Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/George Russell 1/Archive

Report date April 5 2009, 19:16 (UTC)

 * Suspected sockpuppets


 * Evidence submitted by JGXenite

The main user (GeorgeRosenbaum) primarily edited the Bond (band) and bond-related articles back in August and November 2008. The user primarily removed information relating to Mike Batt from the main bond article (1 and 2).

Two days ago, George Russell 1 started removing information from the main bond article (diff) and this was reverted by Tangerines. After this, George Russell 1 started posting false accusations on the Escala (group) page (diff) which was also reverted by Tangerines.

Today, StringThingsTogether effectively reverted Tangerines' revert on the main bond article and removed the same information about Mike Batt (1 and 2). On the Escala page, Twowalkingsticks and MusicInfoPositiv effectively reverted other reverts I'd made, and re-instated the unsourced information (1 and 2).

These edits are not the edits of individual users. I posted an initial enquiry on the user talk page of George Russell 1 (diff) which was ignored, as have further warnings to various users (George Russell 1 and StringThingsTogether).


 * Comments by accused parties    See Defending yourself against claims.


 * Comments by other users

I am convinced that all four of the suspected sockpuppets are all related and are to be blocked indefinitely. However, I have no evidence that points to GeorgeRosenbaum as having anything to do with them. Therefore he will not be blocked at this time. Valley2 city ‽ 05:54, 14 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments

All of the four socks have been blocked indefinitely. However, User:GeorgeRosenbaum has not been blocked as there is nothing to connect him to the four. Clerk, please rename the case to George Russell 1 as the three other users are likely sockpuppets of him. I'm still learning so I hope this is a possibility. Valley2 city ‽ 05:54, 14 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Conclusions
 * Moved case; tagging now.  Syn  ergy 13:09, 14 April 2009 (UTC)