Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Marktreut/Archive

Report date July 24 2009, 15:20 (UTC)

 * Suspected sockpuppets

Using IP sock puppet to edit war and continue to add inappropriate original research and opinions to articles despite numerous warnings. This includes Good and Featured articles that he is degrading with this inappropriate content. User page is littered with dozens of warnings and attempts to education him for the last few months, and he is now using IPs to try to skirt the rules and policies and to avoid a technical 3RR. Most recently see at List of Gunslinger Girl episodes and Gunslinger Girl. This is not the first IP he has used to do this sort of edits, but unfortunately I can not remember what the other one was (it was used recently for the same purposes) -- Collectonian  (talk · contribs) 15:20, 24 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Evidence submitted by -- Collectonian  (talk · contribs)


 * I've added another IP, which he himself confirmed as himself and has used to edit while he was blocked. -- Collectonian  (talk · contribs) 03:35, 27 July 2009 (UTC)


 * Comments by accused parties    See Defending yourself against claims.


 * Comments by other users

Requested by -- Collectonian  (talk · contribs) 15:20, 24 July 2009 (UTC)
 * CheckUser requests

(per below) -- Collectonian  (talk · contribs) 18:58, 24 July 2009 (UTC)


 * Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments


 * : For lack of evidence. No evidence is provided that connects the IP to Marktreut, a review of the articles linked does not show any smoking guns in the history. Both articles have a recent history of edit warring by Collectonian and others, not just Marktreut, with multiple instances of Twinkle misuse by Collectionian (including reverting good faith edits with Twinkle, using an edit summary reserved for reverting vandalism). Nathan  T 15:44, 24 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Edits were not good faith. They were Marktreut adding original research to articles, yet again, that has been rejected multiple times. He is already well aware that he is NOT editing appropriately and that his "contributions" are detrimental to the articles, particularly the list which is a featured list. There is no "edit warring" with others, the IP IS Marktreut. This is the second or third time he has logged off to try to avoid 3RR while vandalizing articles. Last time he was caught, he fully vandalized List of InuYasha characters repeatedly until he was blocked. See my talk page for my discussions with an administrator about this, who agreed that his edits are inappropriate and should be reverted as vandalism. His socking is just another problem that I was instructed to report here. -- Collectonian  (talk · contribs) 15:56, 24 July 2009 (UTC)
 * in the form of diffs is necessary to suggest a link between the IP listed and Marktreut. The twinkle and edit-warring problems are side issues not terribly relevant to this process, but I stand by my first impression above. Nathan  T 16:25, 24 July 2009 (UTC)
 * First, Marktreut attempt to add "theme" information to Gunslinger Girl, pointing to a non-RS and copyright violating site that did not even have anything about the series in it. This was, of course, rejected and discussions attempted, which failed and he continued trying to readd his view of the series theme, now leaving out the fake source In both edits, he atttempted to break the short lead plot summary into a new paragraph as well, which is stylistically bad. The IP is now trying to readd the same personal opinion, in the same format, with only a minor wording change and again pointing to another misused source (book only has a snipped on one character from the series and does not support his claims). -- Collectonian  (talk · contribs) 16:39, 24 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Ok, thanks for that. Did you want to revise the code letter above? The letter you chose, D, alleges that a sock (or in this case, IP) was used to circumvent 3RR. Nathan  T 16:56, 24 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Changed to F. I've also added which just popped in and created an NPOV fork at Themes in Gunslinger Girl and, in his messages on my talk page, have used much of the same sort of verbage as Marktreut, supporting the same outrageous original research, making the same defenses for allowing such items in Wikipedia, and most telling is his referencing the InuYasha character list and calling me a "staunch defender" of it, despite having never edited it and my contribs there undoing the vandalization of the list by Marktreut not appearing for well over 200 listings. Markreut then followed up with the same poster and similar verbage agreeing with the suggestion and making the same statements --  Collectonian  (talk · contribs) 18:36, 24 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Additional evidence - he forgot to change accounts before editing his main account's user page. He is also now wikihounding me and involving himself in issues at The Fox and the Hound where another editor was proxy editing for a blocked sock just to be contentious and annoying. -- Collectonian  (talk · contribs) 18:35, 25 July 2009 (UTC)


 * Endorsed per the above. Nathan  T 17:27, 26 July 2009 (UTC)


 * Conclusions
 * Appears to be ❌. Nishkid64 (Make articles, not wikidrama) 13:46, 27 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Is that for all three? Because he has admitted to being that new IP himself on his talk page, laughing about how he found a "hole" in Wiki security? -- Collectonian  (talk · contribs) 13:52, 27 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Oh shoot. I was looking at the wrong SPI when I posted this result. Apologies for the mix-up. All are ✅. Nishkid64 (Make articles, not wikidrama) 22:42, 27 July 2009 (UTC)
 * No prob. So what happens now? He used the second IP to edit while blocked, and I believe he did the same before on another IP. He used Spiro999 in content disputes to appear to have support and to edit war? -- Collectonian  (talk · contribs) 12:53, 28 July 2009 (UTC)

I have reset Marktreut's block to two weeks. His sockpuppet account has been blocked and tagged. Here's what I suggest. If the IPs are editing on the range 79.64.0.0/12 or 79.64.0.0/13, it is far too large to block. Thus, if you see any repeat of this sockpuppetry using those IPs, I will extend Marktreut's block to indefinite. Peter Symonds ( talk ) 22:22, 29 July 2009 (UTC)