Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Dresian/Archive

12 March 2011

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On 8 February 2011, User:Dresian started mass adding YouTube Artist links to articles as well as creating Template:YouTube artist (subsequently receiving these warnings on his talk page). At about the same time, two new accounts were registered: User:Teecono (4 February 2011) and User:Lashuto (7 February 2011). Dresian stopped editing on February 11 after attempting to re-add the links which other editors had removed.

On March 6, Teecono after a month of inactivity started mass-adding YouTube Artist links to articles and stopped editing after two days. On March 7 Lashuto started editing by mass-adding Youtube links to articles, and most unusually for a "new user" editing Template:YouTube artist and Template:Discogs artist. On March 8, Template:YouTube artist was put up for deletion with as of now an overwhelming consensus to delete. Impervious to advice and comments from other editors, Lashuto continued creating more and more similar templates and mass-adding them to articles + restoring the links placed by Teecono and Dressian which had been removed by other editors. (See AN/I)

Note that Dresian, Teecono, and Lashuto all mark(ed) every edit as "minor": Dresian, Teecono, Lashuto This seems to be an attempt to use multiple accounts to avoid scrutiny given the controversial nature of his editing. The behavioural evidence is strong, but I'm requesting CheckUser in case there are further sleeper accounts. Voceditenore (talk) 07:59, 12 March 2011 (UTC)


 * Note: a few hours after I filed this report, Dresian was blocked for being himself the sock of a banned user . Voceditenore (talk) 12:04, 12 March 2011 (UTC)

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

 * - I've blocked both socks per WP:DUCK, but I'm endorsing for a sleeper check. —  Hello Annyong  (say whaaat?!) 14:14, 12 March 2011 (UTC)
 * No sleepers found, that said they are editing via open proxies which have since been blocked. Tiptoety  talk 17:56, 12 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Lashuto doesn't appear to have the MO of the banned user that I blocked based on private evidence. --Bsadowski1 00:36, 13 March 2011 (UTC)