Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/The cheapo/Archive

Report date February 7 2009, 19:07 (UTC)

 * Suspected sockpuppets

User:The cheapo is blocked indefinitley for harrassing other users. User:LOL 00000000! harrased me by posting an attack on my talk page claiming to be User:The cheapo. User:Got a 69 in my wine also posted an attack on my talk page, with edit patterns similiar to User:The cheapo. User:I will kill you Acroterion made attacks to User:Acroterion; Who blocked User:The cheapo and User:Got a 69 in my wine. Reliable  Forever talk 19:07, 7 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Evidence submitted by


 * Comments by accused parties    See Defending yourself against claims.


 * Comments by other users


 * Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments
 * All submitted accounts have been blocked indefinitely. Nothing more can be done. Ruslik (talk) 14:10, 8 February 2009 (UTC)

NFA possible Mayalld (talk) 08:01, 9 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Conclusions

Mayalld (talk) 08:01, 9 February 2009 (UTC)

Report date May 8 2009, 16:00 (UTC)

 * Suspected sockpuppets




 * Evidence submitted by Tonywalton Talk

Joe Castillo Dr. ? has claimed "over 38 blocked accounts" and lists "work" by three of the above "Doctor Questionmark" socks, plus "Flech". He is continuing to create new "Doctor Questionmark" accounts and use these to brag about his intention to use multiple IPs to edit disruptively. While I'm happy enough to apply WP:DUCK and play whack-a-mole with these obvious socks, I'm requesting a checkuser with a view to sanctions such as a possible rangeblock being applied to the underlying IP. I note that the IP above has not made any contributions for some time, however the contibution history, such as this edit, show an association with the sockpuppeteer and may aid in defining a rangeblock. Tonywalton Talk 16:00, 8 May 2009 (UTC)


 * Added Marty Clark Marty clark and Marty Marty Clark as creators of the original (now deleted per AfD) article Joe castillo. IPs on the AfD talkpage are probably stale. Tonywalton Talk 16:38, 8 May 2009 (UTC)


 * Comments by accused parties    See Defending yourself against claims.


 * Comments by other users

Requested by Tonywalton Talk 16:00, 8 May 2009 (UTC)
 * CheckUser requests


 * Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments
 * For sleepers, underlying ip, etc.  Syn  ergy 19:14, 8 May 2009 (UTC)

This appears to be an incarnation of The cheapo. I have blocked a few more accounts, as you can see from my block log, and a couple of IPs. Dominic·t 06:49, 10 May 2009 (UTC)


 * Conclusions

Suspected sockpuppets


Added 23 January after further activity --MegaSloth (talk) 01:04, 23 January 2010 (UTC)



Evidence submitted by MegaSloth
Earlier today, the user was created. This user created the page Joseph J. Castillo, which from the edit history appeared to be a direct copy of the page Anthony Page, which was then edited by to make it appear to be a separate page. Striking resemblances between the filmographies still appear however. Given that the page claims the individual is a Tony winner, I attempted to ascertain if anyone of this name ever won a Tony, but could not by Google or by looking at http://www.tonyawards.com/en_US/index.html. After this good faith search, I was satisfied this was a hoax and so added the db-hoax template to the page. Later, deleted the template as other users are permitted to do. He also left a comment on Talk:Joseph J. Castillo. Given that I was still sure this was a hoax, I found it surprising that another user might have heard of the individual and talked about hin in such glowing terms. On investigation, I found that this user was created very recently, after the speedy deletion template was applied. I find this to be an extraordinary set of coincidences, and thus wonder if Sgt. Joe is a sockpuppet of JC1123581321, created for the specific purpose of removing the template neither he nor his IP could reasonably remove. --MegaSloth (talk) 16:23, 21 January 2010 (UTC)

Further activity since initial report


 * Since the initial report, there has been further vandalism activity associated with the IP and the db-hoax request:


 * : also removed the  db-hoax a final time before Joseph J. Castillo was deleted (unable to provide diff from page now deleted).
 * vandalism associated with the same IP:,  also  independently.
 * I wonder if this is part of a wider campaign of vandalism using sockpuppetry? --MegaSloth (talk) 01:12, 23 January 2010 (UTC)


 * Also note edits mentioning Castillo from the same IP going back to 24 March 2009
 * It seems to me this is the same user ("Dread Pirate Roberts 1 sockfarm"?) blocked 6 months ago, back to do more damage. --MegaSloth (talk) 01:39, 23 January 2010 (UTC)

Comments by accused parties
See Defending yourself against claims.

Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments
All accounts indefinitely blocked and tagged. IP blocked 3 months. –MuZemike 20:26, 24 January 2010 (UTC)
 * archived from Sockpuppet investigations/JC1123581321, please see there for orginal page history. SpitfireTally-ho! 19:02, 6 May 2010 (UTC)

Report date January 26 2010, 00:24 (UTC)

 * Suspected sockpuppets


 * Evidence submitted by MegaSloth (talk)
 * this edit by Pfc. Joe and this by suspected sock Cmd. Joe also similarity in user names.
 * created by suspected sock SamSamTheManMan: MegaSloth (talk) 00:24, 26 January 2010 (UTC)


 * Comments by accused parties    See Defending yourself against claims.


 * Comments by other users

Requested by MegaSloth (talk) 00:24, 26 January 2010 (UTC)
 * CheckUser requests


 * Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments


 * - blockable per WP:DUCK. Nathan  T 14:56, 26 January 2010 (UTC)


 * Conclusions
 * Indef'd, tagged. ~ Amory ( u •  t  •  c ) 06:28, 28 January 2010 (UTC)
 * archived from Sockpuppet investigations/JC1123581321, please see there for orginal page history. SpitfireTally-ho! 19:02, 6 May 2010 (UTC)

Report date May 8 2009, 18:22 (UTC)

 * Suspected sockpuppets


 * Evidence submitted by PMDrive1061 (talk)


 * Comments by accused parties    See Defending yourself against claims.


 * Comments by other users

This maybe useful to the comment below and stress, maybe useful. The Joe castillo AFD page had multiple IPs from new jersey (I dont know how to link these) here but you can see on the edit history of User 69.116.225.249 simmilar Ip to the accused user above, edited Community High School (Teaneck, New Jersey). Which is in Not enough proof to link, but i imagine it may be a lead. And if you read the article may shed some light on these edits. Ottawa4ever (talk) 18:48, 8 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Additionally * associated above also edited Community High School (Teaneck, New Jersey) a few times.

Requested by PMDrive1061 (talk) 18:22, 8 May 2009 (UTC)
 * CheckUser requests


 * Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments

Since this individual chose to use his real name and to boast that he was editing from a school, it stands to reason that if we can determine the school, we can get this kid into a heap of well-deserved trouble. We may have to play whack-a-mole if he decides to access this site via libraries, public terminals, etc., but at the same time, we can give him some really serious food for thought when his principal calls him on the carpet.

Note: I just blocked a new round of sockpuppets. They were:


 * User:Mavrick 1
 * User:Mavrick 2
 * User:Mavrick 3
 * User:Mavrick 4

--PMDrive1061 (talk) 14:55, 11 May 2009 (UTC)


 * For what it's worth, those plus User:Mavrick 5 and User:Dante Hicks 1 are ✅. As the school does seem to have some legit users, I've softblocked it with account creation disabled at this time. – Luna Santin  (talk) 20:27, 11 May 2009 (UTC)

All accounts tagged and blocked. Icestorm815 •  Talk  05:09, 12 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Conclusions
 * Please do not close this case yet. Thank you.  Syn  ergy 16:21, 12 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Both report dates for May 8 have been merged here.  Syn  ergy 11:40, 13 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Both report dates for May 8 have been merged here.  Syn  ergy 11:40, 13 May 2009 (UTC)

Report date September 29 2009, 06:36 (UTC)

 * Suspected sockpuppets


 * Evidence submitted by Mister Collins

Anagrams per LTA. Mister Collins (talk) 06:36, 29 September 2009 (UTC)


 * Comments by accused parties    See Defending yourself against claims.


 * Comments by other users


 * Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments

Blocked and tagged. MuZemike 16:46, 30 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Conclusions

Evidence submitted by Bonadea
Three accounts created within 15 minutes with very similar names and editing patterns (one edit to own user page, one vandal insertion of the name "Joe Castillo" in a film or TV related article). User:Ottawa4ever kindly pointed me to this - the socketry seems fairly obvious. --bonadea contributions talk 22:37, 5 January 2010 (UTC)

Comments by accused parties
See Defending yourself against claims.

Conclusions
Blocked and tagged. –MuZemike 21:39, 7 January 2010 (UTC)

Evidence submitted by Ottawa4ever
Account adding 'joe castillo' in much the same way that previous accounts listed here; Sockpuppet investigations/The cheapo/Archive and. Is likely a sock of the cheapo.

Comments by accused parties
See Defending yourself against claims.

Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments
Blocked and tagged, matches up with the LTA report and previous SPI. This report probably needs to be merged to Sockpuppet investigations/The cheapo. TN X Man 11:55, 30 April 2010 (UTC)

case archived from Sockpuppet investigations/Bruno Antony123, please see there for original page history. SpitfireTally-ho! 11:59, 30 April 2010 (UTC)