Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Specf928/Archive

Evidence submitted by Chhe
The evidence is quite simple.

1. Have a look at the user contributions page of Abeale77 and Specf928 listed here--> and here-->. You will see that both of the users are vandalizing wikipedia in a very specific way. They are creating fabricated redirects. For example, user Specf928 redirected "Cody roberts" (a page he made up) to "joke"---> and Abeale77 redirected "Xiao An" (a page he made up) to "egg roll"--->. The similarities between the vandalism seems indicative of a single person behind it.

2. This is the most important piece of evidence indicating they are sockpuppets. Look at this history page of Aaron hildreth shown here--->. You will see that both of the users made a similar vandalism edit to the same page. One redirected it to "shrimp" then the other one changed it to "nanobe", then he changed his mind and changed the redirect back to "shrimp". I find it hard to believe that there are two crazy people behind this edit. More likely just one.

3. Both of their user names end in numbers "77" and "928". Similar minds do think alike, but the same mind thinks precisely the same.

4. Both of their user names start with capital letters.

5. Both users spell the first letter of the last names of the pages they create in lower case.

6. Both users redirect names to material objects, egg role, joke, windmill, etc.

7. This is another important piece of evidence and a rather disconcerting one. Its clear that this person behind these two user names has found a great strategy for undermining wikipedia. They both only have around 6-7 edits before they stop and probably then go and create a new user name. I think this is probably a strategy to get there edits through and to not attract attention. Thats why I didn't warn the user. There is probably many more socks out there for this user that I haven't found. Also, the strategy clearly worked since nearly all of their edits even as far back as 2008 hasn't been fixed yet. Also the use of redirecting names to things and not things to names seems to be intended to not get caught since wikipedians are less likely to stumble upon them than more generic objects. Chhe (talk) 18:35, 17 April 2010 (UTC)

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Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments
I'm gonna go ahead and close this. Specf928 is probably an inactive account and it looks like they've moved on to Abeale77. Abeale77 has been warned already for their vandalism. If they continue however, consider AIV as Abeale77 is a VOA.  E lockid  ( Talk ) 19:50, 18 April 2010 (UTC)