Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Childof12AM/Archive

Report date August 11 2009, 14:14 (UTC)

 * Suspected sockpuppets




 * Evidence submitted by Wknight94

Obvious socks already blocked. A new (or old?) little harassment campaign against apparently trying to goad him into violating a contact restriction regarding. I have no reason to think ChildofMidnight himself (herself?) is actually involved. Are there sleeper socks to be blocked? An underlying IP or range to block? Any other way to stop this? Thanks. Wknight94 talk  14:14, 11 August 2009 (UTC)
 * BTW, Childof12AM's contributions were trapped in an unrelated abuse filter so remember to check that log...  Wknight94  talk  14:16, 11 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Odd - another harassment account,, fell into the same abuse filter and I blocked that as well - except that one was trying to harass . No idea if it's related or not but probably worth checking as well.  Strange coincidence that the same rarely-triggered filter gets triggered twice in such a short time.  And more than one created dummy user and user talk pages to cover the scent (since deleted).   Wknight94  talk  15:03, 11 August 2009 (UTC)


 * Comments by accused parties    See Defending yourself against claims.


 * Comments by other users
 * BO2ip01 sounds like something that would have been used against User:BQZip01. He's had problems with a sock account called User:Grandma Dottie, and possibly User:ThreeE, among other aliases. It could be worthwhile to look into that possible connection. Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots 17:34, 11 August 2009 (UTC)
 * The create date, June 14, coincides with the time frame when BQZip01 was being hassled by Grandma Dottie and ThreeE and some others, in this seemingly inoccuous article: Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots 00:53, 12 August 2009 (UTC)


 * Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments


 * That time period that Baseball Bugs brings up is recent enough that a CU has merit to check for sleepers and other accounts, though I would have thought that a CU would have brought up any such connection. I'll add an RfCU template to see if a CU can root something out. Further background: Sockpuppet investigations/Grandma Dottie/Archive. NW ( Talk ) 01:56, 12 August 2009 (UTC)

I checked this earlier, after a request on my talk page:
 * Conclusions
 * It's that Childof12AM = BBBfan. I also found an older impersonation account (BO2ip01) on one of BBBfan's IPs. I've blocked that account.
 * Based on technical evidence, M599999ty appears to be ❌ -- Versa geek  15:14, 11 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Tagged appropriately. NW ( Talk ) 22:07, 11 August 2009 (UTC)