Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/OMGOMG2009/Archive

Report date May 15 2009, 07:50 (UTC)

 * Suspected sockpuppets




 * Evidence submitted by Nosleep

At 20:14 system time on May 12, the article Big Brother New Zealand was created by User:OMGOMG2009. After numerous revisions by OMGOMG2009, it was edited one hour and ten minutes later by User:BigBrotherFan09, who had had very few previous edits. The article was subsequently nominated for deletion at 20:48 system time on May 14. At this AFD, the first three votes were cast by User:Automatic Tiger, User:Riding Gentleman and User:The Dark Knight Of Yesterday, none of whom had edited Wikipedia previously (and of this posting, none have again). The votes came just one minute apart, and while that does tax the speed of an internet connection, it also increases the likelihood of one person being behind all three. Twenty-three minutes after these first three votes, User:The Creep In the Attic and User:Man Who Makes Pots also made their first-ever Wikipedia edits to vote to keep this article. Each vote in the AFD was properly signed, so there are timestamps available at Articles for deletion/Big Brother New Zealand. I am doubtful that User:OMGOMG2009 is in fact the puppeteer, as he too has no edits outside this matter, but I can't find any further evidence of who the puppeteer might be. Nosleep break my slumber 07:50, 15 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Approximately two hours after my original post here, User:BigBrotherFan09 also voted in the above linked AFD. Nosleep  break my slumber 10:52, 15 May 2009 (UTC)


 * Comments by accused parties    See Defending yourself against claims.

Obvious case of sockpuppeting to stack the votes, I am quite currious about how fast these accounts were created...It took me 15 minutes to come up with a username. :/-- SKATER  T. 16:25, 15 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Comments by other users


 * Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments


 * Conclusions
 * All accounts indef blocked and tagged. Tiptoety  talk 20:09, 15 May 2009 (UTC)

Report date May 16 2009, 02:01 (UTC)

 * Suspected sockpuppets




 * Evidence submitted by Nosleep

Three more highly unlikely voters to Articles for deletion/Big Brother New Zealand. Nosleep break my slumber 02:01, 16 May 2009 (UTC)


 * Comments by accused parties    See Defending yourself against claims.


 * Comments by other users


 * Request for CheckUser
 * Requested by Tiptoety  talk
 * - Self endorsed, while these accounts are clearly quacking and as such have all been blocked, I just went through and blocked a sock farm earlier this morning. Endorsing this to clear out the sock drawer and perform a IP block. Tiptoety  talk 05:26, 16 May 2009 (UTC)


 * Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments
 * Blocked. Tiptoety  talk 05:26, 16 May 2009 (UTC)
 * These 3 farms are the same person:
 * This one is not the same guy:
 * ✅ ==  ==  ==  ==  == . The IP looks static
 * This one is not the same guy:
 * ✅ ==  ==  ==  ==  == . The IP looks static
 * ✅ ==  ==  ==  ==  == . The IP looks static

-- Luk  talk 14:33, 17 May 2009 (UTC)

All accounts blocked. -- Kanonkas : Talk  14:48, 17 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Conclusions

Report date August 17 2009, 20:30 (UTC)

 * Suspected sockpuppets

The only evidence that I have is that this user, upon account creation, immediately went to the userpages of involved users, and admins, of those involved with the blocking of User:UKFaith.—  Dæ dαlus Contribs  20:30, 17 August 2009 (UTC)


 * Evidence submitted by Daedalus969


 * Comments by accused parties    See Defending yourself against claims.


 * Comments by other users

Requested by —  Dæ dαlus Contribs  20:30, 17 August 2009 (UTC)
 * CheckUser requests

Checkuser is required to make sure that the above account is indeed a sockpuppet of UKFaith, as Faith had previously threatened to come back under a different account. I do not believe that the suspected sock is anything but a sock, given it's contributions.—  Dæ dαlus Contribs  20:30, 17 August 2009 (UTC)

doesn't exist. Brandon (talk) 21:53, 17 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments
 * Ah, it's . Brandon (talk) 21:55, 17 August 2009 (UTC)


 * Conclusions
 * ✅ as part of the large / sockfarm. Nishkid64 (Make articles, not wikidrama) 21:56, 17 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Tagged. NW ( Talk ) 22:00, 17 August 2009 (UTC)
 * I forgot to include UkFaith in my results. I meant was ✅. UkFaith is ❌. Nishkid64 (Make articles, not wikidrama) 22:35, 17 August 2009 (UTC)

-- Kanonkas : Talk  22:00, 17 August 2009 (UTC)