Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Djdevious/Archive

05 November 2011

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New editor Djbuddyholly created a non-notable autobiography at Dj Buddy Holly which was tagged for speedy deletion. Djdevious returned from a two year editing break to remove the CSD tag twice and to contest the deletion. Review of past deleted edits by Djdevious show that they had attempted to create articles about the same person under different names: DJ Devious and David Charles Kramer. Shortly after I deleted Dj Buddy Holly, Hackercrusher recreated the article with the same content at Dj buddy holly. -- Gogo Dodo (talk) 01:42, 5 November 2011 (UTC)

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Djbuddyholly and Hackercrusher are ✅ matches, along with the following:

WilliamH (talk) 02:00, 5 November 2011 (UTC)
 * Socks blocked and tagged; master blocked 1 week for socking. —  Hello Annyong  (say whaaat?!) 03:27, 5 November 2011 (UTC)

25 December 2013

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I noticed that someone is repeatedly trying to create an article for a specific DJ under various names, as previous versions have been deleted and some salted. I initially thought that this was a bit more recent, but some digging shows that the main sock seems to be User:Djdevious and everyone else is a deviation of that sock. There are multiple IPs in this, but I'm not going to list all of those. I've noticed that the edits are limited solely to articles about David Charles Kramer. Previous versions came up as Buddy Holly (disk jockey), Dj buddy holly, and DJ Devious. I would not be surprised if there weren't more attempts to upload this onto Wikipedia. One account, User:DJ Buddy Holly (DJ Devious), appears to be attempting to use their userspace as a way to circumvent mainspace deletion. Given that all of these accounts were created to make an article about the same person, I wanted to see if they are all socks. Some are dead accounts, but I think that we might have a nest of socks and given the amount of times that someone has tried to re-create this article over a period of years, it would probably be worth it to find and block all of the socks. Like various versions of the page, I wouldn't be surprised if there were more accounts linked to this. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡)   23:57, 25 December 2013 (UTC)
 * Added another one. I'm aware that one of these is already blocked as a sock, but I listed it anyway since that's how I discovered the original account. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡)   23:59, 25 December 2013 (UTC)
 * There is a related case: Sockpuppet investigations/Djdevious -- &#124;  Uncle Milty  &#124;  talk  &#124;  00:03, 26 December 2013 (UTC)

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 * Although the user is clearly here to promote himself, and this seems to be a WP:DUCK case, it looks to me like there's no nefarious intent behind the multiple accounts. The Djdevious account hasn't had activity in years and was probably abandoned, likely for any number of innocent reasons. The new one, while awkwardly named, clearly indicates the identity of the user, and appears to me like an attempt to make a connection to the old account which may no longer be accessible to this person. I recommend blocking the abandoned one for cleanliness purposes, warning the user about multiple accounts, and advising the user about WP:CHU/Simple if he wants to rename it. ~Amatulić (talk) 07:00, 25 December 2013 (UTC)
 * I don't know... he's been adding himself to Wikipedia in various formats for years now. I've counted at least 5 articles in the mainspace and that's just the ones I've found so far. Every time I find a new account, I find a new variation of an article in his name. His abuses reach pretty far back. He's opened multiple accounts that we know of, so I kind of doubt that it's a matter of him forgetting the password for one account. More than a few of them seem to have been created solely for the purpose of removing speedy deletion templates and arguing for notability aside from the main account. Another SPI was opened under Sockpuppet investigations/Drjonnafreyfuss/Archive, so I have a feeling that not blocking him will only end up with us having to clean up more spam articles later on down the line. His method of operation seems to be to post a flurry of articles, wait a year or so, then post another flurry of articles under all new accounts. This may be a way of trying to keep people from seeing that he's tried to create the articles under various different names over the years. His sudden declaration of wanting to help Wikipedia is pretty suspect and in my experience most editors that suddenly claim to want to edit Wikipedia don't actually do what they claim. They make a handful of edits, then eventually go back to spamming. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡)   00:24, 26 December 2013 (UTC)
 * Yes, I think you're right. When I made the comment above, I hadn't looked at the archive, just his recent activity and the activity of the last account from 2011. ~Amatulić (talk) 04:43, 27 December 2013 (UTC)
 * Copied this from Sockpuppet_investigations/Djdevious. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡)   00:26, 26 December 2013 (UTC)


 * Having just  deleted and salted another spate of these article recreations, I  support blocking  all  accounts associated with  them. A CU  might  help establish  if they  are all  from  the same IP, but  IMO the quacking  is loud enough. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 01:04, 26 December 2013 (UTC)
 * Given the number of accounts and hence the chance of sleepers along with it I've requested a CU take a look. Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 06:52, 26 December 2013 (UTC)
 * All indefed (IPs for 72 hrs). Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 07:30, 26 December 2013 (UTC)
 * Sleepers handled., IPs unblocked since their edits were from 2012; blocking them now isn't preventative. L Faraone  02:15, 28 December 2013 (UTC)
 * Nothing left to do here, closing now. Mark Arsten (talk) 03:13, 28 December 2013 (UTC)
 * This should be merged to Sockpuppet investigations/Djdevious before closing. ​—DoRD (talk)​ 16:56, 28 December 2013 (UTC)
 * Note: this section merged from Sockpuppet investigations/DJ Buddy Holly (DJ Devious). Mark Arsten (talk) 02:12, 29 December 2013 (UTC)

24 December 2013

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Duck, with sockpuppeteer name included in new user name. Promoting same stuff as previous puppets. &#124; Uncle Milty  &#124;  talk  &#124;  22:02, 24 December 2013 (UTC)

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 * Although the user is clearly here to promote himself, and this seems to be a WP:DUCK case, it looks to me like there's no nefarious intent behind the multiple accounts. The Djdevious account hasn't had activity in years and was probably abandoned, likely for any number of innocent reasons. The new one, while awkwardly named, clearly indicates the identity of the user, and appears to me like an attempt to make a connection to the old account which may no longer be accessible to this person. I recommend blocking the abandoned one for cleanliness purposes, warning the user about multiple accounts, and advising the user about WP:CHU/Simple if he wants to rename it. ~Amatulić (talk) 07:00, 25 December 2013 (UTC)
 * I don't know... he's been adding himself to Wikipedia in various formats for years now. I've counted at least 5 articles in the mainspace and that's just the ones I've found so far. Every time I find a new account, I find a new variation of an article in his name. His abuses reach pretty far back. He's opened multiple accounts that we know of, so I kind of doubt that it's a matter of him forgetting the password for one account. More than a few of them seem to have been created solely for the purpose of removing speedy deletion templates and arguing for notability aside from the main account. Another SPI was opened under Sockpuppet investigations/Drjonnafreyfuss/Archive, so I have a feeling that not blocking him will only end up with us having to clean up more spam articles later on down the line. His method of operation seems to be to post a flurry of articles, wait a year or so, then post another flurry of articles under all new accounts. This may be a way of trying to keep people from seeing that he's tried to create the articles under various different names over the years. His sudden declaration of wanting to help Wikipedia is pretty suspect and in my experience most editors that suddenly claim to want to edit Wikipedia don't actually do what they claim. They make a handful of edits, then eventually go back to spamming. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡)   00:24, 26 December 2013 (UTC)
 * Copying this to the main sock page (Sockpuppet investigations/DJ Buddy Holly (DJ Devious)). Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡)   00:25, 26 December 2013 (UTC)


 * Closing as all socks and master are now blocked. Sockpuppet investigations/DJ Buddy Holly (DJ Devious) merged to Sockpuppet investigations/Djdevious/Archive. Mark Arsten (talk) 02:14, 29 December 2013 (UTC)