Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Brandengillespie/Archive

18 June 2010

 * Suspected sockpuppets
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See user pages. Creating undeclared sock accounts and userpages to host multiple copies of a deleted article. This activity is not within the guidance of WP:SOCK. Further discussion at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/User:Brandenhunter.
 * Evidence submitted by Fæ (talk)

It should be noted that the content of User:Brandengillespie may be considered a potential personal attack. Fæ (talk) 08:02, 18 June 2010 (UTC)


 * Comments by accused parties    See Defending yourself against claims.

All of the accounts listed have been editing to include promotional material for a band called Bombshell Roulette, and for Branden Hunter, described here as a member of Bombshell Roulette. User BombshellRoulette and user Guardians (bombshell roulette) have been indefinitely blocked. As well as the "multiple copies of a deleted article" in user pages which Fæ has referred to, AttackOfMiceWithMen has gone to Brandon Hunter, which is about a basketball player, and completely replaced it with yet another copy of the page about a completely different person (in fact even the name is not quite the same: Brandon and Branden). It is impossible to be sure about the motivation, but it looks to me as though, having had an article deleted and two accounts indefinitely blocked, the idea is that by having multiple accounts and multiple copies of the article scattered around in different places, they will be able to prevent all of them being discovered and deleted/blocked. JamesBWatson (talk) 08:45, 18 June 2010 (UTC)
 * Comments by other users

This is pretty clear, given the edits and usernames. All of the named accounts have been blocked and tagged. The oldest account,, has been blocked for two weeks as the apparent sockmaster. The SPI should probably be moved to Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Brandengillespie. TN X Man 14:27, 18 June 2010 (UTC)
 * Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments

Evidence submitted by Ruzihm
Creating a band MySpace page in user space, which reflects the history of the accused user.

Furthermore, the article contains another image of the accused (see the original here) and the same name of that given on the sockmaster account, "Branden Hunter".

Comments by accused parties
See Defending yourself against claims.

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * Yup. Blocked and tagged. TN X Man  13:41, 11 July 2010 (UTC)

For multiple misuse of accounts, I have blocked Brandengillespie for 1 month. I also blocked their IP address, 71.13.21.43 which was autoblocked, for 2 weeks.  E lockid  ( Talk ) 15:50, 11 July 2010 (UTC)