Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Macdaddyc/Archive

28 January 2012

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He was apparently hit by an autoblock. That and behavioral evidence suggest that he is a sockpuppet of the long time indef-blocked user. — Ryulong ( 竜龙 ) 02:16, 28 January 2012 (UTC)

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 * Being hit with the autoblock doesn't necessarily mean they're the same. Maybe they both live in a large city and have edited from the same Starbucks or whatever, who knows. Can you expand on the behavioral evidence, though? —  Hello Annyong  (say whaaat?!) 15:37, 29 January 2012 (UTC)
 * The topic areas are similar. So I doubt that someone who reveals that they have been hit by an autoblock on an account who was blocked several years ago and edits similar pages is going to be someone completely different.— Ryulong ( 竜龙 ) 05:32, 30 January 2012 (UTC)
 * No, I'm closing this. In his unblock, Jpgordon noted that this could have been a Mediawiki bug. Without that evidence, there isn't much reason to block, so I'm closing. —  Hello Annyong  (say whaaat?!) 02:50, 1 February 2012 (UTC)

18 February 2014

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In 2007, I indefinitely blocked for being a drain on the project. His user talk page is full of image deletion notices and inappropriately created article notices. He has a preferred topic area of what was Power Rangers, Transformers, Zoids, and I believe he made some articles on some non-notable DJs that were deleted. While I am not 100% sure, I believe I did block some other sockpuppets of Macdaddyc that did show up in the intervening time.

In 2011, appeared and began editing in the exact same topic areas. His first edits are to Tokumei Sentai Go-Busters and creating non-notable articles regarding hiphop. He has also recently (at the commons) made bad image uploads. In 2012, he posted an auto-unblock request on a block imposed on Macdaddyc. When I first reported this, it was believed to have been a software bug, but I still seriously doubt that. Based on the behavioral evidence, as well as this so-called "bug", I am fairly certain that Youngsevon is Macdaddyc who is evading the block I put on him for what has since become WP:CIR. His talk page is full of problematic image upload notices and he is editing in the same topic area. It is clear that the operator of the Youngsevon account lacks the competence needed here, as Macdaddyc did in 2007. For that reason alone he should probably be blocked, but that is only being compounded by the sockpuppetry. — Ryūlóng ( 琉竜 ) 06:16, 18 February 2014 (UTC)

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I'm sorry Ryulong, but I can't find any way to connect the two editors together. I understand that they've edited similar topic areas, but there is zero overlap in terms of articles or non-article space between the accounts. Neither editor uses edit summaries, which is one way that I try to connect editors. Macdaddyc never made a single edit to non-article space, no comments anywhere, so I can't compare communication styles. While the autoblock thing is suspicious, sure, it was dismissed at the time it occurred and I don't see any reason to overrule the conclusion that was reached back then. In fact, I don't see anything that has changed between now and the last time this SPI was filed. Just to assure you as to how thorough I've been, I checked your entire block log history (the log of editors you blocked as an administrator). The only editor that I can see that you blocked for evading Macdaddyc's block was 70.170.122.38, who I also compared against Youngsevon yet with nothing to connect the two. (For what it's worth, the IP you blocked for Macdaddyc's block evasion geolocates to Los Angeles, while Youngsevon's IP that was autoblocked geolocates to Las Vegas.) If there were any other editors you blocked as a sockpuppet of Macdaddyc it wasn't noted in the block log itself. So I have to close this investigation, since there is no clear evidence to support any socking. --  At am a  頭 23:45, 28 February 2014 (UTC)