Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/TVFAN24/Archive

Evidence submitted by MuZemike
See Village pump (miscellaneous). TVFAN24's and the IP edit the exact same articles and are making the exact same edits/reverts; the IP was just recently blocked for disruption, but I think that IP may have been used – along with TV Superstar, who all of a sudden popped up out of nowhere on the VPM discussion – for sockpuppetry to votestack and claim control over the various Chicago TV station articles. –MuZemike 01:21, 20 June 2010 (UTC)

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Comments by other users
I was about to block per WP:DUCK; the leading hyphens on the comments, the name, and the 'coincidental' timing give it away. Fences &amp;  Windows  01:00, 23 June 2010 (UTC)

Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments

 * ✅, also:
 * --jpgordon:==( o ) 22:43, 24 June 2010 (UTC)
 * --jpgordon:==( o ) 22:43, 24 June 2010 (UTC)
 * --jpgordon:==( o ) 22:43, 24 June 2010 (UTC)

Evidence submitted by IronGargoyle
New username that has been restoring non-notable staff lists to various TV station articles in the same manner as User:TVFAN24 and associated socks. 

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Comments by other users
I was just contacted by someone claiming to be 98.223.95.42. They have requested an unblock and said that there are multiple users (relatives) at this IP. I see that they did not enter a discussion here, so I thought I would add this so that there might be a better understanding of the situation.

I have no horse in this game, but I do think a shorter block than the current six months would be a reasonable cooling off period. I'd like to hear the opinions of others. --Zippy (talk)

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments
– Behavioral evidence and editing patterns clearly indicate that this is TVFAN24, no CU necessary. That said, NoSuchThing85 has been indefinitely blocked and tagged. –MuZemike 21:41, 8 July 2010 (UTC)

Evidence submitted by IronGargoyle
Made a similar edit to WGN-TV as the last TVFAN24 sockpuppet (see below):

 

Seems to be editing (mostly) different TV-related articles than the past TVFAN24 sockpuppets, but the modus operandi is the same. Repeatedly adding large swaths of non-notable TV-news-related information information to station articles. There are also similar elements in the username. User also started editing shortly after the last sock was blocked. IronGargoyle (talk) 16:08, 13 July 2010 (UTC)

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Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments
– IIRC 98.223.95.42 is from Chicago, while 24.175.158.38 is from Birmingham, Alabama, two geographically-separate locations. –MuZemike 16:23, 14 July 2010 (UTC)

15 January 2012

 * Suspected sockpuppets




 * User compare report Auto-generated every hour.

Comparing the two contrib logs, five minutes after the recently blocked TVFAN24's last edit to their talk page, the IP's first edit to the article WGN-TV was made. The SPI archives suggest a history of sockpuppetry, specifically adding lists of non-notable names to television station articles, including WGN-TV (an article that TVFAN24 also added such lists to). I'm no expert on television terminology, but the IP and TVFAN24 seem to type a name, and perhaps a brief description, followed by the following inside the brackets [; also fill-in anchor] quite often. (a semi-colon, followed by "also fill-in anchor"). I'm not 100% sure or accusing anyone of anything definitive, I just recall a discussion with that editor on that article's talk page about that very subject, and after he was blocked, five minutes after his last edit, an IP makes very similar edits to that article. SudoGhost 00:06, 15 January 2012 (UTC)

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 * I haven't looked into this, but the user has been unblocked on conditions...so...I don't know if we can or should do anything here. -- DQ  (t)   (e)  02:03, 20 January 2012 (UTC)
 * Hmm, I would have considered it relevant since it happened during the talks about a way to an unblock, but technical evidence is, and in my opinion behavior isn't conclusive by itself either. Closing it since I don't think anything needs to be done here. Amalthea  20:14, 22 January 2012 (UTC)

08 September 2012

 * Suspected sockpuppets




 * User compare report Auto-generated every hour.

This pretty much says it all. Farine (talk) 18:44, 8 September 2012 (UTC)

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Obvious indeed -- but not from the link you gave, article overlap by itself is generally not sufficient. Generally clerks would ask you to try and provide diffs that are convincing. Account is surprisingly old so I took a deeper look despite Hurley2000 being an obvious match, and found a significant sock drawer, for hard times I assume: ✅ indistinguishable are Amalthea 19:46, 8 September 2012 (UTC)
 * Nuked and tagged the farm. -- DQ  (ʞlɐʇ)  19:56, 8 September 2012 (UTC)

06 July 2013

 * Suspected sockpuppets




 * User compare report Auto-generated every hour.
 * Editor interaction utility

IP's 24 and 50 both editing in a sandbox belonging to User:TVFAN24. See this history. User 50 and 71 using the exact same edit summary on the same article here and here. TVFAN24 is currently under an editing restriction which includes not editing as an IP. Gtwfan52 (talk) 01:19, 6 July 2013 (UTC)

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 * - CU generally doesn't act on cases like this because the effect would be to connect an account to an IP address publicly; also everything's stale so it might not be so helpful. Rschen7754 01:24, 6 July 2013 (UTC)
 * Closed. These IPs are scattered around the USA. It's possible that one might be TVFAN24, but they all certainly aren't. Reaper Eternal (talk) 10:37, 6 July 2013 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets



 * Tools: Editor interaction utility • Interaction Timeline • User compare report Auto-generated every hour.

new editor has started editting a personal page started by user who has since been blocked for sockpuppetry IdreamofJeanie (talk) 19:35, 23 September 2019 (UTC)

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 * GABgab 02:43, 24 September 2019 (UTC)