Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Canto2009/Archive

Report date December 9 2009, 03:15 (UTC)

 * Suspected sockpuppets

I believe this editor has used the following IPs as well based on similar edits, though he/she may not have used any or all of them recently.


 * ''City College of NY


 * - Blocked 10/21/08
 * - Blocked 10/21/08


 * ''New York City Technical College




 * ''Comcast, NJ


 * - Blocked 2/17/09

Most recently, both Canto2009 and Taishan88 have made disruptive or apparently controversial edits to Cultural anthropology, Social anthropology, Sociology, and Social research, which have usually been reverted in some manner. I'm sure a comparison would find the edits similar.
 * Evidence submitted by TAnthony

These editors came to my attention in the past over some articles related to NBC, DirecTV, and Passions, and I concluded that they (and others) were the same person based in part on the following info, but never filed a formal case because he/she became less active in these articles (though never fully stopped editing them). I'm requesting a CheckUser because with this editor's history it is likely that other socks and IP socks are being used.


 * Evidence:
 * Canto2009 (Contributor of this unbelieveable edit from January 2009, by the way)
 * Note this overlinking and this one
 * This NBC-DirecTV edit by Canto2009 is similar to this edit by IP 134.74.146.150
 * This "viewing on DirecTV" edit by Canto2009 mimics ones by 134.74.74.100 and 134.74.146.150
 * Taishan88 : This "viewing on DirecTV" edit is nearly identical to this one by Canto2009 previously in the same article (all of this user's initial edits related to this situation)
 * User:Slumber101:, , , , and mimic edits by Canto2009 and Taishan88.

Comcast IP editor with similar overlinking habits began changing "NBC/DirecTV" to "NBC-DirecTV" and added irrelevant citations and uncivil hidden comments to ward off reverts. This editor also pasted large amounts of material from other websites into various character articles.

This edit (adding "NBC-DirecTV") by 134.74.74.48 (talk) indicates that all of the IPs here are indeed the same editor, seemingly editing from school and at home.

See Defending yourself against claims.
 * Comments by accused parties


 * Comments by other users

Requested by &mdash; TAnthonyTalk 03:15, 9 December 2009 (UTC)
 * CheckUser requests

MuZemike 23:30, 9 December 2009 (UTC)

✅. J.delanoy gabs adds  03:47, 10 December 2009 (UTC)


 * Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments

Canto2009 blocked 3 days for sock puppetry. MuZemike 21:30, 11 December 2009 (UTC)
 * Conclusions

Report date February 28 2010, 21:38 (UTC)

 * Suspected sockpuppets

Canto2009 was blocked for 3 days on December 11, 2009 after a history of his using socks deceptively, as shown in this investigation. For the record, his edits were not vandalism, but sometimes controversial, disruptive, and/or in violation of format and content policy. In any case, he stopped using the master Canto2009 account thereafter, and appears to have then begun editing as Cantai101, a sock he has used occasionally since April 3, 2009 which had previously not been connected to him. His last edit with this sock was February 10, 2010, but in the meantime he has used new account Socant between January 24 and February 28, 2010 to edit the same articles he usually frequents (Related to psychology, areas in New York, and the soap opera Passions, among others). I'm not sure of the exact policy in this situation, but I would think this account-jumping should be declared by the editor and multiple accounts disabled. &mdash; TAnthonyTalk 21:38, 28 February 2010 (UTC)
 * Evidence submitted by &mdash; TAnthonyTalk

The following comments from one accused sockpuppet regarding this investigation were left on my talk page here.&mdash; TAnthonyTalk 23:27, 28 February 2010 (UTC)
 * Comments by accused parties    See Defending yourself against claims.

If I may comment, I am pretty secure in my assessment of the similarity of edits and edit patterns among these and Canto's other socks. As such, I am also doubtful of other users using the same computer making such similar edits to the same series of articles. And of course, the username similarity itself is interesting.&mdash; TAnthonyTalk 23:49, 28 February 2010 (UTC)


 * Comments by other users

When I do edits, I always make sure that I have the sources to back it up. If it becomes controversial, then I either go to the discussion board or most likely I leave the articles alone. This account is no connection whatsoever to Canto2009 or Socant. And unlike Canto2009's edits which I have seen, I make sure I have the sources and make sure they have relevance and if there are controversies, I generally leave it alone. If I find out those accounts have been used on my computer, then I will see to it that those users no longer use their accounts to do edits on my computer.

I also do have have other users using my computer sometimes and we do share a few common knowledge about some of the articles I have edited. If I find out that one of the users on my computer is using Canto2009, I will see to it strictly that it is no longer used on this computer.

Unlike what I have seen from Canto2009's contributions and hopefully it is not being used on my computer, I make sure that I have relevance and sources to back up the edits and if there are other users un-doing the edits whatsoever, I might go to the discussion board or most likely I leave the articles alone and don't do anymore edits.

I also hope that none of the users using my computer is Socant, but I wouldn't worry about Socant because according to what I have seen from socant's contributions to articles, socant like me also uses relevance/sources as well and have seen that Socant went to discussion pages before regarding article edits. And I have noticed that Socant doesn't constantly keep re-changing articles after other users have made their revertions unlike the way Canto2009 have done.

Since I can see that there have been some problems, I will not contribute anymore edits and I will see to it that other users using my computer will not do any edits on wikipedia.

Cantai101 (talk) 9:30, 28 February 2010 (UTC)

Requested by &mdash; TAnthonyTalk 23:27, 28 February 2010 (UTC)
 * CheckUser requests
 * I am adding a Checkuser request to potentially resolve editor denial above, though this investigation itself falls under criteria E - Evasion of community based bans or blocks.&mdash; TAnthonyTalk 23:27, 28 February 2010 (UTC)

–MuZemike 01:05, 1 March 2010 (UTC)


 * Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments
 * ✅; all three appear to be the identical person, as far as technical evidence is concerned. --jpgordon:==( o ) 04:59, 2 March 2010 (UTC)


 * Conclusions
 * Indef blocked and tagged. Tiptoety  talk 22:09, 2 March 2010 (UTC)