Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Marcus Brute/Archive

Evidence submitted by J Greb
Right now I'm looking at what amounts to a disruptive pattern of category creation that has continued from Marcus Brute - - to One-Man Army Corps -.

The concern lies in Marcus Brute "retiring" just after being warned about disruptive editing via categories  and just before One-Man Army Corps initial edits.

- J Greb (talk) 00:09, 20 March 2010 (UTC)

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Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments
Requested by J Greb (talk) 00:09, 20 March 2010 (UTC)

As pointed out above, this looks like an editor changing handles to avoid having to worry about prior warnings about disruptive editing. - J Greb (talk) 00:09, 20 March 2010 (UTC)

– Some of the edits do look similar to an extent. –MuZemike 00:33, 20 March 2010 (UTC)


 * Given this is clearly a misuse of multiple accounts (avoiding scrutiny and a likely block), I ran a check. Result is ✅. It's not okay to hop from account to account when things hot up - A l is o n  ❤ 03:25, 20 March 2010 (UTC)

Sock indefinitely softblocked and tagged, sockmaster warned not to do that again. –MuZemike 03:59, 20 March 2010 (UTC)

Evidence submitted by J Greb
As with the previous suspected sock - One-Man Army Corps (talk[&section=new + ] • [ tag] • contribs • deleted contribs • [ logs] • [ filter log] • block user&#32;• [ block log] • SUL • [ checkuser]) - this looks like a "new" eidtor picking up on Marcus Brute's editing pattern. - J Greb (talk) 22:21, 25 March 2010 (UTC)

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Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments
Requested by J Greb (talk) 22:21, 25 March 2010 (UTC)

As with the previous case, this is being done to avoid having to actually listen to other editors or work with in the "community environment" of Wikipedia. If a CU is run and confirmed, I'd like to suggest blocking the IP, if it possible, as well since it looks like this may just skip to another "new" editor. - J Greb (talk) 22:21, 25 March 2010 (UTC)

, some of the behavior matches like Thanos Lives and One-Man Army corps having lots of contributions using Hotcat for fairly new accounts and the scope of the articles. Although it seems likely that this is just a continuation account, would like CU to confirm this and per request, issue an IP block.  E lockid  ( Talk ) 00:54, 26 March 2010 (UTC)
 * ✅. I've blocked Thanos Lives and Marcus Brute, and stripped the Marcus Brute account of its flags. The IP already was blocked. -- —Preceding unsigned comment added by Jpgordon (talk • contribs)

Thanos Lives tagged.  E lockid  ( Talk ) 22:02, 26 March 2010 (UTC)

Evidence submitted by BOZ
IP using dentical edit patterns to sockmaster. BOZ (talk) 01:03, 10 April 2010 (UTC)

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Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments
Quacks loudly. Blocked 2 days for block evasion again. A longer block might be needed if this continues but this is a University IP, so I'm a little hesitant to block more than what I have listed.  E lockid  ( Talk ) 18:23, 10 April 2010 (UTC)

Evidence submitted by J Greb
- Creation of unneeded and in somecases improbable redirects. Impropert tagging with Friendly. HotCat proliferation. Rapidly editing without edit summaries up to including massive changes to article structures and content.

- Same editing patter. Also includes changing navigation templates so that the links point to redirect pages instead of the final destination. Also of not is that Wikikaye had been sporatically active with the current spate popping up just after a note being left on Beware the Unknown's talk page - User talk:Beware the Unknown.

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Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments
Requested by J Greb (talk) 23:40, 27 May 2010 (UTC)

– Behavioral evidence and patterns clearly indicate that this is Marcus Brute. No CU necessary. That said, both accounts indefinitely blocked and tagged. –MuZemike 15:09, 28 May 2010 (UTC)

Both accounts were tagged, but were not blocked. Both accounts blocked per duck.  E lockid  ( Talk ) 15:21, 28 May 2010 (UTC)