Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Lzki/Archive

Report date January 16 2009, 22:25 (UTC)

 * Suspected sockpuppets:


 * Evidence submitted by Kww

We've had a huge pile of disruption centering around various versions of articles for the song "My Life Would Suck Without You". The first happened during the AFD for the article, and resulted in Lzki and 26 socks being blocked (see Requests for checkuser/Case/WIKI-GUY-16 for that, and potentially useful results in this checkuser). Since the AFD, the article has been continuously recreated under different titles by different editors, with salt being liberally sprinkled. To date, the history is:
 * Created by ; repeatedly recreated by
 * Created by ;multiple edits by and
 * Created by ; no recreations or other editors
 * Created by ; multiple edits by and
 * Created by
 * Created by
 * Created by ; multiple edits by and
 * Created by
 * Created by
 * Created by
 * Created by
 * Created by

On a related note, WIKI-GUY-16 himself is listed in this checkuser for completeness only ... I would be surprised if he were guilty of wrong-doing. He was exonerated in Requests for checkuser/Case/WIKI-GUY-16, but all 26 of those socks were tagged as his sockpuppets anyway. I chose Lzki as the master name for this one because he was the listed sock in that case. Is there a procedure for correcting the tags from that case? I hate to see an innocent editor marked as the master of 26 vandalizing socks.&mdash;Kww(talk) 21:30, 11 January 2009 (UTC)


 * Comments by accused parties    See Defending yourself against claims.


 * Comments by other users
 * , listed in the article history above, has been blocked indefinitely until other concerns about the user have been addressed. There are indications that that account is controlled by more than one person. Hers fold  (t/a/c) 07:37, 12 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Can someone explain why this request is languishing? Being connected to a report that uncovered 26 socks and containing two users that have been indefinitely blocked seems like sufficient justification.&mdash;Kww(talk) 16:58, 14 January 2009 (UTC)
 * It took over two days to close this joke. It's a backlogged process maybe. â Realist  2  17:01, 14 January 2009 (UTC)


 * Added SeventeenForever17, a brand-new user that managed to evade the salt laid down around 5 variations of the title and create yet another version.&mdash;Kww(talk) 21:04, 16 January 2009 (UTC)

Comment on checkuser results: SeventeenForever17 should be blocked. As for the remainder, if it looks like meat-puppeting, then there is nothing to be done. This is an announced single, and there is always a problem with people trying to create the article prior to charting, even though the guidelines say not to do that. The intensity of the effort in this case makes me believe that there was off-site coordination, but, since I cannot locate that coordination, I don't see a way to sort users creating the article in good faith from those that engaged in improper behaviour.&mdash;Kww(talk) 15:51, 18 January 2009 (UTC)

Tiptoety talk 03:02, 17 January 2009 (UTC)    Requested by Kww(talk) 21:30, 11 January 2009 (UTC)
 * CheckUser requests


 * Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments
 * Case merged from Requests for checkuser/Case/Lzki (page history). Tiptoety  talk 22:25, 16 January 2009 (UTC)

There is no particular link between these accounts, except that SeventeenForever17 is ✅ to be the same as Lzki and others blocked previously. Furthermore, I agree that it is likely that BlassFamily is being controlled by more than one user. It is my belief, therefore, that this is a campaign of meatpuppetry, given the geographic distribution of the IPs, which do not appear to be proxies. Note that there is absolutely no evidence of any connection to WIKI-GUY-16 -- perhaps users labelled as his sockpuppets can be de-tagged. [[Sam Korn ]] (smoddy) 17:10, 17 January 2009 (UTC)

User:SeventeenForever17 = User:Unwrittendrew700, as for the other things going on here, I'll come back when proxy checks are finished.  â Rlevse â¢ Talk  â¢ 17:42, 18 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Conclusions

Final results: ✅ =  =  =  =  =   =  =  =  = no obvious master, but calling Lzki socks since SPI is named that

✅ =

❌ - Retagged socks from prior RFCU to Lzki as master since this SPI is named Lzki.

Also, blocked 4 confirmed proxies for 6 months.  â Rlevse â¢ Talk  â¢ 01:58, 24 January 2009 (UTC) Tiptoety talk 19:11, 24 January 2009 (UTC)