Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Plausy/Archive

08 November 2012

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User:Sciot continues the editing that was done by blocked User:Plausy at Talk:Book of Mormon and categorizing various Book of Mormon books as "fiction" against consensus (see editing editing history.) User account was created after User:Plausy was blocked. Gave both accounts the good faith warning on sockpuppetry, but user continues to edit. 72Dino (talk) 21:04, 8 November 2012 (UTC)

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 * Behavior quacks for the two named editors, and the second one was indeed created and editing while the original had an active block for edit-warring. And here one account is editing the other's comment. DMacks (talk) 10:14, 9 November 2012 (UTC)
 * I'd recommend adding User:Fackyuo to the list of suspected socks. They seem to have been the one who started adding the "fiction" category. Plausy/Sciot and the many IPs continued re-adding the category after Fackyuo was blocked for violation of the username policy. Note how the 49.176.97.135 IP reverted to the revision by Fackyuo and started the "For inclusion" thread on the talk page  before Plausy had even created an account. As a side note, I suspect there is an older master somewhere out there, since adding categories to articles, linking to WP:Fringe, and using the  template isn't exactly typical behavior for new users. ~Adjwilley (talk) 15:55, 9 November 2012 (UTC)

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Suspected sock already blocked. IP is stale. Closing as no further action needed. Elockid  ( Talk ) 02:30, 11 November 2012 (UTC)

17 November 2012

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Same disruptive editing at Talk:Book of Mormon as User:Plausy with edits like this, reinstating an edit by blocked IP sockpuppet User talk:165.228.213.43. Also, same geolocation. 72Dino (talk) 23:14, 17 November 2012 (UTC)

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 * Location isn't exact, but close enough for comfort. Style is similar.  Blocking both static IPs for 6 months.  Closing Dennis Brown -  2&cent;    &copy;   Join WER 03:54, 18 November 2012 (UTC)

21 November 2012

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I suspect Plausy may be back again. User:Pharmstrong just made their third lifetime edit to Talk:Book of Mormon, suggesting (as Plausy and all their puppets have) that it be categorized as fiction. Their second lifetime edit was adding categories to an unrelated article and they happened to create an account the same day User:Plausy was indef-blocked. ~Adjwilley (talk) 07:54, 21 November 2012 (UTC)


 * He's now been blocked and tagged by FisherQueen. So never mind, and have a lovely day. ~Adjwilley (talk) 17:10, 21 November 2012 (UTC)


 * Plausy is most likely User:Unfraud at Archeology and the Book of Mormon. The issues are the same--pushing the Book of Mormon as fiction, using the term fringe loosely, edit warring without any comment on the Talk Page, etc.  He edited three times this morning:  here, here, and here, all with the same MO--to push the BOM as fraud and fringe science.  --Taivo (talk) 09:52, 22 November 2012 (UTC)
 * And Unfraud continued here. --Taivo (talk) 11:54, 22 November 2012 (UTC)
 * One important similarity between Plausy and Unfraud is that they both mark all their edits as "minor". --Taivo (talk) 11:56, 22 November 2012 (UTC)

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 * I've just blocked him again as two different ip addresses. This is becoming mildly irritating. -FisherQueen (talk · contribs) 12:37, 22 November 2012 (UTC)
 * Semi'd(sp?) the 2 main pages under attack. Dougweller (talk) 13:11, 22 November 2012 (UTC)
 * I've blocked two more ips and temporarily semi'd Talk:Book of Mormon for one day, which I hate to do, but I'm going to be going to the Family Thanksgiving Extravaganza and won't be available to smack down new ips all day. -FisherQueen (talk · contribs) 13:39, 22 November 2012 (UTC)

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 * Everybody is blocked, so closing. Reaper Eternal (talk) 16:22, 27 November 2012 (UTC)