Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/SwimDude/Archive

13 January 2011

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, in two years of editing, edits only Michael Milken and the associated talk page. The general direction is to polish Milken's image. , in one year of editing, edits primarily Milkin-related articles. That IP address comes up in reverse DNS as ExecPro Inc, which hosts "mikemilkin.com", "milkeninstitute.com", etc. I've had some minor edit warring recently with the two of them. See. Since they have two accounts, they can avoid 3RR problems. John Nagle (talk) 21:06, 13 January 2011 (UTC)

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I'm sorry, but checkuser will not disclose connections between accounts and IPs. TN X Man 21:19, 13 January 2011 (UTC)
 * Right. That would violate anonymity. So how is this sort of thing handled? --John Nagle (talk) 21:48, 13 January 2011 (UTC)
 * It's usually left up to the judgment of the reviewing admin. Basically, the admin will need to decide (after reviewing the edits of the account and the IP) three things. One- Does the editor behind the account and the IP appear to the be same person? Two- If so, are they violating policy when they edit anonymously (by creating false consensus or, in this case, avoiding 3RR sanctions)? Three- If yes again, what sort of adminly action is necessary to handle the situation? TN X Man  01:11, 14 January 2011 (UTC)


 * Slight note - I moved this from "Swim Dude" to "SwimDude". —  Hello Annyong  (say whaaat?!) 04:10, 14 January 2011 (UTC)
 * I've blocked the IP for three days and warned the master about logging in. Hopefully that puts an end to it. —  Hello Annyong  (say whaaat?!) 04:15, 14 January 2011 (UTC)

26 January 2011

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User has been making POV edits to, , , and by removing a chunk of well-sourced material from some of the articles. See also the discussion at WP:COI/N. Darth Sjones23 (talk - contributions) 04:07, 26 January 2011 (UTC)

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 * I have a feeling this is meatpuppetry, but as there's a COI case here and other factors at work, I'm adding a CU to clarify. The data for Skeen4772, Shsueh and Hqteditor44 is stale, so there's nothing that can be done about them - and CU won't have a comment on the IP. —  Hello Annyong  (say whaaat?!) 13:12, 26 January 2011 (UTC)
 * ,, ‎ are all ✅ socks of . Swimdude blocked for 1 week for sockpuppetry. Chase me ladies, I&#39;m the Cavalry (talk) 22:39, 26 January 2011 (UTC)


 * Can't do much more than that. Closing. —  Hello Annyong  (say whaaat?!) 00:19, 27 January 2011 (UTC)