Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/T23tran/Archive

25 December 2014

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Procedural report before I block as WP:DUCK. T23tran has been blocked multiple times for unexplained removal of sourced content from articles. Another common behavior of the editor is to make many small changes to the same article instead of making larger edits, presumably not leveraging the preview button despite multiple warnings. T23tran predominantly edits basketball-related articles, and sometimes American football. 71.235.48.129 also edits with the same style of multiple consecutive edits with small incremental changes to the same article, also mainly related to basketball. On December 15 at 15:53 (UTC), 71.235.48.129 was editing football player Adrian Peterson's infobox; at 15:57, T23tran starts editing football article, and at 16:04 also starts editing Peterson's infobox also. On December 16 12:41, 71.235.48.129 finished making multiple small edits to basketball player Seth Curry. At 12:48, T23tran begins editing basketball articles, making an edit to Curry at 13:00. At 13:24, 71.235.48.129 starts editing again.

DanLongly created account at 16:04, 18 December 2014. T23tran has not edited since 20:49, 17 December 2014. At 15:32, 18 December 2014, 71.235.48.129 finishes editing 50–40–90 club and Dell Curry. At 16:05, DanLongly starts the accounts first edits including "50–40–90 club" and "Dell Curry". DanLongley has also received warnings like T23tran for not using preview button, and unexplained removal of sourced content. DanLongly responds to one of the warnings about using preview with "Oops, my bad. Won't happen again". somewhat similar response by T23tran in May 2014 of "Sorry man. I don't know how it happened. I would see grammatical errors one time and finish and then see spelling errors the next. and I do get impatient at times as well. Last time. Promise."

In summary, editing pattern of lots of consecutive small edits to the same article, mostly basketball articles and sometime American football. Often will removed sourced content without explanation. Will also revert other editors when removal is contested. —Bagumba (talk) 09:49, 25 December 2014 (UTC)

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Blocking per WP:DUCK. Sockmaster T23tran blocked 1 month based on past block history pattern of continued unexplained removal of sourced content, behavior that was continued by DanLongly. Sockpupper DanLongly blocked indefinitely. The IP should be taken care of already by autoblocks, per Sockpuppet_investigations/SPI/Administrators_instructions. Nothing left to do here. Requesting close.—Bagumba (talk) 10:14, 25 December 2014 (UTC)

08 January 2015

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KayserSoze90 was created 21:30, 26 December 2014, while the last sock,, was blocked 09:56, 25 December 2014 along with sockmaster T23tran. KayserSoze90 has been WP:QUACKing with same interest in sports articles, predominantly with articles related to the National Basketball Association (NBA). Editor Interaction Analyzer results show overlap in articles. Editing style is following those of the previous report of multiple consecutive incremental edits to the same article. KayserSoze90 appears to be an experienced editor with NBA articles. Particularly, their modification of the order of highlights in the infobox at Kevin Durant is rare. T23tran made a similar edit to that article, and has received WikiProject guidance in the past on the project's practices for order of highlights that would otherwise usually not be followed by newbies. —Bagumba (talk) 22:04, 8 January 2015 (UTC)

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Requesting checkuser to check for sleepers, in light of apparent serial nature of sock creation. I'm likely to block KayserSoze90 based on WP:DUCK, and cu results might sway me to indef block sockmaster T23tran in lieu of extending the current block.—Bagumba (talk) 22:08, 8 January 2015 (UTC)
 * ✅ - I hardblocked the underlying IP (previously identified in the archive for this case) for a month. No additional sleepers at this time. -- Versa geek  23:07, 8 January 2015 (UTC)
 * Sock blocked and tagged. Given the master account had previous blocks and the first sockpuppetry block was for 1 month, I've issued a 3 month block to the master account. The next block will likely be indefinite. Mike V • Talk 23:32, 8 January 2015 (UTC)