Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Basis his 4/Archive

Report date April 13 2009, 14:25 (UTC)

 * Suspected sockpuppets


 * Evidence submitted by Chillum

After blocking User:User:K;;m5m k;;m5m for a 3RR violation he began to send me numerous e-mails of an abusive nature via the Wikipedia e-mail feature. Once I removed this users ability to sent e-mail he began to use sleeper accounts. So far this user has used 2 sleeper accounts to send me about 50 abusive e-mails each in some sort of automated burst. Please run a checkuser to check for other sleeper accounts. User:K;;m5m k;;m5m is currently indef blocked.


 * Comments by accused parties    See Defending yourself against claims.


 * Comments by other users

Requested by Chillum  14:25, 13 April 2009 (UTC)
 * CheckUser requests


 * Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments
 * to confirm these, and to check for sleepers. Syn  ergy 15:22, 13 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Note: Dominic has already looked at this and issued some blocks to sleepers: . That may be all that is needed, though there could be more also. Chillum  15:27, 13 April 2009 (UTC)


 * - Case moved from Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/K;;m5m k;;m5m per discussion below.  Tiptoety  talk 19:20, 14 April 2009 (UTC)


 * Conclusions
 * ✅ the following as :

Some interesting things to note:
 * This post, in which K;;m5m k;;m5m repeatedly alludes to Primetime
 * This user operates on the same Colorado State IP range as Primetime and residential Comcast range as Basis his 4
 * Some of the socks listed displayed TFA vandalism similar to Basis his 4

Possibly just a reincarnation of Primetime and/or Basis his 4? Nishkid64 (Make articles, not wikidrama) 21:54, 13 April 2009 (UTC)

- I am looking at some other evidence / behavioral evidence at this time. Clerks please do not close. Tiptoety talk 04:40, 14 April 2009 (UTC)
 * I think that User:Calton and myself are the foremost knowledgeable about Primetime. I'm going to spend a day looking through the contributions and I will report further findings where necessary (here, AN/I, whatever is appropriate, etc. )   Keegan talk 07:17, 14 April 2009 (UTC)
 * That didn't take long, so that's a good thing.
 * I don't believe this is Primetime, based on several editing patterns.
 * On the suspicious side, the user did contact Calton. Additionally, there are a couple similar edit summary styles.
 * Now on the other hand, the contributions in my opinion do not represent Primetime. The bulk of the edit summaries, the sock names, the language of posts, etc... seem to me to be troll from an off-wiki site, which one is your guess.  Primetime was particular in grammar and sock naming- I don't see that here.  I might be wrong, just my 2¢ based on experienced with investigating Primetime socks.   Keegan talk 07:43, 14 April 2009 (UTC)

I am going to have to agree with Keegan here and say that the above accounts do not appear to be Primetime. There is a far greater probability that these are socks of and have been tagged as such. Tiptoety talk 19:20, 14 April 2009 (UTC)

Report date September 10 2009, 01:27 (UTC)
Only edit was to vandalize the same article the same way Abce2 |  Talk  Sign  01:27, 10 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Suspected sockpuppets
 * Evidence submitted by Abce2 |  Talk  Sign
 * Evidence submitted by Abce2 |  Talk  Sign
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 * Comments by accused parties    See Defending yourself against claims.


 * Comments by other users

Requested by Abce2 |  Talk  Sign  01:27, 10 September 2009 (UTC)
 * CheckUser requests

✅ =
 * Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments

and from there, a whole bunch more. This appears to be the reference desk vandal from a few months ago. I'll see if I can dig up any unblocked socks. Some of the above could still be blocked. I'll block and tag any others. J.delanoy gabs adds 02:28, 10 September 2009 (UTC)


 * Conclusions
 * All blocked, no need to tag. Feel free to do so if you guys remember who is the older sockmaster, but I don't really see a reason. Closing this case. NW ( Talk ) 02:34, 10 September 2009 (UTC)
 * The sockmaster is . See Sockpuppet investigations/Basis his 4/Archive for more. Nishkid64 (Make articles, not wikidrama) 17:34, 10 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Tagged as . Nathan  T 18:56, 10 September 2009 (UTC)