Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/MrJoshThehawk/Archive

12 April 2011

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Repeated vandalism of NASCAR team-related articles (primarily List of NASCAR teams), adding teams purportedly owned by Joshua Hawkins which do not actually exist. Has also vandalized team articles to list Hawkins as the owner of existing, actual teams, primarily Germain Racing. ,  Drdisque (talk) 23:15, 12 April 2011 (UTC)

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No comments on either of the IPs, but the following are ✅ matches:
 * TN X Man 23:19, 12 April 2011 (UTC)
 * -- DQ  (t)   (e)  01:36, 13 April 2011 (UTC)
 * TN X Man 23:19, 12 April 2011 (UTC)
 * -- DQ  (t)   (e)  01:36, 13 April 2011 (UTC)
 * -- DQ  (t)   (e)  01:36, 13 April 2011 (UTC)


 * All indefinitely blocked and tagged. –MuZemike 01:42, 13 April 2011 (UTC)

01 July 2013

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All utterly deafening in their quacking and blocked. Also all stale (most recent from January), only just found them and adding them here for recordkeeping. The Bushranger One ping only 05:22, 1 July 2013 (UTC)

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 * Thanks. NativeForeigner Talk 18:21, 1 July 2013 (UTC)

01 October 2013

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. All of these are exactly the same - throwaway accounts that create on their user talk page WP:HOAX/WP:MADEUP team listings for NASCAR - and in one case, IndyCar - featuring "Joshua Hawkins" as driver, exactly as all the ones before from this serial-sockmaster. Found these while doing some cleanup; most are from last year and stale as stale gets, I was just going to nuke and tag, but then started finding some more recent ones - including one cheeky enough to request autoconfirmed - and then found the most recent one from one month ago. Therefore I decided to report them here. I think this is all of them (as nothing except valid links now points to the salted Joshua Hawkins) so no sleeper check is needed, but reporting for the record. Given the serial nature of this sockmaster, blocks are useless, so I will be requesting an edit filter. The Bushranger One ping only 11:31, 1 October 2013 (UTC)

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 * Closing since this was just reported for archival purposes. Legoktm (talk) 16:05, 1 October 2013 (UTC)

16 October 2013

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. The same pattern: creating a "throwaway" account with a WP:MADEUP race team roster on the user talk page, using the same "Joshua Hawkins" Walter Mitty driver and "Medievil Racing" team name. Blocked as the loudest of possible ducks. CU requested for sleeper check due to this user's serial-sockpuppeteer status. (Note: an edit filter for this Hawkins nonsense has been requested but has yet to be acted upon.) The Bushranger One ping only 15:13, 16 October 2013 (UTC)

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 * No sleepers, and technically . Closing. Reaper Eternal (talk) 17:37, 16 October 2013 (UTC)

05 May 2014

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Exactly the same as before: throwaway account created for WP:NOTWEBHOST violation in usertalkspace creating a fictional race team for "Joshua Hawkins". Edit filter request is still awaiting action. Blocked, tagged, reported for the record. The Bushranger One ping only 00:28, 5 May 2014 (UTC)

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 * Already blocked and tagged. Closing. Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 14:27, 5 May 2014 (UTC)