 5) many, many trivial changes to articles (the following is typical: ); 6) weird little dustups such as this (see collapsed text). Having written up the "pro" side I've just about convinced myself, but on the "con" or at least "ambiguous" side we have, 1) An account by the same name, editing many of the same articles here, has been blocked at :fr as a sockpuppet, but not of ALO (Albion there), and none of the other listed puppets on that page spring to mind as known ALO puppets; 2) this editor's edits are broadly not as disruptive as ALO's - in fact they're close to invisible in most articles. (I haven't bothered looking through all 500+.) CU should resolve it, or so I'd hope. JohnInDC (talk) 19:27, 5 June 2012 (UTC)

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✅ plus the following:

There's a lot of locked accounts but I won't list them since they're already taken care off. Most have also no edits. <b style="font-family:Calibri; font-size:14px; color:#4682B4;">Elockid</b>  ( Talk ) 22:22, 5 June 2012 (UTC)
 * All blocked and tagged. ​—DoRD (talk)​ 22:54, 5 June 2012 (UTC)

30 July 2012

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Re The Nuke: Interests - film, Judaica, Francophonic articles (for lack of better descriptor); trivial edits, no edit summaries unless to argue; Talk page littered with complaints. Classic ALO. JohnInDC (talk) 19:15, 30 July 2012 (UTC) JohnInDC
 * Added MesRats, Konbini, Tila Al Ghul (all blocked at :fr as ALO puppets and their edits are of standard ALO articles in the standard ALO style). JohnInDC (talk) 19:35, 30 July 2012 (UTC)

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— Berean Hunter   (talk)  21:16, 30 July 2012 (UTC) — Berean Hunter   (talk)  01:32, 31 July 2012 (UTC)
 * - to confirm socking and check for sleepers.
 * I can't confirm as they have no activity on enwp, but given that all the others are ✅, I'd trust the frwp CUs unquestioning and lump 'im in.  In addition:
 * sont tous des faux-nez. &mdash; Coren (talk) 00:03, 31 July 2012 (UTC)
 * Blocked and tagged. Closing.
 * sont tous des faux-nez. &mdash; Coren (talk) 00:03, 31 July 2012 (UTC)
 * Blocked and tagged. Closing.
 * Blocked and tagged. Closing.

21 August 2012

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Trivial edits to cinema articles, also high profile current events like 9/11. User name is of a real person, another ALO characteristic. No edit summaries, blocked at :fr as puppet. Account may be abandoned now so checking for sleepers or others would be a good idea. JohnInDC (talk) 03:20, 21 August 2012 (UTC)

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 * if not ✅ along with locked accounts Albion III, RSK68. I have also stopped by frwiki and given them the note. -- DQ  (ʞlɐʇ)  05:52, 21 August 2012 (UTC)
 * Blocked and tagged. ​—DoRD (talk)​ 20:07, 21 August 2012 (UTC)

13 September 2012

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Standard ALO edits - cinema, mostly; French language, mostly; a lot of removing spaces, etc., all without edit summaries. He seems to have moved into creating obscure categories and then populating them based on inscrutable criteria. Blocked at :fr. JohnInDC (talk) 19:03, 13 September 2012 (UTC)

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 * Checking per CU confirmation on fr.wiki (evidence). Very and for all extents and purposes ✅ - if another CheckUser would please check the ranges for sleepers, as they are large. WilliamH (talk) 12:50, 14 September 2012 (UTC)
 * - Per WilliamH. T. Canens (talk) 17:12, 15 September 2012 (UTC)
 * ✅, no immediate sleepers (everything that I could draw a conclusive connection to was blocked), though i'm not quite sure what WilliamH was talking about. -- DQ  (ʞlɐʇ)  22:28, 15 September 2012 (UTC)
 * Blocked and tagged, marking for close. Jafeluv (talk) 06:50, 17 September 2012 (UTC)

22 September 2012

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Recently & automatically created account has already been blocked at :fr as sock of Albion - see link. Early edits are characteristically meaningless, no edit summaries, and he's already been chided for failing to follow BLP sourcing requirements. JohnInDC (talk) 14:32, 22 September 2012 (UTC)

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— Berean Hunter   (talk)  12:56, 23 September 2012 (UTC)
 * ✅ + (who is not active on frwiki). No other sleepers per some previously checked ranges. --  DQ  (ʞlɐʇ)  05:50, 23 September 2012 (UTC)
 * Indeffing and closing.

13 October 2012

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Usual subject matter edits; blocked at :fr as sock of their counterpart, Albion. JohnInDC (talk) 14:04, 13 October 2012 (UTC)

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 * - I was thinking just yesterday that it was time for a check back, but never got around to it. Looking now. -- DQ  (ʞlɐʇ)  18:25, 13 October 2012 (UTC)
 * This is ✅ ALO with a range I haven't seen yet. I will add it to my list. With that, comes new socks, which are all ALO:

-- DQ  (ʞlɐʇ)  21:59, 13 October 2012 (UTC)

17 October 2012

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Creation of Marc Gilbert, article which was deleted four years ago and which was created and edited, before, by AlexLevyOne (Albion on French Wikipedia). I have no access to deleted versions of this article, but I know, and all persons who investigate about this user know it. Hégésippe &#124; ±Θ± 18:38, 17 October 2012 (UTC) Hégésippe &#124; ±Θ± 18:38, 17 October 2012 (UTC)

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 * Checkuser not needed here as I've blocked based on behavioral similarities and closing.

11 November 2012

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Typical ALO edits to typical ALO pages; blocked at :fr. Asking CU to check for sleepers. JohnInDC (talk) 15:41, 11 November 2012 (UTC)


 * AlexLevyOne’s sock puppets have recently favored editing pages involving people of recent note in the news; French media & cinema personalities; and Judaica. His interests have shifted over time but that’s where he is editing currently.  His edits are often trivial, e.g. adding or removing lines or spaces.  Here are two from DERPRI -


 * diff
 * diff


 * to compare with two from blocked puppet VFair


 * diff
 * diff.


 * His edis are rarely, if ever, accompanied by an edit summary. AlexLevyOne is the same individual as the user Albion on Wikipedia:fr, and DERPRI has already been blocked at that site as a sock of Albion.


 * DERPRI has also edited a variety of pages that ALO and his socks seem to favor – these alone suffice to show that DERPRI is an ALO puppet. For instance, DERPRI has edited Thierry Ardisson, which was created by ALO and been edited by ALO puppets Italik and ANGGUN.  (I am supplying the user pages rather than the diffs because it’s easy to see sample edits in the page history and less easy to see that these are ALO socks.)


 * Alain Mamou-Mani, which DERPRI has edited, was created by the ALO sockpuppet User:Elsass and subsequently edited by AlexLevyOne himself as well as a series of other ALO socks, specifically User:VingtSix, User:Mohkalb, User:Z&N and User:Italik.


 * Seen (artist) is another example. ALO contributors to this page include User:Z&N, User:The Nuke, User:Mister Gaga and User:Albert Gonzalez.  There are more but it’s more trouble than it’s worth to list them all.


 * Note too that DERPRI has edited François Hollande, from which the ALO sock Franck Holland plainly took his name.


 * This is an open-and-shut case.  CU is not necessary to demonstrate that, of course, but as a review of the extensive archive of this puppetmaster shows, ALO often has a lot of sleeper accounts active and it is helpful to find and block them before he uses them.  JohnInDC (talk) 15:56, 13 November 2012 (UTC)


 * Incidentally. I've filed maybe a hundred of these over the past few years.  Once you learn ALO's style he is easy to spot; and I have never been wrong.  If going forward I need to be supplying a full-blown explanation, with diffs, for each report, I will probably quit doing them.  Given the speed at which he can create accounts, it's too much work.  I would also add that while in the early going his edits are - as noted - trivial and innocuous, sooner or later his puppets find themselves in an edit war over something substantial.  He is not a banned user because he removes spaces; he is a banned user because he is a disruptive editor.  Please let me know what you will be expecting from these reports in the future.  Thanks.  JohnInDC (talk) 16:04, 13 November 2012 (UTC)

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— Berean Hunter   (talk)  15:02, 13 November 2012 (UTC) — Berean Hunter   (talk)  16:01, 13 November 2012 (UTC)
 * - to check for sleepers. Thank you very much JohnInDC for the additional info; this almost always will help expedite your case when you have clear evidence and have fulfilled the policy requirements.
 * For the record, crosswiki sock blocks are valid enough for a check here with ALO/Albion, no diffs needed. Thank you JohnInDC for continuing to help us with this hunt. ✅ this is ALO/Albion and the following sleepers:
 * -- DQ  (ʞlɐʇ)  23:05, 13 November 2012 (UTC)
 * -- DQ  (ʞlɐʇ)  23:05, 13 November 2012 (UTC)


 * Socks all blocked and tagged by DeltaQuad. Keilana&#124;Parlez ici 04:57, 14 November 2012 (UTC)

16 November 2012

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Account created immediately on the heels of the last block. Confirmed as sock at :fr, here. (Yet to be blocked.) Typical ALO subjects (cinema) and style (fractured English contributions in new articles, see e.g. Ernest Picard-Destelan). Trivial additions, subtractions, see here, here. Not seeking CU because it's so soon after the last one, and behavioral & crosswiki evidence is sufficient. JohnInDC (talk) 19:25, 16 November 2012 (UTC)

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 * Blocked the sockpuppet. Closing. Reaper Eternal (talk) 19:30, 16 November 2012 (UTC)

26 November 2012

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Standard ALO edits to cinema / TV, figures in popular culture (we're exploring Japan now); trivial edits, no edit summaries. Blocked at :fr as puppet of their Albion, see link. Behavioral evidence (and :fr block) make this one as clear as all the prior egs; requesting CU to check for sleepers. JohnInDC (talk) 19:48, 26 November 2012 (UTC)

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 * ✅ plus Courcelles 17:13, 27 November 2012 (UTC)
 * Tags updated, marking for close. Jafeluv (talk) 12:17, 28 November 2012 (UTC)

12 December 2012

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RETREZ engages in typical ALO behavior, focusing on French Jewry, cinema, current figures in the news. RETREZ has not edited at :fr yet - and so, is not blocked there - but in case there is any question about identity, RETREZ created the page Léonard Rosenthal here on :en on December 8, which was created on the preceding day at :fr by Squaillefôle, a blocked sock of their Albion. See this page history. (For that reason I am also reporting Squaillefôle here, despite having made only a couple of edits here; and to round out the list am also tossing in Dertzer, who was also blocked at :fr but who is inactive here.) RETREZ has also edited several pages visited by prior socks, including Alois Brunner and François Hollande, to name just two. Requesting CU for sleepers. JohnInDC (talk) 15:46, 12 December 2012 (UTC)

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 * RETREZ matches standard naming pattern. Squaillefôle's and RETREZ's duplication creations of the same article on fr and en seem enough evidence to link them for a check. Dertzer's block on fr means we should probably clean up on our side of the channel. Cheers, SpitfireTally-ho! 17:20, 12 December 2012 (UTC)
 * All three are ✅ Courcelles 18:27, 12 December 2012 (UTC)
 * All three blocked and tagged. Closing. Basa <font color="CC9900">lisk  inspect damage⁄<font color="CC9900">berate 19:22, 12 December 2012 (UTC)

28 December 2012

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Both blocked at :fr as socks of Albion, in light of abundant evidence of identity. Demandaplan here, Rengaine here. Neither has edited here more than once but perhaps we can get ahead of him a bit. Requesting CU to check for sleepers. JohnInDC (talk) 19:15, 28 December 2012 (UTC)

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 * Yep, it's ALO alright, plus who is already blocked at frwiki. I'm also in contact with frwiki and commons CUs to try and flush out another sleeper. --  DQ  (ʞlɐʇ)  05:53, 29 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Closing. ( X! ·  talk )  · @176  · 03:12, 31 December 2012 (UTC)

09 October 2013

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This new editor bears all the hallmarks of this notorious and persistent puppeteer. Recently created, this account leaped into immediately into extensive editing, first by recreating Marc Gilbert (journalist) under a new name after it had been repeatedly recreated, as Marc Gilbert, by socks of same following deletion per AfD; also reflects identical interests of prior socks in pages such as Alexandre Gilbert (the name of a prior sock, here), History of the Jews in Alsace, Stéphane Bern, Thierry Ardisson and Galerie Chappe (indirectly by reference, here), as well as French media generally. Requesting CU to confirm the obvious quacking here. JohnInDC (talk) 12:27, 9 October 2013 (UTC)
 * Adding TRGUY, based on overlap of interests (French cinema and media), History of Jews in (blank) - see page history of History of Jews in the United States, as well as specific pages, e.g. Dominique-France Loeb-Picard. Also, this user is blocked at WP:fr as a sock of their corresponding puppetmaster, Albion - see link.  The account seems stale but editing from it was pretty extensive.  JohnInDC (talk) 13:47, 9 October 2013 (UTC)
 * Added User:Frenchallegory, a recently created SPA that has edited only Alexandre Gilbert (and appears to have been responsible for uploading the photo featured on that page). JohnInDC (talk) 13:58, 9 October 2013 (UTC)

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 * Note: I added the IP to the list above—a user who showed up today to do nothing but contest attempts to delete articles created by the ALO socks. Deor (talk) 17:00, 9 October 2013 (UTC)
 * Hey, this is IP, former "not-PM", I still don't get why the three movies and talk show are not kept as on the french WP. You told me yesterday John, you didn't mind if anyone wanted to adopt the pages and i can see that the page where ask for delation again ? Do we need to be at least three to do so ? I believe i can get them easily especially if they're fond of movies, literrature and music.NotinDC (talk) 07:44, 10 October 2013 (UTC)
 * I never talk to anyone not to be confused with the sockpuppets, I am mostly NOT in contact with. I confirm being Alexandre Gilbert but contest many profiles compiled in the list of "User:AlexLevyONE" or "User:Albion"in France.I guess many french contributors performing on my pages might create a confusion. I wish i could reasonably find a way about this stopping the nonsense twister around my modest (and hard working) business as an art dealer. Thanks NotinDC. JohninDC, can i talk with you about it ? I guess i can find help from a skilled and ancient editor as you.Frenchmedia1 (talk) 09:50, 10 October 2013 (UTC)
 * I also confirm being the wikicommon uploader, Frenchallegory, of my propriety profile already uploaded on squarespace and free of rights, that i wish i could have conserved on the page. Is it possible to erase and ban for good all the parasites sockpuppets literraly making my life a CANCER and turning my life in a SAW I,II,III,IV,V, VI, VII nightmare ? Is there any kind of protection legally to block for good SINGLE profile that would be confirmed by ME. It's quite a difficult thing to moderate the attention of the public when you have sometimes attention of thousands on events i organized as the Lady Gaga show or the DC Comics exhibitions without having many wakoos and disturbed fan metastazing your life. I actually don't really know how much my page is relevant or not but i just wish to find a little space of truth in this mad free and virtual world. Thanks in advance.Frenchmedia1 (talk) 09:57, 10 October 2013 (UTC)
 * Concerning my dad, he WAS but isn't a public figure in France anymore. His french page i actually created makes sense and lives on but without proper american sources doesn't really make sense on the american Wiki. since the James Lipton Actor's Studio mogol consacrated Bernard Pivot whose carrier actually started in Italiques, it happened that the page of the show took credibility on the american wiki. Being considered at that time as a notable program. My dad was dead 31 years ago from know in difficult circumstances and it's quite hard to read here about his ZOMBIE or whatsoever called kind of restauration of pages. I wish someone keeps a minimum of dignity concerning people who are no more living and not animals you CATCH or deal with as Pokemon toys. Sincerly.Frenchmedia1 (talk) 10:08, 10 October 2013 (UTC)
 * Do i need to find the help of a lawyer to have this request fulfilled or is there a specific service in the Wikimedia foundation that could help me to do that ? I tried to explain the case to Rémi Mathis in charge of the french Wikimedia foundation but didn't really find any answer. I guess i gave the maximum informations i can. Regarding for an answer. Alex FM1Frenchmedia1 (talk) 10:24, 10 October 2013 (UTC)
 * Comment. Whatever the results of the CU, the evidence of puppetry here is overwhelming.  Among ALO's many prior puppet names were "Alexandre Gilbert" (whom Frenchmedia1 admits, claims, to being), plus "Alex Levy", "AlexandreLevy" and of course "AlexLevyOne" ("Levy" being the birth name of Alexandre's father, Marc Gilbert)  The Alexandre Gilbert article itself is a who's-who of ALO targets over the past - geez, 5 years now - including (just for starters), Marc Zermati, Bill Plympton, James Cameron, Michel Gondry (also the name of a prior sock too, see Special:Contributions/Gondry).  Indeed, the Gilbert article also affords yet another clue to a prior sock, Elsass3, a phonic pronounciation of "Alsace", the area from which Gilbert claims ancestry; and History of the Jews in Alsace being another early ALO target.
 * The odds that there is anyone else but ALO, in the entire world, with this idiosyncratic set of interests is vanishingly, infinitesimally, small. And that's before remembering that Frenchmedia1 has already, during his account's short existence, created and used a puppet.  JohnInDC (talk) 11:20, 10 October 2013 (UTC)
 * Additional information - apparently I once knew, but had forgotten, that over at :fr they long ago figured out that ALO / Albion was the owner of an art gallery in Paris - see this entry on my Talk page (which, as it happens, makes reference to the same Lady Gaga event trumpeted above by Frenchmedia1). JohnInDC (talk) 12:12, 10 October 2013 (UTC)
 * Of course, the connection was made zillion years ago since the whole scheme concerns the plaguing of a small gallery in France. Now the most important if you wanna figure out what's true and what's not, would be to try to find an official person who can actually answer to concrete questions. Are you interested in knowing how much i participate to the scene. Do you want to find out what's relevant and what is not on my point of view. There is 30 wiki creations (US) and 652 (FR) that are possibly erasable since someone found a way to compile the total contributions of so called "ALexLevyOne" and "Albion" on this page thanks to the informations of NotinDC: http://alexsh.blog.com. Of course, if there's no interest in "moving on", i will forget about it, letting this crazyness continue. And I'm not trumpetting anything I'm trying to explain how from my point of view, things get crazier each year. I feel like GEorge Clooney falling from the spaceship in Gravity (film). :)Frenchmedia1 (talk) 12:51, 10 October 2013 (UTC)


 * I have added User:NotinDC to the list of suspected socks. --Randykitty (talk) 12:07, 10 October 2013 (UTC)
 * NotinDC claims to be the registered account version of the IP address listed above, which as noted, emerged without any prior editing history as a full-throated defender of Frenchmedia1 and the articles he has created. JohnInDC (talk) 12:14, 10 October 2013 (UTC)
 * Also notably, NotinDC has produced a link to a website that appears to list every article currently on :en or :fr created over the years by any of ALO's sockpuppets - through to the present. Like the community of idiosyncratic interests between Frenchmedia1 and the prior ALO socks, the likelihood approaches zero that a random, innocent new Wikipedia editor would know of such information.  JohnInDC (talk) 13:58, 10 October 2013 (UTC)
 * I have to say that the random, innocent new Wikipedia editor knows more about it than I do. I hope I can be a help in cleaning the web from trash. If not I'm sorry that my life created such a mess on the web.Frenchmedia1 (talk) 17:10, 10 October 2013 (UTC)


 * Further evidence. In cases with such an abundance of evidence, there comes a point at which still more of it affords limited incremental value, but:  In addition to editing his own page, Frenchmedia1 continues to edit pages that previously enjoyed the attention of ALO puppets, most recently Michele Placido and Mathieu Kassovitz, both visited previously by ALO sock Anakronik.  In the latter case Frenchmedia1 made virtually the identical edit, compare Anakronik's edit with that of Frenchmedia1.  JohnInDC (talk) 20:54, 10 October 2013 (UTC)
 * Believe me, I'm not. Give me the credit of trying to make myself completely transparent. I have nothing to do with it. Someone also wants to speak of the main movie launching at that same time in France. That was just after TDKR launching, wich would make it september 2012. Regards.Frenchmedia1 (talk) 04:24, 11 October 2013 (UTC)
 * Well, there's no doubt at all that HE IS Albion. Unfortunately, we've been knowing him for too long on French WP. Maybe the CU can find any useful information on fr:Wikipédia:Faux-nez/Albion. — <font style="color:#008080">S t a r u s – <font color="0080C0"> ¡Dímelo! <font color="FF8080">– 14:26, 11 October 2013 (UTC)
 * Hi Starus, If you mean HE, Frenchmedia1 aka Alexandre Gilbert wich is me and the only trustable person on this subject IS Albion and AlexLevyOne, a Puppetmaster, a Sockpuppeter and a mass-plaguer on WP, you cannot be more WRONG. I'm probably the only one here who wishes to make this absurd situation logical. Are you also interested in cleaning the place from the trash as we say in french "trier le bon grain de l'ivraie" or do you prefer to keep on melting the general nonsense into a darker nonsense ? I'm opened to any answer on that subject. Cordialement.Frenchmedia1 (talk) 16:23, 11 October 2013 (UTC)
 * Yes, you ARE Utilisateur:Alexandre Gilbert and Utilisateur:Alexchappe2, to give the two best examples. All the other sockpuppets have been linked to these accounts. By the way, I'm rather surprised to see you trying to come back to a better position on this Wikipedia. I've not been informed that you tried to contact any sysop or CU on WP:fr to stop what you call "a general nonsense" that you feed day after day... But my talk page remains open! — <font style="color:#008080">S t a r u s – <font color="0080C0"> ¡Dímelo! <font color="FF8080">– 18:05, 11 October 2013 (UTC)
 * I just nominated Alexandre Gilbert (Art) for deletion and an ip address reverted it soon after the message was posted on the creator's talk page. I believe this is the same person and added the nomination to the AfD queue here Articles for deletion/Alexandre Gilbert (Art). Jane (talk) 10:02, 27 October 2013 (UTC)

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 * - Preliminary results: Frenchmedia1 & Frenchallegory are ✅ to each other. TRGUY is . . -- DQ   (ʞlɐʇ)  18:00, 9 October 2013 (UTC)
 * After checking into a few more details and previous technical data, I am convinced that these are ALO socks. I have left TRGUY since I have no technical data to compare, so he is open for blocking on behavoir still. -- DQ   (ʞlɐʇ)  18:52, 11 October 2013 (UTC)
 * Leeched off frwiki's past CU data to go ahead and block . Accounts are now blocked, so closing this case. -- Sh i r ik ( Questions or Comments? ) 23:21, 2 November 2013 (UTC)

27 October 2013

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User:Defretyu was created immediately on the heels of the last affirmative finding of puppetry, with the first edit being to recreate the deleted page Alexandre Gilbert as Alexandre Gilbert (Art). The IPs are Parisian addresses that have also extensively edited the page. Not asking CU - behavioral evidence is quite sufficient. JohnInDC (talk) 13:01, 27 October 2013 (UTC)
 * Also, the author and his IP socks are repeatedly removing the speedy delete template from Alexandre Gilbert (Art). Would the admin, upon blocking, please delete that page as well?  Thanks.  JohnInDC (talk) 14:03, 27 October 2013 (UTC)
 * Adding User:RETRETRE, who has just created Alexandre Gilbert (France). JohnInDC (talk) 14:08, 27 October 2013 (UTC)
 * Adding User:Samsaraone, who has created Chappe gallery, essentially the same as the foregoing deleted articles. JohnInDC (talk) 22:23, 30 October 2013 (UTC)

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Named accounts all blocked as obvious sockpuppets. I've left the IPs alone since they're all dynamic and none has edited in the last couple of days. Yunshui 雲 &zwj; 水  12:27, 31 October 2013 (UTC)

15 December 2015

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This user's only action, so far, has been to create and edit (along with some ancillary edits to other articles) Gilbert Levy, an article that has been deleted multiple times under the title Marc Gilbert, that in its previous incarnations was created and edited almost solely by AlexLevyOne and his confirmed socks, and that appears to be about the father of the user behind all these accounts (the first three sources in the article are all written by "Alexandre Gilbert"). In addition, ETOUI2's style of fractured English is very familiar to anyone who has dealt with AlexLevyOne and his numerous socks before. I was sorely tempted to just delete the new article and block the account, but I suppose I might be considered involved, since I've initiated or commented on a number of the previous AlexLevyOne sock investigations. I am, however, morally certain that this is yet another ALO sock. Deor (talk) 11:07, 15 December 2015 (UTC)

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I've probably filed more ALO sock puppet reports than anyone, and concur with the assessment here. He's been quiet for a while but the signs are unmistakeable. JohnInDC (talk) 11:49, 15 December 2015 (UTC)
 * Hi, 5 new articles on the page, how enough is that ? you tell me.ETOUI2 (talk) 13:29, 15 December 2015 (UTC)
 * Will you read them ? They're in french indeed.ETOUI2 (talk) 13:32, 15 December 2015 (UTC)

ETOUI2 revealed his IP address by logging out to remove the speedy-deletion tag I placed on Gilbert Levy, so I've added the IP to the "Suspected sockpuppets" list above in case it's of any help to anyone. Deor (talk) 13:38, 15 December 2015 (UTC)
 * Did you read some of it ?ETOUI2 (talk) 13:43, 15 December 2015 (UTC)
 * ... the article from the French Ministery of Education ?ETOUI2 (talk) 14:59, 15 December 2015 (UTC)

Not that there is much doubt here but the IP is already blocked at :fr as a sock of their AlexLevyOne, "Albion". See fr:Spécial:Contributions/82.224.195.211. JohnInDC (talk) 19:20, 15 December 2015 (UTC)

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 * I ran a CU here, the data semi-matches up with what we know of ALO. Given that we haven't seen them in apparently 2 years, it wouldn't be too hard to get this change in technical data. I also agree with the assessment, but would rather another clerk/CU take a look before I go ahead and block. -- Amanda  (aka DQ) 12:29, 15 December 2015 (UTC)
 * ETOUI2 indeffed, IP blocked for three months. Closing.  Vanjagenije  (talk)  22:05, 15 December 2015 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets

 * Tools: Editor interaction utility • Interaction Timeline • User compare report Auto-generated every hour.

See below. Bbb23 (talk) 17:00, 18 September 2018 (UTC)

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 * The following accounts are ✅ to each and behaviorally almost certainly operated by the master:
 * . Please globally lock these accounts because of cross-wiki abuse, most often at fr.wiki where a few are already indeffed as "Albion", sometimes at Commons where they upload dubious images, as well as at other projects.--Bbb23 (talk) 17:02, 18 September 2018 (UTC)
 * Done. -- Ajraddatz (talk) 16:00, 19 September 2018 (UTC)
 * Thanks. Closing. Bbb23 (talk) 16:08, 19 September 2018 (UTC)
 * . Please globally lock these accounts because of cross-wiki abuse, most often at fr.wiki where a few are already indeffed as "Albion", sometimes at Commons where they upload dubious images, as well as at other projects.--Bbb23 (talk) 17:02, 18 September 2018 (UTC)
 * Done. -- Ajraddatz (talk) 16:00, 19 September 2018 (UTC)
 * Thanks. Closing. Bbb23 (talk) 16:08, 19 September 2018 (UTC)
 * . Please globally lock these accounts because of cross-wiki abuse, most often at fr.wiki where a few are already indeffed as "Albion", sometimes at Commons where they upload dubious images, as well as at other projects.--Bbb23 (talk) 17:02, 18 September 2018 (UTC)
 * Done. -- Ajraddatz (talk) 16:00, 19 September 2018 (UTC)
 * Thanks. Closing. Bbb23 (talk) 16:08, 19 September 2018 (UTC)
 * . Please globally lock these accounts because of cross-wiki abuse, most often at fr.wiki where a few are already indeffed as "Albion", sometimes at Commons where they upload dubious images, as well as at other projects.--Bbb23 (talk) 17:02, 18 September 2018 (UTC)
 * Done. -- Ajraddatz (talk) 16:00, 19 September 2018 (UTC)
 * Thanks. Closing. Bbb23 (talk) 16:08, 19 September 2018 (UTC)
 * . Please globally lock these accounts because of cross-wiki abuse, most often at fr.wiki where a few are already indeffed as "Albion", sometimes at Commons where they upload dubious images, as well as at other projects.--Bbb23 (talk) 17:02, 18 September 2018 (UTC)
 * Done. -- Ajraddatz (talk) 16:00, 19 September 2018 (UTC)
 * Thanks. Closing. Bbb23 (talk) 16:08, 19 September 2018 (UTC)
 * Done. -- Ajraddatz (talk) 16:00, 19 September 2018 (UTC)
 * Thanks. Closing. Bbb23 (talk) 16:08, 19 September 2018 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets

 * Tools: Editor interaction utility • Interaction Timeline • User compare report Auto-generated every hour.

See below. Bbb23 (talk) 00:50, 9 November 2019 (UTC)

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 * The following accounts are ✅:
 * Blocked and tagged. Please globally lock the above accounts.--Bbb23 (talk) 00:50, 9 November 2019 (UTC)
 * Done. -- Ajraddatz (talk) 02:10, 9 November 2019 (UTC)
 * Blocked and tagged. Please globally lock the above accounts.--Bbb23 (talk) 00:50, 9 November 2019 (UTC)
 * Done. -- Ajraddatz (talk) 02:10, 9 November 2019 (UTC)
 * Blocked and tagged. Please globally lock the above accounts.--Bbb23 (talk) 00:50, 9 November 2019 (UTC)
 * Done. -- Ajraddatz (talk) 02:10, 9 November 2019 (UTC)
 * Blocked and tagged. Please globally lock the above accounts.--Bbb23 (talk) 00:50, 9 November 2019 (UTC)
 * Done. -- Ajraddatz (talk) 02:10, 9 November 2019 (UTC)


 * Everybody's already blocked, nothing left to do. Closing.  -- RoySmith (talk) 02:13, 9 November 2019 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets

 * AlexLevyOne
 * Albion~enwiki (last used 9 Sept 2009) French SPI page lists all of these socks
 * NewBééé2015 (globally locked, see Raphaël Hamburger)
 * Sulpyensid (last used 27 May 2022) (banned from fr.wp 14 March 2022)
 * Qatarina (last used 16 Dec 2022) see for example Alice Simon
 * MRCLD (last used 3 Feb 2023) see the following clean-up edits [1], [2]

See also the Signpost article on 16 Jan 2023 "Paris court orders Wikimedia Foundation to hand over user's data" related to Draft:Laurent_de_Gourcuff, and the article at WPO (which for the record I did not write).

Further characteristics:
 * tendency to use barelinks as refs (see for example Pierre Lellouche)
 * tendency to put references in mid-sentence for no apparent reason rather than at the end of the sentence
 * tendency to use strongly disparaging language in BLPs
 * sometimes misrepresents sources, more often cherry-picks negative statements.
 * uses a BLP to disparage unrelated or marginally related third parties (e. g. Chomsky in Alice Simon, Gérard de Villiers in Pierre Lellouche ), various coat-racking...
 * often uses translation software to generate text (so e. g. uses present tense about past events, as is common on fr.wp)

- -- SashiRolls 🌿 ·     🍥 23:56, 4 February 2023 (UTC).

Thank you. Should these accounts be glocked? I gather you don't want cross-wiki active IP addresses reported? -- SashiRolls 🌿 ·     🍥 23:07, 10 February 2023 (UTC)

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 * I found the filing difficult to follow, so I'll recap. This master is active on frwiki, where their SPI case is under the name of "Albion~frwiki" - see Sockpuppet_investigations/AlexLevyOne/Archive and fr:Wikipédia:Faux-nez/Albion~frwiki. The three other accounts listed here have been blocked on frwiki as sockpuppets of Albion and therefore of AlexLevyOne.  for a local sleeper check on Qatarina and MRCLD given the very extensive history of socking documented on frwiki. (Sulpyensid and Albion are likely stale). Thanks, Spicy (talk) 19:52, 10 February 2023 (UTC)
 * Salvio giuliano 21:45, 10 February 2023 (UTC)
 * The following accounts are ✅:
 * Salvio giuliano 21:51, 10 February 2023 (UTC)
 * Thank you. - Please indef all of the confirmed accounts, plus Sulpyensid per their block on frwiki. Most of these accounts are already blocked on frwiki - Nammorr isn't, but I don't really have any doubt that they are related to this case considering that they're editing the articles on Wikipediocracy and the Signpost! I am not going to take any action with Albion~enwiki as they have not edited since 2009. Thanks,  Spicy (talk) 22:34, 10 February 2023 (UTC)
 * , I'll be requesting locks for the named accounts. You can request global blocks of IP addresses at m:SRG, but I've never personally done this because the process is backlogged and by time the request is actioned the IPs have usually gone inactive. Spicy (talk) 23:15, 10 February 2023 (UTC)
 * - ✅. Izno (talk) 23:49, 10 February 2023 (UTC)
 * Thanks. Tagged, requested locks, closing. Spicy (talk) 23:52, 10 February 2023 (UTC)
 * Salvio giuliano 21:51, 10 February 2023 (UTC)
 * Thank you. - Please indef all of the confirmed accounts, plus Sulpyensid per their block on frwiki. Most of these accounts are already blocked on frwiki - Nammorr isn't, but I don't really have any doubt that they are related to this case considering that they're editing the articles on Wikipediocracy and the Signpost! I am not going to take any action with Albion~enwiki as they have not edited since 2009. Thanks,  Spicy (talk) 22:34, 10 February 2023 (UTC)
 * , I'll be requesting locks for the named accounts. You can request global blocks of IP addresses at m:SRG, but I've never personally done this because the process is backlogged and by time the request is actioned the IPs have usually gone inactive. Spicy (talk) 23:15, 10 February 2023 (UTC)
 * - ✅. Izno (talk) 23:49, 10 February 2023 (UTC)
 * Thanks. Tagged, requested locks, closing. Spicy (talk) 23:52, 10 February 2023 (UTC)
 * , I'll be requesting locks for the named accounts. You can request global blocks of IP addresses at m:SRG, but I've never personally done this because the process is backlogged and by time the request is actioned the IPs have usually gone inactive. Spicy (talk) 23:15, 10 February 2023 (UTC)
 * - ✅. Izno (talk) 23:49, 10 February 2023 (UTC)
 * Thanks. Tagged, requested locks, closing. Spicy (talk) 23:52, 10 February 2023 (UTC)