Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/GEfan2/Archive

31 October 2012

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SPA accounts that have done nothing more than prop up the band entry Goodbye Elliott. Most of the accounts are "use once and destroy" accounts that are now stale. Several accounts (eg and  ) appear to be only tag removal accounts with no constructive edits. There are some minor attempts by socks at tilting opinion on the talk page. The sheer mass tonnage of accounts also suggests an attempt at hiding the fact that the edits are all from a single person (or a very small group of people). Hairhorn (talk) 03:21, 31 October 2012 (UTC)

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— Berean Hunter   (talk)  23:54, 1 November 2012 (UTC)
 * Indeffing all socks and giving the master 1 week. Semi-prot'd article for one month to stave off socks.

21 December 2012

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Two new accounts that meet the duck test, same behaviour as before: SPAs that prop up the band page Goodbye Elliott. They have a particular dislike for maintenance tags: Switzer123's first edit blanks all the tags at the top of the page, then blanks a "failed verification" tag without adding a reference (a reference is changed elsewhere that does not address the issue in the tag). Tiltrocket changes three words in the text and uses that as a pretext to re-remove the COI tag.

This is the same multiplication of SPAs as last time, perhaps the semi-protection needs to be extended. Hairhorn (talk) 14:55, 21 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Added . No edits to the band page, but their only edits are to put fake block tags on my user page, not even 10 minutes after Tiltrocket threatened to have me blocked because I reverted one of their edits. Hairhorn (talk) 02:13, 22 December 2012 (UTC)

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 * Last49over blocked as a vandalism only account. I've indeffed the other 2 as obvious ducks. Since the original account appears to be a throw-away account I've indeffed that one too. I've also semi-protected the article for 3 months. Closing Basa lisk  inspect damage⁄berate 15:36, 22 December 2012 (UTC)