Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Daveygp/Archive

Evidence submitted by Peripitus
Obvious Sockpuppetry - creating unreferenced BLP articles on some TV actors, including repeated recreation of articles under the same name. All of the accounts are indefinitely blocked, and though the above are obvious I am seeking an underlying IP/range that can be dealt with. The accounts keep on popping up; persistance is sometimes not a virtue. Peripitus (Talk) 00:23, 7 August 2010 (UTC)

Comments by accused parties
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Comments by other users

 * I have noticed similar editing by . -- Red rose64 (talk) 16:45, 9 August 2010 (UTC)

Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments

 * is fhttp://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Sockpuppet_investigations/Daveygp&action=edit&section=T-6or checkuser purposes; retaining in case solely for tracking -- Sh i r ik  ( Questions or Comments? ) 14:38, 9 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Except with regards to Davepatrick, rangeblock or long IP block eligibility would be useful. (We can't tell if he's changing IPs or just waiting out the autoblock.) -- Sh i r ik ( Questions or Comments? ) 14:39, 9 August 2010 (UTC)


 * All accounts tagged Sh i r ik  ( Questions or Comments? ) 14:44, 9 August 2010 (UTC)
 * ✅. Missed a couple:
 * The underlying IP is already blocked. --jpgordon:==( o ) 23:03, 9 August 2010 (UTC)
 * All blocked and tagged. TN X Man  03:23, 12 August 2010 (UTC)
 * The underlying IP is already blocked. --jpgordon:==( o ) 23:03, 9 August 2010 (UTC)
 * All blocked and tagged. TN X Man  03:23, 12 August 2010 (UTC)

Evidence submitted by Tikiwont
Creates mostly articles that already have been deleted int he past as recreations of socks of Daveygp. Tikiwont (talk) 13:26, 25 September 2010 (UTC)

Comments by accused parties
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Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments
✅ TN X Man  13:46, 25 September 2010 (UTC)
 * Blocked and tagged. -- DQ  (t)  (e)  13:57, 25 September 2010 (UTC)

26 June 2011

 * Suspected sockpuppets


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Some of the edits from this IP are very similar to edits by IPs made recently that have been found to be socks of Daveygp. Examples include http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jake_Wood&diff=prev&oldid=435476227, very similar to this edit http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jake_Wood&diff=next&oldid=435524400 made by an IP shown to be Daveygp. Another example is http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Liam_Bergin&diff=prev&oldid=435478928 and http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Devon_Anderson&diff=prev&oldid=436359083, again very similar edits. Requesting checkuser because this user has set up a lot of socks recently, I want to check there are no more and no sleeper accounts. 5 albert square (talk) 18:39, 26 June 2011 (UTC)

Comments by other users
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Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * - This is a borderline decline. CUs will generally not reveal the IP of an account. "This user has set up a lot of socks recently, I want to check there are no more and no sleeper accounts." I can accept that, but the most recent archived information is, which leaves us with nothing more to check. Can you please point to the "recent socks"? Sh i r ik  ( Questions or Comments? ) 18:50, 26 June 2011 (UTC)
 * Unfortunately I wasn't the blocking admin for the other accounts, but I do remember seeing the Daveygp name quite a few times this week. Unfortunately I cannot trace the other IPs.--5 albert square (talk) 19:08, 26 June 2011 (UTC)
 * The links shown above ("made by an IP shown to be Daveygp") are a bit misleading. The IP was blocked as being used for block evasion, but there's no Checkuser evidence that I can see in this regard, as well there shouldn't be. There's nothing here for a checkuser to do. Frank  &#124;  talk  19:31, 26 June 2011 (UTC)
 * Comment The sockpuppet account in question would be . Typical Daveygp MO: account named after an actor (albeit this time a rather better one), recreates a couple of Daveygp's old deleted soap actor nano-stubs and commits a bit of BLP no-no.  When the account is blocked, the IP stops, presumably because of an auto-block.  I'll keep the banhammer ready for the next one. Favonian (talk) 20:06, 26 June 2011 (UTC)

Given that the IP has not logged an edit in about 6 days, I'm marking this as closed. –MuZemike 22:38, 26 June 2011 (UTC)