Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Marcoa1000/Archive

24 February 2014

 * Suspected sockpuppets



Currently non-stale accounts and IPs:


 * User compare report Auto-generated every hour.
 * Editor interaction utility

(described below) Wikidemon (talk) 15:16, 24 February 2014 (UTC)

Comments by other users
''Accused parties may also comment/discuss in this section below. See Defending yourself against claims.''

Long term (7+ years) persistent addition of near gibberish to Constellation Brands article from IP and throwaway WP:SPA accounts consisting of lists of lawsuits, accusations, and legal theories purporting to show organization is connected to organized crime. These are all similar enough to pass WP:DUCK, but I suspect this is not the puppeteer's only interest in spreading paranoid conspiracy theories on Wikipedia. I haven't been able to pursue this too far but I did find a link through one of the IPs to the Dennis P. Gallagher article, where a SPA added somewhat comparable material back in 2007. - Wikidemon (talk) 15:30, 24 February 2014 (UTC)

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * The two non-stale accounts have been indef'd and I've moved the case to this title. Article semi'd for a week so not taking any action on the IPs. for future reference, there isn't really much point reporting accounts which haven't edited in the last few months as there really isn't anything which is worth doing at SPI. Closing. Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 13:31, 5 March 2014 (UTC)

06 June 2014

 * Suspected sockpuppets


 * User compare report Auto-generated every hour.
 * Editor interaction utility

All these editors but one have the more or less same addition of a Six degrees of seperation section to the article Constellation Brands, noted as a long term (7+ years) on the SPI archive: As for, the only similarity I see is a similar username. These are the edits since April. I have since semiprotected the page for three months, but I think a Checkuser may help to determine if a rangeblock would be appropriate, or to determin any others outstanding. kelapstick(bainuu) 23:49, 6 June 2014 (UTC)
 * Wikidem11
 * Wikileap01
 * Wikidem
 * Passotre
 * Wikipatriot710
 * Wikistor is also a throw-away SPA that existed only to do some tag-team edits to the same section. Adding 1 more for now:


 * https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk%3AConstellation_Brands&diff=611953385&oldid=517115489
 * https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk%3AConstellation_Brands&diff=611953385&oldid=517115489

- Wikidemon (talk) 16:39, 7 June 2014 (UTC)

Comments by other users
''Accused parties may also comment/discuss in this section below. See Defending yourself against claims.''

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * - They're ducks, but a sleeper check would be nice. King of &hearts;   &diams;   &clubs;  &spades; 10:12, 9 June 2014 (UTC)
 * I've done the checks, but couldn't find any sleepers. PhilKnight (talk) 13:55, 13 June 2014 (UTC)
 * Blocked, closing. King of &hearts;   &diams;   &clubs;  &spades; 20:15, 13 June 2014 (UTC)