Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Dhouston17/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets
Dhouston has been warned endlessly about copyright violations and attribution and hasn't once engaged, on any talk page, ever, on any account to demonstrate their understanding and in fact are continuing to create various copyright violations and ESPN cruft. In fact, this user has 0 talk page edits other than creating talk pages automatically (ie. no engagement). Aside from the obvious behavioral issues which absolutely merit a block on their own, this is a completely illegitimate use of multiple accounts. PRAXIDICAE🌈 14:10, 7 July 2022 (UTC)

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 * Blocked, tagged, closing. Bbb23 (talk) 12:13, 8 July 2022 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets
Happy to be wrong but same single minded interest and same ignoring of Talk Page, just plodding along Slywriter (talk) 01:55, 20 July 2022 (UTC)

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 * ✅. Note the same narrow interest in NHL television broadcasts., closing. Mz7 (talk) 02:14, 21 July 2022 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets
Duck. Same topic area. Slywriter (talk) 02:31, 25 July 2022 (UTC)
 * Special:Diff/1090895712 draft created by previous sock;Special:Diff/1100085710 work by current editor on same draft. All of their edits are obvious. Slywriter (talk) 15:33, 25 July 2022 (UTC)

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I believe there's merit to the above report, having independently noticed NHLFan2003's edits to NHL Game of the Week which are massive blocks of text copied without attribution from NHL on NBC, something that Dhouston45 was warned for again and again. A recent account with a similar username,, is a CU-confirmed sock. DanCherek (talk) 11:32, 27 July 2022 (UTC)

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 * Jack Frost (talk) 03:27, 25 July 2022 (UTC)
 * - the history of NHL Game of the Week, the overlap with previous accounts (especially on an obscure draft), and the username similarity mentioned above are convincing enough to block. Please indef NHLFan2003. Thanks, Spicy (talk) 01:02, 28 July 2022 (UTC)
 * I ran a check for possible sleepers, but didn't find any. NHLFan2003 is ✅, though., closing. Mz7 (talk) 07:40, 28 July 2022 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets
The pattern of edits by this user is very similar to that of User:Dhouston17. Here the user re-created Ratings for The NHL on ESPN, which DHouston and another sock of his, also did. Note also that the user as a specific interest in the National Hockey League on television. Their creation of Draft:WWE_2K23 also follows a similar pattern where the user creates the lead for a draft and titles for the body, but doesn't put anything in them. See Articles for deletion/In the Crease (studio show). Esolo5002 (talk) 23:50, 27 January 2023 (UTC)

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 * Blocked, tagged, closing. Bbb23 (talk) 00:05, 28 January 2023 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets
Same pattern of edits on NHL related topics, plus the constant recreation of The Point (2021 TV series). See. Also a very similar username to the original sock. It does seem like the user is trying to be productive (I haven't looked close enough but I suspect that some of edits probably are copyright violations.) But the user is also adding photos without proper licensing. See and. I also added the IP User:66.146.216.95 based on a similar edit to Monday Night Football and a similar pattern to another sock on NHL Game of the Week. Esolo5002 (talk) 06:05, 4 June 2023 (UTC)

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 * I've blocked and tagged the named account based on behaviour and blocked the IP for 3 months as it appears to be static. Closing. Thanks, Spicy (talk) 01:57, 19 June 2023 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets
Edits on the same pages as known socks, see and. Also continuing the pattern of creating pages with copyright violations, see UFC on ESPN and TKO Group Holdings. Esolo5002 (talk) 16:03, 8 July 2023 (UTC)

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 * Blocked and tagged. Thanks, DanCherek (talk) 15:12, 14 July 2023 (UTC)