Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Geromasis/Archive

12 August 2011

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Archeopteryx was created at 14:39 today, and showed up to support FreemanSA in his first two edits. He then proceeded to revert back to FreemanSA's version of Khamis Gaddafi, where FreemanSA had been warned for violating 3RR. He also used an edit summary of similar style to FreemanSA, so I think this may be a sockpuppet created to violate 3RR. Reaper Eternal (talk) 18:21, 12 August 2011 (UTC)

User:Idealisis became active at 06:06 today and has been active on pages where User:Geromasis has been active (Abdul Fatah Younis and Khamis Gaddafi most notably), chastising User:Objectively for reverting an edit by a Geromasis sock on the latter and breaking several templates, possibly with a macro. -Kudzu1 (talk) 21:56, 12 August 2011 (UTC)
 * Idealisis appears to have several other socks created for the sole purpose of giving me grief (randomly reverting edits I've made to various pages, continuing to break templates, etc.). I've opened a request for investigation of those whether Idealisis is a Geromasis sock or not. -Kudzu1 (talk) 22:26, 12 August 2011 (UTC)

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Milordass began reverting my edits without explanation on several pages after I rolled back vandalism by Idealisis that broke several templates on Khamis Gaddafi. As with Idealisis, Milordass appears to be using some sort of macro that (intentionally or inadvertently) replaces certain characters with strings of symbols, breaking templates and disrupting articles, when he edits. I already suspect Idealisis may be a sock of Geromasis, a user blocked for creating several socks already, due to his editing history. Kudzu1 (talk) 22:11, 12 August 2011 (UTC)

IownKudzu was just created as another sock seemingly with the sole purpose of reverting various edits I've made. -Kudzu1 (talk) 22:18, 12 August 2011 (UTC)

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 * TN X Man 18:45, 12 August 2011 (UTC)
 * OK, I blocked Archeopteryx5 and FreemanSA indefinitely as puppets of Geromasis, since he was the oldest. It looks like the FreemanSA account was created to evade a block on the master, so I blocked the master for another week. Maybe a clerk should move this case. Reaper Eternal (talk) 18:54, 12 August 2011 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the help here! If someone could check out, which was also created today, and has had a similar pattern of reverts and disruption. Objectively (talk) 21:55, 12 August 2011 (UTC)
 * OK, I blocked Archeopteryx5 and FreemanSA indefinitely as puppets of Geromasis, since he was the oldest. It looks like the FreemanSA account was created to evade a block on the master, so I blocked the master for another week. Maybe a clerk should move this case. Reaper Eternal (talk) 18:54, 12 August 2011 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the help here! If someone could check out, which was also created today, and has had a similar pattern of reverts and disruption. Objectively (talk) 21:55, 12 August 2011 (UTC)


 * I've merged an identical case about Idealisis to here; a bunch of the same socks were listed there. I'm relisting for another pass for Idealisis. —  Hello Annyong  (say whaaat?!) 23:23, 12 August 2011 (UTC)
 * Idealisis is ; no obvious sleepers. -- Avi (talk) 20:39, 14 August 2011 (UTC)
 * Thanks for clearing that up. I've also blocked and tagged Idealisis. —  Hello Annyong  (say whaaat?!) 22:01, 14 August 2011 (UTC)