Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Kksred1994/Archive

11 February 2014

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After user Kksred1994 was blocked for persistently uploading copyrighted images to Commons and linking them to Ty Law, this user was conveniently created and uploaded/linked another AP-copyrighted image (File:Ty Law Colts.jpg = http://www.apimages.com/metadata/Index/NFL-AP-S-FBN-MA-USA-DDMA01-Patriots-Colts-Football/e7536b79785b4b5b8a0e1f7db46834e5/2/0) using the name of the AP photographer as their username. Even the photog cannot release an AP photo for use here (and the real photographer would be well aware of this). I could be completely wrong, but I suspect WP:IMPERSONATE as well as sockpuppetry.  Dwpaul  Talk   16:05, 11 February 2014 (UTC)
 * Subsequently the file was deleted from Commons and undeletion was opposed there with the following comment: "Image is explicitly credited to the Associated Press and was published there before upload to the Commons. To the extent David Drapkin is indeed the AP photographer David Drapkin, photographs taken in the performance of duties would be expected to be works for hire, the related copyrights belonging to AP, not the employee.  We would require COM:OTRS permission from an AP domain to host this image."  This tends to support my suspicion that this user is not the person he is claiming to be.  Dwpaul   Talk   22:02, 11 February 2014 (UTC)

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 * - Enough there to warrant a check, but not enough for me to be sure enough for a block, so could a CU take a look please? Thanks, Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 11:51, 13 February 2014 (UTC)
 * - Both are using the same (somewhat common) software combination, but David Drapkin is was editing through an open proxy*. ​—DoRD (talk)​ 15:27, 13 February 2014 (UTC) *Now blocked
 * Enough there for a block as a sock. Sock indef'd and tagged, master for a week. Closing now. Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 09:46, 15 February 2014 (UTC)