Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/MarkAlexisGabriel/Archive

02 January 2012

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Image-related disruption and edit-warring at Jessica Lange. WP:DUCK is invoked and stronger DUCK, no checkuser needed. The IP 76.109.99.165 has been blocked in the past over edit-warring perpetrated at Jessica Lange while the main account remains scott-free. Apart from their combined long-term disruption at the Lange article, the latest edit-warring project of both the sock and the main account is to keep adding a FUR-violating image on the Lange article and they don't take no for an answer despite multiple warnings, disruptively edit-warring over many days. Apart from sockpuppetry this is a case of WP:OWN, WP:TEND and WP:EDITWAR of long-term and large-scale, if not monumental, proportions. Δρ.Κ. λόγοςπράξις 20:36, 2 January 2012 (UTC)

Please note: After 76.109.99.165 got blocked for edit-warring IP 65.34.131.50 came in to pick up the edit-warring and evade the block of 76.109.99.165. The main account has remained silent. Δρ.Κ. λόγοςπράξις 21:42, 4 January 2012 (UTC)
 * Comment: Thank you HelloAnnyong. Δρ.Κ. λόγοςπράξις 03:22, 7 January 2012 (UTC)

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MarkAlexisGabriel has previously acknowledged that edits done by 174.48.3.206 were his. In fact, he started the talk page for 174.48.3.206 in July 2011 by posting this: "This IP Address is for Username: MarkAlexisGabriel". Edits made by him using that IP address started in July 2011. The most recent 50+ edits from that IP address were all to the Jessica Lange article. The most recent of those was on November 5, 2011. The first edit by an editor using IP address 76.109.99.165 was on November 8, 2011 and all edits from that address have been to the Jessica Lange article. Finally, an IP address look-up shows that both the IP addresses 174.48.3.206 and 76.109.99.165 come from Fort Lauderdale, Florida. I'd say they are all the same guy. Whether or not he was trying to hide the fact that MarkAlexisGabriel = 76.109.99.165 is a question I will leave to others. 99.192.75.228 (talk) 04:23, 3 January 2012 (UTC)
 * Thank you for your comments. The fact that IP user:76.109.99.165 got blocked but user:MarkAlexisGabriel never got warned about the IP activities establishes that for the purposes of editing Wikipedia noone made the connection between these accounts/users in effect making them a good-hand, bad-hand account combination (WP:GHBH). This allowed the IP to get all the warnings and one block so far, yet MarkAlexisGabriel got off with a clean block log. It is time now that the link between them be established. As far as they appear to have changed their mind regarding their association with MarkAlexisGabriel and reverted the acknowledgment that they were connected. It also appears that even under the IP 174.48.3.206, MarkAlexisGabriel engaged in a fair amount of edit-warring. Δρ.Κ. λόγοςπράξις  06:57, 3 January 2012 (UTC)

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 * On behavioral grounds I've blocked both IPs for three days, and I've blocked the master 24h. —  Hello Annyong  (say whaaat?!) 03:17, 7 January 2012 (UTC)

16 February 2012

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2 edit account. First edit they make, you guessed it, at Talk:Jessica Lange supporting MarkAlexisGabriel. Also block evasion as the sockmaster is currently blocked for edit-warring, as usual, at Jessica Lange. WP:DUCK is in effect. Δρ.Κ. λόγοςπράξις 02:53, 16 February 2012 (UTC)


 * Thank you MuZemike. Δρ.Κ. λόγοςπράξις 03:08, 16 February 2012 (UTC)


 * Thank you HelloAnnyong. Δρ.Κ. λόγοςπράξις 03:51, 16 February 2012 (UTC)

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--MuZemike 03:05, 16 February 2012 (UTC)
 * Sock blocked and tagged; master blocked 1 week for socking. Next time it'll be indef. —  Hello Annyong  (say whaaat?!) 03:36, 16 February 2012 (UTC)

30 August 2012

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Relentless edit-warring, restoring awards in the main article even though there is a separate awards article for Jessica Lange. Identical MO to previous socks. WP:FLOCK is in effect. Δρ.Κ. λόγοςπράξις 00:33, 30 August 2012 (UTC)

Anyone to close this? Δρ.Κ. <sup style="position:relative">λόγος<span style="position:relative;bottom:-2.0ex;left:-5.2ex;*left:-5.5ex">πράξις 21:07, 6 September 2012 (UTC)

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— Berean Hunter   (talk)  19:56, 7 September 2012 (UTC)
 * IPs were blocked on behavioral evidence...closing.

26 December 2012

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First, known IP sock (tagged 3 November 2012) of MarkAlexisGabriel  got reactivated and then the newly created sister Jude Martin account follows the IP in editing the article occasionally using similar edit summaries like "Wordsmithing", an old favourite of Mark Alexis's. If it were any more ducky than that it had to be in a real pond watching them swim. Please see also Category:Suspected Wikipedia sockpuppets of MarkAlexisGabriel for more IP ducks. Δρ.Κ. <sup style="position:relative">λόγος<span style="position:relative;bottom:-2.0ex;left:-5.2ex;*left:-5.5ex">πράξις 06:28, 26 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Additional evidence
 * IP 76.109.97.68 invokes Meryl Streep's article as a model:
 * Revision as of 08:15, 26 December 2012 (edit) (undo) 76.109.97.68 (Please review my edits before undoing. I based this page's late on a few other pages, specifically my other favorite actress, Meryl Streep.)


 * IP 76.109.99.165 invokes Meryl Streep's article as a model for the edits they make:
 * Revision as of 16:27, 31 January 2012 (edit) (undo) 76.109.99.165 (talk) (If you have any question, please refer to Meryl Streep's page, which is what I'm using as a template. I'm assuming BOTH will be corrected, if there are any issues. Thank you.)


 * MarkAlexisGabriel refers to Meryl Streep's article as a model for the edits they make:
 * Revision as of 22:20, 2 February 2012 (edit) (undo) MarkAlexisGabriel (talk | contribs) (Undid revision 474469316 by Blake Burba (talk) Again, refer to Meryl Streep)


 * MarkAlexisGabriel refers to Meryl Streep's article as a model for the edits they make:
 * Revision as of 15:56, 14 February 2012 (edit) (undo) MarkAlexisGabriel (talk | contribs) (Undid revision 476853983 by Blake Burba (talk)I thought this addition was self-explanatory. In either case, refer to Meryl Streep's page. Revert there, too, if you still feel this.)

Apart from the obvious similarities in editing style the timing of the edits is also very close.
 * Evidence of connection between 76.109.xx.xxx IPs and named accounts
 * Here IP 76.109.97.68 signs on my talk as "Sister Jude Martin.
 * Here MarkAlexisGabriel removes the signature of IP 76.109.99.165 and signs as himself
 * Sample of back-to-back editing of 76.109.96.59 IP and MarkAlexisGabriel
 * Sample of back-to-back editing of 76.109.96.59 IP and MarkAlexisGabriel
 * Preoccupation with adding all kinds of secondary awards
 * Cluttering the article despite the existence of a separate article on awards, adding second place, third place awards etc.:
 * Sister Jude Martin
 * MarkAlexisGabriel


 * Use of "Wordsmithing" in edit summaries
 * 76.109.97.68 (talk) (→‎2010s: wordsmithing)
 * Sister Jude Martin (talk | contribs) (Clean-up, updates, wordsmithing, reformatting, etc.)
 * MarkAlexisGabriel (talk | contribs) (→‎Concept: wordsmithing)

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You're horrible. All you are doing is harassing me when all *I* am doing is trying to improve a page. What is it to you why I'm doing it? The point is that the edits I'm making are in line with wikipedia's rules and regulations. You simply have a bone to pick with me and I'm thinking I'm sniffing out a streeper. Ducky, duck. Sister Jude Martin (talk) 06:34, 26 December 2012 (UTC)

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 * l everything we have on MarkAlexisGabriel is stale - Courcelles 06:43, 27 December 2012 (UTC)
 * The behavioral evidence seems strong enough to warrant a block. Closing. Reaper Eternal (talk) 05:21, 9 January 2013 (UTC)

27 July 2013

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Well, for starters the quacking name. Then the edit-warring on Jessica Lange filmography. . Δρ.Κ. <sup style="position:relative">λόγος<span style="position:relative;bottom:-2.0ex;left:-5.2ex;*left:-5.5ex">πράξις  07:34, 27 July 2013 (UTC)


 * Added recent IP sock
 * Due to the staleness of the older socks I added a recent IP sock . Δρ.Κ. <sup style="position:relative">λόγος<span style="position:relative;bottom:-2.0ex;left:-5.2ex;*left:-5.5ex">πράξις  07:45, 27 July 2013 (UTC)
 * I know that the named account cannot be acknowledged as operating from an IP but I just provided it as guidance for any decision by a CU or admin, although I believe that the quacking is rather loud, including an admission by MarkAlexisB that he socked in the past: . Δρ.Κ. <sup style="position:relative">λόγος<span style="position:relative;bottom:-2.0ex;left:-5.2ex;*left:-5.5ex">πράξις  07:49, 27 July 2013 (UTC)

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 * - Unfortunately all past socks are . Rschen7754 07:37, 27 July 2013 (UTC)
 * That's great, but we cannot perform checks that connect IP addresses to accounts in public like this. --Rschen7754 07:46, 27 July 2013 (UTC)
 * Sock blocked by  NativeForeigner Talk 19:54, 29 July 2013 (UTC)

09 February 2015

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Within 2 days the owner of the following accounts has been abusively using multiple accounts while editing the Jessica Lange article with the same disruptive edits, such as adding awards, counting and numbering them, general glorification of the content, etc. I believe the owner is sockpuppeteer MarkAlexisGabriel who was blocked a number of times in the past due to the same reason. MiewEN (talk) 05:42, 9 February 2015 (UTC)

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This is nothing new with this case. The IPs listed, all in the same range, have not edited for about a week. However, there've been new IPs not listed editing the Lange article in the same range. Short of a range block (and I haven't examined the size of such a block), it's pointless to block them. I've semi-protected the Lange article for two months. Closing.--Bbb23 (talk) 16:52, 15 February 2015 (UTC)