Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Specialtoyoutoyou/Archive

20 April 2016

 * Suspected sockpuppets




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We had an issue last year with Specialtoyoutoyou, who appeared to be (in the name of art) part of an effort to get as many WP articles to contain the picture of the artist on a beach. This was done at Mood disorder. That's probably enough info to Google for more background. Catuccij1 has appeared and uploaded an almost identical image and attempted to insert it at that article and others. So this is either a sockpuppet, or a COPYVIO because the second image is uploaded with a claim of "own work". Need help determining which. 18:53, 20 April 2016 (UTC)
 * Appears related to this.  21:02, 20 April 2016 (UTC)
 * The individual behind the images, the accounts and the campaign to have the images used is site-banned from Wikipedia.  12:12, 21 April 2016 (UTC)
 * These 2 accounts appear related to the boatload of sockpuppets cataloged at Sockpuppet_investigations/Rasputinfa/Archive.

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 * I believe this is both a copyvio and sock puppetry. Ⓩⓟⓟⓘⓧ (talk) 18:56, 20 April 2016 (UTC)


 * The WP:SOCK issue is a problem. I started discussions about this content on meta. Protocol would be to block the person as a sock. Since the image is art by a famous artist it should not be kept without a copyright release.  Blue Rasberry   (talk)  20:42, 20 April 2016 (UTC)
 * The old account hasn't edited for nearly a year (so checkuser probably can't help), has no e-mail address associated with it (so no way to recover a lost password – which is probably the #1 cause of editors starting a new account), and isn't blocked. Which part of WP:SOCK is supposedly being violated here?  "A new account made an edit that someone else made a year ago and that I didn't like" isn't actually against the socking policy.  WhatamIdoing (talk) 06:26, 21 April 2016 (UTC)

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * The account is already blocked. Closing.  Vanjagenije  (talk)  21:03, 26 April 2016 (UTC)