Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Magic0306/Archive

25 March 2015

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Call this mostly WP:DUCK, but to begin, there's the undeniable similarity for the three usernames: a simply word beginning with a capital letter ending in a sequence of four numbers.
 * Moving onto diffs, the sockmaster account's edits all seem to be benign - he exclusively edits hip-hop and makes a simple addition where he sees one is necessary. It's always a mobile edit/mobile web edit, and it always contains an edit summary of either "I added X" or "I put Y." That's all good.
 * What caught my attention, though, was the Rob Kardashian article. Jesuslover2341's first edit upon joining was to immediately insert a small amount of vandalism into the article. Not that I can't give a little bit of WP:ROPE for a user's first edit being a minor joke that never actually made it into the article, and it's way too early to say that that will be that account's one and done edit, but upon looking at the history, I noticed Chrissy3903's edits. He registered 6 days ago, and started off with two minor edits to Kid Ink that were either good faith or even less noticeable vandalism (more on this later). But after those two edits, he made two quick edits to the Rob Kardashian article - the first just arbitrarily placing a comma where it didn't belong, and the second undeniably being a vandalism edit similar to Jesuslover's . Like Jesuslover seems to be, it appears Chrissy was one and done. The connection there was obvious, and I was initially going to request a checkuser just between these two until I took a look at Kid Ink's edit history.
 * That is where the connection to Magic came up. Again, Magic's edits have all been constructive - 6 days after Chrissy's edits were reverted by User:Bongwarrior, Magic makes a typical edit of his to the same article . This is where I saw the shared interest, the very similar account name, and the fact that all of Chrissy and Magic's edits happen to be mobile.
 * Scrolling down in Kid Ink's edit history, I saw Budda1901's lone edit upon registering March 12 (notice the pattern?) . It's innocuous (just as Magic's are), he's one-and-done, it's a mobile edit, and it's a shared interest.
 * Per WP:DUCK, I think what we have here is a user who enjoys adding to hip-hop articles from his main account but also seems to enjoy using multiple accounts to skirt around Wikipedia unnoticed - in most cases, contributing vandalism. This would be an obvious case of WP:SOCK, and I can only imagine that there are more similar accounts than what I was able to spot. Therefore, I politely hope a Checkuser will be able to strike this down soon. DawnDusk (talk) 21:29, 25 March 2015 (UTC)

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 * Results are or ❌. Jesuslover appears to have a sock that has never edited, so I'll ignore that for now. With the lack of checkuser evidence, I'd be inclined to wait and see what develops and if more accounts start popping up. Reaper Eternal (talk) 22:42, 25 March 2015 (UTC)
 * Given Reaper Eternal's suggestion based upon the technical evidence, I'm going to close this for now with no action taken. Mike V • Talk 18:14, 27 March 2015 (UTC)