Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Alexanderfriend/Archive

Report date July 18 2009, 16:34 (UTC)

 * Suspected sockpuppets

Alexanderfriend has been edit-warring on Black or White for several months, insisting on restoring unverifiable content, original research and unsourced claims. He seems to have avoided detection, though, because no single editor would engage him in the dispute. I posted a warning to his talk page yesterday, while he was apparently offline. About an hour later, Alexanderfriend signs back on and removes the warning from his page.
 * Evidence submitted by Bdb484

Within minutes, Pamelagirl creates a user page and talk page. The pages consist of nothing but the user's name, which happens to use the exact same code that Alexanderfriend used to use for his signatures. The user then makes a single edit — using Huggle — to revert Black or White and restore the content that Alexanderfriend is perpetually restoring.

Update: Notifications of this investigation were left at the talk pages for both accounts, but the notice at Alexanderfriend was removed.

— Bdb484 (talk) 16:34, 18 July 2009 (UTC)


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 * Comments by other users


 * Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments


 * Conclusions

Blocked and tagged. Master blocked for 3 days. Peter Symonds ( talk ) 22:32, 24 July 2009 (UTC)

Evidence submitted by Bdb484
Alexanderfriend's edits focus primarily on Michael Jackson. Beyond his constructive edits, Alexanderfriend also seems to have a fixation on establishing in Wikipedia that Jackson's primary genre was rock, as opposed to pop, e.g. here, here and here. Whatever the merits of the argument, his tactics — asserting ownership, AGF violations, edit warring and sockpuppetry — have consistently run counter to WP policy.

After being warned for edit warring at Black or White, Alexanderfriend opened a second account as User:Pamelagirl, which was used solely to circumvent WP:3RR. SPI was notified, and he was blocked for three days.

Before he had engaged in any more activity at his main account, the account of JackoStar2007 was opened. JS2007 has made three edits in mainspace, all to MJ-related articles. After filling out his user and talk pages, his first edit was to Jam (song) — where Alexanderfriend has a separate history of genre-related edit warring — reverting changes to AF's preferred version. Next was the addition of the rock genre in this edit at Michael Jackson (disambiguation). His last edit in mainspace was to revert changes at Black or White, again to Alexanderfriend's preferred version.

After that, JS2007 chimed in at the Black or White talk page to remove a notice that Alexanderfriend's should not attempt to take ownership of the page and that his synthesized original research was not acceptable under WP guidelines. In its place, JS2007 posted a few paragraphs of support for AF's proposed changes, written in the same broken English that has characterized Alexanderfriend's posts.

— Bdb484 (talk) 16:03, 22 October 2009 (UTC)

Comments by accused parties
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I don't understand this user, if you see http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Black_or_White&action=history you understand than these genres have consensus. Chasewc91 never edited before in this article, it is very strange than he edits now since 24 October 2009. Why is Chasewc91 saying it?? I don't know. He don't have consensus, see

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Black_or_White&action=history.

Chasewc91 must use the talk page and don't remove cited genres. Other users know about the consensus, see

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Black_or_White&diff=305440147&oldid=305439805

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Black_or_White&diff=prev&oldid=305439757

--190.42.52.23 (talk) 03:12, 28 October 2009 (UTC)

Conclusions
Sock indefinitely blocked and tagged, sockmaster blocked 1 month (second block for socking). MuZemike 23:26, 23 October 2009 (UTC)

Evidence submitted by Chasewc91
User:Alexanderfriend has been edit warring on the article Black or White for a very long time. (This SPI report from July claims that it had been going on "for several months.") Mainly, he insists on having hard rock listed as a genre for the song, reverting anyone and everyone who removes it. Recently, I removed it when I discovered that the reference was from the record label and thus a primary source which should not be used. Here, User:190.42.52.23 reverted my edits with the summary: "these sourced genres have previous consensus"

A quick look at the talk page shows that Alexanderfriend is the only one who supports having hard rock listed with a primary source. This, plus the fact that AF is currently blocked for his second socking offense, and that this is the IP's first contribution since March 2008 (and only his second overall) make me strongly believe that he is using this IP to further edit war at BoW and to evade his block. Chasewc91 (talk) 02:03, 28 October 2009 (UTC)

Comments by accused parties
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CheckUser requests
Requested by Chasewc91 (talk) 02:03, 28 October 2009 (UTC)

. Looks obvious. IP blocked for two weeks. Peter Symonds ( talk ) 12:00, 28 October 2009 (UTC)

Conclusions
Peter Symonds ( talk ) 12:00, 28 October 2009 (UTC)

Evidence submitted by Chasewc91
User:Alexanderfriend is very easy to catch socking. He's been caught three times now, and each time he does, it's because he's adding the genre hard rock to the Beat It and Black or White infoboxes without consensus, something he's insisted on doing for a very long time for whatever reason.

User:78.250.34.67 began editing yesterday. Lo and behold, his first edit was to the Black or White article, Alexander's primary habitat, and adding hard rock. Not too long after, he edits the Beat It article, again adding hard rock. I have very little doubt in my mind that this is Alexanderfriend trying to evade his block. I suggest an indefinite soft block for the IP and an indefinite hard block for Alexander, as this would be his fourth offense if it is actually him, which it probably is.  Chase wc 91  19:11, 2 November 2009 (UTC)

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Conclusions
Strike three, he's out. Alexanderfriend's block is now extended to indefinite. MuZemike 19:17, 2 November 2009 (UTC) Tagged. GrooveDog &bull; i'm groovy. 02:51, 3 November 2009 (UTC)