Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Badmachine/Archive

24 May 2012

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Badmachine placed an entry for a convention in List of furry conventions conventions,  this edit was reverted, the entry was then readded by the IP. This was reverted again and discussion was started on the articles talk page. While Badmachine was blocked from editing a new SPA account added the entry yet again. This new account also commented on the talk page. Soon after Badmachines block being lifted, Badmachine returned to the article and again added the entry to the list. Seems to be a strange number of SPA accounts interested in this while Badmachine was blocked. Badmachine also seems to have a history of questionable activity and a list of alternate accounts they use. Ridernyc (talk) 20:00, 24 May 2012 (UTC)

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 * it seems like someone should have at least notified me of this on my usar page. my home ip is in Sacramento, not Ohio. -badmachine 06:47, 31 May 2012 (UTC)

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 * Given how much Badmachine appears to jump around the US due to apparently editing through server farms, it's hard to make a determination about any ties between the two accounts listed. If I had to say something, I'd say Badmachine is based in Ohio and Mikenatlga in Georgia, so it seems unlikely that they're sockpuppets. They could be meatpuppets, however. --(ʞɿɐʇ) ɐuɐʞsǝp 14:42, 28 May 2012 (UTC)

06 June 2012

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Sparklerainbow87 is currently blocked for 'being a sock of somebody,' and I'm sure that this is Badmachine's sock.


 * 1) Sparklerainbow87 added a paragraph about a lovedoll to My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic fandom, it was reverted by other editors, and Sparklerainbow87 kept reverting it back. If Sparklerainbow87 reverted once more, he would break the three-revert rule, and then Badmachine came along and reverted the other editor with the edit summary "unexplained removal of content"
 * 2) Badmachine nominated WikiFur for deletion at redirects for discussion. Sparklerainbow87, who has never been involved with a RfD nor a member of WikiProject Furry, later came along and supported the deletion.
 * 3) In a block review of Badmachine at WP:AN/I, Sparklerainbow87 supported the unblock of Badmachine, where he described him as a 'good egg' and claimed that "100% of his main space edits are productive."http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard/Incidents&diff=prev&oldid=494071124

If not a sock, a meatpuppet.Uhaercny (talk) 08:42, 6 June 2012 (UTC)

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 * re: the brony article: that is on my watchlist and it came up while i was editing Luka Magnotta so i was keeping up with my watchlist. i did not see any other reverts, but the editing on Magnotta was going at a fast pace, iirc so i might have missed the other edits
 * re: the WikiFur redirect: i don't care what other users do, and i can't be expected to keep up with them.
 * re: AN/I: ibid
 * re: meatpuppetry: i deny this. because of my contributions to other sites, my contribs may be more visible, idk

other than that, all i have to add is that i have been checkusered before and it doesn't hurt, so feel free. -badmachine 09:36, 6 June 2012 (UTC)


 * Ok, I guess since we have three related edits over the six months that I've been editing Wikipedia, that automatically makes us sockpuppets. Feel free to checkuser. Sparklerainbow87 (talk) 17:07, 6 June 2012 (UTC) (copied from user talk -- Boing! said Zebedee (talk) 17:29, 6 June 2012 (UTC))

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 * The technical evidence indicates there may be a connection between Badmachine and Sparklerainbow87, but it is far from definitive. However, factoring the behavioural evidence in to this too, I struggle to see how these two users could be unrelated. --(ʞɿɐʇ) ɐuɐʞsǝp 15:08, 6 June 2012 (UTC)
 * In that case, I'm happy to block. Ironholds (talk) 22:40, 6 June 2012 (UTC)

15 July 2013

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GNAA TROLL MAYBE BADMACHINE SHOULD BE BANNED 2605:EA00:1:1:0:0:AFDB:F2BF (talk) 21:39, 15 July 2013 (UTC)

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 * This entire SPI looks like nonsense from some GNAA hating user on a disposable IP address that started this bullshit over my support of Badmachine's nomination for a merchandise giveaway here. I'm neither Badmachine or a GNAA member.  Green CKE  01:04, 16 July 2013 (UTC)

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 * No evidence of sockpuppetry presented, so marking as closed. WilliamH (talk) 07:00, 17 July 2013 (UTC)

01 August 2013

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Self-admitted sockpuppet account of Badmachine. Waited to be autoconfirmed in order to make disruptive edits on arbcom case pages. Adding CU to check for other sleeping accounts, since Badmachine has edited using two sockpuppet accounts in July 2013. Has revealed SUL password on userpage. Mathsci (talk) 05:45, 1 August 2013 (UTC)
 * Main account has already been blocked by Penwhale. He's now trolling below. Mathsci (talk) 07:08, 1 August 2013 (UTC)

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 * - Endorsing, for all the obvious reasons (sleeper check). Reaper Eternal (talk) 17:06, 1 August 2013 (UTC)
 * No other accounts. --(ʞɿɐʇ) ɐuɐʞsǝp 17:10, 1 August 2013 (UTC)
 * Closing, then. Reaper Eternal (talk) 17:21, 1 August 2013 (UTC)