Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/GenerationRescue/Archive

Report date July 6 2009, 21:23 (UTC)

 * Suspected sockpuppets

Suspected puppeteer was indef blocked as spam username due to blatant connection with Generation Rescue. Suspected puppet's username is a blatant attempt by puppeteer or someone acting on his behalf to circumvent the block. The puppet's first edit was to troll my talk page without actually making any improvements to the article first, and I have not seen any indication that he/she intends to. KuyaBriBri Talk 21:23, 6 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Evidence submitted by KuyaBriBri Talk
 * Puppet has since made a baseless accusation that false information is added to the page almost weekly, when as of right now the Generation Rescue article has not been edited since 15 June (by me) and before that date it had not been updated since 31 May. Also claiming that he/she was verbally attacked, when user page and talk page history  do not support claim. KuyaBriBri Talk 14:23, 7 July 2009 (UTC)


 * Comments by accused parties    See Defending yourself against claims.

I suspect this user is very likely to also be User:Skidawgie and 64.132.218.4 (possibly a dynamic IP). On March 27, the IP address started editing the article, followed within minutes by Skidawgie and then GenerationRescue. I chose not to report the obvious COI username and sockpuppeting because I figured the user was simply still deciding on a username. So I reverted the edits and warned the user nicely. This seemed to have worked for a couple of months. I don't believe the various other editors of the page such as User:Notgrouchy, 76.17.186.126, and User:BTekle are also socks of GenRescue, although they are definitely SPA's. I think it's quite believable that there is more than one person affiliated with Generation Rescue that does not like the current Wikipedia article about them. -- Soap Talk/Contributions 03:05, 7 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Comments by other users


 * Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments


 * Conclusions
 * Socks blocked and tagged (while some may not be socks themselves, they are sure violating WP:MEAT). I am leaving the IPs unblocked as they appear to be used by multiple people. Tiptoety  talk 20:13, 7 July 2009 (UTC)