Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Giuliosavo/Archive

Report date May 12 2009, 17:14 (UTC)

 * Suspected sockpuppets

The socks only edits have been to add links and to remove speedy deletion templates from the Rug Decor article, sockpuppeteer has long history of creating spam/copyright infringing articles and repeatedly recreating them.
 * Evidence submitted by Terrillja  talk

Both socks were created today, within 10 minutes of each other, then immediately started editing the article. Quack, quack

Nothing positive so far from any of them, can likely be blocked on behavior, no CU needed. Terrillja talk  17:14, 12 May 2009 (UTC)


 * Comments by accused parties    See Defending yourself against claims.


 * Comments by other users

How are the 3 related? I can see the relation between the two socks, but how did you come up with the socks being socks of Giuliosavo? ——  nix eagle email me 21:03, 12 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments
 * Tag team editing on the (now deleted article). Giuliosavo created it, removed the db tag, then within 30 min there were two brand new accounts which were adding links and one removed the db tag again. I can't see the timestamps anymore, since it's deleted, but the timing is very suspicious, he creates it, deletes the db tag, disappears, then 2 new accounts created within 10 minutes of each other just stumble upon it, with one talking about how great it is. If it isn't socking, then there is some meatpuppetry with Larrysumters, no one can stumble upon a recently created page that quickly without some sort of notice. So thus, meat/sockpuppetry between Giulosavo and Larry, and Larry and Bobby are pretty obviously related.-- Terrillja talk  21:57, 12 May 2009 (UTC)
 * FYI, Bobbytolli started editing the article 4 minutes after Giuliosavo stopped. A le_Jrb talk  17:00, 16 May 2009 (UTC)


 * Conclusions

Looking at the similarity of the deleted contributions for all three accounts, there is a high likelihood that these accounts belong to the same person. I've blocked and tagged the two socks, and blocked and warned the master for 3 days. Thanks, Peter Symonds ( talk ) 10:16, 21 May 2009 (UTC)