Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Nigel tempest/Archive

Evidence submitted by Sabrebd
Second account has almost identical edits to articles (see and : the edits to articles connected with Europe (band) are the most obvious). User Nigel tempest was blocked for 3 days on 3 July 2010 for disruptive editing and a new account was created as Val_hallen almost immediately. The new account has been informed of Wikipedia codes of conduct on multiple accounts (see ), but these comments were just deleted without comment - so there is no known legitimate reason for multiple accounts, and user has now resumed editing with the new account. ''' SabreBD  (talk ) 18:30, 20 July 2010 (UTC)

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 * Blocking both accounts indef for socking. IP is blocked for a week. ( X!  ·  talk )  · @002  · 23:03, 22 July 2010 (UTC)

Evidence submitted by Sabrebd
Signed with old name of another sock (Val Halen) on my talkpage here. There doesn't seem to be anyway to make this user understand that they cannot use multiple accounts as a means of avoiding a block, but I will keep trying. ''' SabreBD  (talk ) 17:17, 24 July 2010 (UTC)

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Blocked for 55 hours. TN X Man 20:13, 24 July 2010 (UTC)

Evidence submitted by Sabrebd
sock1 has very similar ip to previous sock (60.254.17.181): sock2 has very similar ip to another previous soc (116.72.133.176). Edits of sock1 are the same as previously blocked accounts (see diffs for edit by sock1 and edit by blocked sock ). Sock2 has the same erroneous style edit as sock 1 (by sock 1 at and sock 2 at . '''  SabreBD  (talk ) 14:07, 25 July 2010 (UTC)

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Both IPs blocked 1 week. However, 116.72.133.19 was blocked as an open proxy, could someone please check this and reblock if needed?  E lockid  ( Talk ) 17:44, 25 July 2010 (UTC)
 * ( X! ·  talk )  · @833  · 18:59, 25 July 2010 (UTC)

Evidence submitted by RG
This new user is commenting on the same topics as Tempest (e.g.: blues metal, whether or not "The Final Countdown" is symphonic metal, etc.) Also, the account is writing in a very similar way to the confirmed sock, Val Hallen. Neither of these accounts capitalize the first words in their sentences. RG (talk) 16:37, 1 August 2010 (UTC)

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 * Blocked and tagged. Thanks, Peter Symonds ( talk ) 16:40, 1 August 2010 (UTC)