Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Greg Jacques/Archive

29 March 2015

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I edit a lot of sports related articles, and have recently blocked a lot of vandalism-only accounts. Conspicuous is a trend of these account using deceptive edit descriptions like "added content" or "fixed typo" to seemingly mask patrol of these edits. Other editors at WikiProject National Basketball Association have also noticed the same trend. Perhaps only a few (or none) of these accounts are related, but I figure a checkuser can quickly determine if this is the work of a serial vandal.

Here is a sampling of edit summaries from vandalism edits for each user:
 * Greg Jacques: "Fixed typo"
 * Jgreatmab: "Added"
 * Chesterlurking99: "Typo"
 * Jbalbert1: "Just a minor edit"
 * Skill Master13: "Helped out community"
 * Jimmygwa: "Fixed the info.
 * ImpracticalJokes: "Added content
 * Jeff greeny "I fixed a word that was misspelled" —Bagumba (talk) 23:08, 29 March 2015 (UTC)

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Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments
As nominator, requesting CU to see if there are related registered accounts i.e. good/bad WP:HAND accounts, and requesting longer term blocks of underlying IP if there is a serial vandal.—Bagumba (talk) 23:12, 29 March 2015 (UTC) As all accounts were already blocked as VOA, nothing left to do.—Bagumba (talk) 18:21, 4 April 2015 (UTC)
 * . However please continue to report such patterns of sneaky vandalism in the future. - Mailer Diablo 07:41, 4 April 2015 (UTC)