Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Damnstraightm35a2/Archive

Report date June 7 2009, 17:23 (UTC)

 * Suspected sockpuppets

Some person or person express their disapproval of Barack Obama by posting WP:BLP violations and personal attacks on various articles and talk pages of people who revert them. IP accounts have been previously blocked. I suspect sockpuppetry or meatpuppetry, and block evasion. Many of the IPs involved resolve to AT&T Global Network Services.
 * Evidence submitted by Loves  Macs  (talk)


 * 1, 2 and 3.


 * 4, 5


 * 6, 7, 8


 * 9, 10, 11, 12


 * 13, 14, 15 Loves  Macs  (talk) 17:23, 7 June 2009 (UTC)


 * Comments by accused parties    See Defending yourself against claims.


 * Comments by other users


 * Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments


 * Conclusions

Not really much I can do here, unfortunately. This particular vandal has access to an extremely wide range of IP addresses, around twenty-five million, assuming AT&T lives up to its normal behavior. I blocked the newest IP, but I doubt it will have any more effect than the other blocks. I don't think the user account is a sock of our friend. He's probably just another random "OMG OBAMA IS A COMMUNIST" vandal, so I'll leave him to be dealt with through the normal channels, should it come to that.

Also, I semiprotected User_talk:LovesMacs for two weeks. I would recommend that you create an unprotected talk page sort of like I have linked on the top of User talk:J.delanoy and watchlist it so that IPs and new users can contact you if they need to, and at the same time, you don't have to be annoyed by "you have new messages" all the time. J.delanoy gabs adds 17:57, 7 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Not much we can do about the IPs, per J.delanoy above. The account can go to AIV if its vandalism continues, as there is not much evidence that it's related.  Closing.  —  Jake   Wartenberg  18:01, 7 June 2009 (UTC)