Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/HesAChamp/Archive

Report date May 29 2009, 16:55 (UTC)

 * Suspected sockpuppets




 * Evidence submitted by Wguynes

Account engaged in a long interval, one-subject edit campaign. The edits almost exclusively targeted individuals in apparently random articles and accusing them of being "self-promoters." (Not wikipedia users, but people mentioned in articles.)

The initial round of edits:                                         

When asked to stop doing so, another account, User:SixInchesDown, was created and began to repost some of the removed content. When this new account was also warned on his/her talk page, HesAChamp returned to remove parts of the warning giving strong evidence that they were the same individual. See Talk:HesAChamp and Talk:SixInchesDown for the discussions.

The behavior ceases for awhile, but three new individuals have now appeared making the same types of edits. User:SoItsTold, User talk:WhattaFeat, and Special:Contributions/72.66.47.124

Requesting a Checkuser so that other, similar, edits by unknown accounts might be corrected.

-- Wguynes (Talk | contribs) 16:55, 29 May 2009 (UTC)


 * Comments by accused parties    See Defending yourself against claims.


 * Comments by other users

Requested by -- Wguynes (Talk | contribs) 16:55, 29 May 2009 (UTC)
 * CheckUser requests

to check for other accounts. — Jake   Wartenberg  19:22, 29 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments

✅ - for all the IDs listed above except 72.66.47.124 which can only be related by editing behavior. I've indef blocked all of the userIDs and the underlying college /21 range for 1 month. Please do check all the edit histories of the IDs and IP I added above & clear up any vandalism. -- Versa geek  20:12, 29 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Conclusions
 * All accounts tagged. —  Jake   Wartenberg  20:27, 29 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Went through contribs to remove vandalism. Closing.  —  Jake   Wartenberg  20:47, 29 May 2009 (UTC)