Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/TheCondor24/Archive

Report date June 2 2009, 21:45 (UTC)

 * Suspected sockpuppets

User:TheCondor24 is a dual purpose account, whose history consists entirely of edits to Mary Ann Glendon and Club for Growth (save for a single edit to World's second oldest profession). I first came into contact with him while editing the Glendon page. I reverted his edits there several times, and growing suspicious, I checked his history, which revealed questionable edits to the Club for Growth page. We reverted each other's edits several times, sparking the beginning of an edit war on both pages, and it was at this point that the sock puppets started to appear.
 * Evidence submitted by PassionoftheDamon

The IP addresses -- all of them based out of Toronto, and all of them restoring his edits -- came first. The similarity in editing habits and contributions between TheCondor24 account and the IP addresses (one of the IP addresses just happened to restore his edits to BOTH the Club for Growth and Glendon articles), as well as their recent membership on the project and the uniformity in geographic location of the suspect IP addresses, is pretty damning proof, IMO, of sock puppetry:, , and.

TheCondor's use of the throwaway Prettyinpink9071 account is a little more cunning and original. He used the Prettyinpink account to restore his edit to the Club for Growth article (on May 29) and offered a deceitful edit summary, claiming to have edited a completely separate portion of the article. Two minutes afterward, TheCondor24 edited the article and his edit summary claimed to have reverted MY previous edit. In reality, he had reverted the edit he had made with the Prettyinpink account and RESTORED my edit. It appears his intent was to use the Prettyinpink account in a scheme to trick me into restoring his edit, counting on me automatically undoing any edit I saw from TheCondor24 account. Here are the diffs for that series of edits:, , , , and.

PassionoftheDamon (talk) 21:45, 2 June 2009 (UTC)


 * Comments by accused parties    See Defending yourself against claims.


 * Comments by other users


 * Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments
 * The evidence and the geolocation make this clear. All blocked (IPs for 72 hours; sock indef'd). The blocking admin might want to consider extending the block in light of this; that's up to him. Peter Symonds ( talk ) 22:12, 2 June 2009 (UTC)


 * Conclusions

Per above. Peter Symonds ( talk ) 22:12, 2 June 2009 (UTC)

Report date June 3 2009, 20:14 (UTC)

 * Suspected sockpuppets

User:TheCondor24 was adjudged yesterday a puppetmaster of a throwaway account (User:Prettyinpink9071) and several IP addresses: User:142.150.231.76, User:142.1.148.83, User:99.232.1.195. Proof of sockpuppetry was established by the indistinguishable editing histories and habits across the accounts (all dedicated to restoring TheCondor24's edits to the Mary Ann Glendon and Club for Growth articles), and the uniformity of geographic location among the IP addresses, which are all based out of Toronto. Today, a new sock appeared in the form of User:142.1.144.98, another IP address based out of Toronto which just happened to edit both the Mary Ann Glendon and Club for Growth pages: Special:Contributions/142.1.144.98
 * Evidence submitted by PassionoftheDamon

PassionoftheDamon (talk) 20:14, 3 June 2009 (UTC)


 * Comments by other users

IP blocked 48h by William M. Connolley. I blocked the master account for one week for repeated sockpuppetry. Icestorm815 •  Talk  22:09, 3 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments


 * Conclusions