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02 June 2012

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User:Gaslett recently complained to ArbCom about the article Antony Price, saying that other editors were aggresively editing the article, which he felt had been innccurate, but which he had turned into an accurate article. The response there was that the article did not meet verifiability standards. Gaslett had been "developing" the article in his sandbox, but it was stripped down by an admin who thought it was overy promotional,  and Gaslett subsequently deleted it from the sandbox. Since then, other editors, including myself, have edited the article itself into much better shape, adding citations and verifying what had been unsourced information.

Today, a brand new editor, User:Clone tone, with their very first edit ever, essentially restored the article back to Gaslett's version of it – compare the old Gaslett version with the new Clone tone version; the text is basically the same – albeit with some more references, but still including peacock terms and POV writing. The obvious conclusion to draw is that Gaslett and Clone tone are the same editor, and that Clone tone is being used by Gaslett to avoid scrutiny from the editors he felt were acting "aggresively" toward him.

While Clone tone is a case of "obvious sock is obvious", School monitor is a little less clear. This is another brand new user, who has only edited the Antony Price article (and in connection with it), and also has strong ownership feelings toward the article, as seen in this comment. Further, they edit warred in the attempt to get into the article wording which is exactly same as wording in the Gaslett/Clone tone version. (See my comments to School monitor here.) Also, Gaslett and School monitor share an excessive use of bolding within article.

Behavioral evidence should be sufficient in the case of Clone tone, but a CU might want to check School monitor if the similarities are not enough for an outright block. Since the nexus here is one article, I don't think it's likely that there are other socks out there.

Incidentally, the disruption is current and ongoing (Clone tone reverted my restoration of the article to the LGV while I was writng this). Beyond My Ken (talk) 16:14, 2 June 2012 (UTC)


 * Another small piece of evidence: When School monitor attempted to put a comment on my page, they put it at the top, and it had to be moved to the bottom by another editor, after which (apparently seeing that the comment wasn't at the top anymore) School monitor re-posted the comment at the top. It got moved, and that editor (Egg centric) tried to educate School monitor about proper talk-page formatting.  Just now, when Clone tone responded to my comment on their talk page, this editor also put the comment in the wrong place (above my comment), and also failed to sign it, something that School monitor routinely does.  The general lack of competence of the three usernames (see Gaslett's malformed Arbitration request, which was posted in the wrong place and had to be moved by another editor) is a commonality, albeit not one that, by itself, would be sufficient to prove anything. Beyond My Ken (talk) 16:28, 2 June 2012 (UTC)


 * Given Sarahj2107's coment below, I have added User:Antonypricefashion to the sock list. Beyond My Ken (talk) 16:48, 2 June 2012 (UTC)


 * School monitor has now begun to revert to the Gaslett/Clone tone/copyvio version -- certainly meatpuppetry at the very least. Beyond My Ken (talk) 01:43, 3 June 2012 (UTC)
 * As Ishdarian points out, the use of "adjudicator" to mean (I guess) "editor" in their edit summaries is an idiomatic peculiarity shared by the suspect editors. Beyond My Ken (talk) 18:35, 4 June 2012 (UTC)

Further evidence connecting Antonypricefashion to Gaslett: In short, the evidence is clear that Antonypricefashion = Gaslett, that School monitor = Clone tone, and that Antonypricefashion = Clone tone. Beyond My Ken (talk) 22:23, 4 June 2012 (UTC)
 * Gaslett got into some hassles with other editors regarding his ownership of the article Antony Price (see his talk page) and was blocked because of it. Subsequently, Antonypricefashion writes on his talk page "I am sorry for what happened re: Antony Price article", despite the fact that Antonypricefashion never edited that article, although he did warn another editor not to edit it.
 * Antonypricefashion submitted an Article for Creation on the subject "Gavin Aslett"

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 * The version of the article preferred by User:Clone tone and User:Gaslett appears to be a partial copyvio of the SHOWstudio article on Antony Price. —Psychonaut (talk) 16:31, 2 June 2012 (UTC)
 * It should also be noted that user Antonypricefashion(talk), who was blocked indefinitely for a spam username, attempted to request a change in user name to tone_clone and then later clonetone. Although they never edited the Antony Price article they did warn me off editing it. Sarahj2107 (talk) 16:43, 2 June 2012 (UTC)
 * Antonypricefashion is probably Gaslett. The two accounts were created within a day of each other, and the former's only significant contribution was a declined AfC Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Gavin Aslett.  I don't think it's such a stretch to conclude that Gaslett = G. Aslett = Gavin Aslett. —Psychonaut (talk) 07:13, 4 June 2012 (UTC)
 * And another note: None of these users can spell Adjudicator: Clone's 1st attempt and 2nd attempt. SM's attempt.  Ish dar  ian  06:47, 4 June 2012 (UTC)

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments
It's the following are the same:
 * TN X Man 16:01, 5 June 2012 (UTC)
 * Blocked and tagged. -- DQ  (ʞlɐʇ)  14:32, 6 June 2012 (UTC)
 * TN X Man 16:01, 5 June 2012 (UTC)
 * Blocked and tagged. -- DQ  (ʞlɐʇ)  14:32, 6 June 2012 (UTC)
 * TN X Man 16:01, 5 June 2012 (UTC)
 * Blocked and tagged. -- DQ  (ʞlɐʇ)  14:32, 6 June 2012 (UTC)

22 August 2013

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This account's username is nearly identical to a previous sock (User:School monitor), and it has the same exclusive editing interest (Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Gavin Aslett). Looks like same user returning to evade the block. Psychonaut (talk) 13:02, 22 August 2013 (UTC)

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 * I've blocked rhe sockpuppet. Closing. Reaper Eternal (talk) 19:54, 31 August 2013 (UTC)