Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/PrivateMasterHD/Archive

29 July 2013

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PrivateMaster and 69.122.190.4 has been warned on multiple occasions about their edits to baseball and American football-related articles. Specifically, I'm focusing on their use of the designated for assignment tag in football related articles (which is untrue because the NFL has no such practice). PrivateMaster made this edit to Shaun Suisham on June 18. Since, it appears this account has not made the edit to any football articles however, the IP address has done so in the past 48 hours to articles such as Albert Haynesworth and made a similarly incorrect edit at Dennis Pitta (there is no disabled list in the NFL).

On July 27, PrivateMaster and the IP address made an edit a minute apart from each other with the IP adding incorrect information and PrivateMaster adding dates in the section titles which has been a trend in the edits of both accounts (see here and here). This has also happened before at Nick Folk where both PrivateMaster and the IP made an edit two minutes apart from each other (see here and here).

Multiple messages have been left on both talk pages though the editor has chosen not respond (and in the case of PrivateMaster, the page was blanked) and the questionable edits continue. The Writer 2.0 Talk 18:36, 29 July 2013 (UTC)

A side note: PrivateMaster continues to add improper content. The latest at Percy Harvin. (There's no DL in the NFL).

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- Checkuser does not link IP Addresses to accounts. NativeForeigner Talk 18:40, 29 July 2013 (UTC)

— Berean Hunter   (talk)  18:08, 6 August 2013 (UTC)
 * After looking, some of this appears to be editing after being logged out (accident?) but I'm not seeing clear deception.
 * Agree with Berean. This isn't malicious use of separate accounts, in my opinion. However, I think you are right when you say there is a legitimate issue with the content he is adding. Bring it up with the appropriate wikiprojects or noticeboards. NativeForeigner Talk 21:46, 6 August 2013 (UTC)

26 November 2013

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Per ModernSportsEra discussion on ANI and pattern editing of adding dates to existing protected article templates / adding templates to untemplated protected articles, spotted by User:Yankees10 as matching the PrivateMasterHD sockfarm. Georgewilliamherbert (talk) 09:13, 26 November 2013 (UTC)

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 * ✅ See the archive for confirmation of current findings. -- Avi (talk) 17:58, 26 November 2013 (UTC)
 * Confirmed sockpuppet tagged and blocked indef. Closing now. Mark Arsten (talk) 18:05, 26 November 2013 (UTC)

14 March 2014

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NativeForeigner Talk 18:12, 14 March 2014 (UTC)

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 * ✅ NativeForeigner Talk 18:13, 14 March 2014 (UTC)