Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Homeboy99/Archive

Report date February 18 2009, 06:45 (UTC)

 * Suspected sockpuppets
 * Suspected sock


 * Proven socks: Victoriagirl1 et al = Sunray30 et al = =  =  =  =  =  =


 * Evidence submitted by maclean
 * See Requests for checkuser/Case/Arthur Ellis.
 * See also Suspected sock puppets/Overeditor
 * Persistent BLP violations across multiple usernames, impersonations of established editors (Victoriagirl and Sunray).
 * User:Homeboy99 is tagged as Arthur Ellis but the last checkuser (see above) did not solidly prove the link.
 * I don't know who the sockmaster is so I named this section after the closest name: Homeboy99.
 * Can I also add User:Hotgirl100 & User:Backtalk99? Same pattern, accounts created minutes before User:Homeboy100?


 * Comments by accused parties    See Defending yourself against claims.


 * Comments by other users

Though Homeboy100, a single purpose account, made one edit in January of 2008, the user has only become truly active in the past two days. His edits follow those made by and, and are remarkably similar in nature. With minor variations, all support the following claims, made during the sockpuppet attack that took place in the early days of 2008.

‘Suzuki has one of the largest carbon footprints of any living person’

Suzuki travels ‘around the world by jet four out of every five days’

Suzuki ‘buys carbon credits and thus he feels he is behaving in an environmentally friendly manner’

‘Suzuki acknowledged to CBC television The Hour that he travels by plane most days each week’.

Suzuki ‘vacations in Australia twice a year to rest up to lecture the rest of us not to travel by airplane due to the devastating impact on the environment.’

Note that these (currently unreferenced) claims have been discussed endlessly on the talk page Past references, including the one provided from The Hour have failed to support any of these statements. Victoriagirl (talk) 05:22, 19 February 2009 (UTC)


 * Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments
 * Can you show me some diffs, or at least links to contribs/articles to compare. I vastly prefer diffs though. ——  nix eagle email me 17:30, 18 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Sample edits below. The proven socks all rag on David Suzuki. The Homeboy100 account was created in the same timeframe as the proven socks, and with a similar username, and editing the same article.
 * Homeboy100
 * Sockpuppet99
 * Homeboy99 rv rv
 * Backtalk rv
 * Overeditor rv
 * If I was permitted a fishing expedition I'd add User:Sunray100 to the list, recently created, fitting the pattern of the numbered accounts (User:Sunray10, User:Sunray20, User:Sunray30), and impersonation of the real User:Sunray who crossed paths with the sockmaster. --maclean 00:04, 19 February 2009 (UTC)
 * All listed accounts blocked by others, Sunray100 not included. ——  nix eagle email me 14:55, 20 February 2009 (UTC)

All blocked. Peter Symonds ( talk ) 14:58, 20 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Conclusions