Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/SMG055/Archive

Report date November 8 2009, 04:13 (UTC)

 * Suspected sockpuppets


 * Evidence submitted by Erzsébet Báthory(talk

The initial user was blocked for bad uploads.


 * The first sockpuppet


 * Both based on Sarah Michelle Gellar's name with 55 added at the end.


 * Same type of edits, adding "Critical reception" headers to movies. See and.


 * Both has called me a vandal for reverting her/his unconstructive edits. See and


 * The person uploaded another image with a fake license tag too. See.


 * The second sockpuppet


 * Threatening another person with the same bad English, as well as using the word "immature" both times and listing the articles involved. See and


 * Also apologized about an image, just like with the other accounts. See, and.


 * Editing the same articles. For example Sarah Michelle Gellar, Suburban Girl, The Skeleton Key, the fairly obscure Marley_Shelton article, etc.


 * The third sockpuppet


 * Most likely created this one after I first accused her/him for sockpuppeting two days ago. A check user would probably confirm it. Same type of edits, e.g. changing the captions of posters to "Film", adding critical reception headers, changing the reference template to reflist, etc. See ,

Logged in within the same 10 minute span on the two first accounts and removed the talk page SSP notice. See and.

If it quacks like a duck, it probably is a duck. Erzsébet Báthory(talk 04:13, 8 November 2009 (UTC)


 * Comments by accused parties    See Defending yourself against claims.


 * Comments by other users
 * User:Saa19952 uploaded a bogus film poster (created by blog owner and posted to blog, notating it was not an actual poster for the film) and added it to Salt. The poster was removed here on November 6 and was re-added by User:Gellar55 here. This begs the question of why an editor whose first edit was made on November 6 would a) know about the film poster, having never edited the article before and b) know how and what poster to be re-dded. Wildhartlivie (talk) 22:44, 8 November 2009 (UTC)


 * Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments

Blocked and tagged. The same language gives it away. MuZemike 04:54, 10 November 2009 (UTC)
 * Conclusions

Evidence submitted by Elizabeth Bathory
Admits to being the same person here. Erzsébet Báthory(talk 03:03, 18 November 2009 (UTC)

Comments by accused parties
See Defending yourself against claims.

Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments

 * . All ✅ . Brandon (talk) 04:02, 21 November 2009 (UTC)
 * . All ✅ . Brandon (talk) 04:02, 21 November 2009 (UTC)
 * . All ✅ . Brandon (talk) 04:02, 21 November 2009 (UTC)
 * . All ✅ . Brandon (talk) 04:02, 21 November 2009 (UTC)
 * . All ✅ . Brandon (talk) 04:02, 21 November 2009 (UTC)
 * . All ✅ . Brandon (talk) 04:02, 21 November 2009 (UTC)

Conclusions
Blocked/tagged. Peter Symonds ( talk ) 18:41, 21 November 2009 (UTC)

Evidence submitted by Elizabeth Bathory
Redoing all the same edits as the blocked socks. See ,

Also adding critical reception headers, just like the previous socks, with the same kind of language. See

Clearly a duck. Erzsébet Báthory(talk 17:18, 22 November 2009 (UTC)

Comments by accused parties
See Defending yourself against claims.

Conclusions
Blocked and tagged. MuZemike 01:19, 23 November 2009 (UTC)

Evidence submitted by Elizabeth Bathory
Everything below is the type of edits that were done with the other accounts as well. 99% 100% sure this is a duck. Erzsébet Báthory(talk 01:14, 1 December 2009 (UTC)
 * Adding critical reaction headers. Also, if there already is such a header already, she'll add another one above called "Reception". See, ,
 * Using the same language when describing the sections above, e.g. almost everything is "mixed to average". See ,
 * Obsessed with the ratings of movies. See ,
 * Making things small in the infobox. See
 * Changing the captions of film posters. See
 * Combining the filmography tables for no apparent reason. See
 * Editing the tables to look the same way. See ,
 * Adding extra descriptions to the lead of movie articles. See, ,
 * Same broken English. See, , ,
 * Same kind of user boxes, i.e. the Stargate one, the Earth one, fan of Sarah Michelle Gellar/Buffy the Vampire Slayer. See

Comments by accused parties
See Defending yourself against claims.

Conclusions
I agree. Blocked and tagged. MuZemike 03:01, 1 December 2009 (UTC)

Evidence submitted by Elizabeth Bathory
First SSP is a duck. Same language, same reasoning. Similar user name. American, but raised in Mexico. Tries to avoid some of the old articles and edit patterns to avoid being "detected". As for the second SSP, she admitted to being the same person here. Erzsébet Báthory(talk 17:00, 8 December 2009 (UTC)

Comments by accused parties
See Defending yourself against claims.

Conclusions
Blocked and tagged. MuZemike 00:09, 9 December 2009 (UTC)

Evidence submitted by Elizabeth Bathory

 * Confusing the words "her" and "his".
 * Making things small in the infobox.
 * Same bad English and language in the edits. ,
 * Same "... to mixed reviews" edits.
 * Same edits to filmography tables.
 * Was born in the U.S., but raised in Mexico.
 * Fan of Sarah Michelle Gellar.

It's a duck, but requesting CU so you can block the underlying IP and any possible sleepers as well. Erzsébet Báthory(talk 14:20, 16 December 2009 (UTC)

Comments by accused parties
See Defending yourself against claims.

CheckUser requests
Requested by Erzsébet Báthory(talk 14:20, 16 December 2009 (UTC)

to check for underlying IP/range and for sleepers. MuZemike 19:35, 16 December 2009 (UTC)

Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments
✅. No obvious sleepers. . J.delanoy gabs adds  21:31, 16 December 2009 (UTC)