Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/DreamWorksFan/Archive

08 October 2013

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The name is enough WP:DUCK testing to me, not to mention the significant overlap in what articles are contributed to.  STATic  message me!  14:01, 8 October 2013 (UTC)

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 * If this is who I think it is (the one who hits all the List of [Company] films articles), he seemed to evade his block via IP most of the time. I've semi'd a lot of his targets, so I guess he figured he'd create an account to get autoconfirmed. Mark Arsten (talk) 18:57, 8 October 2013 (UTC)
 * Possibility that is one of the same, and a slight possibility that the user has the same characteristics as film hoaxer/SPI subject, so also check to see if they're related to the later.  Nate  • ( chatter ) 03:46, 7 November 2013 (UTC)

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 * the same person. I thought there would be sleepers, hence the check. Howevever no apparent sleepers. That being said it was a difficult check and I may have missed something. NativeForeigner Talk 16:49, 8 October 2013 (UTC)

25 September 2014

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I came upon this user when looking at the page Alvin and the Chipmunks (film series). This page was created by User:Hoppybunny, who has their own long term SPI I suspect is linked. The page was deleted at AfD and Hoppybunny was eventually banned. However, the page was later restored by User:DreamWorksFan. This user was eventually blocked (obviously, that's why this page has an archive) for disruptive editing. A look through his or her edits shows that the general MO was disruptive edits to lists of films by studio. I noticed User:HialeahFL was a suspicious looking editor from the Alvin page. Looking at his history, he follows the exact same pattern of edits, making the same changes to the same lists of films by studio and refusing to engage or discuss with any other editor in the exact same manner.

Looking through the history of the Alvin and the Chipmunks (film series) page, I'm coming across multiple editors I suspect may also be socks. However, they exhibit characteristics more like Hoppybunny, who as I've stated seems like he is the same as this user. Is there anyway that can be checked too, or is the case less clear?

Apologies for any formatting or procedural issues, I'm new to this process. Yaksar (let's chat) 09:39, 25 September 2014 (UTC)
 * I additionally have a strong feeling that the sockmaster at Sockpuppet_investigations/Rodriguesandres449/Archive is somehow linked, as the disruptive edits followed a similar pattern of changes and revolve around the Alvin and the Chipmunks film sequel articles. For example, there are editors like User:Greatintell for whom the vast bulk of their edits are to either the Alvin and the Chipmunks (film series) article created by the Hoppybunny sock and later restored by the Dreamworksfan sock after it was redirected at AfD, or to the ALVINNN!!! and the Chipmunks article, created by the Rodriguez sock. I would chalk this up to simply being an Alvin and the Chipmunks fan, but given that the focus seems to be almost entirely on these sock created articles and almost none on the many other articles in the franchise, there might be a link between all of these sock masters.--Yaksar (let's chat) 09:46, 25 September 2014 (UTC)

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— Berean Hunter   (talk)  19:33, 4 October 2014 (UTC)
 * This is all way too to make any comparisons to previous accounts and will need to be decided by behaviour.--Jezebel's Ponyo bons mots  18:36, 26 September 2014 (UTC)
 * Closing for now. The exact connections here may be too hard to resolve to a particular master but there is certainly socking behavior going on at the article. I would suggest semi-protecting the article but it hasn't been edited in days so that wouldn't really be very effective.