Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Applicant/Archive

17 January 2011

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These four accounts were used to first make a comment on Talk:Lycos insinuating that the company had violated laws (a serious accusation), and then three other accounts which made "I agree!" style comments. Evidence is scant: all four have only the one edit made, all four neglected to sign their comments, and all four were created just prior to making their one edit. They could be four users with a legitimate gripe. Full disclosure: I am a Lycos employee, but also a long time Wikipedian. I don't care what they scribble on the talk page, but I also would like to avoid sock puppets defaming the company unnecessarily. JRP (talk) 23:40, 17 January 2011 (UTC)

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Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * - It's nearly enough for a duck block, but extra confirmation would be good. I'm also wondering if there are any sleepers here.. —  Hello Annyong  (say whaaat?!) 03:11, 18 January 2011 (UTC)
 * All are socks of each other.  No sleepers identified, though. Doesn't mean there aren't any, but the sockmaster appears to have gone to some lengths in an attempt to avoid detection. Jclemens (talk) 06:56, 18 January 2011 (UTC)
 * Socks blocked and tagged, master blocked a week for puppeting. —  Hello Annyong  (say whaaat?!) 13:40, 18 January 2011 (UTC)

19 January 2011

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WP:DUCK, probably. Continued abuse on the Talk:Lycos page from another "editor" with no contributions, in the same pattern as before. In one case, this user signed as User:AASWK, but that is a ruse as that user account doesn't exist. As User:Applicant also does not have an edit history outside this incident, my suspicion is that account is not the sockmaster, but rather just another puppet. I don't have any theories on who the originator may be. JRP (talk) 15:48, 19 January 2011 (UTC)

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 * I'm adding a CU to this to see if there are any sleepers that may have caused them to sign as AASWK. And also to confirm, I suppose. —  Hello Annyong  (say whaaat?!) 16:05, 19 January 2011 (UTC)
 * ✅. No sleepers found. Tiptoety  talk 01:48, 20 January 2011 (UTC)
 * Tiptoety blocked and I tagged. I've also blocked the master for a month now. —  Hello Annyong  (say whaaat?!) 01:57, 20 January 2011 (UTC)

20 January 2011

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Another likely sockpuppet of User:Applicant. This user has only one contribution, un-hiding the discussion on Talk:Lycos which was "led" by Applicant's other sockpuppets. JRP (talk) 06:26, 20 January 2011 (UTC)

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 * Blocked and tagged the sock per WP:DUCK ,and indef blocked the master for continued puppeting. —  Hello Annyong  (say whaaat?!) 13:10, 20 January 2011 (UTC)

22 January 2011

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Using socks to continue arguments and personal attacks on Talk:Lycos (and User:Macrakis's user page ), despite being indef blocked on the main account. Previous checkusers have passed, but not identified any sleepers. Presumably, the user is just creating new accounts for each comment. (Can the IP be temporarily blocked from new signups? I don't mind continuing to report new socks here, but you may have other tools.) JRP (talk) 20:06, 22 January 2011 (UTC)

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 * I've blocked and tagged Examiner2986 per WP:DUCK, but I'm adding a checkuser to see if we can do an IP block here, as this has been fairly disruptive. As a side note, yes, most IP blocks do come with account creation disabled. —  Hello Annyong  (say whaaat?!) 20:51, 22 January 2011 (UTC)
 * . He has moved to using new IPs, the most recent one looks like it could be a proxy. Tiptoety  talk 04:34, 23 January 2011 (UTC)
 * Hm, alright. Closing. —  Hello Annyong  (say whaaat?!) 04:50, 23 January 2011 (UTC)