Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Sweethominy/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets



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All four accounts are adding promotional content to the article on Joel Gilbert based on highly questionable sources Daily Mail and WorldNetDaily  in violation of the verifiability and neutral point of view policies.

first added the promotional content (Special:Diff/901036949/912519320) to the article on 25–26 August, and I cleaned up the article on 26 August. On 6 September, (Special:Diff/914306698) and  (Special:Diff/914351777) reintroduced the promotional content. When I reverted the additions, undid my reversion (Special:Diff/914358913).

The, , and accounts all fit a particular pattern: they were created within the last 2 weeks, made just over 10 minor edits in rapid succession, and waited at least 4 days (to gain autoconfirmed status) before making one major edit on the Joel Gilbert article. —  Newslinger  talk   23:28, 6 September 2019 (UTC)
 * Requesting CheckUser due to possibility of additional participating accounts. —  Newslinger  talk   05:43, 7 September 2019 (UTC)
 * Added IP address due to its similar edits on the Joel Gilbert article. —  Newslinger   talk   21:43, 6 October 2019 (UTC)

Comments by other users
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 * I saw this at COIN and have reverted a few edits by the above users. Just a note to say that the user HotNateDog has alluded to group editing efforts: Users RoryWithMunchkins, and JGoldman76 have done the majority of the revising already but better sources are in order., as has JGoldman76 (There was no conflict of interest other than a group (who moved on without me) trying to do an article together so no one had to do a whole page.". JGoldman76 also curiously responds to a COIN notice on their talk page with.. an unblock notice? All very WP:DUCK.ThatMontrealIP (talk) 12:18, 7 September 2019 (UTC)

How can I help this investigation? I don't know how I got tied up with everyone else because I have nothing to do with 'Sweethominy' and have no affiliation with any of the other people other than coming across the same reddit post and briefly talking about doing wiki for fun, then one person browsed wiki and suggested a bunch of controversial articles to try, then someone else said it'd be faster if people did it in groups, and then only a few people actually did try and edit stuff, then joel gilbert was suggested by someone else who said it looked easy enough, and now I'm somehow linked to this other account when I'm literally just trying to get computer practice. Only reason I've spent so much time on it is its the first page I've spent time on and it really does need to be fixed. So if there's anything I can to do to assure you I'm innocent or what not, please let me know! — Preceding unsigned comment added by JGoldman76 (talk • contribs) 18:30, 30 September 2019 (UTC)

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments
Technically. There are some proxies in play. . — Berean Hunter   (talk)  15:52, 7 September 2019 (UTC)
 * These edits make me pretty sure that JGoldman76 and HotNateDog have wiki experience far in excess of their apparent editing history. -- RoySmith (talk) 14:56, 15 October 2019 (UTC)


 * Sweethominy edited 3 articles between 2010 and 2013 with a sole focus on promoting Joel Gilbert's films. SH returned to the task in August 2019. The upload of File:Filmmaker Joel Gilbert.jpg with claims of ownership, from twitter.com, but with a higher resolution, make it clear that Sweethominy is Joel Gilbert. He has mode no contributions which were unrelated to himself or his movies.
 * JGoldman76 states there was a discussion on reddit (no links provided), the only difference its existence is likely to make is whether the accused accounts are sockpuppets or meatpuppets.
 * JGoldman76 admits to gaming WP:ACPERM, "The goal was literally, get to ten edits and get started". HotNateDog falsely claims to be an admin, "Lost password to moderator account so this one is it for right now". Any pretense of an innocent misundertsanding is misplaced.


 * Please block for WP:NOTHERE, self-promotion, & being puppet master as appropriate, and indef the named socks. Cabayi (talk) 10:47, 25 October 2019 (UTC)
 * ✅. Closing SPI report...  ~Oshwah~  (talk) (contribs)   11:29, 25 October 2019 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets



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restored content to the Joel Gilbert article in Special:Diff/925110015 that is identical to the content added by sockmaster in Special:Diff/922281191. Requesting CheckUser due to continued abuse after the September investigation. —  Newslinger  talk   22:39, 7 November 2019 (UTC)

Comments by other users
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Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * , so . CheckUser continues to be . Mz7 (talk) 08:32, 8 November 2019 (UTC)