Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Hotndead/Archive

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Hotndead's only purpose on Wikipedia seems to be going around changing the genre on film and TV articles. The edits at American Psycho (film) are particular problematic, where there has been a spate of anonyomus and SPA edits: It is unclear if they are the same person but they seem to be connected in some way. I don't think it's a coincidence that a newly registered genre warrior and a SPA would suddenly show up and start supporting an edit-warring IP editor. I also strongly suspect that Hotndead is not the sockmaster. Betty Logan (talk) 12:17, 18 July 2016 (UTC)
 * 2a02:c7d:59a4:4000:4476:920d:865b:ab6a - Changes genre to horror (June 29)
 * Hotndead - reinstates the horror genre (July 17)
 * 2a02:c7d:59a4:4000:2116:4172:52b1:e143 - reinstates the genre (July 17)
 * Sarahlily86 - Newly registered SPA supports the alteration on the talk page (July 17)
 * 2a02:c7d:59a4:4000:fc8a:7ab8:6383:efe8 - reinstates the genre (July 18)

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✅, blocked and tagged. No other accounts seen. Closing.--Bbb23 (talk) 14:55, 18 July 2016 (UTC)

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(a sock) was blocked overnight. I have been reverting his edits this morning. This account was created this morning and is reverting some of those edits back. Kellymoat (talk) 14:18, 3 January 2017 (UTC)

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Hi, I'm unfamiliar with this process here and how exactly I am meant to defend myself ? However all I will say is that as my talk page states I was using Wiki under anonymous for a while tracking a few pages. I sadly decided to make my account today which somehow appears to look tied into this mess. The edits I reverted which were involved with a sock puppet ( I believe two pages ? ) happened to be two pages I keep track of so naturally when I saw they had been changed from a correct edit I corrected them again. Not sure why I've immediately then been accused of this but it's quite alarming that there's speak of me being blocked when there's no evidence I'm aiding a sock puppet and I've simply changed two edits back to their original state with a fair explanation. Lanabanabonana92 (talk) 23:57, 3 January 2017 (UTC)

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 * CU evidence didn't help very much. The behavioral is pretty damming. Leaving this up to a clerk to do the final block  Guerillero  &#124;  Parlez Moi  22:18, 3 January 2017 (UTC)
 * - It's pretty obvious. Please block. Thanks, GABgab 23:03, 3 January 2017 (UTC)
 * I had a look as well, and I'll call them a highly match. Blocked and tagged. ​—DoRD (talk)​ 15:03, 4 January 2017 (UTC)

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Maybe I am just overly paranoid. But the edit summary and the genre change with obscure reference reminds me of what I dealt with from. Add in the fact that it is a new account which was made a day after the last one was blocked... Kellymoat (talk) 23:18, 4 January 2017 (UTC)

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 * CU blocked. the shoe fits Guerillero  &#124;  Parlez Moi  00:19, 5 January 2017 (UTC)

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I have suspected that this IP was used by but I never reported it because at the time it was just a guy sometimes using an account and sometimes an IP. Dalegrivinok has since been blocked as being a sockpuppet of Hotndead, which means this IP is being used as an evasion tactic. A page history comparison and and investigation into the edit behaviors will clearly demonstrate that it belongs to Dalegrivinok, and Dale belongs to Hotndead. Kellymoat (talk) 17:47, 19 January 2017 (UTC)

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@ I don't know how do that the right way, so let me do it this way --
 * On November 15/16, both users made the same edit to Cry Baby (album)
 * On November 19/20, both users made the same edit to Don't Breathe
 * On November 15 and 16, both users made almost the same edit to The Neighbourhood. One added the genre of Hip Hop and the other added Alternative Hip Hop, both posted the same source.
 * Both users have tried to add the same genres (on multiple occasions) to Donnie Darko
 * On October 15 and 25, both users made almost the same edit to Warm Bodies (film). One made it a romantic comedy-horror film, while the other made it a romantic comedy horror.
 * On Octover 30 and November 12, both users made the same edit to Under the Skin (2013 film)
 * On November 2 and 16, both users made the same edit to OutRun (album), but one user added a source.
 * On November 1 and 16, both users made the same edit to Café Flesh.
 * On October 2 and November 5, both users made the same edit to The Night Is Still Young (Nicki Minaj song)
 * On October 23 and December 11, both users made the same edit to The Stepfather (1987 film)

In addition, you have similar edit summaries and a consistent need to make movie genres horror.

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CU declined.--Bbb23 (talk) 17:59, 19 January 2017 (UTC)
 * In order to facilitate and expedite your request, please provide diffs to support your case. Please give two or more diffs meeting the following format:
 * 1) At least one diff is from the sockmaster (or an account already blocked as a confirmed sockpuppet of the sockmaster), showing the behaviour characteristic of the sockmaster.
 * 2) At least one diff per suspected sockpuppet, showing the suspected sockpuppet emulating the behaviour of the sockmaster given in the first diff.
 * 3) In situations where it is not immediately obvious from the diffs what the characteristic behaviour is, a short explanation must be provided. Around one sentence is enough for this. King of  &hearts;   &diams;   &clubs;  &spades; 03:51, 20 January 2017 (UTC)
 * Good enough for me. The extensive genre warring matches up.  Since the IP has only made two edits in the past month, I'll block it for a week.  If it becomes active again after that, we can go for a longer block. NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 18:57, 20 January 2017 (UTC)