Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Thimoty Freick/Archive

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Checkuser requested to make certain. Back in December 2019, Late70s-80sNewWave was adding genres to music articles, including adding "new wave" to two Peter Gabrial album articles but without a reference. Late70s-80sNewWave edited as recently as mid-May, so checkuser will still work. In May 2020, Thimoty Freick turned his attention to some Peter Gabriel albums, assigning four of the genre of new wave, using a reference that doesn't mention any of them. In June, Brazilian IPs 2804:7F4:xxxxxx inserted new wave into a bunch of Peter Gabriel albums. In July, Brazilian IPs 191.177.xx introduced new wave genres into Peter Gabriel albums. After that, Henry Kinley came along and added new wave genre with the same Classic Rock reference as Brazilian IP. Ane Crawley arrived a few days later to add new wave. Today, Julha Martins Lopes arrived to continue the genre warring. Binksternet (talk) 19:15, 19 July 2020 (UTC)


 * Adding Luiza Kinley to list of socks. Newly arrived, adding new wave genre to a dozen articles. The only reference cited was in Portuguese, a link to the Brazil IPs.

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(still scanning possible proxy: completed, see below)

Blocking confirmed accounts, will see what my scanning turns up and leaving ChangingRivers for closer behavioral evaluation. — Berean Hunter   (talk)  21:28, 22 July 2020 (UTC) — Berean Hunter   (talk)  23:42, 22 July 2020 (UTC)
 * Late70s-80sNewWave is showing two open ports on his IP and one is labeled "TR-069 remote access" and the other is unknown. DNS shows as a mail server site. TR-069 might be legit but it also has exploits. Behavioral analysis is the way to go.


 * I looked at ChangingRivers and Late70s-80sNewWave. I'm not seeing anything that screams sock at me.  Assigning genres to music is a popular activity, and Peter Gabriel is a popular artist, so simply sharing an interest in assigning genres to Gabriel isn't enough.  If they really are socks, it'll become apparent soon enough.  None of the IPs have edited in a while, so not doing anything there.  Adding a tag to Thimoty Freick; closing with no action beyond that. -- RoySmith (talk) 22:32, 24 August 2020 (UTC)

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After Henry Kinley (HK) was blocked on July 22, Julia Padilha Glaiser (JPG) showed up four days later and started doing the same stuff, for instance adding the new wave genre where it was not supported. HK added new wave to the Lodger album, followed by JPG using the same ultimateclassicrock website as seen in previous reports. Earlier today, Rosemary Kinley joined in the behavior. Also. Checkuser requested to make certain. Binksternet (talk) 17:38, 29 August 2020 (UTC)

Unfortunately I don't have time to deal with this now, but I have had a quick glance at the relevant editing histories, and it looks to me as though is more likely than not right. Even if an administrator with more time available for checking than I have decides that behavioural evidence is enough for a block, I suggest still having a Checkuser, because the editor's history makes either or both of sleepers and active but as yet unrecognised socks fairly likely. JBW (talk) 22:24, 2 September 2020 (UTC)

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 * - I agree with Binksternet and JBW that there is a reasonable amount of behavioral overlap, enough to justify a CU. I would also like a CU because genre-warring isn't exactly a unique behavior, so I think the behavioral evidence is circumstantial enough that technical evidence is needed. Please run a checkuser and, if they come back related, sleeper check per JBW's comment. GeneralNotability (talk) 22:38, 2 September 2020 (UTC)
 * Both accounts are separately ✅ to Ane Crawley (a confirmed sock in the archive)., closing. Kevin ( aka L235 · t · c) 08:22, 3 September 2020 (UTC)

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These socks showed up to resume the edit warring of previous socks. One example. Another example. A third example. A fourth example. Checkuser requested to check for more socks. Can the IPs be blocked including the creation of new usernames? Binksternet (talk) 19:26, 5 September 2020 (UTC)

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 * - yup, sleeper check please, and per please see if a rangeblock is feasible. I note from Binksternet's reported IPs that 136.169.186.203 is part of ...in case that helps anyone. Don't see any other activity in the range which looks like them, though. GeneralNotability (talk) 00:51, 6 September 2020 (UTC)
 * All five accounts above are ✅ to Julia Padilha Glaiser, a previous Thimoty Freick sock. No sleepers immediately visible. ., closing. Mz7 (talk) 07:15, 6 September 2020 (UTC)

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Checkuser requested to make certain. Binksternet (talk) 18:11, 11 September 2020 (UTC)

These new accounts have the same interests as older socks. The IP is from Brazil, just like previous IPs. The IP followed Thimoty Freick in adding the new wave genre. Months later, the Brazilian IP followed new sock Roland Orzabal in adding the alt rock genre to Pretenders.

I added Ketchup901 because of the parallel interest in Peter Gabriel's untitled albums.

I added Curt Smith TFF, The Alan Parsons Project, The Pretenders 1, and Tompetty69 because of the similarity in naming style, the timing, and the intersection of article interests. Binksternet (talk) 18:24, 11 September 2020 (UTC)

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 * - GeneralNotability (talk) 18:20, 11 September 2020 (UTC)

on a proxy, :

— Berean Hunter   (talk)  12:40, 16 September 2020 (UTC)
 * Binksternet, I did not check Ketchup901 because there isn't enough to go on at the present. I also saw that this eight year old account seems to have the Swedish wiki as their home wiki (contribs at sv.wiki).
 * Closing - I don't think Tompetty is related (username style is somewhat different from other socks and they don't seem to be genre-warring). GeneralNotability (talk) 13:03, 16 September 2020 (UTC)