Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Keith Bridgeman/Archive

see also Long term abuse/General Tojo

Report date April 19 2009, 19:18 (UTC)

 * Suspected sockpuppets

All they do is generate identical attacks on the same editor (Chris73)  Yintaɳ  19:18, 19 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Evidence submitted by  Yintaɳ


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 * Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments


 * Blocked as socks of . Nathan  T (formerly Avruch) 20:18, 19 April 2009 (UTC)


 * Conclusions

Report date April 18 2009, 04:01 (UTC)

 * Suspected sockpuppets


 * Evidence submitted by Mango juice talk

User:Anders Svensen was blocked as a sock of General Tojo; like many General Tojo socks, he had a specific real name username, a local area of interest, and made an edit to General Tojo's long term abuse page. I declined Anders Svensen's third unblock request, and as an obvious sockpuppet, I locked him from using the talk page. Soon after, Svensen created an obvious sockpuppet, User:Andy Svensen which he used to berate me for having declined his unblock request. I responded and immediately blocked this sock as well.

Soon after this, User:90.210.115.169 went on a vandalism spree, making personal attacks on me and vandalizing my user page: see Special:Contributions/90.210.115.169, practically all the edits are of this sort. During this vandalism spree, this user also reverted an edit of mine at Maltese (dog), an article I've been involved in closely lately, where things are quite tense and touchy. 90.210.115.169 was blocked 48 hours for vandalism. Later, a similar revert were made by User:90.207.61.71, who also made a personal attack comment against me at User talk:Imbris, an editor I've been collaborating with at the Maltese dog article.

Tonight, this same IP editor reverted the article. Soon afterwards, User:Maltese Dog Expert registered an account, and made a bunch of minor changes to the article. After all his edits were done ( was the last), another new account was registered, User:Gerenti Favalia who made some more minor changes to the article. After I reverted the IP editor's revert, Gerenti Favalia reverted the page back. At this point I realized the dovetailing nature of the edits of these two new accounts, and also noted another similarity in their edit histories.

I'm asking that General Tojo or recent socks of his be checked, just to clarify the situation: is this General Tojo or a new troll that accidentally imitated Tojo's patterns? Mango juice talk 04:20, 18 April 2009 (UTC)


 * For clarification, I had listed this request under User:Anders Svensen because it's only the behavior after I declined the unblock request that I think is necessary to consider. I am not especially presenting evidence that this user is General Tojo, it was just the allegation.  But I will alert User:Chris73, the blocking admin, if he wants to comment on it.  Mango juice talk 04:20, 18 April 2009 (UTC)


 * Comments by accused parties    See Defending yourself against claims.

Anders Svensen was blocked indef by me because of heavy suspicion of sockpuppetry, being a puppet of General Tojo, also known as Keith Bridgeman from London. He is known to try to make up fake aliases (| Swedish? Even copying text from Swedish language? That's really lame.) The harassment pattern Mangojuice experienced since then fits perfectly to Tojo - reverting edits of the user and name calling on his talk page, the latter preferred in uppercase. For examples please see my |Talk page history. Block on sight and revert. I took the liberty of blocking the above sockpuppets indef, too.-- Chris 73 | Talk 05:47, 18 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Comments by other users

Requested by Mango juice talk 04:01, 18 April 2009 (UTC)
 * CheckUser requests

per sufficient evidence of similarity to indef-blocked user. Mayalld (talk) 07:32, 18 April 2009 (UTC)

Additional information needed: Please provide a code letter. SPCUClerkbot (talk) 04:02, 18 April 2009 (UTC) Blocked 90.207.0.0/17 AO, ACB for 24 hours. These users aren't operating from the Tiscali ISP, but it could still be General Tojo editing from a new location and new set of IPs. Nishkid64 (Make articles, not wikidrama) 16:47, 18 April 2009 (UTC)
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 * Moved from Sockpuppet investigations/Anders Svensen. Tiptoety  talk 04:06, 18 April 2009 (UTC)
 * The tags need to be changed to if you think its him. Then archive.  Syn  ergy  22:17, 18 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Conclusions
 * ✅ the following as one user:
 * See my note.  Syn  ergy 22:17, 18 April 2009 (UTC)

Report date April 22 2009, 12:25 (UTC)

 * Suspected sockpuppets

Appears to be an obvious sockpuppet - user is undoing edits by User:Chris 73 without explanation, e.g.. — Snigbrook 12:25, 22 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Evidence submitted by — Snigbrook


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 * Comments by other users

Requested by — Snigbrook 12:25, 22 April 2009 (UTC) No Cu for ducks. Mayalld (talk) 13:14, 22 April 2009 (UTC)
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Mayalld (talk) 13:14, 22 April 2009 (UTC) Mayalld (talk) 13:14, 22 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Conclusions

Report date April 26 2009, 20:04 (UTC)

 * Suspected sockpuppets




 * Evidence submitted by Momo san Gespräch

Appear to be General Tojo sockpuppets, Need to see if range blocks can be imposed.


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Requested by Momo san Gespräch 20:04, 26 April 2009 (UTC)
 * CheckUser requests

Need to see if He is on Open Proxies and/or if range blocks can be imposed, also to root out sleeper accounts too.

Additional information needed: Please provide a code letter. SPCUClerkbot (talk) 20:04, 26 April 2009 (UTC)
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 * — Jake Wartenberg  21:20, 27 April 2009 (UTC)
 * -- lucasbfr  talk 08:32, 28 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Some . There's obviously some collateral, but that should annoy him a bit. -- Luk  talk (lucasbfr) 12:30, 30 April 2009 (UTC)

Mayalld (talk) 12:33, 30 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Conclusions

Report date August 12 2009, 17:10 (UTC)

 * Suspected sockpuppets


 * Evidence submitted by Feydey

Appears to be General Tojo sockpuppet since adding his own book to Ferdinand Magellan (diff) and removing other refs. feydey (talk) 17:10, 12 August 2009 (UTC)


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 * Conclusions
 * ✅, also . Nishkid64 (Make articles, not wikidrama) 17:15, 12 August 2009 (UTC)

Report date August 12 2009, 20:19 (UTC)

 * Suspected sockpuppets




 * Evidence submitted by Momusufan

Please see checkuser request below

See User:Your dear friend Aaron's edits to this very sockpuppet report. --Tckma (talk) 12:10, 14 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Evidence submitted by tckma


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 * Comments by other users
 * Another General Tojo sockpuppet: . feydey (talk) 11:38, 13 August 2009 (UTC)
 * And . feydey (talk) 11:43, 13 August 2009 (UTC)
 * And . feydey (talk) 11:49, 13 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Note: Aaron Black 20 (AF test by KoH), Aaron Black ef test, and Aaron Black third test were all created by me in an attempt to test filter 225. King of &hearts;   &diams;   &clubs;  &spades; 16:03, 14 August 2009 (UTC)

Requested by Momo san Gespräch 20:19, 12 August 2009 (UTC) Need to find out if this user chain is on a static IP or is on a dynamic range. This user may go in succession (Aaron Black 7, 8, 9, etc.) Momo san Gespräch 20:19, 12 August 2009 (UTC)
 * CheckUser requests


 * Looks like General Tojo is involved in these sockpuppets. Momo san Gespräch 21:09, 12 August 2009 (UTC)


 * to weed out the rest of the sockfarm and to check for a block on the IP/range. MuZemike 22:01, 12 August 2009 (UTC)
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 * Update: Several accounts have been created in succession, up to number 21, all of which have been blocked. \ Backslash Forwardslash / {talk} 11:37, 14 August 2009 (UTC)

Conclusions ✅ All confirmed, tag at will, but the IP ranges are both very large and full of uninvolved editors, so a rangeblock is contraindicated; sorry. -- Avi (talk) 04:41, 14 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Tagged. —  Jake   Wartenberg  01:06, 15 August 2009 (UTC)

Report date August 15 2009, 11:26 (UTC)

 * Suspected sockpuppets

Hell In A Bucket (talk) 11:26, 15 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Evidence submitted by Hell In A Bucket (talk)


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Both accounts have been blocked indef. — Jake   Wartenberg  20:40, 15 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Conclusions

Evidence submitted by Wknight94

 * Pathetically long-term vandal General Tojo using sleeper socks. In particular, Account name 21123 recently snuck through even though it was created weeks before the latest checkuser blocks.  Any more deep in the drawer?  Thanks.   Wknight94  talk  13:38, 26 October 2009 (UTC)

Comments by accused parties
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Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments
90.207.88.252 and 90.216.40.113 have not edited before. They're all probably socks of Tojo, but I don't think blocking those IP would do much good here, as it looks like he's IP-hopping. MuZemike 19:20, 26 October 2009 (UTC)
 * The edit filter hears a lot of his childish tantrums. Those are just provided for additional info anyway.   Wknight94  talk  19:34, 26 October 2009 (UTC)
 * OK, I get it. Thanks for the clarification. MuZemike 19:35, 26 October 2009 (UTC)
 * He's doing it even now. BTW, I snapped a recent picture (see right).   Wknight94  talk  19:42, 26 October 2009 (UTC)

. Sleepers are present here (see page history). Peter Symonds ( talk ) 19:43, 26 October 2009 (UTC)

✅ =

Also, et al. are ✅ as being related to these accounts, so someone may want to update his casepage and/or socks. J.delanoy <sup style="color:red;">gabs <sub style="color:blue;">adds 20:17, 26 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Oh, I thought everyone knew about the Aaron Black socks. Sorry if those aren't tied together clearly.   Wknight94  <sup style="color: blue;">talk  20:20, 26 October 2009 (UTC)

Conclusions
Cases merged. Remaining accounts tagged. Peter <b style="color:#02b;">Symonds</b> ( talk ) 20:32, 26 October 2009 (UTC)

Evidence submitted by Wknight94
Well, it's about that time to check for more General Tojo socks. The list above are all blocked (I think) and include sleepers that snuck through prior checks. Hopefully they represent all IP ranges. Any sleepers and range blocks are appreciated. Thank you. Wknight94 <sup style="color: blue;">talk  21:56, 31 October 2009 (UTC)

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Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments
All accounts listed are ✅. The IPs are mostly correct, but very, very dynamic, so blocking them is extremely unlikely to produce any results.
 * <b style="color:navy;">NW</b> ( Talk ) 22:13, 31 October 2009 (UTC)

Also I found these, some are new, some were listed here previously



and a lot more, but all of the other accounts on the ranges are blocked already, and these should be more than enough to furnish material for the next case.

All of the accounts I found that were not blocked are blocked now. Range blocks are not going to do anything here, unfortunately. J.delanoy <sup style="color:red;">gabs <sub style="color:blue;">adds 23:21, 1 November 2009 (UTC)

Conclusions
All registered accounts tagged as socks. MuZemike 18:10, 2 November 2009 (UTC)

Evidence submitted by Wknight94

 * Time for another check for sleeper and good-hand socks. He is using sleepers to get around semi-protection and sometimes uses good-hand socks to promote his useless web site.  I included the most recent socks as well as a list from the last check as recommended by Jdelanoy.  Thanks as always.   Wknight94  <sup style="color: blue;">talk  12:07, 10 November 2009 (UTC)

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 * . <b style="color:navy;">NW</b> ( Talk ) 12:44, 10 November 2009 (UTC)


 * All tagged and bagged. Brandon (talk) 08:38, 11 November 2009 (UTC)

16 April 2011

 * Suspected sockpuppets




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Sad old Keith Bridgeman (AKA General Tojo) has returned to spam his sad old publishing company, Viartis. As usual, he'll be reverting people's edits and whining for a while until he realizes he is embarrassing himself personally and professionally - again. In case I missed any, please do a sleeper sock check. Thank you. Wknight94 talk 03:50, 16 April 2011 (UTC)

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 * - So endorsing for sleepers. —  Hello Annyong  (say whaaat?!) 13:10, 16 April 2011 (UTC)
 * No sleepers that I saw (although all the accounts listed are indeed matches to each other). If this is Tojo, it would need to be archived there. TN <b style="color:midnightblue; font-size:larger;">X</b> Man  13:22, 16 April 2011 (UTC)
 * Looking at the General Tojo stuff, I think we should keep them separate for now. There seems to be confusion as to what was going on there, so I don't think we need to add to the mess. —  Hello Annyong  (say whaaat?!) 13:53, 16 April 2011 (UTC)