Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Elkridge/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets

 * ( original case name)


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On 18 April, User:Therazzors was blocked for 1 month for "Persistent addition of unsourced content". The articles edited included George Stephanopoulos, Jeffrey Epstein, Felix Sater, Bill Clinton sexual assault and misconduct allegations, Bill Clinton, and Al Gore, focusing on various scandals and suspect associations. On 2 May, User:Pleaseandthankyou1 is created, and lo, their only edits are focusing on various scandals and suspect associations for George Stephanopoulos, Jeffrey Epstein, and‎ Felix Sater. Note also the the edit summary from User:Pleaseandthankyou here, compared to User:Therazzors's edit summaries here and here Calton &#124; Talk 10:15, 10 May 2021 (UTC)

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 * ✅. Bagging and tagging socks. This SPI can be closed.  ~Oshwah~  (talk) (contribs)   15:08, 10 May 2021 (UTC)

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More non-stop attempts at mudslinging on George Stephanopoulos. Given the creation and immediate abandonment of socks, perhaps a block of the underlying IP is called for. Calton &#124; Talk 00:44, 16 May 2021 (UTC)

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Also active at. I think we may need to request some protections here because this goober isn't going away. Guy (help! - typo?) 12:50, 16 May 2021 (UTC)

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 * ✅ to :
 * Also found and ✅:
 * Bagging and tagging all accounts. This SPI can be closed...  ~Oshwah~  (talk) (contribs)   00:40, 19 May 2021 (UTC)
 * Also found and ✅:
 * Bagging and tagging all accounts. This SPI can be closed...  ~Oshwah~  (talk) (contribs)   00:40, 19 May 2021 (UTC)
 * Bagging and tagging all accounts. This SPI can be closed...  ~Oshwah~  (talk) (contribs)   00:40, 19 May 2021 (UTC)
 * Bagging and tagging all accounts. This SPI can be closed...  ~Oshwah~  (talk) (contribs)   00:40, 19 May 2021 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets

 * ( original case name)
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All three users include near-identical materials that violate WP:NPOV and WP:BLP in the same articles, including and. The suspected sockmaster is under an indefinite block. KyleJoan talk 03:21, 30 August 2021 (UTC)

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This makes sense. I've encountered these accounts. They edit very similarly and with the same POV and lack of communication. – Muboshgu (talk) 16:34, 30 August 2021 (UTC)

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 * This is very ducky but regardless since  and  edited concurrently and I would like to make sure there aren't any others.  --Blablubbs (talk) 19:34, 30 August 2021 (UTC)
 * These three accounts are ✅ to Sockpuppet investigations/Therazzors via . for now; would a clerk merge and tag as appropriate? KevinL ( aka L235 · t · c) 19:35, 30 August 2021 (UTC)
 * , the merge will need an admin clerk. --Blablubbs (talk) 19:38, 30 August 2021 (UTC)
 * Closing. KevinL ( aka L235 · t · c) 18:44, 31 August 2021 (UTC)

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These are already blocked, not tagged; they are CU-confirmed with Richardarmitrage, Everythingmatters, Pleaseandthankyou1. Drmies (talk) 15:26, 21 October 2021 (UTC)

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 * Thanks, Doc. ; master's tag belatedly updated to 3X-banned as of 30 August. Closing. --  Tamzin  [ cetacean needed ] (she/they) 05:31, 22 October 2021 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets

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First of all, User:Mrbarron who is listed above, is already a confirmed sockpuppet of User:Elkridge, but a diff presented below, suggests that User:Mrbarron/User:Elkridge might be the same individual as User:Therazzors; if indeed the same, the investigations of User:Therazzors and his/her sockpuppets should be moved to the sockpuppet investigations of User:Elkridge, since this account predates the former.

The IPs listed below appear to be the same individual; located in Maple Ridge (British Columbia). Furthermore, they all focus on the article of George Stephanopoulos, and their edits are mostly or exclusively about controversies/criticism concerning the individual. This behavioral/editing pattern, matches perfectly with the one of User:Therazzors (and his/her other socks) who also tried to add similar content in the article. The IP 2001:569:7505:CD00:9180:2119:3CAF:8DC4, is located in Pitt Meadows (British Columbia), about 6 km west of the aforementioned Maple Ridge. This is important, because this IP is currently blocked and associated with a sockpuppet of User:Therazzors.

As for User:Mrrevan, other than adding one more controversy/criticism (diff) concerning George Stephanopoulos, his/her last edit is on the article of Politico (diff), where he/she replaced "Controversies" with "Criticism" as the title of a section. His/her edits reminded me of this diff by 2001:569:538A:D800:60A7:6486:3FF5:3508 (not listed below, but also from Maple Ridge), which added "and criticism" in a section title of George Stephanopoulos; and this diff by 2001:569:538A:D800:F51B:7899:13FC:94A5 (listed below), which added a report by Politico in George Stephanopoulos.

Diffs of User:Therazzors

User:Stephencottenberg (confirmed sockpuppet of User:Therazzors)
 * diff; about Michael Corn
 * diff; about Stephanopoulos and Dee Dee Myers

2001:569:7505:CD00:9180:2119:3CAF:8DC4 (IP from Pitt Meadows; associated with User:Therazzors)
 * diff; about Stephanopoulos and Dee Dee Myers

Diffs of suspected sockpuppets

User:Mrbarron
 * diff; about Michael Corn

2001:569:538A:D800:715B:2F2F:59D9:6447
 * diff; about Michael Corn

2001:569:538A:D800:7DF8:D554:CBFE:428D
 * diff; simply added another reference in support of a controversy

207.81.120.115
 * diff1, diff2; about Stephanopoulos and Dee Dee Myers

Other controversies/criticism, pertaining to different cases:

2001:569:538A:D800:F51B:7899:13FC:94A5
 * diff; about report by Politico

User:Mrrevan
 * diff; about Brian Ross interview

Sockpuppets aside, can an admin also protect the page, because the aforementioned activity is quite disruptive? I believe a WP:BLUELOCK would be the most appropriate for this situation. Demetrios1993 (talk) 10:51, 8 February 2022 (UTC)

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Thanks, Spicy (talk) 00:06, 11 February 2022 (UTC)
 * -  Girth Summit  (blether)  09:43, 10 February 2022 (UTC)
 * The following accounts are all ✅ to, and also to many of the socks in the confirmed socks category: , , , . Based on what I can see in the CU logs for the 21 October, they are indeed highly likely to that batch of  socks, and I endorse the merging of the two cases into one.  Girth Summit  (blether)  09:54, 10 February 2022 (UTC)
 * - I've blocked without tags. Please consider what tags to apply, and whether to merge the cases - these are all CU-confirmed to one another, and are likely to Therazzors socks in the 21 October case. Girth Summit  (blether)  09:57, 10 February 2022 (UTC)
 * It appears that there's no pre-existing case for Elkridge - all of the socks were blocked outside of SPI. I'm just going to move this case to Elkridge as it is the oldest of these accounts. For reference, the accounts previously blocked as Elkridge socks are:
 * (Re)tagged everyone. The IP is currently rangeblocked. Closing. Thanks, Spicy (talk) 00:25, 11 February 2022 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets
Clear interest in US political and news media figures (e.g., and . Same POV editing with lack of communication, as stated prior, as other sockpuppets. Persistent WP:BLP violations. Zero use of edit summaries.  KyleJoan talk 08:16, 3 April 2022 (UTC)
 * Rossenbaum responded to the accusation here. Further evidence includes creating brief subsections and citing unreliable sources such as Newsweek and the New York Post. KyleJoan talk 19:47, 4 April 2022 (UTC)

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 * - editing pattern is in line with previous socks; please compare to known accounts and check for others, given the history. Thanks, Spicy (talk) 00:17, 6 April 2022 (UTC)
 * - -- RoySmith (talk) 00:27, 6 April 2022 (UTC)
 * ✅ -- RoySmith (talk) 00:41, 6 April 2022 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets
Account created after last known sock, Rossenbaum, was blocked. Clear overlapping interest in . Visual editing, edit summary style, and marking edits as minor very similar to known sock Therazzors. Using Fox News as a source for US-political materials and creating subsections. KyleJoan talk 06:36, 3 May 2022 (UTC)
 * Phonecaller denied the accusation here. This diff shows their only edit where the VisualEditor feature was not used, which leads me to believe they used a different device. Not sure if it merits another CheckUser run if that's the case, but I just thought I'd point it out. KyleJoan talk 00:11, 4 May 2022 (UTC)
 * Could you please link to where you see I didn't use the visual editor? I'm not quite sure why you keep going after me, instead of trying to help me. I'm literally so new to this, I don't even know if I've passed the "checkuser". It seems I have but I'm completely lost. Phonecaller (talk) 00:58, 4 May 2022 (UTC)

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Hi, so, I think I may have spotted another sock of this person. Would I file a new report and it'd be automatically listed under or after this one? Zaathras (talk) 21:19, 16 May 2022 (UTC)
 * You mean ? An account created after Phonecaller's last edit? KyleJoan talk 00:44, 17 May 2022 (UTC)
 * Yes, that is the one! Something in Heathertramp's editing felt like deja vu, so I looked through some political articles and remembered seeing "Mrtarkin". No edit summaries, the visual editor thing, rarely if ever partakes in talkpages, does not even react to being reverted. An admin at Sockpuppet_investigations/Elkridge/Archive said "no sleepers visible" on Apr 6. heathertramp created on May 8. Zaathras (talk) 01:10, 17 May 2022 (UTC)

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 * Max of . . Dreamy Jazz talk to me &#124; my contributions 10:24, 3 May 2022 (UTC)
 * - per the evidence presented above, please compare to Phonecaller and previous accounts in this case. Thanks,  Spicy (talk) 04:54, 18 May 2022 (UTC)
 * is ✅ to . For the record, is also ✅. Phonecaller is still maximum, but on a second look I'd say  to the case and the two other socks. Dreamy Jazz talk to me &#124; my contributions 01:59, 19 May 2022 (UTC)
 * Thanks. - please indef Heathertramp per the CU results. There are a number of things about Phonecaller that are suspicious but others that give me pause - no action with them for now. Spicy (talk) 17:43, 19 May 2022 (UTC)
 * . --Blablubbs (talk) 17:50, 19 May 2022 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets
User's focus is American Politics with an occasional step into current events, and about 90% of it is trivial, mundane, or inserting the commentary of Person A into Person Bs article. They always use the visual editor, almost always create a new-subsection, never react when reverted, never partake in talk page discussions, all of this is evidenced by thecontribution history. They have a particular fixation on Tucker Carlson, either adding to his article or adding his comments to others.

1. Media Matters for America, Heathertramp adds a criticism section including a bit about Joy Reid. NotPeteTownsend tried again. Shorter, but still tics that same Joy Reid focus.

2. Tucker Carlson. Rossenbaum's edit, interpersonal minutiae of Carlson's adversaries. NotPeteTownsend's edits. Not the same material per se, but the same fixation on things Tucker says about others, who his hi-profile friends are, etc...

Can do a lot more article by article comparisons if needed, but I think this is enough? Only difference this time is that they're sometimes using edit summaries, "I added...", "I created...".

I gave them a prod, User talk:NotPeteTownsend, hoping they'd just give up upon being spotted but they feigned innocence. Zaathras (talk) 13:35, 5 June 2022 (UTC)

Addition. NotPeteTownsend has apparently abandoned their account after my nudge above on June 5th. On June 11th, RollingHill was created. Same style of edits, minor or inconsequential factoids about Steve Bannon and Tucker Carlson, always uses Visual Editor. The edit summary style adopted by the last few socks is "I added X about Y". Zaathras (talk) 21:10, 15 June 2022 (UTC)

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 * - please compare these accounts to each other and the archive per the evidence above. Thanks, Spicy (talk) 05:12, 16 June 2022 (UTC)
 * Aye, that's him alright. Salvio 10:46, 16 June 2022 (UTC)
 * --Blablubbs (talk) 10:53, 16 June 2022 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets
Account created in August 2022 after the last known sockpuppets were blocked. Clear overlapping interest in US political and news media figures [e.g.,, , and ] as other sockpuppets. Visual editing with no edit summary use. Citing low-quality sources (e.g., Newsweek) and generally unreliable sources (e.g., New York Post). Valkrie11 says they're "not aware of another account which belongs to me". KyleJoan talk 11:27, 28 November 2022 (UTC)

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 * - -- RoySmith (talk) 23:21, 3 December 2022 (UTC)
 * ✅ -- RoySmith (talk) 23:24, 3 December 2022 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets
Account created in February 2023 after the last known sockpuppets were blocked. Clear overlapping interest in US political and news media figures [e.g.,, , and ] as other sockpuppets. Visual editing with no edit summary use. Citing low-quality sources (e.g., Newsweek) and generally unreliable sources (e.g., New York Post). Using Fox News as a source for US-political materials and creating subsections. KyleJoan talk 01:54, 29 April 2023 (UTC)

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 * I'm not commenting with my admin hat on here, I just want to point out that the English errors and poor sentence structure of Georgefrancis11 look pretty similar to Elkridge's. Bishonen &#124; tålk 10:00, 29 April 2023 (UTC).

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 * Blocked, tagged, closing. Bbb23 (talk) 14:57, 30 April 2023 (UTC)