Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/BigBossBlues/Archive

Report date March 5 2010, 05:04 (UTC)

 * Suspected sockpuppets

All the three users have the same interests (Wikistalk]) but what makes it more suspect that socketpupperty is going on is that all three users keep creating the same article (Black people in Australia/Afro-Australians in Australia) with the same content (Same layout and even the references [layout, location of the citation and wording] are the same) that was deleted in the article (however today's creation by Johnnymurda didn't have the list). Bidgee (talk) 05:04, 5 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Evidence submitted by Bidgee (talk)


 * Comments by accused parties    See Defending yourself against claims.


 * Comments by other users

Requested by Bidgee (talk) 05:04, 5 March 2010 (UTC)
 * CheckUser requests

Just to give a timeline: BigBossBlues creates Black people in Australia on Feb 10, which is then deleted on Feb 21 following an AfD. Two days later, Cbtty creates Afro-Australians in Australia with different (mostly copyvio'd) content. After a WP:CSD deletion, Johnnymurda recreated the page a week later with only a few words difference. I'm not wild about this, as it seems a bit like fishing; it looks like connections of varying strength can be drawn from each to the either of the others but not to all three at once (moving Indo-Trinidadian and Tobagonian, for example). Would welcome another opinion. ~ Amory ( u •  t  •  c ) 17:45, 5 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments

for checkuser on and  but not on BigBossBlues, SpitfireTally-ho! 18:57, 9 March 2010 (UTC)

for and  just looking at the edit summaries. If the clerks see no reason to run a check on the former, then I don't see any justification to run a check at all. - Mailer Diablo 21:07, 9 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Conclusions
 * Okay, suits me fine I originally endorsed for a check to confirm any links between Cbtty & Johnnymurda, due to the fairly high volume of edits over a long time span I wasn't so sure about them being ducks, however if you feel that all the accounts are related to each other in a duckish manner (?) then I'm fine without a check. If any administrator could review the case and (if they see fit) block the accounts that would be appreciated, kind regards, SpitfireTally-ho! 21:19, 9 March 2010 (UTC)

All accounts indefinitely blocked and tagged. –MuZemike 02:37, 16 March 2010 (UTC)