Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/EZW/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets




Evidence submitted by Glenfarclas
Repeated creation of the identical article Joel W. Gonzales, also seen at Joel W Gonzales and Joel William Gonzales (he is a/k/a Lil Mirkk), despite deletion including this AfD here. Based on discussion at the AfD, this user to be the subject's agent. There must be other socks given the quantity of total deletions and paucity of deletion notices on these socks' talk pages, but I can't find them. Thanks --Glenfarclas (talk) 12:05, 18 December 2009 (UTC). Edited to add: listed two more suspected puppets (or maybe one of them is the true master), based on relevant Google searching.

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Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments

 * All ✅ except for, plus . Brandon (talk) 02:43, 19 December 2009 (UTC)

Conclusions
All accounts indefinitely blocked and tagged, including User:James.Cooper.Manager (which was stale), whom the behavioral evidence there quacked too loudly. MuZemike 03:02, 19 December 2009 (UTC)

Evidence submitted by Hairhorn
Same behaviour as before: persistently recreating pages for a non-notable actor; the latest iteration is at Joel William Gonzales. Edits also include vandal edits to the latest AFD page (here and here, and persistently re-adding this actor (under various names) to the entry Due Date.

Entries for this actor have been deleted more than a dozen times under titles such as Joel Gonzales, Joel W. Gonzales, Joel W Gonzales, and Lil Mirkk. This user has already been blocked once for sockpuppetry but, if I understand correctly, was unblocked after agreeing to play nice. This also may be a case of paid editing. Hairhorn (talk) 03:24, 21 February 2010 (UTC)
 * Added User: KAM90210, the latest new account to promote this actor at Due Date. Hairhorn (talk) 21:21, 21 February 2010 (UTC)

Comments by accused parties
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 * I took part in the AfD discussion and wanted to point out that some of these latest exploits happened after the "good faith" IRC discussion mentioned in the AfD. All these accounts and IPs add Joel W. Gonzales in several articles and some also vandalize related AfD's and tags. Sockpuppets, meatpuppets or whatever is going on, this is a case of WP:TURNIP (the Joel W. Gonzales article alone was deleted five times) and one or more blocks or even subnet-blocks might be needed. Be careful though: 208.54.4.69 seems to be part of a heavy-traffic dynamic IP range since the styles, range of subjects and use of english in its contrib log seem much too diverse be from one or perhaps even two editors. WHOIS says it's a T-Mobile subnet, which explains a lot. Smocking (talk) 03:13, 22 February 2010 (UTC)

Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments
All registered accounts indefinitely blocked and tagged (including EZW for a second time). I'm wary of blocking any IPs right now as they are rather busy. To try to offset that, I have temporarily semi-protected Due Date. –MuZemike 04:12, 22 February 2010 (UTC)

Evidence submitted by Hairhorn
Latest iteration of this blocked user. Not sure if this qualifies for wp:aiv, so bringing it back here again. Hairhorn (talk) 01:35, 3 March 2010 (UTC)

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Blocked and tagged. –MuZemike 02:01, 3 March 2010 (UTC)

Evidence submitted by Smocking
This seems to be the latest sock of User:EZW, a user banned for suspected paid editing on behalf of his client, Joel W. Gonzales, and sockpuppeting. Compare, and. If this sock again turns out to be on the same high-traffic dynamic IP range of T-Mobile, perhaps we should contact the provider about this. This has been going on and on for almost half a year now and these SPIs and AfDs are getting tedious. Smocking (talk) 13:23, 3 March 2010 (UTC)

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Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments
Self-endorsing for CheckUser attention to check for sleepers and block any and all underlying IPs and ranges. –MuZemike 15:22, 3 March 2010 (UTC)


 * on technical grounds, though likely on behaviour, I'd say - A l is o n  ❤ 09:32, 4 March 2010 (UTC)

Evidence submitted by Smocking
Latest sock in a long history of paid editing on behalf of Joel W. Gonzales (Lil Mirkk is his rapper stage name). Same edits about non-notable actor/rapper and same city as the other confirmed IP socks (Los Angeles ). Smocking (talk) 22:48, 8 March 2010 (UTC)

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Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments
I've gone and protected it for two weeks. ~ Amory ( u •  t  •  c ) 23:39, 9 March 2010 (UTC)

Evidence submitted by Hairhorn
IP account, only edits going back several months are clearly from this user: blanking Articles for deletion/Joel William Gonzales and COI/vandal edits to Due Date. Seeing how no one else has been using this IP to edit Wikipedia, I would think a block of a few months would be in order, no?

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Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments
You got it. Blocked 3 months. –MuZemike 22:10, 9 May 2010 (UTC)

28 July 2011

 * Suspected sockpuppets




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Block evading sock and IP. Hairhorn (talk) 17:27, 28 July 2011 (UTC)

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Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments
Just a note that the accounts in the archive are. TN X Man 18:36, 28 July 2011 (UTC)
 * um, as far as the named accounts are concerned, they're stale because they're all blocked, no? Hairhorn (talk) 21:37, 28 July 2011 (UTC)
 * No, they're stale because they haven't edited in quite a few months. I'm not seeing the connection between the sock and the master, and your explanation doesn't really help. So can you clarify this? —  Hello Annyong  (say whaaat?!) 02:00, 29 July 2011 (UTC)
 * Sorry if the evidence section is too brief, I didn't want to add a lot of material that was redundant to the archive. Both Janetdrew1 and the IP appear to be SPAs promoting the non-notable actor Joel W. Gonzales / Joel W Gonzales / Joel William Gonzales aka Lil Mirkk. This is the same behaviour as all other previous socks of this blocked user. Since all the named accounts in the archive are blocked, I'm not clear on the relevance of them being stale or not, perhaps there's something I've misunderstood. See the full archive and Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/User:EZW/Joel W. Gonzales for further background. Cheers. Hairhorn (talk) 19:35, 29 July 2011 (UTC)


 * Alright, I didn't get the connection between Joel Gonzales and Lil Mirkk. I've blocked and tagged the account per WP:DUCK. Interestingly enough, the autoblock has not kicked in for the IP. —  Hello Annyong  (say whaaat?!) 23:16, 29 July 2011 (UTC)