Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Chantessy/Archive

Evidence submitted by Bonadea
Here's a group of user acocunts that have been behaving a bit oddly for some time now. Either it's one person jumping between accounts or a group of friends using Wikipedia for some kind of weird Myspacing purposes, but my bet is on the former. There are some constructive edits here and there, a number of vandal edits to mainspace, but mainly edits to userspace: to prettify user pages, add nonsensical text or random userboxes, or add misleading templates such as here (the "former account" template was added to a bunch of user pages by User:Chantessy - but those users have been editing since the template was placed, such as here). Almost all the accounts are several years old, from 2005, 2006 or 2008, but have been dormant until September or October 2010. I have not been checking their old contributions to see if the editing patterns from several years ago seemed to match; that seems less important than their behaviour recently.

The first main active account this time around was User:Chantessy. Then it was User:Chanlyn, and over the last few day it's been User:Lehla. The rest of the accounts have been less active but all the accounts above were listed in Category:Alternate Wikipedia accounts of Chantessy before it was blanked. I asked User:Chanlyn to stop the pointless userspace editing and do some constructive edits instead, after which the user added a notice to their user talk page referring to User:Lehla. Lehla has been continuing their userpage tweaking; I posted a similar request for them to stop on their talk page but they have neither responded to that, nor changed their editing behaviour. IP 69.134.209.143 appears to have been used by them as well. Today I nominated User:Lehla/userpage for deletion per MfD, Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/User:Lehla/userpage.

As I wrote in the notices I put on the talk pages of Chanlyn and Lehla, it looks to me as if somebody is using Wikipedia as a medium for creative self-expression, posting nonsensical/incomprehensible text and templates. It appears that a group of different accounts is used for this purpose, which is not a legitimate use of alternate accounts. Unconstructive edits to mainspace, or to user pages of uninvolved editors, include the creation of User talk:EVula/Userboxes/Alternate Universe; edits to Joseph Gordon-Levitt including and ; addition of nonsense to Talk:Joseph Gordon-Levitt; and a number of other edits including,  and. Twitches (novel series) has been extensively edited by the accounts - I am not familiar with the novel series and don't know to what extent (if any) the article has been vandalised with misleading or wrong facts.

A few days ago, Lehla placed sockpuppet templates on User:Raleighton, User:Lastfakeapology, User:Bella the Swan, User:Wilbraham and User:Raleigh276 indicating that these accounts are suspected sockpuppets of Chanlyn - who is clearly Lehla her/himself. These accounts are all dormant, with the exception of Raleigh276 who last edited a few months ago. bonadea contributions talk 12:11, 7 November 2010 (UTC)

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✅ the following: The accounts you mention in your last paragraph are. They also appear to be unrelated behaviorally, at a glance. I won't pretend to understand what this person is doing on Wikipedia, but perhaps an explanation of WP:SOCK might help? TN X Man 15:28, 7 November 2010 (UTC)
 * Alright, I've blocked the main account for sockpuppetry as well as exceedingly disruptive editing. And I've blocked and tagged all of their socks. —  Hello Annyong  (say whaaat?!) 16:06, 7 November 2010 (UTC)

19 December 2010

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Behavioural evidence is clear; see, , and the trademark weird edit summaries attached to vandal edits and. CU requested to check for sleeper accounts. bonadea contributions talk 16:37, 19 December 2010 (UTC)

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No comment on the IP, but there are no sleepers from the previous accounts. TN X Man 17:00, 19 December 2010 (UTC)
 * IP blocked two weeks for evasion. —  Hello Annyong  (say whaaat?!) 16:39, 20 December 2010 (UTC)

29 December 2010

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In a previous sockpuppet investigation this account was found to be stale; they have started to edit again and their editing behaviour is the same as that of the previous socks: edits to Joseph Gordon-Levitt and its talk page adding nonsense and incorrect information, with whimsical edit summaries. Note also that the article The Raleigh Latin School which they started earlier this year included almost entirely incorrect information - the school existed, but all the facts provided about it were wrong and in some cases very improbable. This is also in line with the previous socks' behaviour. bonadea contributions talk 18:12, 29 December 2010 (UTC)

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 * - Worth a look to see if there are sleepers. And can we get an IP block here, or is it not persistent enough to warrant one? —  Hello Annyong  (say whaaat?!) 18:27, 29 December 2010 (UTC)

✅ and. –MuZemike 02:41, 30 December 2010 (UTC)

29 May 2015

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See deleted history of user page, self admitted to operating numerous socks, some of which were identified as socks of this user. Most of them are already blocked for other reasons and were not tied to this puppeteer. Already blocked, but a sweep for sleepers would be a good thing I believe. Beeblebrox (talk) 23:03, 29 May 2015 (UTC)


 * Sorry, I seem to be screwing everything up this afternoon, I probably need to go home and drink a beer. Self admitted operator of the following:

Looks like there may be another SPI related to this same puppeteer as well. Beeblebrox (talk) 00:25, 30 May 2015 (UTC)
 * User:Chanlyn
 * User:Chantal Kohl's Bernadette
 * User:Calliemacpherson85
 * User:CallieMacPherson
 * User:LonelyLaura

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Help me out a bit here. Please list the names of the accounts you're referring to. I found a few in the wall of text, but they're stale and I see various different masters, not just this one. I need an account to compare against, and there are no non-stale accounts tied to this master in the archives. Thus, the only thing I could do would be to see if there any accounts that pop up that are confirmed to SingingJoseph4MusicalFilmFans. I'm not sure that's warranted, although you're welcome to persuade me otherwise.--Bbb23 (talk) 23:56, 29 May 2015 (UTC)
 * I ran a check on the basis of looking for socks. I didn't see any on the range being used. As Bbb23 points out, the past accounts are stale so we can't make any connections to the user. Mike V • Talk 00:25, 30 May 2015 (UTC)