Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Lyndasim/Archive

02 September 2014

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All focus on adding puffery and removing sources from. Sockmaster and first two socks have already been blocked, Getalifeandstopmodyfingwikis and Bluebook Dictionery have just materialized. Only listing two most recent IP socks; there have been others. Figureofnine (talk • contribs) 15:45, 2 September 2014 (UTC)

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This appears to be a tangled web of both sock and meat puppets (paid editors, Benjamin Wey himself, and employees of Wey). A checkuser may be required to sort this out and look for sleepers.

I very much doubt if Lyndasim, the creator of Benjamin Wey, is the sockmaster of all the others listed given the eclectic bunch of non-notable BLPs which she had attempted to create before she was blocked (See Articles for deletion/Zach Everson for a partial list). She was obviously a paid editor hired to create the article on Wey. The others, who stepped into the article when it appeared that the promotional tone and whitewashing weren't working out, are probably meat puppets (but possibly socks of each other) who are very closely connected to Wey himself.

Meanwhile, we have, whose user page has now been deleted as a blatant advertisement for Benjamin Wey (NYGG is his company). The account was created in March 2011, about the time the first version of Benjamin Wey was created. The IP listed above, 23.254.107.173, claims to be Benjamin Wey and yesterday issued this legal threat on the article's talk page. Note that 162.246.187.17 also claims to be Benjamin Wey.

User:Getalifeandstopmodyfingwikis was created on 15 June 2014, four minutes after User:Cashfranklingroup was blocked but did not edit until yesterday when he attempted to delete large sections of Benjamin Wey. Note that Cash Franklin Group is the registrant of benjaminwey.net (see Whois). This threat by User:Cashfranklingroup to User:DGG who attempted to clean up the article is very similar in tone, style, and timing to those made by the IPs posting on Talk:Benjamin Wey and purporting to be Wey himself. See also this unsavory threat to User:Deb, three minutes after she protected the Benjamin Wey page. Six minutes after the threat was made to User:DGG, the account User:DGG187 (a blatant impersonation of User:DGG) was created and then attempted to whitewash the article in tandem with User:Cashfranklingroup and 107.168.129.147. Note that this IP and 192.255.70.50 (already listed above as a suspected sockpuppet) both resolve to Micfo, LLC.

User:Bluebook Dictionery and User:Bluebook Dictionary (both registered yesterday) are clearly the same user and have been editing in tandem with User:Getalifeandstopmodyfingwikis. – Voceditenore (talk) 09:11, 3 September 2014 (UTC)


 * I agree with the above assessment. I do not think User:Lyndasim is the puppet-master here. Deb (talk) 09:41, 3 September 2014 (UTC)


 * I am not sure about Lyndasim, but I was not aware of Benjaminweynygg and agree that is more likely sockmaster. Have added Benjaminweynygg but I think it is better to reframe this SP case as Sockpuppet investigations/Benjaminweynygg. Figureofnine (talk • contribs) 12:30, 3 September 2014 (UTC)


 * Possibly, but checkuser-wise, the Benjaminweynygg account is almost certainly "stale". Cashfranklingroup, the next oldest account (apart from Lyndsasim), barely makes it into the three month limit for storing checkuser data. Cashfranklingroup last edited on 15 June. Voceditenore (talk) 13:19, 3 September 2014 (UTC)


 * I wasn't even thinking Checkuser was necessary, as their behavior quacks. Figureofnine (talk • contribs) 13:23, 3 September 2014 (UTC)
 * I requested a checkuser despite the quacking because there may be more then one user involved, each with their own sock(s), but united in a single purpose. Also, there may still be sleepers. Note User:Getalifeandstopmodyfingwikis registered in June but did not start editing until yesterday. Voceditenore (talk) 13:52, 3 September 2014 (UTC)


 * Good point, and as I am new to this article I hadn't noticed the menacing behavior or the more recent legal threat. Good you pointed that out. Figureofnine (talk • contribs) 14:00, 3 September 2014 (UTC)


 * I reported 23.254.107.173's legal threat to ANI earlier today . The IP address has now been hardblocked for two weeks. Voceditenore (talk) 15:07, 3 September 2014 (UTC)

Have added another likely sock, User:Iclaudius markets. Figureofnine (talk • contribs) 15:22, 13 September 2014 (UTC)


 * I don't think that User:Iclaudius markets is a sock of any of the above. He may well be another "connected contributor", but the style of his edit summaries and his cooperative interaction with other editors makes it highly unlikely that he is a sockpuppet. Voceditenore (talk) 07:28, 15 September 2014 (UTC)


 * More polite but still a self-evident sock. While it's appreciated that he has shifted tactics and is not bombarding us with legal threats, his edits continue to consist of POV pushing. Figureofnine (talk • contribs) 20:31, 15 September 2014 (UTC)


 * You're right about the POV pushing and certainly the timing. And, as the checkuser results now show, User:Iclaudius markets is a sock of both User:Bluebook Dictionery and User:Bluebook Dictionary. On closer examination of their edits, User:Iclaudius markets simply tried to re-add the same reverted edits made by User:Bluebook Dictionary, only incrementally. It's a pity that the backlog at SPI prevented a timely checkuser, because I think the results would have been very revealing. I requested Checkuser on 3 September. The Cashfranklingroup account only became stale on 15 September (two days ago). Sigh. Voceditenore (talk) 09:39, 17 September 2014 (UTC)


 * In my view User:Getalifeandstopmodyfingwikis is a sock of Cashfranklingroup. Since the Cashfranklingroup account became stale 2 days ago, we have to go on behavioural evidence. Note the similarity in expression between this attempt at intimidating another editor by Cashfranklingroup: "Please find another wiki to modify" and the user name: Getalifeandstopmodyfingwikis. As I noted above, Getalifeandstopmodyfingwikis was created on 15 June 2014, four minutes after Cashfranklingroup was blocked . Getalifeandstopmodyfingwikis made their first edit to Benjamin Wey within an hour of the IP   23.254.107.173 claiming to be Benjamin Wey making this legal threat on Talk:Benjamin Wey on 2 September. Getalifeandstopmodyfingwikis has not edited since, but the IP was hard blocked the following day for two weeks for making legal threats and block evasion . User:Bluebook Dictionery also registered the same day that the IP made the legal threats, but he (and his two confirmed socks) may well be a meat puppet drafted in to "help out". Voceditenore (talk) 14:54, 17 September 2014 (UTC)

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * Alright here we go:
 * Cashfranklingroup, DGG187 and Benjaminweynygg are for CU.  for Lyndasim.
 * The following are ✅ to each other:
 * Getalifeandstopmodyfingwikis is bordering on technically ❌ but WP:MEAT can't be discounted. Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 08:17, 17 September 2014 (UTC)
 * Getalifeandstopmodyfingwikis is bordering on technically ❌ but WP:MEAT can't be discounted. Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 08:17, 17 September 2014 (UTC)
 * Getalifeandstopmodyfingwikis is bordering on technically ❌ but WP:MEAT can't be discounted. Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 08:17, 17 September 2014 (UTC)
 * Getalifeandstopmodyfingwikis is bordering on technically ❌ but WP:MEAT can't be discounted. Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 08:17, 17 September 2014 (UTC)


 * CU confirmed users blocked. Getalifeandstopmodyfingwikis also blocked due to behavioral evidence, especially given that the username is likely indicative of someone who is fed up and resorting to creating multiple accounts to edit. Benjaminweynygg blocked on behavior as well. King of &hearts;   &diams;   &clubs;  &spades; 05:55, 4 October 2014 (UTC)
 * Benjaminweynygg is indeed the oldest account, but it has no edits (and only one deleted edits). Also I'd prefer not to keep SPIs under someone's real name if we can avoid it. Lyndasim, being the oldest other account, will remain the title. King of &hearts;   &diams;   &clubs;  &spades; 05:57, 4 October 2014 (UTC)