Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/MegaMack02/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets
Same complaining/harassment here on en.wiki related to my functions (admin and CU) on Commons (MegaMack02, GamerMan09870) including same attacks and self-censorship of "f**k": Same purport to be Fandom "immigrant": MegaMack02 w:File:2006Heretic.jpg and GamerMan09870's first and only Commons edit is to upload c:File:2006Heretic.jpg. GamerMan09870 is, of course, confirmed on Commons (and Firekong808 is already blocked here as a duck). This request is to begin to establish a local record, and to check for sleepers. Эlcobbola talk 17:37, 5 July 2022 (UTC)
 * "F**k you and your stupid **s life" (MegaMack02)
 * "don’t f**k around by saying you do" (GamerMan09870)
 * "This user is a new user who immigrated from the FANDOM Network" (MegaMack02)
 * "I am an immigrant from the Fandom Network" (GamerMan09870).
 * FWIW: GamerMan09870 and Firekong808 are /25 on Commons--see here. Could you please also see activity on User talk:GamerMan09870 and consider removing talk page access?  Эlcobbola  talk 19:08, 5 July 2022 (UTC)

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 * These accounts are ✅ to the master. I'm reblocking and tagging. I don't see any sleepers jumping out at me, but they are active across a fair few ranges so it's possible that there are some I missed.  Girth Summit  (blether)  18:45, 5 July 2022 (UTC)
 * Actually, looking at it again, I'll expand on the above. Megamack and Firecong are unambiguously confirmed; GamerMan09870 is probably only, purely on the technical data - they're operating out of the same IPv4 /22 range, and are identical in all other respects; however, they haven't shown up on precisely the same IP. Given the behavioural factors outlined above, and some other BEANS stuff, I'm comfortable leaving the tag as confirmed. Girth Summit  (blether)  18:53, 5 July 2022 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets
See below. --Blablubbs (talk) 23:18, 14 July 2022 (UTC)

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Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments
Clearly them judging by and the interest in both cars and this very SPI (they've previously self-reported at ). for a month, filing for the record because I think it might need renewal down the road. It's been (CU-)blocked quite a bit in the past, but I'm not seeing an obvious behavioural connection. --Blablubbs (talk) 23:18, 14 July 2022 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets
O Boxing was created many months after Firekong808 and GamerMan09870 were blocked. They made unacceptable references to Samsung SSC-1, and then asked someone to move the draft to mainspace. This account is most likely to be an alt of John CENA MC70, a banned user who is confirmed as a MegaMack02 sock. Cluck cluck. MarcusZX (talk) 23:27, 21 August 2022 (UTC)

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 * @Bbb23: O Boxing is /25 here, and although globally locked, isn’t blocked here. Can you please consider his activity and consider blocking and revoking their TPA? MarcusZX (talk) 23:51, 21 August 2022 (UTC)


 * O Boxing vandalized Samsung SSC-1 page 12 times, asked Jovanmilic97 to move the draft to mainspace and then thanked Jovanmilic for checking the article. MarcusZX (talk) 23:50, 21 August 2022 (UTC)

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * The account is globally locked. Bbb23 (talk) 23:43, 21 August 2022 (UTC)
 * There's no reason to locally block the account, and globally locked accounts cannot edit their Talk pages.--Bbb23 (talk) 23:58, 21 August 2022 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets
Account created within weeks of the previous sock (Mir Markey) being blocked. Same pointless whitespace edits, just as Mir Markey did in an edit in Ascari Ecosse and same editing interests. 72.253.173.253 (talk) 21:50, 11 September 2022 (UTC)


 * This one is a stretch, but seeing as this user uses socks to edit their own drafts, might be worth taking a look at .72.253.173.253 (talk) 21:54, 11 September 2022 (UTC)

Comments by other users
Please compare to John CENA MC70, who is not stale. The behavioural evidence is enough to warrant a block on its own, but I think it will be helpful to establish a CU trail on enwiki as this seems likely to continue and it's an xwiki problem. Thanks. 72.253.173.253 (talk) 22:00, 11 September 2022 (UTC)

Sockmaster known to create accounts with names inspired by car models and plagiarized from other people’s usernames (see older reports in the archive). Same pointless spacing and formatting changes done to Mitsubishi Pajero as well as New York International Auto Show. 72.253.173.253 (talk) 22:16, 11 September 2022 (UTC)

This is not a fair judgment and it is in fact serendipity. I write articles well, I use my intelligence and of course I follow the example of similar articles. Does this concern you? Does it bother you that a foreigner who has lived in your country for many years carefully edits or compiles related articles? McLaren 570S (talk) 23:01, 11 September 2022 (UTC)

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * - I've blocked the IP filer as a sock of this master. However, this master has a habit of reporting himself, so I'm requesting CU to sort this out. Bbb23 (talk) 22:48, 11 September 2022 (UTC)
 * I've blocked McLaren 570S for one week for disruption. In particular, see deleted User:McLaren 570S.--Bbb23 (talk) 23:20, 11 September 2022 (UTC)
 * McLaren 570S indefinitely, in light of their reinstatement of Mir Mackey's CSD tag. Sdrqaz (talk) 01:00, 12 September 2022 (UTC)
 * The following accounts are ✅ to MegaMack:
 * , GeneralNotability (talk) 23:09, 12 September 2022 (UTC)
 * , GeneralNotability (talk) 23:09, 12 September 2022 (UTC)
 * , GeneralNotability (talk) 23:09, 12 September 2022 (UTC)
 * , GeneralNotability (talk) 23:09, 12 September 2022 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets
Created a draft page that was created by an account now blocked as a sock of MegaMack02. The username falls in line with other socks of MegaMack02, and then there's this. The second account was added per request on my talk page.BlueNoise (talk) 03:43, 18 October 2022 (UTC)

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User:2018 McLaren 600LT tagged their own User pages admitting he is a sockpuppet. Why do socks act in strange ways? Liz Read! Talk! 06:45, 18 October 2022 (UTC)

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * ✅ to the last batch in September. I'll request global locks. NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 08:14, 18 October 2022 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets
Pasting evidence reported on my talk page by IP 67.53.217.198:

"Brand new account created within a month after his previous sockpuppets (2018 McLaren 600LT and Bugs Meanie) were blocked. Obviously pirated username (SpamMan247, Spamfighter247). Account supposedly created to help out with spam and vandalism, something MegaMack has inadvertently stated that he intends to do, for example in his edits prior to his vandalism and ban. User does not use the standard vandalism warning templates and instead leaves personalized messages instead. SpamMan247 was using doublecheck.wikiloop.org to find vandalism, and somehow managed to set up and use within 3 edits of joining. His spam fighting campaign has had the exact same WP:CIR issues as MegaMack02’s previous socks and involved reverting several edits that were blatantly not vandalism. The account has created one article, Tirrito Cars and recreated Samsung SSC-1 (a draft page frequently targeted by 3 MegaMack02 socks) as Samsung Sports Car-1. All of these pages were frequented by 3 of his previous socks. Their edits there involved blatant recreation and adding information in the infoboxes that was added to various articles as the final edit of @McLaren 570S before they got blocked. Looking at their contributions you'll see the same style of aggressive edit summaries against edits they deem to be vandalism and the same inconsistent use of RVV to mean revert (similar to Thegameshowlad’s previous sock Spamfighter247), rather than the much more common RV." Schazjmd   (talk)  20:58, 21 November 2022 (UTC)

And now SpamMan247 is working on a draft begun by MegaMack02. Schazjmd  (talk)  21:16, 21 November 2022 (UTC)

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 * ., closing. --Blablubbs (talk) 21:38, 21 November 2022 (UTC)
 * , just in case you're not aware, the IP who posted on your talk page is also a sock of this user. They like to do that sort of lame trolling. Spicy (talk) 20:15, 26 November 2022 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets
New editor, recreated Draft:Tirrito Cars, which had previously been deleted as being created by banned/blocked user (MegaMack02), then editing Draft:Changhe CoolCar, which had also been created by MegaMack02. Also recreated Draft:Tirrito Ayrton, prev. deleted as being created banned/blocked user (user name not listed, but I expect it was also MegaMack02 or a connected sock). Schazjmd  (talk)  22:04, 15 May 2023 (UTC)

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 * I thought they'd left, but seemingly not. The usual pointless edits, including using the same obscure referencing and overredundant additions. Possible block evasion by the currently-inactive BobTheBuilder982 sock, to whom this sock might be related. 2600:8801:A907:2B00:E110:C268:24C4:B237 (talk) 12:32, 16 May 2023 (UTC)
 * How does this correlate to BobTheBuilder982? For one thing, I am not from Hawaii, unlike other MegaMack socks (checking the IPs to find they were connected to VPNs in Hawaii) while I live in California. Does it bother that a foreigner that has lived in your country for so long is making edits or "recreating" drafts?890 (talk) 12:37, 16 May 2023 (UTC)

Excuse me? May I know why you’re using this evidence against me? I like to make drafts about cars. I randomly stumbled across these drafts when using the Article Wizard. That’s a failure according to Wikipedia policy. This evidence you’ve got is just poor.890 (talk) 12:35, 16 May 2023 (UTC)


 * Looking at the interaction tool you’ll also see that Spongebob is editing drafts made by MegaMack02 and shows the same interest in cars, just like previous sock ThomasDuhTankEngine2843. Multiple edits at Asphalt 9, which was targeted twice by BobTheBuilder982 and then Spongebob. Talk about mass-spam socking. Those clucks just turned into an earsplitting cock-a-doodle-doo. Also, notice the similar themes with the last usernames (ThomasDuhTankEngine, BobTheBuilder982, Spongebobsquarepants980) 2600:8801:A907:2B00:E110:C268:24C4:B237 (talk) 12:44, 16 May 2023 (UTC)
 * May I know what your problem is with my edits? Wikipedia is a free encyclopedia, and anyone can contribute to its development. Your performance is unskilled and unworthy of a Wikipedia user.890 (talk) 12:46, 16 May 2023 (UTC)

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * Blocked without tags, global lock requested, closing. Bbb23 (talk) 12:49, 16 May 2023 (UTC)