Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Matchstik/Archive

05 February 2015

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Matchstik was blocked for spamming a page about Allen Forrest (aka Matchstik). Matchstik made his last block appeals on February 25-27, 2011. On February 25, while those block appeals were still under discussion, new user Bookie1919 re-created a page about Allen Forrest, presumably replacing Matchstik's version. When I nominated the current version for deletion, IP 2602:304:cdb4:190:5014:85ac:c89e:b95a, heretofore never having edited Wikipedia, began trying to add more content to establish notability the next day. Geogene (talk) 18:50, 5 February 2015 (UTC) Geogene (talk) 18:50, 5 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Matchstik referred to himself as "The American Recording Artist Rapper/Producer/Singer/Song writer Matchstik" here

along with his prophetic suggestion that "a third party" would soon begin to edit his articles. Three hours later, the current article was created by newly registered Bookie1919, which refers to Matchstik as "American Recording Artist, Singer/Song Writer, Music Producer and Occasional Actor". I believe that the IP and Bookie1919 are the same user because both of them use the ref tag the same way with an excessive number of spaces, one on each side of the ref tag:,. Also, Bookie1919 has uploaded at least one photograph of the subject as "own work" that would imply some sort of connection. Matchstik's article space contributions have all been deleted, but if somebody that can view them were to check, I would be surprised if those extra spaces aren't there as well. Incidentally, a new IP has begun editing with the same ref formatting:. Geogene (talk) 22:54, 5 February 2015 (UTC)

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 * The accounts are much too for checkuser and a checkuser won't be able to connect an IP to an account. While Bookie1919 hasn't made an edit in 4 years, the contributions makes it really clear it's a sock, so I've blocked and tagged it just for the record. I've also semi-protected the article for 2 weeks. Mike V • Talk 02:57, 10 February 2015 (UTC)