Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Rescarpment/Archive

08 July 2012

 * Suspected sockpuppets




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Each of the above accounts and IPs is a special purpose account used exclusively over the past week to edit (and edit-war) on the ATF gunwalking scandal article. All of the IPs geolocate to New York, and continue the revert-wars when the named accounts hit the 3RR limit or receive EW warnings. All of the named accounts use the same edit summary style, edit the same narrow topics in the article, and use the same language when commenting. The article has been the recent target of admitted puppeteers ( — — ), and has been recently semi-protected due to duckish and obvious sockpuppetry. Checkuser is requested to determine if there is a larger sock-farm beyond what is apparent above, or a connection to previously blocked recent editors of that article. Xenophrenic (talk) 06:09, 8 July 2012 (UTC)

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 * - None of these are blocked, but there are clear indications that they might be the same person. I don't want to show my hand, but I see a rather glaring giveaway.  S ven M anguard   Wha?  03:43, 9 July 2012 (UTC)

The following group are ✅ matches to Rescarpment:

The following group are ✅ matches to each other but look related to Rescarpment:

The following group are ✅ matches to each other but look ❌ to the above:

Of course, no comment on IPs. Elockid  ( Talk ) 12:51, 9 July 2012 (UTC)
 * Indef blocked all the named sock accounts, looking at IPs, hard to tell which who the master is but something is afoot. Dennis Brown - 2&cent;    &copy;  20:19, 13 July 2012 (UTC)
 * Reopened to allow others to do maintenance on this spider's web of socks. Dennis Brown -  2&cent;    &copy;  21:11, 13 July 2012 (UTC)
 * No recent edits from IPs, all socks already blocked & tagged. Closing. T. Canens (talk) 16:31, 14 July 2012 (UTC)