Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Gigogag/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets




Evidence submitted by Eagles247
All three of these users have almost identical Userpage formats, a section for favorite music and a section for "friends" on Wikipedia, in which they all list each other. User:Gigogag has previously created pages called Harvest Hog and The Harvest Hog, both of which are now redirects to List of Dave the Barbarian characters. I made one of those articles a redirect, which led to User:Gigogag call me a "noob" (here). I went to Gigogag's talkpage and told him that personal attacks are not allowed on Wikipedia, and he quickly apologized and changed his page (here). Today, I saw User:Bdfjhkgj edit User:Gigogag's userpage by listing more friends (here). I quickly went over to User:Bdfjhkgj's userpage to see who he was, and I noticed he listed me as one of his "friends" on Wikipedia. I went over to his contributions and found out that I have never encountered him nor talked to him before (here). User:Terranovia360 seems to know a great deal about User:Gigogag, and has two sections of his userpage dedicated to Gigogag and his redirect articles. They all appear to go to the same school, PACE-Brantley Hall School. I asked User:Bdfjhkgj why I am listed as one of his friends, and he merely changed his userpage to show that I am not one of his friends (here, and replied that it is fixed (here). I have asked him how it got there in the first place (here), and he responded that I helped his friend Gigogag by giving him advice on an article (here), which I did not. Gigogag and Bdfjhkgj both have responded to their talk pages by starting a new section and replying there. This could easily be a case of a group of friends creating accounts and just copying each other's userpage format, but when User:Bdfjhkgj edited User:Gigogag's list of friends, it appears to be the same user on all three accounts. They all also seem to know about sockpuppets, since they all claim that they know it is wrong and will never do it.

UPDATE: User:Terranovia360 has also edited User:Ipownfroobs' userpage for him (here). This diff is also very curious.

User:Gigogag and User:Bdfjhkgj both "talk" to their new pages, as seen here and here

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Conclusions
All accounts powned indefinitely blocked and tagged. –MuZemike 22:29, 2 January 2010 (UTC)

Evidence submitted by Cnilep
Comments at User talk:Cnilep, User talk:MuZemike, and User talk:Red Hot Chili Peppers360 mention the previous sockpuppet investigation. (Note also the use of three exclamation points, a style favored by Gigogaag.)

Dock26 Pwnage has also edited Talk:Hugh Jackson (businessman) and Talk:Leopold Frankenberger, Sr., pages created by Gigogag.

Dock26 Pwnage added dates to Talk:Leopold Frankenberger, Sr. in a manner somewhat reminiscent of Gigogag's addition of dates to various pages (eg. here or here).

The name Dock26 Pwnage is similar to suspected sockpuppet Ipownfroobs. Cnilep (talk) 18:12, 7 January 2010 (UTC)

Evidence submitted by Eagles247
User:Gigogag "welcomed" User:Mojo chile and even edited his userpage. The user has not made any edits, so it is pretty obvious that User:Mojo chile is a sock.  Eagles   24/7  (C)  17:57, 10 January 2010 (UTC)

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Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments
Self-endorsing for CheckUser attention. I think we need a block on the underlying IP and a sweep for sleepers. –MuZemike 21:48, 7 January 2010 (UTC)

✅ and blocked. I doubt rangeblocks will do anything to stop him. No obvious sleepers. J.delanoy gabs adds 20:57, 9 January 2010 (UTC)

Evidence submitted by Eagles247
He has edited the school he attends (no other user has ever edited it besides his socks) (here), his userpage talks about himself in third person, "CabbageBrain loves cabbage! In fact, he is cabbage!!!" Also notice the three exclamation marks. I also remember seeing one of Gigogag's socks mention their love for cabbage, but I can't find the diff for it or the sock. Here, he edits the talk page of a stub and complains about how bad it is and how it should be deleted, just like Gigogag/his socks did.  Eagles   24/7  (C)  03:20, 22 January 2010 (UTC)
 * More evidence: after I marked one of his terrible redirects for deletion, he messaged me saying that he is OK with my decision, just like Dock26 Pwnage had done.  Eagles   24/7  (C)  17:17, 22 January 2010 (UTC)

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Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments
That last diff is convincing enough. Blocked and tagged. –MuZemike 00:25, 23 January 2010 (UTC)

Evidence submitted by Eagles247
FrenchNerd487 initially edited PACE-Brantley Hall School, a page Gigogag created (here and here). He then created the talk page for Abacination, saying that Samson actually was not abacinated (here). Finally, he edited the actual page by adding that it was a myth that Samson was not abacinated (here). Gigogag had blanked that entire passage about Samson a month ago (here).

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Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments
Already had him blocked and tagged a while back as a clear sock. –MuZemike 04:17, 29 January 2010 (UTC)

Evidence submitted by Eagles247
Let's see, his first edit was to Category talk:Suspected Wikipedia sockpuppets of Gigogag (here), in which he explains that he has a friend who is an administrator (doubt it) and explains that User:Clongkobong is innocent, something that User:Ipownfroobs has said (here). EnchildaMan then blanked the page, since he still doesn't know how to delete pages. (here). His userpage references spicy food, which is also a trademark of Gigogag. I'll add more to this later, but this should be sufficient for the investigation already.  Eagles   24/7  (C)  01:16, 9 February 2010 (UTC)

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Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments
For fear of shoving beans up people's noses, the MO is identical. Blocked and tagged. –MuZemike 01:21, 9 February 2010 (UTC)

Evidence submitted by Eagles247
Edited PACE-Brantley Hall School (an article created, here) and requested an unblock of Gigogag's account, saying that Gigogag asked him to request unblock (here). Pretty obvious sockpuppet.  Eagles   24/7  (C)  23:39, 8 March 2010 (UTC)

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Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments
Easybibfreak tagged as a obvious sock, Gigogag's userpages are indefinitely semi-protected (he knows to email the unblock mailing list), Gigogag's block is now back to indefinite, and PACE-Brantley Hall School semi-protected 3 months (which will go until the end of the school year). –MuZemike 23:48, 8 March 2010 (UTC)

Evidence submitted by Eagles247
Userpage shows that he has Asperger syndrome, which is what Gigogag has. It also shows that he wants to become an administrator. He created a sandbox, and added an expand template to an article. He stated on the talk page of an article that he will add info to it (here), not to mention the usual ":-)" he does. He edited the article Abacination, which Gigogag has edited on numerous occasions as different users.  Eagles   24/7   (C)  19:33, 20 April 2010 (UTC)

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 * Blocked and tagged. –MuZemike 17:38, 25 April 2010 (UTC)

Evidence submitted by Eagles247
Compare the userpage of VaderZeus with the former userpage of Gigogag. Both have a list of favorite kinds of music, and both have ancestry details. Both state they are descendants of Charles-Noël DeLisle, and both are part French, British, German and Irish. VaderZeus edited PACE-Brantley Hall School, a page Gigogag created, and a frequent place of editing for his socks. He has used the emoticon Gigogag uses here.

Also, another one of Gigogag's socks, User:MagicZeus, has the word "Zeus" in it.  Eagles   24/7  (C)  20:56, 25 August 2010 (UTC)

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Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments
Blocked and tagged. –MuZemike 20:59, 25 August 2010 (UTC)