Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Texancool/Archive

03 May 2016

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Since about December last year, there have been repeated attempts to establish an article on the actor JC Gonzalez, who has had some small roles in TV series and has released some songs (the first was deleted last year by discussion as non-notable, and other articles on his songs have been speedied). These editors have I think effectively exclusively made edits to promote him. They have also used similar phrasing, referring to themselves as "we" as here (Texancool, January) and here and here (Olivety, April 2016). Much of the information on the current draft created by Olivety and Diameri is exactly identical to the previous deleted articles; it's also minimally sourced and contains a lot of information that doesn't seem to be publicly available, so these editors seem to be working together. In addition Olivety started editing less than 12 hours after Diameri55 last edited, and Texancool made their last burst of edits just around the time Diameri55 started (they have made one edit since), so they seem to be coordinated. Texancool was asked here in August what saying "we" meant about another deletion discussion (I can't see this; it's been deleted) by admin Tokyogirl79 but didn't answer. Blythwood (talk) 23:09, 3 May 2016 (UTC)

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 * The following accounts are ✅:
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 * Blocked and tagged all accounts. Closing.--Bbb23 (talk) 13:57, 4 May 2016 (UTC)
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 * Blocked and tagged all accounts. Closing.--Bbb23 (talk) 13:57, 4 May 2016 (UTC)

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Seems to be a sock of banned sockpuppeteer Texancool, making a third attempt at creating a promotional page on probably-not-notable actor JC Gonzalez (text also posted on their user page), which was deleted by speedy and then AfD back in 2016. This version is better written but almost all the references seem just to be brief mentions. I'm not sure but I think I recognise specific elements of the text from previous deleted versions, and large amounts of the text don't seem to have an available source–it looks written by a family friend or self-authored. Blythwood (talk) 22:04, 18 January 2018 (UTC)

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— Berean Hunter   (talk)  14:46, 19 January 2018 (UTC) — Berean Hunter   (talk)  14:59, 19 January 2018 (UTC)
 * is ✅ to.
 * Article deleted and salted.
 * Tagging and closing. Sir Sputnik (talk) 18:02, 19 January 2018 (UTC)

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I am concerned after looking at the interaction report among Texancool and Siddfatima (previously blocked via this specific SPI) and the new User:Choky1995 – – especially the undue attention payed to the relatively obscure topic of JC Gonzalez (currently at Articles for deletion/JC Gonzalez (2nd nomination) – no idea if  is related too...). I'm not sure if this qualifies as "WP:DUCK", but I'm definitely suspicious... I'll leave the "checkuser" decision up to whichever Admin sees this. --IJBall (contribs • talk) 20:05, 29 August 2018 (UTC)

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They seem to be technically ❌. — Berean Hunter   (talk)  21:18, 2 September 2018 (UTC) — Berean Hunter   (talk)  16:55, 4 September 2018 (UTC)
 * Could you clarify exactly which accounts you were checking? I assume I'm missing something, but this case looks stale to me. Sir Sputnik (talk) 16:26, 4 September 2018 (UTC)
 * Sir Sputnik, Choky1995 is about as far away from Texancool's normal part of the world as one can get. Choky1995 is not using any form of proxy and has consistent IPs in an ISP's range. I used the checkuser log to look for previous Texancool IP ranges and he seems to have a consistent location no where near Choky1995. It is possible that he has traveled but that wouldn't change the technical results that they seem to be unrelated when comparing the ranges. No comparison of UAs took place.


 * Without technical evidence, a common interest alone is not enough to support a block for sockpuppetry. Closing. Sir Sputnik (talk) 00:43, 18 September 2018 (UTC)