Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Electroide/Archive

Report date May 18 2009, 00:22 (UTC)

 * Suspected sockpuppets




 * Evidence submitted by User:BMRR

I have reason to believe that User:Electroide, User:Arlonuelle, and User:Cybernetic DanceAngel may all be the same person.


 * Electroide and Arlonuelle have both been uploading a lot of the same copyrighted photos of male athletes and male models; editing the same articles; and their user pages are remarkably similar.
 * Over the past couple of days, both users have been uploading copyrighted photos of athlete/model Julien Arias. Unfortunately I can't provide diffs because the copyvio images were eventually deleted and no longer show up in the contribs lists. Also, within two hours of Electroide's last edit on May 16, the Cybernetic DanceAngel account was created, and judging by that account's contribs, has also been editing the same pages.
 * A week or two ago, both Electroide and Arlonuelle were uploading a similar batch of copyrighted photos of model Josh Ohl. Again, I can't really provide diffs to back this up because the photos were eventually deleted.
 * Today, Arlonuelle left herself a message on her own talk page, but then went back, edited the message, and changed the signature to Cybernetic DanceAngel.
 * Here is the diff in which Arlonuelle leaves herself a message on her own talk page:
 * And here is the diff in which she goes back and changes the signature to Cybernetic DanceAngel:
 * Using the edit count utility at toolserver.org, one can see the striking similarities between Electroide's and Arlonuelle's editing activity:
 * Electroide
 * Arlonuelle
 * I'm not an admin and I don't really know or understand how "checkuser" works, but if the evidence I've presented isn't conclusive, perhaps "checkuser" would be warranted.

Thank you,

—BMRR (talk) 00:22, 18 May 2009 (UTC)


 * Comments by accused parties    See Defending yourself against claims.


 * Comments by other users


 * Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments
 * They have been confirmed by CU Versageek along with User:CyberDanceRocker. I have blocked all but Arlonuelle and am in the process of tagging and warning. لenna  vecia  00:31, 18 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Actually, upon further consideration, I'm blocking them all. The multitude of copyright violations from these accounts after many warnings, and that the one account using a different machine on the same IP signed the signature of one of the socks, it's just unnecessary disruption. لenna  vecia  00:45, 18 May 2009 (UTC)


 * Conclusions


 * Already blocked and tagged. Thanks Jennavecia. Peter Symonds ( talk ) 15:20, 18 May 2009 (UTC)