Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Ignitepictures/Archive

26 May 2014

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Recently User:Ignitepictures created several articles surrounding Zachary Laoutides. The articles were pretty quickly brought to AfD as they didn't really establish notability for the director of his films. Ignitepictures went around removing the AfD templates and was temporarily blocked for being disruptive. I indef'd them because of the username. However since then three accounts have been opened, all of which have edited the Laoutides related articles and performed the same actions such as removing AfD templates. One even created a new article and another blanked the AfD pages in an attempt to stop it from progressing. User:Octavio Nunez was believed to have been the sockmaster, but I believe that Ignitepictures is the master account here. All but Octavio have been indef'd. I'd like to have confirmation that they're all socks, plus a check for sleepers since there does seem to be a relatively high chance that there are other accounts. I almost didn't file this, but I'd like some sort of confirmation and I have a feeling that there will probably be a few more accounts to add to this over time. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡)   00:47, 26 May 2014 (UTC)



A new account just arrived on the Zachary Laoutides articles and AfDs. Rather suspicious that a brand new account made their first edits to these articles, especially !voting Keep on two AfDs. -- Gogo Dodo (talk) 20:03, 28 May 2014 (UTC)

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Well... if Ignitepictures had been a role account, it could be that the individuals who were managing that account went and created their own usernames, in which case it might not be abusive socking (though would probably qualify as paid advocacy). Anyway, just a thought based on the facts presented above. —/M endaliv /2¢/Δ's/ 04:58, 26 May 2014 (UTC)
 * I'd wondered about that, but User:Gogo Dodo wrote on my usertalk that Octavio is actually the first one to have been created, so chronologically speaking it looks like the Octavio account is the first one, then Ignitepictures, then the other accounts. He doesn't seem to have used the original account until after Ignitepictures was blocked and began trying to disrupt the AfD proceedings. From what I can see, the other accounts seem to have been created after Octavio was warned about disruptive editing. The edit patterns are fairly similar when it comes the disruptive editing- the only huge difference is that Octavio specifically stated that this was all a deliberate attempt to sabotage the films and the company. Even if they were opened by separate people, the intent here seems to be very specific, showing that if this isn't socking then it's definitely a concentrated meat effort. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡)   16:39, 26 May 2014 (UTC)


 * I was the one who blocked Octavio Nunez, Gonzalez89, and MikeyD909 for sockpuppetry. Here is the sequence of account creations and blocks:
 * 18:37, 29 April 2014 User account Ignitepictures was created
 * 20:18, 23 May 2014 User account Octavio Nunez was created
 * 20:22, 23 May 2014 Octavio Nunez made their to Zachary Laoutides
 * 23:54, 23 May 2014 IronGargoyle blocked Ignitepictures with an expiry time of 1 week (Disruptive editing)
 * 01:28, 24 May 2014 User account Gonzalez89 was created
 * 01:50, 24 May 2014 Tokyogirl79 changed block settings for Ignitepictures with an expiry time of indefinite (Disruptive editing, extending for promotional username)
 * 03:26, 25 May 2014 User account MikeyD909 was created
 * As I said on Tokyogirl79's talk page, at the time I made the blocks, I thought that the Octavio Nunez account was created after the Ignitepictures account was blocked as a role account. Since they are allowed to create a new account after their role account, I blocked the Octavio Nunez for one week for socking. The Gonzalez89 and MikeyD909 accounts I blocked indefinitely. I thought the Octavio Nunez account was a replacement for the Ignitepictures role account, so I sock tagged the Gonzalez89 and MikeyD909 accounts as socks of Octavio Nunez.


 * It was not until after Tokyogirl79 contacted me that I discovered that the Octavio Nunez account was created and they made their first edit before the Ignitepictures account was blocked. So the Octavio Nunez account was not created to replace the role account.


 * My opinion now is that Ignitepictures is the master account and the three other accounts are socks. The blocks that I had applied do seem to have effectively stopped the disruption of the related AfDs. We shall see what editing activity occurs after the one week block on the Octavio Nunez expires. I don't think there are any additional accounts because we probably should have seen them by now attempting to disrupt the AfDs. -- Gogo Dodo (talk) 05:22, 27 May 2014 (UTC)

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 * The technical data ✅ some pretty blatant socking by the named accounts. There is one additional sock account that has not yet been blocked, and that's .--Jezebel's Ponyo bons mots  21:20, 28 May 2014 (UTC)
 * Thank you. I blocked the Makingfilm account, reblocked the Octavio Nunez account to indefinite, and tagged/retagged all of the accounts with the new master account. -- Gogo Dodo (talk) 21:30, 28 May 2014 (UTC)

31 May 2014

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Two new SPAs just arrived on the Zachary Laoutides AfD !voting Keep as their first substantial edits. The both have an unusual "About Me" user page seen in previous socks and both have the same formatting error in their signatures. The ducks are quacking loudly. Asking for confirmation that these two are socks. -- Gogo Dodo (talk) 04:00, 31 May 2014 (UTC)

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 * It does look like they're copying my userpage and signature. A little flattering and I don't mind them doing it as long as they don't copy my userboxes to the degree that MakingFilm did, although I suppose that this is irrelevant if they end up being socks, which does look a little suspicious. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡)   04:16, 31 May 2014 (UTC)

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 * If they are ducks, then there is no need for CU. Blocked, closing. King of &hearts;   &diams;   &clubs;  &spades; 23:26, 31 May 2014 (UTC)

01 June 2014

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New account recreated all of the articles recently deleted by AfD. Blocked as an obvious sockpuppet, but adding here for the record. -- Gogo Dodo (talk) 20:45, 1 June 2014 (UTC)

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