Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Stodieck/Archive

08 July 2012

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User:Amphorus (Talk) is a [new user today] whom I strongly suspect to be a sockpuppet of Stodieck (Talk).

(FYI Stodieck has been censured many times for bad behaviour - see for example this old version of User talk:Stodieck before it was recently cleaned out (shortly before Amphorus posted above, in fact). We have been in an edit war for several months. I tried to get something done about the behaviour at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incident - now archived here but folks couldn't see past the technical dispute. The links are still there for you to follow.)

More recently, another suspicious IP edit in a number of such from slowly-changing IPs prompted me to warn Stodieck about sockpuppetry.

Another suspicious IP appeared today, for example here.

When Amphorus then arrived in very timely manner making very similar edits, I gave another warning in my next edit comment.

So - hoping you can do a Check User and whatever it is you guys do. &mdash; Cheers, Steelpillow (Talk) 19:42, 8 July 2012 (UTC) &mdash; Cheers, Steelpillow (Talk) 19:42, 8 July 2012 (UTC)

Since posting below about their change of ID, this user has reverted to using the purportedly discontinued ID of Stodieck, for example here, here and here.
 * Update

To give you a further idea of this user's approach to sockpuppetry, they have accused me of WP:OUTING - on my own talk page and also on Ahunt's. FYI I can of course have no knowledge of the origins and relevance of this user's chosen ID's, and contrary to the claims made neither User activity of the two personas I mention shows any sign of having requested a name change that I can see, but I don't know if that is how it should be anyway. &mdash; Cheers, Steelpillow (Talk) 19:02, 11 July 2012 (UTC)

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Amphorus is not a sockpuppet it is a new username to replace my family name which will be discontinued. - Stodieck — Preceding unsigned comment added by Stodieck (talk • contribs)

IP addresses are not sock puppets they are IP addresses. Steelpillow does not seem to understand that anyone can make edits to the wiki at anytime from anywhere. One of these is from me when I forgot to sign in the other is completely unknown. Someone else who disagrees with this editor. - Stodieck — Preceding unsigned comment added by Stodieck (talk • contribs) 15:01, 9 July 2012 (UTC)
 * Not necessarily true. If you use IP addresses to edit the same articles, or make the same edits that have previously been removed, it's called WP:SOCK (✉→BWilkins←✎) 10:35, 13 July 2012 (UTC)
 * Now, on to the other side of things: if you are abandoning an account, you have to actually abandon it. Do not edit using both - that is WP:SOCK through and through.  If it's being done for privacy reasons, there's typically no need to publicly link them.  Also, learn to sign your talkpage posts with ~ (✉→BWilkins←✎) 10:36, 13 July 2012 (UTC)

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * If not for the abusive intersects on Stabilizer (aircraft), I would have resorted to education, but I don't buy the story about family names since the edits are intermingled to avoid scrutiny, requiring you log in and out on July 8th, while you edit war. I'm going to indef the puppet, block the master for 1 month, and block the 208 IP 3 months as a sock.  Not sure on the 108, even though it covers the same topic.  It is located on the other coast from the 208.  Will leave that to the patroling admin to decide. Dennis Brown -  2&cent;    &copy;  22:23, 13 July 2012 (UTC)

15 August 2012

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User is permanently blocked and has previously been blocked for sock puppetry. This edit perfectly fits his/her previous MO. Biker Biker (talk) 07:49, 15 August 2012 (UTC)

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Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * Yup, pretty clear case of block evasion here. Compare with [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Stabilizer_%28aircraft%29&diff=499334105] by the main account, for example. Same stuff from the IP 71.6.86.44 a few weeks back, it seems. I'm going to block the IP and reset the main account's block. Jafeluv (talk) 12:56, 15 August 2012 (UTC)
 * Warned editor that his next block will likely be his last. Closing. Dennis Brown -  2&cent;    &copy;   Join WER 13:01, 15 August 2012 (UTC)