Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Infodealer2008/Archive

Evidence submitted by Uncle Milty
Since late 2007, a user logging in with all of the above user names has been on a mission to keep the article Tim Kash as promotional and one-sided as possible. This user creates a new username regularly, never creates a user page, and only edits the one article. Most of those edits have been to revert any changes other editors make. At a point this year the article "settled" at a size of 5,038 bytes as its most one-sided version, and you can scan the edit history and see where each time this user (under many different but similar names) reverts any changes back to that 5,038 byte edition. &#124; Uncle Milty  &#124;  talk  &#124;  19:33, 24 July 2010 (UTC)

Comments by accused parties
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Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments
I think it's pretty obvious it's the same person. -- B s a d o w s k i 1   05:53, 25 July 2010 (UTC)
 * With this many socks, there's probably a bunch of sleepers on the sock farm. A CU should weed them out. (Man, all the agricultural puns!) ( X! ·  talk )  · @985  · 22:37, 25 July 2010 (UTC)

All accounts indefinitely blocked and tagged. –MuZemike 22:45, 25 July 2010 (UTC)

Those socks have a clear agenda, and all touched this one article. Since all potential accounts from the last three months were already included above it was actually unlikely that anything non-stale could possibly turn up in a check. Alas, only the following are ✅ the same user: No technical evidence ties Detailwhiteout213 in with the above, but nothing to rule him out either. All else are stale. I also point out that some of the accounts listed as suspected socks made perfectly legit edits, like e.g. or. I don't know whether the naming pattern and the article focus are enough for the block here. Amalthea 23:37, 25 July 2010 (UTC)
 * All Blocked and tagged. Closing/Archiving w/ X! looking over. -- &#47; DeltaQuad &#124; Notify Me  &#92; 01:06, 26 July 2010 (UTC)