Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Galapagew/Archive

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A group of users who add joke histories about a "King Sullivan", add outrageous claims of abuse and chaos at the school, or both in the same edits, all to either Big Hollow School District 38 or to articles with titles containing "Sullivan". I picked User:Galapagew as the puppetmaster because that user has the earliest obvious connection by similar content about "Sullivan" ruling over an area, and was blocked a few days later for other vandalism; there are also pre-2016 users listed here whose connection might be questionable. CheckUser requested in case a match to any of these users will catch some sleepers, but maybe the potential sleepers' information is too stale. -- Closeapple (talk) 07:42, 1 November 2016 (UTC)
 * Users with the "King Sullivan" vandalism alone:
 * User:Galapagew &mdash; blocked; : to be clear, this user only talks about "Sullivan" as having a statue and Sullivan, Illinois being a "miniature empire" ruler of Illinois; it does not use the phrase "King Sullivan" like the others afterward, which concern the school district in another part of Illinois
 * User:PhoopleDooble: ; ;
 * User:Sponge66 &mdash; ;
 * User with scandalous school claims alone:
 * User:Big hollow &mdash;
 * Users that connect the scandalous school and "King Sullivan" vandalism together:
 * User:207.177.208.2 &mdash; ; ; : IP PTR record is "barc-mail.bighollow.us", so probably the shared school IP address for Big Hollow School itself
 * User:Strudel17 &mdash; blocked; : claims to be written by specific people (possibly children, possibly false)
 * User:Vergina women &mdash; : claims to be written by specific people (possibly children, possibly false)
 * Possible sleepers
 * User:Dixienormous12345 &mdash; : obscene username; made single bad-school claim
 * User:Phoople &mdash; : similar username to PhoopleDooble; single, non-vandalism edit, appeared just a few days after User:Galapagew was blocked
 * User:Strudel128 &mdash; no edits: created on 2016-02-11 at 22:01:00; similar username to Strudel17, created about 14 hours after User:Phoople

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Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments
This is a bit of a mess. Galapagew is not the oldest account. Many of the accounts are, and one of the accounts has zero edits and was no doubt picked solely for its username. Please straighten this out and determine whether to endorse a check of the non-stale accounts (with edits - the no-edit account should be removed).--Bbb23 (talk) 14:07, 1 November 2016 (UTC)
 * - this is pretty clearly organized student meatpuppetry, in which case CheckUser won't tell us anything useful. Working on sorting the rest out. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 15:00, 1 November 2016 (UTC)
 * I think this master is correct. Dixienormous is the oldest by two years, but has only one edit, which is vandalism to the same article but a different sort of vandalism. Galapagew is the oldest among the "King Sullivan" vandal accounts. The IP (which belongs to the school) is clearly Galapagew by article overlap, and is currently schoolblocked. Vandalism stopped over the summer unsurprisingly. Phoople is not obviously related but PhoopleDooble is, and all of the subsequent accounts are meatpuppets repeating the same vandalism. Admin: please block  and, and please semiprotect Big Hollow School District 38 for 2 weeks. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 15:29, 1 November 2016 (UTC)
 * Ivanvector - ✅.  ~Oshwah~  (talk) (contribs)   01:27, 2 November 2016 (UTC)


 * Closing. GABgab 02:33, 2 November 2016 (UTC)