Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Reece Leonard/Archive

08 April 2014

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The IP has continuously edited to remove negative reception from Lady Gaga articles, especially G.U.Y. (song), and turn it into positive. The master puppeteer was banned from editing in the Lady Gaga articles and evaded the ban by using a sock account which was indef'd. Now he/she is back using this IP. Further evidence It's a Texas A&M University line, which he identifies himself as attending, and the IP has started messing around with various critical reception fields of Gaga articles as well as 30 Rock serial which Reece is a frequent editor — Indian: BIO  · [ ChitChat ] 16:27, 8 April 2014 (UTC)


 * Note: — Mr. Stradivarius  ♪ talk ♪ 04:18, 10 April 2014 (UTC)

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 * Take a look at this IP as well. Anybody else sense a quack? XXSNUGGUMSXX (talk) 19:41, 9 April 2014 (UTC)
 * I see that has been blocked by DangerousPanda for 36 hours. — Mr. Stradivarius  ♪ talk ♪ 04:18, 10 April 2014 (UTC)
 * , I believe the Reece IP socks are targetting the article "G.U.Y." Why don't we semi-protect this article so that he cannot edit it at all instead of running for the socks? WP:DENY surely suggests so. — Indian: BIO  · [ ChitChat ] 05:04, 10 April 2014 (UTC)

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 * - Checkusers rarely directly link IPs to accounts. The evidence can be reviewed by any clerk or admin and the IP blocked accordingly if they are obviously related.--Jezebel's Ponyo bons mots 16:41, 8 April 2014 (UTC)


 * What clinches it for me is the fact that there are editing matches not only on Lady Gaga articles, but also on articles related to 30 Rock, a TV series. See identical edits by Reece and the IP . That, plus the shared locality, is too much to be coincidence. Fut.Perf. ☼ 17:44, 8 April 2014 (UTC)
 * I concur, and I have blocked the main account for a week. — Mr. Stradivarius  ♪ talk ♪ 20:20, 8 April 2014 (UTC)

09 May 2014

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A (likely) single-purpose account which I am convinced is Reece per WP:DUCK. This was the first edit the user made after account creation (not counting creation of userpage and usertalkpage). Essentially same purpose as IP 128.194.58.144's edits such as this and this and this. The named IP was blocked in the previous Reece SPI. Noted for inflating reception of Lady Gaga-related articles such as "G.U.Y." and "Artpop". User was indefinitely topic-banned in March 2014 from Lady Gaga articles. One SPA sock of Reece named Mark2017 made similar reception inflation edits here and here. SPA sock was quickly indefinitely blocked by admin and Reece was blocked for three days for sockpuppetry and ban evasion. In the first Reece SPI that filed in April 2014, the IP and Reece were both blocked for one week for sockpuppetry and ban evasion. User Reece is known for using MetaCritic as main basis for average ratings totals. Although has been blocked for 24 hours for battleground behavior, I am requesting CU in case this account is unrelated. XXSNUGGUMSXX (talk) 08:26, 9 May 2014 (UTC)

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 * Quack, quack, duck sauce to be honest. And this message with the characteristic "Excuse me?" again proved that it is Reece Leonard sock. — Indian: BIO  · [ ChitChat ] 06:00, 9 May 2014 (UTC)

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 * ✅ sock. I've changed the block on to indefinite. I'll leave it to the closing clerk or admin to make the call on Reece's block length.--Jezebel's Ponyo bons mots  15:41, 9 May 2014 (UTC)
 * I've blocked Reece Leonard for one month. — Mr. Stradivarius  ♪ talk ♪ 16:00, 9 May 2014 (UTC)

27 May 2014

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A blatant attempt at block evasion. On May 9, admin blocked Reece Leonard for one month due to abusing multiple accounts to evade his topic ban from Lady Gaga-related articles. Reece continues to use socks to inflate the reception of Gaga's material to make it seem like they got more positive reception than they actually did. Today he inflated the reception for "Applause" here and here He continues to inflate the reception for "G.U.Y." as seen here. One thing he did somewhat differently this time was inflate the certifications for "Applause" here and here as well as its chartings here, here, and here. Given how Reece's first block for socking was three days, his second was for one week, and the most recent was one month, I strongly suggest an indefinite block for the user, and probably revoke talk page access as this is getting very abusive. His persistence in fancrufting Lady Gaga articles is also extremely disruptive. I'm afraid Mr. Stradivarius may have stuffed beans up his nose with this notice. Reece's previous account made similar edits to "G.U.Y." here, which is what gave away that is another sock. XXSNUGGUMSXX (talk) 13:53, 27 May 2014 (UTC)

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This time I actually think its not him though. Just some deluded fan account. — Indian: BIO  · [ <b style="font-family:Tempus Sans ITC;color:#1C1CF0;">ChitChat</b> ] 03:13, 28 May 2014 (UTC)

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 * is technically ❌.--<b style="color:Navy;">Jezebel's</b> Ponyo <sup style="color:Navy;">bons mots 19:46, 27 May 2014 (UTC)
 * There are still some similarities so I'm going to archive this rather than remove it. Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 12:18, 31 May 2014 (UTC)

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Here goes another of Mr Leonard's (who has slyly changed name now) socks. after creating his account started by dropping requests in the Lady Gaga talk page for edits, but never actually did a single edit to the article. Strange isn't it? I had not thought much until when I had mentioned that a certain album era of Lady Gaga is "flop", when the defenses started. This was a deja vu for me and when I responded why Reece you are around, the account has stopped editing. How is this similar to Reece Leonard? Well after being topic banned from Lady Gaga articles, he had continued til recently to address usual editors of the page to correct something while removing his stamps from all pages now. — I B  [ <b style="font-family:Tempus Sans ITC;color:#1C1CF0;">Poke</b> ] 11:31, 5 September 2016 (UTC)

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Just to be clear, I left Wikipedia quite a while ago (largely as a result of this user's constant harassment as he accused me of being behind any and all users who disagreed with him) only coming back to edit some things here and there before changing my name and leaving permanently; I don't know anything about whatever is happening here. I was notified of this case through email, otherwise I wouldn't know it was going on at all. I changed my name because I'm embarrassed of my involvement on this site and the interactions I was forced to have with this user and wanted to remove any and all avenues through which others could look into my personal life (as friends of IndianBio have done before). As these kinds of false accusations became the norm with this user years ago and I've seen this play out several times, I know that administrators will look into the account and see that the IP address differs from my own and couldn't possibly be me, so I don't really see any reason why I need to be involved in this going forward. IndianBio, I'd recommend you attempt to work with those who disagree with your edits instead of using my account as a scapegoat through which you can quell dissension (or, get off of this site entirely; it's much less stressful not having to worry about it). I'm changing my email preferences and won't participate any further. Anonymous5454 16:05, 5 September 2016 (UTC)

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The master User:Reece Leonard was renamed to User:Anonymous5454 recently:. TDL (talk) 19:03, 5 September 2016 (UTC)
 * The accounts are ❌. Closing.--Bbb23 (talk) 22:38, 5 September 2016 (UTC)