Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Andrewwikiedit/Archive

14 December 2014

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started edit-warring at The Walking Dead (TV series) and 2014–15 United States network television schedule. Soon after he received warnings for each article, was created to continue the edit war at 2014–15 United States network television schedule. Andrewwikiedit was then blocked for 31 hours for edit-warring and sockpuppetry by who also indef-blocked TheTVeditor. While Andrewwikiedit's block was active, was created. At first ISeahawk concentrated on editing Slednecks, an article created by Andrewwikiedit, but he has now branched out into editing other articles edited by Andrewwikiedit. As of now, 5 of the 7 articles edited have recently been edited by Andrewwikiedit, which is a rather large overlap in contributions. At Slednecks, ISeahawk made a peculiar edit that reverted partially to a version of the article edited by Andrewwikiedit. Based on the edit summary, simply removing NTSC would have been sufficient but the change made went well beyond that. While that's a fairly subtle examples, others are not. At 2014–15 United States network television schedule ISeahawk continues the edit war started by Andrewwikiedit and continued by TheTVeditor. At NCIS: New Orleans, Andrewwikiedit removed citations from the infobox, which prompted me to discuss that on his talk page. It seems strange that ISeahawk has chosen to edit that page and the only edit made was to the genre parameter. Coincidental? I think not. Given that ISeahawk was created while Andrewwikiedit was blocked, I believe it prudent to request CU to identify any sleepers.  Aussie Legend  ( ✉ ) 15:52, 14 December 2014 (UTC)

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 * All three accounts are ✅ to each other and there are no other sleepers. Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 10:23, 15 December 2014 (UTC)
 * I've blocked the sock indef, tagged both socks and blocked the master for a week. Closing. Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 10:25, 15 December 2014 (UTC)

19 December 2014

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Despite being blocked, Andrewwikiedit is continuing to edit Wikipedia using IPs. I noticed the activities of 107.15.72.68 a few days and thought it suspicious, only to have confirm my suspicions.   then expressed some concern as well. Today, 75.189.154.230 began editing Slednecks, an article created by Andrewwikiedit and frequented by his socks. The edits, including mistakes, seemed eerily reminiscent of Andrewwikiedit and an interaction report shows a large overlap, particularly between the puppetmaster and individual IPs. The most damning evidence for 75.189.154.230 is a post at User talk:BattleshipMan. Andrewwikiedit and his socks have been involved in a dispute at 2014–15 United States network television schedule. However 75.189.154.230 has not edited the article or its talk page. Nevertheless, the post at User talk:BattleshipMan says, "Thank you for supporting the gracepoint cancellation. The other guy reverts all my edits and keeps blocking me. I sent him the same link you did with the video with the Series Finale and he still said it was un reliable." The "other guy" is Drmargi who has reverted Andrewwikiedit's other socks. 75.189.154.230 has not been blocked but Andrewwikiedit and his socks have been. Nor has 75.189.154.230 sent anyone a link. Despite the different pools, both IPs are static IPs allocated by Time Warner Cable Internet so they appear to be the same editor.  Aussie Legend  ( ✉ ) 14:20, 19 December 2014 (UTC)

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 * "Keeps blocking me" from an IP which has not been blocked strongly suggests block-evasion. I have also found several other similarities between the editing of Andrewwikiedit and that of the IP addresses. I have blocked the IP addresses for a month, and extended the block on the account to indefinite. The editor who uses the pseudonym "JamesBWatson" (talk) 16:27, 19 December 2014 (UTC)

28 July 2015

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Andrewwikiedit was blocked on 20 December 2014 and his socks were edited a few days before that. AllThingsMultimedia was created a month later. Andrewwikiedit and AllThingsMultimedia have a significant overlap in their contributions. Intersection between Andrewwikiedit, ISeahawk (an earlier sock), and AllThingsMultimedia is here. AllThingsMultimedia's userboxes demonstrate an interest in baseball, particularly Carolina League baseball, and that he contributes using an Apple Mac. This revision of ISeahawk's user page demonstrates an interest in baseball, particularly the team of the University of North Carolina at Wilmington and a love of Apple products. ISeahawk specifically says that he lives in North Carolina. This seems to be a lot of coincidences. Until recently, one userbox on AllThingsMultimedia's user page said that he had been editing since 2012. significant changes were made after I noted at ANI that I was preparing an SPI draft. He even changed his name to Jason, likely an attempy to try to put off the bloodhounds.  Aussie Legend  ( ✉ ) 10:58, 28 July 2015 (UTC)

Since submitting this report, the reported account's name has been changed from "Whyedithere" to "AllThingsMultimedia", so links have been updated as of this edit. -- Aussie Legend  ( ✉ ) 13:18, 28 July 2015 (UTC)

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I concur with AussieLegend's assessment of the pattern of commonalties and behavioral evidence linking AllThingsMultimedia (fka Whyedithere) and Andrewwikiedit's sock farm. Even the names Andrewwikiedit and Whyedithere suggest the same person creating two user names. The change of user name and removal of user page content Aussie has presented as evidence suggest he is attempting to evade detection. Between geographical evidence (North Carolina), the love of baseball and in particular Carolina League baseball, the emphasis on television-related articles, and the temperament displayed (both having rather volatile tempers and a tendency to blame other editors for their own actions), along with the flurry of activity to avoid detection, there are flocks of ducks quacking. --Drmargi (talk) 17:41, 28 July 2015 (UTC)


 * Just because we have similar, edits does not make it the same person. Me and aussie have similar edits because he watches everything I do. Im sure I could find 100s of more people with very similar patterns its all tv shows what do you expect. Your not detectives and never once have said anything about UNCW on my talk page as we call it here I said UNC thats a TAR HEEL totally different schools. And I have every right to change my username its not to evade detection because there is nothing to evade from. AllThingsMultimedia (talk) 01:35, 29 July 2015 (UTC)


 * Yes, UNC Chapel Hill are the Tar Heels and UNC Wilmington are the Seahawks. And how convenient that you suddenly shifted loyalty when the only campus you ever specifically identified with before was UNC Wilmington.  Meanwhile, the other common denominators are Apple devices, North Carolina, Carolina league baseball, and oh, how many articles in common?  Not to mention that temper that was also on display when you were editing as Andrewwikiedit, as were the same penchant for edit warring accompanied by personal attacks.  Quack.  Quack, quack.  --Drmargi (talk) 02:24, 29 July 2015 (UTC)


 * I had one incident and I got over it and I'm talking stuff over with people and doing things the right way. I never mention UNCW you don't live here you don't know how our college system works. Saying UNC and UNCW is the same school is like saying USA and Canada are the same country because there close to each other. Your arguments have no foundation you have no evidence besides a few similarities. I could go to his watchlist and edit every page he did and then yah it would all be the same. You need more than circumstantial evidence. It doesn't all add up. AllThingsMultimedia (talk) 03:03, 29 July 2015 (UTC)


 * You're lost in minutia. And how do you know what I do or don't know about the UNC system?  The UNC system is very like the University of California (see:  UCLA Bruins v. Cal Bears).  Or the University of Younamethestate for that matter.  Multi-campus R1 state IHE's are commonplace in the U.S.  But so what?  That does nothing to defend against your sockpuppeting.  You can pick at details, but you can't defend against the weight of evidence against you.  --Drmargi (talk) 06:33, 29 July 2015 (UTC)

Listen I don't care I didn't do anything so there is nothing to worry about and I forgot your like the only editor from the US the rest are from Australia it feels like. I could say the same for you and Aussie Legend for being meatpuppets. Overtime someone makes an edit one of you is there ti revert it and the other to back the other one up, and its not just me I've seen you do it to many people. AllThingsMultimedia (talk) 07:08, 29 July 2015 (UTC)

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 * - IS there some CU data left from December that can help here?  Vanjagenije   (talk)  21:24, 11 August 2015 (UTC)
 * Based on remnants of the check in the logs,  and  are  socks of Andrewwikiedit. For those who can view deleted edits these edits are as close as to a behavioural slam dunk as it gets. Accounts blocked and tagged.-- Jezebel's Ponyo bons mots  22:30, 12 August 2015 (UTC)
 * is not blocked.  Vanjagenije  (talk)  22:38, 12 August 2015 (UTC)
 * Thanks, done now. I did some additional digging and there is an exact IP match from the logs, this is definitely ✅. I'll update the tags.-- Jezebel's Ponyo bons mots 22:49, 12 August 2015 (UTC)

28 August 2015

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This editor has recently tried to recreate List of Hawaii Five-0 characters, a page that was previously created by AllThingsMultimedia last month. I'm also concerned that he was able to find and edit this article in Schmidt's userspace. The article, Angie Stevenson, was deleted in the mainspace because it was a recreation of the article Angie Savage, which was deleted at AfD. Now that in itself doesn't seem to be an article edited by the previous socks, but I am concerned that he knew exactly where to find it, meaning that he had to have been active in the past in some fashion. There's also his [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Babysitters_%28film%29&type=revision&diff=675856908&oldid=659034686 attempt to link to Schmidt's page at the Babysitters film entry, which also shows a familiarity with editing policy.

Now what he does share in common with the confirmed socks is a habit of editing television related articles, something that AllThingsMultimedia did. Other than both trying to create the character page, they also like creating new spinoff pages in general. SpongePete also likes to edit CSI related articles, something that ISeahawk also took part in.

SpongePete hasn't made an awful lot of edits, but there's just a bit too much of a similarity in these edits for my liking. I'm not going to block them since this isn't the strongest case, but it's too much of a coincidence for my liking. It's possible that he is a new unrelated editor that might have edited as an IP and gained experience, but this is just a little too coincidental. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡)  09:20, 28 August 2015 (UTC)

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 * I had initially blocked the account based on the some behavioural and technical overlap, but as I dug deeper I actually think they are to be related (at least from a technical standpoint).-- Jezebel's Ponyo bons mots  19:01, 28 August 2015 (UTC)
 * That's kind of why I didn't want to block them. There were a lot of things that made me suspicious enough to open the SPI, but I didn't get that 100% feeling enough to block them. (Normally I would with enough WP:DUCK evidence.) Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡)  03:25, 29 August 2015 (UTC)


 * Closing the case with no action.  Vanjagenije  (talk)  21:15, 31 August 2015 (UTC)