Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Cherylfabrizi/Archive

27 September 2011

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John Smelcer, or possibly the internet marketing consultant Cheryl Fabrizi, created a vanity article about Smelcer, and has used numerous false identities to whitewash the article, including taking the name of a newspaper reporter, Robert Meyerowitz, who published negative news articles about Smelcer. He has recently shifted tactics to repeatedly posting legal threats in his article under various IPs. It's unknown to me whether Smelcer has actually contacted the Wikimedia Foundation about his legal issues. FWIW, I would nominate the article John Smelcer for AfD for lack of notabiltity, but I think the nomination would likely fail since bare minimum notability can probably be established. Dennis Bratland (talk) 19:57, 27 September 2011 (UTC)

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Semi-protected the article and blocked an IP for a fake "Wikipedia staff is watching this article!" legal threats. tedder (talk) 20:31, 27 September 2011 (UTC)

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There are only two accounts that are not. and appear technically ❌ to each other. No comment on the IPs. TN X Man 20:49, 27 September 2011 (UTC)
 * I have a feeling the two nonstale accounts are friends or colleagues or something. There's not anything actionable here, so I'll close for now. —  Hello Annyong  (say whaaat?!) 00:11, 28 September 2011 (UTC)

30 September 2011

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This person continues their campaign of legal threats through sockpuppetry. After the ip was blocked for legal threats, the sock  was reactivated, then blocked for legal threats. Now another sock, has been activated, and the same legal threats continue to be posted. Dennis Bratland (talk) 16:29, 30 September 2011 (UTC)

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Jonathonsavage is a match to, who has been blocked. TN X Man 16:40, 30 September 2011 (UTC)
 * Blocked Jonathonsavage. —  Hello Annyong  (say whaaat?!) 04:29, 1 October 2011 (UTC)

02 October 2011

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John Smelcer's sock accounts have almost all been blocked so he's switching up IPs to make legal threats and complaints at the BLP noticeboard. was being relatively productive with only minimal use of legal threats, but then was introduced pretending to be somebody else !voting support. It's clear none of the editors working on these issues are fooled, but as long as the number of identities keeps increasing I think it's a good idea to do the formality of keeping track of them at SPI. --Dennis Bratland (talk) 02:31, 2 October 2011 (UTC) Dennis Bratland (talk) 02:31, 2 October 2011 (UTC)

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 * Blocked each IP for a week. —  Hello Annyong  (say whaaat?!) 04:08, 2 October 2011 (UTC)

12 October 2011

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Same as before. Single purpose accounts attempting to whitewash John Smelcer. Dennis Bratland (talk) 20:50, 12 October 2011 (UTC)

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Merging from a separate SPI/CHU I made at the same time, Sockpuppet investigations/Becky turner.


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The editors above engage in blanking, legal threats, and other similar tactics. Here's the legal threat from 'Becky turner', who I've proclaimed puppetmaster because the editor was the first in recent history. Here it is again from a RRNY IP and another RRNY IP.

Here's R.Ant6071 signing for a section-blanking IP from Bellsouth. So clearly these two are the same.

That leads to a couple of section-blanking IPs from Binghamton University:. These two are obviously related, and WP:DUCK says it's the same as Bellsouth/R.Ant6071.

There are the cross-genere IPs, like this one from Seminole Community College in Connecticut. And this one showing a lot of frustration, from Binghamton University.

I haven't tied each user/IP together in a definite chain, but I think it's pretty clear they are similar in WP:DUCK, and there is clearly either one vein of sockpuppetry or several sockpuppets/meatpuppets involved. That's why I'm hoping SPI/CHU can figure it out. tedder (talk) 21:53, 12 October 2011 (UTC)

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 * - The master is stale, but there are accounts in the archive that are not. Let's take a look. —  Hello Annyong  (say whaaat?!) 02:19, 13 October 2011 (UTC)

They appear to be ❌; meatpuppetry is probably more plausible. –MuZemike 02:44, 13 October 2011 (UTC)
 * Hm, alright. I don't think there's enough to go on here, so I'll close for now. —  Hello Annyong  (say whaaat?!) 03:24, 17 October 2011 (UTC)