Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Ethiopia12345678/Archive

19 June 2015

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Ethiopia12345678 was blocked last year for repeatedly removing mention of a parliamentary inquiry into RacingThePlanet, and claiming (contradicting sources and the company's own website) that it was now a retail company and no longer organised race events. The editor never provided sources or explanations for any of these edits and was ultimately blocked for edit warring.

Jamesjohnsonfrance joined Wikipedia earlier this year and has been applying the same edits:


 * March 2014: Ethiopia12345678 edits the article to remove 4 Deserts and vice president Eric Lahaie from the infobox, blanking mentions of racing and parliamentary inquiry from the lede and stating that RacingThePlanet is "now exclusively a retail company" with no source
 * June 2015: Jamesjohnsonfrance edits the article to remove 4 Deserts and all vice presidents (including Eric Lahaie) from the infobox, blanking mentions of racing and parliamentary inquiry from the lede and stating that RacingThePlanet is simply "a leading outdoor retail company" with no source

Both editors other contributions have been largely confined to minor thesaurus noodling on geographic articles (1, 2). McGeddon (talk) 11:01, 19 June 2015 (UTC)

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— Berean Hunter   (talk)  16:42, 19 June 2015 (UTC)
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SPA with same pattern of edits as sockmaster and previous sock Jamesjohnsonfrance, namely: trimming key people from the RacingThePlanet infobox, talking up the ecommerce, and removing mention of a parliamentary inquiry from the lede: master, previous sock, GamesHunger. McGeddon (talk) 12:31, 26 January 2017 (UTC)

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this account hasn't been active in months, but I've blocked it regardless. It looks like it became autoconfirmed merely to disrupt the targeted article. NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 12:26, 27 January 2017 (UTC)