Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Hodg/Archive

Evidence submitted by JRPG
Hodg contributed to Labour MP Andy Reed in 2005 and his newly elected opponent Nicky Morgan (politician) in 2010. Neither edit was critical of the subject.

I believe Conservative Councillor Hodgson is User:Hodg. Hodgson's blog and Wikipedia names are both Hodg. I believe he is using Lboids (and initially 94.192.10.40) to keep User:Hodg clean, WP:GHBH. Both Hodgson's blog and Lboids reference the other and sadly have similar personal attack styles. For example, Hodgson's blog front page very near the bottom :-

''Andy Reed was deeply involved in the expenses scandal and he enriched himself at taxpayers’ expense. He took full advantage of the expenses system and he was even ordered to repay £900.''

94.192.10.40 put a huge section on expenses into the Reed article citing Hodgson's blog + analysis Hodgson had made to an unchecked blog in the Guardian. The inserted material misquoted the Loughborough Echo The paper revealed that Reed had claimed thousands of pounds for home entertainment equipment breaching WP:BLP.

For the record, as the current Andy Reed article shows, the Leicester Mercury said that Reed came through the expenses scandle unscathed, whilst the Loughborough Echo showed under £1000 excluding office equipment.

Lboids was involved in an edit dispute with a local Labour councillor -which was reported on Hodgson's blog item (5) 21:47, 28/12/09. This references the second of Jewel Miah's 2 succesive edits. Lboids had edited the item before. Hodgson's blog described it as an attempt to abuse Wikipedia for personal political gain.

The neutrality of Lboids edits was challenged and some months later having warned on the talk page, I rewrote much of the article putting it into context. I also told User:94.192.10.40 that he had seriously misquoted the Echo. Lboids reinserted material and I warned him on the talk page that it was potentially libellous. He reinserted it again very early on 6th May, election day. Hodg re-emerged after a 5 year absence on 8th May performing redirects on Nicky Morgan and (possibly innocently) overwriting/redirecting my earlier stub.

I note someone is citing Wikipedia (a version similar to Lboids quoting Hodgson, I can't match it to a specific date) on

http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/topics/Andy_Reed and

A similar article but without the source name appears on :- http://www.nethelper.com/article/Andy_Reed

JRPG (talk) 20:52, 13 May 2010 (UTC)

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Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments
I think it's likely that this is two separate people closely related as opposed to one single person. The editing patterns, summaries, etc. don't necessary match up to socks from what I see. No action taken at this time. –MuZemike 19:31, 26 May 2010 (UTC)