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14 October 2015

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Multiple ip's and mentioned thowaway account appear to be insistnet on inseritng information against consensus. Threats of "gaming" from several ip's as well as the self confessed (if accurate). Amortias (T)(C) 20:02, 14 October 2015 (UTC) Barbequeue -

108.27.63.106 -

97.47.66.68 -

97.47.65.251 -

174.236.98.132 -

Apologies diff 1 is the only link we have to the sockmaster its tenuous hence the request for CU to see if the poster who made the comment is indeed who they claim to be, it looks like the sig was manually entered rather than being ~'d as the comment was made by one of the Ip's. I'll go get the last IP sorted now. Amortias (T)(C) 21:19, 14 October 2015 (UTC)
 * Would it be possible to amend the request to purely the other accounts to see if they are linked in that case as the evidence looks stronger between those and I'll admit the first account looks tenuous at best but was named as oldest account I could tell out of the lot of them hence the name provided. Amortias (T)(C) 22:24, 14 October 2015 (UTC)
 * If that's possible yes, the reason I chose Baseballfan was as that was the oldest account I had suspicions about (not necessarily the strongest ones though)it seemed likely if they were related that would be considered the sockmaster. The evidence for the remaining account and IP's I feel is much stronger so its quite possible that Baseballfan was just used by one of the IP's as either a distraction or to point the blame somewhere else. Amortias (T)(C) 23:01, 14 October 2015 (UTC)

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I don't see the involvement of Barbequeue here at all, and neither would I call it a throwaway account; has been active for > eight weeks now on many articles. Brianhe (talk) 03:41, 18 October 2015 (UTC)


 * The evidence doesn't link the account; those diffs don't show the changes made by the user. The IPs are probably all the same user - similar disruption and impersonation - and the two similar IPs were blocked for two weeks on 19 October. All were active on 14 October, there was also Special:Contributions/174.236.99.14, but unless there's something more recent or evidence that connects these to an account this should be closed, and moved (without a redirect) or deleted as the disruptive editor is probably not Barbequeue. Peter James (talk) 18:52, 1 November 2015 (UTC)

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I see no diffs of the master. Nor any for the last IP, but that's not as important.--Bbb23 (talk) 21:16, 14 October 2015 (UTC)
 * I'll wait a bit for a clerk to look at this, but I'd recommend a decline based on effectively no evidence against the alleged master. If this sitts too long without clerk action, I'll probably decline it myself.--Bbb23 (talk) 22:21, 14 October 2015 (UTC)
 * I'm not sure I understand. Do you want to eliminate Baseballfan completely and make Barbequeue the master and transform this into a report about an editor using IPs disruptively?--Bbb23 (talk) 22:54, 14 October 2015 (UTC)


 * The IPs appear to be WP:DUCKs of Sockpuppet investigations/BuickCenturyDriver. No convincing evidence has been provided to show that Barbequeue is related to the IPs. As the IPs are no longer active, there is nothing left to do without more evidence.  Mark for close.—Bagumba (talk) 01:53, 1 December 2015 (UTC)

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Appears editor created to stack AfD !vote on Articles for deletion/Dave Gray (Author) red dogsix (talk) 02:42, 26 January 2017 (UTC)

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 * One proof is this premptively struck keep vote on the AFD. A previous duplicate vote by the suspected sockmaster was struck earlier. This looks like a duck, although a checkuser could help confirm (the suspected sockmaster seems to be creating a bunch of promotional articles, so I wouldn't be surprised if there are more socks in the drawer). --Lemongirl942 (talk) 09:21, 26 January 2017 (UTC)
 * I have almost 2,300 edits and I'm really going to create a new account to vote on a deleted article that's obviously going to get deleted? C'mon now...I'd have to be really stupid to try something like that...and I didn't. Karmaclub (talk) 13:15, 26 January 2017 (UTC)

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 * The following accounts are ✅:
 * Mi5meadow is ❌. Blocked and tagged the two confirmed accounts. Closing.--Bbb23 (talk) 16:15, 26 January 2017 (UTC)
 * Mi5meadow is ❌. Blocked and tagged the two confirmed accounts. Closing.--Bbb23 (talk) 16:15, 26 January 2017 (UTC)
 * Mi5meadow is ❌. Blocked and tagged the two confirmed accounts. Closing.--Bbb23 (talk) 16:15, 26 January 2017 (UTC)

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Account Barbequeue was created ~12 hours after Blueberry Hill (formerly named 3Q Digital Harte Hanks) was blocked. In fact the sock account creation was just a few minutes after this response indicating that Blueberry Hill became aware of the block. Both have declared paid editor status for same SEO/SEM firm. Both frequently contribute to same articles, both the obvious and declared paid editing such as Paul Greenberg (executive) but also obscure personal-interest stuff like the etymology section of Winooski, Vermont leaving no doubt that they are the same individual. Request identification of sockfarm per WP:DUCK and probably Blueberry Hill/3Q Digital Harte Hanks will be the new master. ☆ Bri (talk) 14:59, 6 November 2017 (UTC)

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 * I've added User:Qwacker to the list of suspected sockpuppets for these reasons:
 * There are article overlaps between both Barbequeue and Blueberry Hill, and Barbequeue and Qwacker :
 * Barbequeue and Blueberry Hill:
 * Peter Shumlin, The Burlington Free Press, Winooski, Vermont, Heady Topper, Paul Greenberg (executive) and Talk:Paul Greenberg (executive), Bernie Sanders, and South Hero, Vermont
 * Barbequeue and Qwacker:
 * Swissôtel, Fairmont Hotels and Resorts
 * Although there are no article overlaps between Blueberry Hill and Qwacker, they both edit articles on hotels, hotel chains, and other travel industry-related topics.
 * Blueberry Hill stopped editing in January 2016, and -- although Qwacker had 17 edits before January 2016 -- they didn't start editing for real until then
 * The obvious fact that the user name, "Qwacker"="duck", which is either a coincidence or deliberate trolling.
 * Beyond My Ken (talk) 10:03, 8 November 2017 (UTC)
 * Beyond My Ken (talk) 10:03, 8 November 2017 (UTC)

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 * Blueberry Hill blocked, as they've disclosed as being connected to the blocked company. ~ Rob 13 Talk 15:23, 10 November 2017 (UTC)
 * Closing with no further action. I would expect to see significantly more overlap with previous accounts from a sockpuppet that's been active for over two years. Sir Sputnik (talk) 18:03, 11 November 2017 (UTC)

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The blocked socks was a person or people from the digital marketing firm 3QDigital, per this diff. Psychomaple is from the same firm per this diff. You can see the person/people from the company continually working at Talk:Zendesk.

This is block-evading sock or meat, very very clearly. In my view, the master account needs to appeal its block and get unblocked for company reps to continue to be present in WP. Instead they just created new accounts and went right back at it. Jytdog (talk) 20:51, 24 January 2018 (UTC)
 * Note, i forgot to say "yes" for the CU; I just fixed that. We should CU to see if they created other sock/meat accounts. Jytdog (talk) 20:54, 24 January 2018 (UTC)

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 * The following three accounts are ✅ to each other and very to the master:
 * . I should add that PsychoMaple was created hours after I blocked the master. Closing.--Bbb23 (talk) 21:49, 24 January 2018 (UTC)
 * . I should add that PsychoMaple was created hours after I blocked the master. Closing.--Bbb23 (talk) 21:49, 24 January 2018 (UTC)
 * . I should add that PsychoMaple was created hours after I blocked the master. Closing.--Bbb23 (talk) 21:49, 24 January 2018 (UTC)
 * . I should add that PsychoMaple was created hours after I blocked the master. Closing.--Bbb23 (talk) 21:49, 24 January 2018 (UTC)