Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Texas4945/Archive

01 February 2016

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Users persistently remove reliably sourced content at Wayne Smith (Texas politician) with claims of vandalism and false information, replacing it with unsourced, promotional, POV content. When reverted, users edit war and refuse to engage in any Talk page discussion. Bailey2016 emerged immediately after Texas567 was blocked, block evasion.  General Ization  Talk   15:59, 1 February 2016 (UTC)

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''Accused parties may also comment/discuss in this section below. See Defending yourself against claims.'' Adding the above account for consideration. 2601:188:0:ABE6:65F5:930C:B0B2:CD63 (talk) 16:17, 1 February 2016 (UTC)
 * I have blocked Bailey2016 for 24 hours for edit warring, with the expectation that the block will be raised to indefinite should abuse of multiple accounts be confirmed. Boing! said Zebedee (talk) 16:53, 1 February 2016 (UTC)

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 * - The edits of the three named accounts are practically exclusively large content removals at Wayne Smith (Texas politician). ☺ ·  Salvidrim!   ·  &#9993;  18:16, 1 February 2016 (UTC)
 * Texas4945 and Texas567 are ❌.
 * Bailey2016 is . They are the only one using a phone.
 * Assuming the four users/accounts are not socks, based on the strength of the behavioral evidence, the timing, and the editing location, they are very likely meat.--Bbb23 (talk) 18:48, 1 February 2016 (UTC)
 * Considering all of the accounts only ever had an interest in a single article, and that it has now been protected, that the two active accounts have been blocked at that Texas4945 hasn't been active in 20+days, I doubt additional or lengthened blocks will serve to prevent further disruption. B!sZ is of course perfectly free to add or upgrade any blocks if future disruption does continue. ☺ ·  Salvidrim!   ·  &#9993;  19:28, 1 February 2016 (UTC)