Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Mansourramis/Archive

Report date October 5 2009, 23:55 (UTC)

 * Suspected sockpuppets


 * Evidence submitted by Plastikspork

In addition to the remarkable similarity in the user names, all four users have been repeatedly adding unsourced future information to reality television pages, all of which has turned out to be pure speculation. I have tried to reason with the user, but asking him/her to please stop adding this information and concentrate on improving these pages instead, which he/she does do in rare cases. Eventually, I blocked the main account for a short period, which drove the user to create of alternate accounts. When the block was lifted, the user returned to the main account. When the behavior continued, the account was blocked again, and again. Now the main account is on a 6 month block, but the vandalism continues on the alternate accounts. I could block the secondary accounts myself, but I was hoping for a second opinion, and it's not clear that this would stop the behavior, since blocks are not supposed to be punitive. Plastikspork ―Œ (talk) 23:55, 5 October 2009 (UTC)


 * Comments by accused parties    See Defending yourself against claims.


 * Comments by other users


 * Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments


 * Conclusions

This is a clear-cut case of abusing multiple accounts, so I have indefinitely blocked all three socks. I have also raised the master's block to indefinite, and tagged all the accounts. The abuse of multiple accounts to make the same edits does not suggest this user means to change, and the blocks aren't punitive if the user is block evading. Thanks for bringing it to our attention. Peter Symonds ( talk ) 14:07, 7 October 2009 (UTC)