Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Michaelbraps/Archive

01 March 2015

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Ladies and gentlemen, these users all vandalized the Spice Girls articles by adding and stating that Luke Hemmings or Michael Clifford are members of the group, but they are 5SOS members and so the socks put in unambiguous, disruptive unsourced content. Some of these users also blatantly added Niall Horan of One Direction and Beyonce. These accounts should all be globally locked (yes, some of these accounts are blocked already.) Whoever who created all these accounts must be defacto banned for serial sockpuppetry. The page has been semi-protected indefinitely as a result of this prolific vandalism. Snowager -Talk  07:18, 1 March 2015 (UTC)

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 * Well, the sockmaster appears to be a fan of 5 Seconds of Summer, and he/she added the misinformation in which certain 5SOS members are part of the group. Snowager -Talk to Me!  22:15, 4 March 2015 (UTC)

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 * - All those accounts that are not yet blocked seem like obvious sockpuppets. Four of them vandalized Spice Girls article by adding Luke Hemmings . The fifth one, Alexis5sosfam, also vandalized the same page by adding other (male) members . Admin needed to block those five.  Vanjagenije  (talk)  22:42, 3 March 2015 (UTC)
 * All accounts have been blocked and Materialscientist protected the page. It looks like it was an obvious case of sockpuppetry or some sort of off-wiki collaboration. Mike V • Talk 18:40, 5 March 2015 (UTC)