Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/All-American Politics Fan/Archive

Evidence submitted by PMDrive1061
Bizarre set of new usernames and equally bizarre user pages each cropping up within minutes of each other. It's clear this individual or individuals have been here before. PMDrive1061 (talk) 03:59, 11 March 2010 (UTC)

Comments by accused parties
See Defending yourself against claims.

Comments by other users
These are probably related to yesterdays bunch from All-American Politics Fan. -- B s a d o w s k i 1   05:24, 11 March 2010 (UTC)

Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments
all accounts tagged as socks of and case archived to Sockpuppet investigations/All-American Politics Fan/Archive from Sockpuppet investigations/Billy the silly old goose. SpitfireTally-ho! 09:36, 11 March 2010 (UTC)

Report date March 7 2010, 07:41 (UTC)

 * Suspected sockpuppets

All 3 created userpages with userboxes, were created in an very short timeframe, and have similarly-worded usernames. The Thing //  Talk  //  Contribs  07:41, 7 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Evidence submitted by The Thing  //  Talk  //  Contribs
 * Added another one. The Thing  //  Talk  //  Contribs  07:42, 7 March 2010 (UTC)
 * And another. The Thing  //  Talk  //  Contribs  07:44, 7 March 2010 (UTC)


 * Comments by accused parties    See Defending yourself against claims.


 * Comments by other users


 * Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments

Self-endorsing for CheckUser attention. This does sound weird, indeed. –MuZemike 08:24, 7 March 2010 (UTC)
 * I suppose my next question regards the fact that there is absolutely no edits behind any of the accounts, hence my reluctance to block at the moment. I'm curious as to what is going on here. –MuZemike 23:03, 7 March 2010 (UTC)

✅ for all a/m accounts, straight match. And ace in the hole is ✅. - Mailer Diablo 20:43, 7 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Conclusions
 * Am I right by thinking that by "all a/m accounts" you mean "everybody listed is confirmed as All-American Politics Fan? ~ Amory ( u •  t  •  c ) 00:13, 10 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Affirmative. - Mailer Diablo 18:53, 10 March 2010 (UTC)
 * I'm disinclined to do anything until any of the accounts do anything to show that they are anything other than a bunch of friends who found the site one day and made pages together. ~ Amory ( u •  t  •  c ) 15:43, 11 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Actually, I'm inclined to block, for several reasons: 1. It's IMO extremely unlikely it's a bunch of friends - the accounts are created within minutes of each other; 2. it's clearly not a new user. New users do not find userboxes like this; 3. Creating accounts like this is disruptive, especially since the only apparent reason the user stopped is the 6 accounts/day limit. Tim Song (talk) 16:15, 11 March 2010 (UTC)

All accounts blocked and tagged following the creation of another bunch of socks. Tim Song (talk) 02:46, 13 March 2010 (UTC)