Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Orbiston/Archive

18 November 2012

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Back in August 2012, Orbiston put considerable energy into inserting controversial negative information into Stuart Murphy, example. He was subsequently blocked for a week for edit-warring to include this information. He was later blocked indefinitely based on checkuser evidence (I don't know who were the socks or sockmaster found). It's worth nothing that on Orbiston's talk page, he advanced a view that the article on Murphy was being distorted by "PR" people.

Today, the new account PRDISTORTION was created. Its first two edits were to create a blank userpage for itself (one might think this was an attempt to make its edits more readily accepted) and to re-add the controversial material that Orbiston had previously added in the Murphy article, with a deliberately misleading edit summary of "added category". I would also guess that the username itself is a reference to Orbiston's beliefs about PR distortion.

Given the apparent history of past socking, and the obvious attempts to game the system, a check for sleepers may also be a good idea. --Demiurge1000 (talk) 20:30, 18 November 2012 (UTC)

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Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments
— Berean Hunter   (talk)  21:14, 19 November 2012 (UTC)
 * - to confirm socking and check for sleepers.
 * Technical results are - both individuals are editing via open proxies. I blocked  the open proxies. -- Versa  geek  21:19, 19 November 2012 (UTC)

I'd suggest a duck block on this new SPA individual who just so happens to edit through an open proxy just like the previous proponent of the same views did. (See also history above - this guy is putting some work into getting his material in while trying not to get checkuserblocked like he did last time.) --Demiurge1000 (talk) 21:27, 19 November 2012 (UTC)
 * I've blocked the sock on behavioral evidence. Closing. Reaper Eternal (talk) 21:30, 19 November 2012 (UTC)