Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Blammersky/Archive

Report date September 25 2009, 01:40 (UTC)

 * Suspected sockpuppets


 * Evidence submitted by Tenebrae

The three accounts all make virtually the same vanity edits on a single article only, Gary Gruber. User:Transmissionelement and I have tried to police the page, but the suspected sock puppet continues to revert. The IP may be 71.204.140.242 --Tenebrae (talk) 01:15, 25 September 2009 (UTC)


 * Comments by accused parties    See Defending yourself against claims.


 * Comments by other users

Having tried to correct this page for a while, it is pretty clear that these three users are all the same. Each user makes edits only on Gary Gruber, and each purports to have a trove of information supporting highly specific claims made about the subject. The language used by each user is also very similar, and all have the same purpose: promotion of Gary Gruber and changing any edits seen to be detrimental to his positive portrayal. See the Talk page for the record of a lengthy back-and-forth about these edits. Transmissionelement (talk) 16:58, 28 September 2009 (UTC)


 * Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments

Socks indefinitely blocked. Sockmaster blocked for 1 week. Socks tagged. MuZemike 19:10, 28 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Conclusions

Report date September 29 2009, 05:20 (UTC)

 * Suspected sockpuppets

Following one-week block by admin User:MuZemike at 19:09, 28 September 2009 here, new account User:Paulstern was created at 04:44, 29 September 2009, and has made identical vanity edits and tag removal as Blammersky and Blammersky's socks. Believe this to be meatpuppet attempt at evading the block.
 * Evidence submitted by User:Tenebrae

--Tenebrae (talk) 05:20, 29 September 2009 (UTC)


 * Comments by accused parties    See Defending yourself against claims.


 * Comments by other users

I concur. New user User:Paulstern introduced the identical edits made by previous sockpuppets. Those edits were extensive and could not have been made by coincidence. Transmissionelement (talk) 15:56, 29 September 2009 (UTC)

Requested by Tenebrae (talk) 05:20, 29 September 2009 (UTC)
 * CheckUser requests

✅ All accounts listed are unquestionably the same person. J.delanoy gabs adds 17:33, 29 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments

User:Blammersky's block is now reset (that's strike two), and the IP (which may or may not be autoblocked) blocked for 1 week. All involved registered accounts now tagged as confirmed socks of Blammersky. MuZemike 19:02, 30 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Conclusions