Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/ManeuversGold/Archive

Report date April 12 2009, 02:45 (UTC)

 * Case copied in from Sockpuppet investigations/Teneeeee


 * Suspected sockpuppets

same vandalism to User talk:Ned Scott  Oliver Fury, Esq. message  •  contributions  02:45, 12 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Evidence submitted by  Oliver Fury, Esq. message  •  contributions
 * I think I may have done this incorrectly- this is my first SPI. Anyway, look at the contribs. and its pretty obvious.


 * Comments by accused parties    See Defending yourself against claims.


 * Comments by other users

Speedy archiving per user's request. All accounts blocked. Peter Symonds ( talk ) 03:02, 12 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments


 * Conclusions

Report date May 3 2009, 00:05 (UTC)

 * Suspected sockpuppets

WP:DUCK the same idiotic pointless edits as the blocked puppeteer Beeblebrox (talk) 00:05, 3 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Evidence submitted by Beeblebrox (talk)


 * Comments by accused parties    See Defending yourself against claims.


 * Comments by other users
 * Actually, this person seems to have used multiple other socks as well. All those listed at User talk:129.2.175.70 have engaged in virtually identical conduct. These include User:Teneeeee, User:Spacesaverplus, User:BubbleBoopTwo, User:FrickFrackFrock, User:Twoeeou, User:Fouriei, User:Whoopiwhoopiwhoopi, User:Whowhoo234, User:173.66.142.17, User:141.156.234.110, User:Hackenspack, User:ShimmerShamShine, User:DubiousDubois, User:AckAttack122, User:MortalCoil76, User:NedScottPN3142339291, User:Threeouie, all of whom vandalized my user talk page, User:NedScottSSN217283186, who vandalized my user page, as well as User:Twelveieeouee, User:Eleveneeiee, User:Teneeeee, User:72.75.120.80, User:Fiveiee, User:BoomBoomTwo, and User:BoomBoomFour, who performed similar vandalism on the User talk:Ned Scott page, and User:151.200.243.47, User:173.79.93.71, User:128.8.8.34, who vandalized his user page, and possibly User:151.200.244.21, who once blanked his user page. I have a possibly speculative feeling that it may also include User:69.143.227.107, User:69.143.226.129, who had performed similarly repetitive vandalism to Ned Scott's talk page earlier, and possibly User:24.14.94.250, who seems to indicate what the start of the animus with Ned might arise from. At least one of those vandals identifies himself as Dtobias, indicating a possibe connection with User:Dtobias, who deals with content related to the Simpsons which at least one of the vandals above also associated themselves with. John Carter (talk) 00:06, 3 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Oh man, what a spectacular mess I've waded into... Beeblebrox (talk) 00:18, 3 May 2009 (UTC)

You may wish to have this case merged with Sockpuppet_investigations/BoomBoomFour since it's basicly the same case, and this case has the checkuser request made. Momo san Gespräch 16:12, 3 May 2009 (UTC)

Just wait for check user... I think he is guilty. User:JMS Old Al Talk May 4 00:14:45 (UTC)


 * I doubt there will be much to come from this. There's a crowd of users who just think it's funny to troll editors who've commented on controversial issues in the past. While it's very possible that this is just one user, it could just as easily be two or three. Since they're all IPs and throwaway accounts, there's not much to be done. Grin and bear it, I guess. -- Ned Scott 16:20, 3 May 2009 (UTC)

Beeblebrox: do you want a check user to be done? -- Kanonkas : Talk  15:40, 3 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments
 * Well, the two I reported are so obvious I guess I didn't think that was necessary. If the decision is to merge with the other case I suppose it wouldn't hurt to verify it's really the same user. Beeblebrox (talk) 16:57, 3 May 2009 (UTC)
 * I've done some checking at Sockpuppet investigations/BoomBoomFour; probably best if we centralize efforts. – Luna Santin  (talk) 22:22, 4 May 2009 (UTC)

archiving to allow other case to be imported. Mayalld (talk) 12:17, 5 May 2009 (UTC) Mayalld (talk) 12:17, 5 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Conclusions

Report date May 3 2009, 00:55 (UTC)

 * Case copied in from Sockpuppet investigations/BoomBoomFour


 * Suspected sockpuppets




 * Evidence submitted by Momo san  Gespräch

All of these users have committed the same vandalism to User:John Carter and/or User:Ned Scott's userpage and talk page, see the contributions page for This IP and This user for evidence

- I first encountered this vandal some months ago when I reverted his vandalism to the User talk:Ned Scott page, where the vandalism seems to have started with this edit. Shortly thereafter, he came over to begin vandalizing my page as well. When I have had my page edit protected, I believe he also went over at least once to the page of another editor whom I had just recently contacted, User:Moreschi, as can be found here. I just now noticed that Ned's page had been similarly vandalized earlier, as per here, by someone who identified themselves as Dtobias. That editor seems to have engaged in similar boringly repetitive vandalism, although the exact form differed. Evidence as it exists seems to indicate that the user is connected to the University of Maryland as a student, as he recently said after being blocked that he could study now, and is employed by Verizon, as he said some of his vandalism done from an IP of theirs was done "at work". John Carter (talk) 01:06, 3 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Evidence submitted by John Carter


 * Comments by accused parties    See Defending yourself against claims.


 * Comments by other users
 * Dtobias is likely a reference to User:Dtobias, so I don't think they are identifying as that name. I don't really know how Dan would even fit into this, assuming it was an intentional reference. -- Ned Scott 01:45, 3 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Definitely socks, but most of them are already blocked. – Juliancolton  &#124; Talk 04:08, 3 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Not all the socks are listed here.
 * Those are a few more I noticed. All blocked, I think, but they should be included.  Enigma msg  04:51, 3 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Those are a few more I noticed. All blocked, I think, but they should be included.  Enigma msg  04:51, 3 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Those are a few more I noticed. All blocked, I think, but they should be included.  Enigma msg  04:51, 3 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Those are a few more I noticed. All blocked, I think, but they should be included.  Enigma msg  04:51, 3 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Those are a few more I noticed. All blocked, I think, but they should be included.  Enigma msg  04:51, 3 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Those are a few more I noticed. All blocked, I think, but they should be included.  Enigma msg  04:51, 3 May 2009 (UTC)

--Vautaut (talk) 00:15, 4 May 2009 (UTC)
 * The link to this page was just posted on the wikiHow forums under the name TacoBoomBoom. Judging by this name, he is a troll/vandal who also goes by the name TacoBlast (Usually has taco or blast somewhere in his username) who's name before becoming a vandal was jaredvcxz. Just a heads up.
 * Would this be the User:Jaredvcxz who has only five total edits to his name as per here and no apparent history of being blocked or banned? John Carter (talk) 00:47, 4 May 2009 (UTC)


 * This "person" came into #wikiHow on IRC twice tonight; both hex codes, when converted, came back to Maryland; one of them being the University of Maryland. Here is the log - times are shown in EST. When we got hit with the second round of flooding, we realized that we've been hit with the same thing about a year ago on wikiHow.com. User73, Hello236, IP 69.143.226.129, and many others. -- Khluvr621 (talk) 03:44, 4 May 2009 (UTC)

I don't know if it will make any difference, but it seems this is related to whoever registered wikinews:es:User:Ned Scott, the only account that didn't merge for my SUL. (actually, wikinews:de:User:Ned Scott didn't merge originally either, but I was able to find a b.crat to help me out with that). wikinews:es:User:Ned Scott started vandalizing within the last 24 hours, and is now blocked. -- Ned Scott 20:59, 4 May 2009 (UTC)

Requested by Momo san  Gespräch 00:55, 3 May 2009 (UTC)
 * CheckUser requests

Need to find out if there is a sockpuppeteer since we can't find the first user who did the vandalism. Also if any or all of them are connected to a user and to see if any range blocks can be made as well.

There are at least two sock masters/cases involved here. As far as I've been able to find, these are:
 * Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments
 * Sockpuppet investigations/Teneeeee
 * Sockpuppet investigations/ManeuversGold
 * Still reviewing, but this may take some time.  Syn  ergy 17:08, 4 May 2009 (UTC)


 * All accounts above are ✅, obviously; of the various related accounts, the only unblocked one I found was . Some underlying IPs have been blocked. For Synergy's benefit, those two cases you've linked look to be the same culprit. – Luna Santin  (talk) 22:20, 4 May 2009 (UTC)

Mayalld (talk) 12:27, 5 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Conclusions
 * to allow cases to be merged Mayalld (talk) 12:14, 5 May 2009 (UTC)
 * cases merged Mayalld (talk) 12:27, 5 May 2009 (UTC)