Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/NickSoroka/Archive

Evidence submitted by Stwalkerster
Articles for deletion/David Cote (film director) I think sums it all up. All the IP addresses (and Hbtz and LosAngelsbaby) have edited that AfD, all in some way pushing to keep the article, and all have only edited relating to this topic (recently). Impersonation, breaking AfD tags and interesting moves are just some of the tactics used in this AfD. I'm not going to give a diff of every single malicious edit, unless you want me to. It's all in the page history of the AfD / contribs.

TBH: it seems too obvious. I've requested checkuser to flush out any sleepers that may/may not exist

I should note that Davecoteproductions is already blocked and marked as a sockpuppet, I've included it here for completeness. &#91; stwalkerster &#124; talk &#93;  11:53, 19 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Varying anons, socks, etc
 * 
 * Nick
 * 

And that's the diffs. &#91; stwalkerster &#124; talk &#93;  12:08, 19 October 2010 (UTC)

Comments by accused parties
See Defending yourself against claims.

Comments by other users
One additional IP to consider: This editor added more questionable claims to the affected article:  —Tim Pierce (talk) 17:39, 19 October 2010 (UTC)

Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments

 * - There are links that they keep arguing the same points (some on one point, some on another) but they are all together in the same relative idea of trying to hold back this AfD. Clear use of SPA's and SPIP's. Lets get a check for socking (obviously with no comment on the IPs) and hope this is not a meat situation. If I may ask the CU, if they aren't confirmed to give us some idea of why they aren't (like useragent, location, etc.) so it can help determine Ducks and Meats and so the blocks can be issued as noted. DQ.alt (t)  (e)    17:53, 19 October 2010 (UTC)


 * ✅ Additionally, I found . I will note that is, but given "FineLineProductionsLtd" is confirmed, I would say "Finelineproductions" is as well.  Tiptoety  talk 18:04, 19 October 2010 (UTC)
 * All blocked and tagged. TN X Man  18:15, 19 October 2010 (UTC)

Evidence submitted by Twp
created Dave Cote immediately after an extended AfD for David Cote (film director), an article which was created by who was subsequently found to have several sock puppets in the discussion. —Tim Pierce (talk) 02:11, 22 October 2010 (UTC)

Comments by accused parties
See Defending yourself against claims.

Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments
✅ TN X Man  02:29, 22 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Tagged and blocked. —  Hello Annyong  (say whaaat?!) 02:30, 22 October 2010 (UTC)

Evidence submitted by Twp
Recreated article David Cote (Actor) substantially identical to previously deleted David Cote (film director) —Tim Pierce (talk) 13:49, 25 October 2010 (UTC)

User, a new account with two edits, marked this article as "looks accurate" two minutes after it was created.

Comments by accused parties
See Defending yourself against claims.

Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments
✅ and as well. TN X Man 14:09, 25 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Tagged and blocked. —  Hello Annyong  (say whaaat?!) 14:12, 25 October 2010 (UTC)

Evidence submitted by Twp
created Dave Cote, an article that has repeatedly been created and deleted by sock puppets and proxies of. —Tim Pierce (talk) 05:59, 27 October 2010 (UTC)

Evidence submitted by Gogo Dodo
Just a bit of cleanup, Abconetwothree marked the article created by ArtMystery as reviewed and "looks good." No other edits made. -- Gogo Dodo (talk) 06:01, 27 October 2010 (UTC)

Comments by accused parties
See Defending yourself against claims.

Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments

 * is ✅.
 * is given it is editing via a proxy (now blocked).
 * . Tiptoety  talk 17:42, 27 October 2010 (UTC)
 * YesYesWow hasn't edited since then, and as the results are inconclusive, I'm not sure we can do that much more. Relist if they become active or something else happens. —  Hello Annyong  (say whaaat?!) 16:05, 1 November 2010 (UTC)

Evidence submitted by Twp
User created Cote, David. (See previous sockpuppet listings.) —Tim Pierce (talk) 13:19, 2 November 2010 (UTC)

Comments by accused parties
See Defending yourself against claims.

Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments
✅, no sleepers. TN X Man 13:36, 2 November 2010 (UTC)

Evidence submitted by Shearonink
User:EveryThingSameSame recreated a previously deleted article by:

1) Completely deleting the content of another/valid article whose subject has the same first/last name of the previously socked subject, also used misleading edit-comments while doing so

2) Replacing the now-empty article-space with the content of the AfD'ed article

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=David_Cote_(writer)&diff=395907458&oldid=386084722, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/EveryThingSameSame, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Sockpuppet_investigations/NickSoroka/Archive Shearonink (talk) 14:36, 14 November 2010 (UTC)

Auto-generated every six hours.
 * User compare report

Comments by accused parties
See Defending yourself against claims.

Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments
✅
 * - Could be some sleepers. —  Hello Annyong  (say whaaat?!) 14:51, 14 November 2010 (UTC)
 * TN X Man 15:18, 14 November 2010 (UTC)
 * All blocked and tagged. —  Hello Annyong  (say whaaat?!) 15:20, 14 November 2010 (UTC)
 * TN X Man 15:18, 14 November 2010 (UTC)
 * All blocked and tagged. —  Hello Annyong  (say whaaat?!) 15:20, 14 November 2010 (UTC)
 * All blocked and tagged. —  Hello Annyong  (say whaaat?!) 15:20, 14 November 2010 (UTC)

21 March 2011
This is related to yet another re-creation of the deleted David Cote biography. Per TnXMan, are likely matches to each other. I'm adding this to the NickSoroka SPI page at TnXMan's suggestion, to collect the info in one place. I think no action is being requested other than archiving.
 * and

Further info: ANI thread.

75.57.242.120 (talk) 09:39, 21 March 2011 (UTC)
 * These accounts will also need blocking. TN X Man  21:10, 21 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Both are blocked and tagged. —  Hello Annyong  (say whaaat?!) 23:33, 21 March 2011 (UTC)

The following comment from Tnxman307 is copied over from the ANI thread, from, for clarity (and to show a CU check took place)  Chzz  ► 15:06, 22 March 2011 (UTC)

<div class="notice" style="background:#def; border:1px solid #468; padding:0.5em; margin:0.5em auto; background-color:#EBFFEB;">There is a history of activity here, please see WP:Sockpuppet investigations/NickSoroka. As far as that goes, the accounts in the SPI archive are, but and  are  matches to each other. If someone could add this to the SPI page, it would help keep everything together. TN <b style="color:midnightblue; font-size:larger;">X</b> Man 21:02, 20 March 2011 (UTC)

Note: (to clerk?) - did the CU action here check for possible sleeper accounts? If not - given the background - I suggest that happens prior to archiving this. Thanks,  Chzz  ► 15:09, 22 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Based on TNX's comments on ANI, yes, a CU was done. —  Hello Annyong  (say whaaat?!) 15:22, 23 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Yes; my question is, whether xe checked for sleepers. I'll ask Tnxman307 to comment here. Cheers,  Chzz  ► 17:54, 23 March 2011 (UTC)
 * I did check for sleepers, there were none (also, I'm male, so "he" is fine :)). TN <b style="color:midnightblue; font-size:larger;">X</b> Man  02:28, 24 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Fine, thanks. As far as I am concerned, this can be archived.  Chzz  ► 12:26, 24 March 2011 (UTC)

19 April 2011

 * Suspected sockpuppets




 * User compare report Auto-generated every hour.

''Please list evidence below this line. Remember to sign at the end of your section with 4 tilde characters " ~ "''

Edits to "Dave Cote". Part of an ongoing campaign to promote filmmaker Dave Cote. —Tim Pierce (talk) 07:21, 19 April 2011 (UTC)

Comments by other users
''Accused parties may also comment/discuss in this section below. See Defending yourself against claims.''

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments
The following are matches to each other:
 * TN <b style="color:midnightblue; font-size:larger;">X</b> Man 13:46, 19 April 2011 (UTC)
 * Both accounts blocked. —  Hello Annyong  (say whaaat?!) 03:17, 20 April 2011 (UTC)
 * Both accounts blocked. —  Hello Annyong  (say whaaat?!) 03:17, 20 April 2011 (UTC)

20 April 2011

 * Suspected sockpuppets




 * User compare report Auto-generated every hour.

''Please list evidence below this line. Remember to sign at the end of your section with 4 tilde characters " ~ "''

More attempts at changing Dave Cote: see Special:Contributions/76.74.205.48, especially     —Tim Pierce (talk) 06:18, 20 April 2011 (UTC)

Comments by other users
''Accused parties may also comment/discuss in this section below. See Defending yourself against claims.''

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments
Dave Cote has been indefinitely full-protected. –MuZemike 06:21, 20 April 2011 (UTC)

16 July 2011

 * Suspected sockpuppets




 * User compare report Auto-generated every hour.

Repeated recreation of previously deleted article for minor actor/film director whose name has been promulgated as Dave M. Cote and/or David M. Cote (and/or Dave Cote) who shares name with Chairman/CEO of Honeywell. Creators using a Redirect page for the Honeywell CEO.

See the following edit diffs:

Edit diff of David M. Cote/Dave M. Cote Redirect page

Edit diff of David M. Cote/Dave M. Cote Redirect page

Edit diff of David M. Cote/Dave M. Cote Redirect page Shearonink (talk) 00:55, 16 July 2011 (UTC)

Comments by other users
''Accused parties may also comment/discuss in this section below. See Defending yourself against claims.''

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * Both IPs blocked 2 weeks. —  Hello Annyong  (say whaaat?!) 03:19, 16 July 2011 (UTC)

03 August 2011

 * Suspected sockpuppets


 * User compare report Auto-generated every hour.

Recreation of a subject that has been declined multiple times with a long history of sockpuppetry, meatpuppetry and continued submissions under various names and titles. This AfC is a resurrection of a previous AfC, see AfC edit history. See also the AfD Articles for deletion/David Cote (film director). Shearonink (talk) 19:36, 3 August 2011 (UTC)

Comments by other users
''Accused parties may also comment/discuss in this section below. See Defending yourself against claims.''

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * IP blocked 1 week per WP:DUCK. —  Hello Annyong  (say whaaat?!) 23:49, 3 August 2011 (UTC)

11 August 2011

 * Suspected sockpuppets


 * User compare report Auto-generated every hour.

Inserted a "Dave Cote" (sock's usual fare) spam-link into three different articles: David M. Cote owing to the similar name also a usual target of these sockpuppets but is the CEO of Honeywell, Nous - an article about a philosophical concept and Lou Albano. Other previous edits in edit history are all connected with the non-notable subject of Articles for deletion/David Cote (film director). Shearonink (talk) 13:00, 11 August 2011 (UTC)
 * Other editors have also expressed concern that this IP is a NickSoroka sock . Also IP just had a two-week block for being a sock on 16 July 2011. --Shearonink (talk) 13:04, 11 August 2011 (UTC)

Comments by other users
''Accused parties may also comment/discuss in this section below. See Defending yourself against claims.''

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments
IP blocked for a month. TN <b style="color:midnightblue; font-size:larger;">X</b> Man 16:26, 11 August 2011 (UTC)