Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Bonejack/Archive

Report date April 10 2009, 11:28 (UTC)

 * Suspected sockpuppets


 * Evidence submitted by Geoff B (talk)

This concerns Slither (2006 film). Anon IP 98.245.153.216 added POV edits to the page, (here for instance). I reverted on POV grounds (forgot an edit summary, cleverly). User Bonejack created account, talk page and user page. User then reverted the page to a previous version by 98.245.153.216. I reverted and cleaned up some of the other POV language as well. User Teen ape created account, talk page, user page, and reverted the article again claiming consensus/POV/ownership on my part. Both users only edits as of this report have been to the Slither article, and the order of their edits is identical (talk page, user page, article). Geoff B (talk) 11:28, 10 April 2009 (UTC)


 * Comments by accused parties    See Defending yourself against claims.

This is clearly the user who has edited as Poyoyloar, Fearedhallmonitor, Tromaintern, and a bevy of other names and IP addresses in the past. His primary motivation seems to be to introduce negative material into articles relating to independent movies, particularly Slither and its director, James Gunn. Several of his socks were called out in this Checkuser request and this sockpuppet discussion (and possibly elsewhere). He keeps a store of accounts with which he sometimes makes a few early good edits before returning to his standard M.O.--Cúchullain t/ c 15:02, 10 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Comments by other users

I can see an obvious connection, it looks like a sockpuppet. Oh, and if he is confirmed as one, can place the sockpuppet thing on? I don't know, it's raining where I am and I'm bored. Old Al 15:13 11 April 11 2009

Edits and edit summary similarity clearly shows they are the same user. I have blocked the account for 72 hours; the autoblock should get the IP. Peter Symonds ( talk ) 16:20, 15 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments

Peter Symonds ( talk ) 16:20, 15 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Conclusions