Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Otto Placik/Archive

Report date June 27 2009, 04:11 (UTC)

 * Suspected sockpuppets

    LeadSongDog come howl  04:11, 27 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Evidence submitted by LeadSongDog
 * Further advertising activity on behalf of Dr Placik's cosmetic surgery practice.
 * The other three were recently indef banned. See Sockpuppet investigations/Sarahjjohnson123/Archive
 * Further spam on Commons at:
 * Additional discussion at Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Spam includes the suggestion that puppets may include

LeadSongDog come howl  08:26, 27 June 2009 (UTC)


 * Comments by accused parties    See Defending yourself against claims.

I notified the user on his talk page:, but I think there are other issues concerning image spam. There are several other articles that include images with captions that include links to commercial websites, but they have not been removed or the editors blocked. I'm not sure what's going on, but I felt it needed to be included in this discussion. Flowanda | Talk 00:45, 28 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Comments by other users


 * Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments


 * Conclusions

Please see this. I'm convinced that there are several users involved here, not just one person, so concerns about editing should be brought up at another forum. Best, Peter Symonds ( talk ) 15:01, 2 July 2009 (UTC)

26 July 2011

 * Suspected sockpuppets




 * User compare report Auto-generated every hour.

IP is defending named user on my talk page and on talk:mastopexy
 * Chronicity: IP reverts my edits on mastopexy, then posts on talk:mastopexy and my talk page, then named user continues reverting my edits on the same article.  There are 13 minutes between the IP posting on my talk page and the start of the reverting edits by named user.
 * Geography: IP traces to Chicago, IL, where named user states he resides on his talk page
 * similar behavior: Pasting exact same message on multiple talk pages.  IP: as shown above - talk:mastopexy and my talk page.  Named user: a message to user:fyrael on Talk:Mastopexy, Talk:Breast_reduction, Talk:Trans-umbilical_breast_augmentation, and []
 * similar behavior: Places significance on being a doctor or not being a doctor.  IP: the message he posted.  Named user:  multiple discussions, including the above message to Fyrael
 * similar behavior: Perceiving edits or suggestions as a personal offense!  IP: the message he posted.  Named user: numerous discussions on his talk page including one with me at the bottom.
 * looking at his talk page, it appears he may have been banned in the past for sockpuppetry. Taylornate (talk) 00:11, 26 July 2011 (UTC)

Comments by other users
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Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * IP blocked 1 week. —  Hello Annyong  (say whaaat?!) 02:01, 26 July 2011 (UTC)

23 September 2011

 * Suspected sockpuppets




 * User compare report Auto-generated every hour.

This is a similar situation to my previous report which is archived and has background information and evidence. Although this time he is not overtly claiming to be a third party, I think the pattern shows that he is deliberately making these kinds of edits under IP. This is an WP:ownership problem that has been ongoing for some time. Among other problems, he overtly refuses to accept edits on medical articles by non-physicians (see evidence in previous report) and refuses discussion. In retaliation, he is now making unconstructive edits under an IP to an article that I have been working on as he vaguely threatened to and left an inflammatory message on the talk page. Note his emphasis on my status as a med student and similar style to his pages such as mastopexy. The first IP has been associated with him in the first archived report.

Other IP edits:

Again, note emphasis in the edit summary on my status as a med student.

Removing maintenance tags and accusing me of vandalism.

All IPs trace to Chicago which is where he is according to his user page. Taylornate (talk) 23:25, 23 September 2011 (UTC)

Comments by other users
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Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * Blocked the first two IPs for two weeks. Interestingly enought, the 75 IP had been blocked twice back in 2009 for evasion from another sockmaster. —  Hello Annyong  (say whaaat?!) 01:01, 24 September 2011 (UTC)

01 October 2011

 * Suspected sockpuppets




 * User compare report Auto-generated every hour.

Please see my last (very recent) report as it is exactly the same WP:OWN situation. He reverted my edit, much of which was incontrovertibly backed by policy which I linked to in my summary. Edit summary is simply "Reverted incorrect image layout." He has reverted my edits in the past (while logged in) with similar summaries. I'm not going to bother digging up a revert with this type of summary because it's obvious from his other logged-in edits on that page that he often calls edits "corrections". IP traces to Chicago which, according to his user page, is where he lives and works. IP is very similar to the last two that were blocked, both sequentially and geographically. Taylornate (talk) 01:28, 1 October 2011 (UTC)

Comments by other users
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Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * Obvious sock. Range/. AGK  [&bull; ] 10:45, 3 October 2011 (UTC)