Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Jimi Lewis/Archive

24 December 2014

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was blocked indefinitely in July for single-purpose disruption - namely, genre trolling on articles related to various pop/rock artists. began editing days later, with similar interest in genre listings for bands such as Maroon 5/Imagine Dragons/Train, and a newfound interest in Ed Sheeran. He was blocked as a duck on the 19th. The next day, began editing, and - lo and behold - all of their contributions thus far are genre edits to Maroon 5, Sheeran, and Imagine Dragons articles. –Chase (talk / contribs) 20:56, 24 December 2014 (UTC)

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 * Checkuser comments: The  and  accounts are stale, so there is nothing to compare  with.  I will note that there are literally dozens (if not hundreds) of accounts that focus almost completely on popular music genre tags, some of which are socks, and some of which aren't, and many of which have become regular editors of music articles. I can't help wondering if the better solution would be to stop adding genres to infoboxes, since they are a subject of constant, interminable dispute even amongst experienced and respected editors, the information is almost always unsourced, and it's of little or no use to readers given its unreliability. Risker (talk) 02:23, 28 December 2014 (UTC)
 * I don't think I can conclusively call the accounts socks of each other. There's not really any consistent behavior between the two accounts. Also, it seems like the accounts are changing the genres differently. Jimi Lewis 1 Jimi Lewis 2 Delgada1975 I'm closing the case with no action taken. Mike V  •  Talk  03:20, 28 December 2014 (UTC)