Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Matthew7878/Archive

09 July 2015

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There are three single-purpose accounts challenging edits to the HouseholdHacker article and related redirects. The contributions appear to be self-promotion, but the concern here is abuse of multiple accounts to skirt WP:3RR and editorial consensus. Regards, [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Yamaguchi%E5%85%88%E7%94%9F&action=edit&amp;section=new Yamaguchi先生] 19:13, 9 July 2015 (UTC) [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Yamaguchi%E5%85%88%E7%94%9F&action=edit&amp;section=new Yamaguchi先生] 19:13, 9 July 2015 (UTC)

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 * .&#32;In order to facilitate and expedite your request, please provide diffs to support your case. Please give two or more diffs meeting the following format:
 * 1) At least one diff is from the sockmaster (or an account already blocked as a confirmed sockpuppet of the sockmaster), showing the behaviour characteristic of the sockmaster.
 * 2) At least one diff per suspected sockpuppet, showing the suspected sockpuppet emulating the behaviour of the sockmaster given in the first diff.
 * 3) In situations where it is not immediately obvious from the diffs what the characteristic behaviour is, a short explanation must be provided. Around one sentence is enough for this.  Vanjagenije   (talk)  22:40, 9 July 2015 (UTC)


 * Please review the change history at Justin Matthew in particular.  The two most recently active accounts, Jboom78 and Matthew7878 are similarly named WP:SPA accounts editing in tandem, and at this point I believe the accounts are being abused to subvert consensus and editorial process.  I will respect the clerks decision on how to best proceed.  Regards, [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Yamaguchi%E5%85%88%E7%94%9F&action=edit&amp;section=new Yamaguchi先生] 22:49, 9 July 2015 (UTC)


 * During further review, I discovered that this is not the first time this concern has been raised at SPI, see: Sockpuppet investigations/Jmhhacker/Archive. While the case was ultimately inconclusive, it does shine some additional light on the inception of the original article.  Thank you for your consideration, if there are any additional questions or concerns please contact me on my talk page or via email.  Regards, [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Yamaguchi%E5%85%88%E7%94%9F&action=edit&amp;section=new Yamaguchi先生] 23:06, 9 July 2015 (UTC)


 * - To compare Matthew7878 with Jboom78 (the third account is ). Both are interested in just two articles: Justin Matthew and HouseholdHacker (YouTube channel of Justin Matthew). There, they promote Matthew (see: and ).  Vanjagenije   (talk)  23:09, 9 July 2015 (UTC)
 * and are ✅ to each other.-- Jezebel's Ponyo bons mots  22:29, 10 July 2015 (UTC)
 * Master warned, Jboom78 blocked and tagged. No action needed for Jmhhacker at this stage. Closing. Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 06:30, 12 July 2015 (UTC)

11 April 2016

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See the archive, WP:Conflict of interest/Noticeboard/Archive 87, and the editing at

Diffs:
 * Matthew7878 is likely Justin Matthew based on Special:Diff/674954102.
 * Manofculture78 reverts to TrollPatrol247's version of Justin Matthew (Entrepreneur).

I can make private evidence related to TrollPatrol247 available to functionaries via email. —&thinsp;JJMC89&thinsp; (T·C) 04:58, 11 April 2016 (UTC)

Additional information:
 * Deleted (for A7, G11) revisions of could be relavent
 * Manofculture78 is created one month after Matthew7878 is warned about socking and Jboom78 is blocked as a sock of Matthew7878.
 * Manofculture78 has the same username pattern as Matthew7878 and Jboom78. (Justin Matthew's birth year is 1978.)
 * Manofculture78 has only edited pages related to Justin Matthew.
 * Special:Diff/675749488: Promoting Justin Matthew and HouseholdHacker the day the account was created
 * Special:Diff/676157690, Special:Diff/675743523: Promotion related to iBoom (owned by Justin Matthew) at
 * With the exception of his first edit, TrollPatrol247 has only edited pages related to Justin Matthew.
 * Matthew7878 and Jboom78 previously edited and recently Manofculture78 and TrollPatrol247 editing
 * —&thinsp;JJMC89&thinsp; (T·C) 03:42, 15 April 2016 (UTC)

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 * The diffs presented do not make a case (do give more if you have). You might send your private info to functionaries and one of the CUs can make a finding here based on that. --QEDK ( T &#9749;  C ) 16:31, 14 April 2016 (UTC)
 * - Wait for more info + finding by member of functionaries mailing list. QEDK ( T  &#9749;  C ) 16:32, 14 April 2016 (UTC)
 * , and  are ✅ and blocked indefinitely. The accounts are  connected to the master from a CU stand-point, though there are few recent edits by  to make a better determination. . -- Jezebel's Ponyo bons mots  16:58, 15 April 2016 (UTC)
 * Note that I've blocked Matthew7878 indefinitely as, assuming at best that the accounts above are not outright socks, there's absolutely rampant WP:MEAT in promoting the Justin Matthew and HouseholdHacker articles on Wikipedia. The articles are continually recreated under various names and in article, user, and draft namespace. It needs to end.-- Jezebel's Ponyo bons mots 17:15, 15 April 2016 (UTC)
 * I think there's enough similar promotion between the accounts to call them socks (or meatpuppets, which may be treated identically). I'm tagging master as CU-confirmed as an indefinitely-blocked CU-confirmed master per the archives, and also based on username similarities and account creation times. I'm tagging Manofculture78 as a suspected sock of Matthew7878 and as a CU-confirmed master; and TrollPatrol247 and Simmsdan21 as CU-confirmed socks of Manofculture78 and suspected socks of Matthew7878. Closing. Kevin ( aka L235 ·&#32; t ·&#32; c) 04:52, 17 April 2016 (UTC)