Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Tile join/Archive

Report date April 8 2009, 19:49 (UTC)

 * Suspected sockpuppets

vandalising Virgin Killers after making several edits to a random talk page first apparently to make the account seem legitimate.|1 |2 Pontificalibus (talk) 19:49, 8 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Evidence submitted by Pontificalibus (talk)


 * Comments by accused parties    See Defending yourself against claims.

The sockpuppetry is much more than this one account. Identical edits to the Virgin Killer page have been made by these accounts:
 * Comments by other users

If it's one IP address we're looking at here, then let's block it. If it's a small range that this person is coming from, then perhaps we can block that. Otherwise, I think we're facing a situation where a hard permanent page protect is needed... Tabercil (talk) 23:41, 8 April 2009 (UTC)


 * Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments
 * - Evident pattern of similar vandalism occurring 15 december 2008. See report at ~eagle/spi/1239238170.html. Check should identify any sleepers, and release for admins to block or block the IP or IP range. If it is a range, a collateral damage check should be done. ——  nix eagle email me 00:53, 9 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Oh if it just one lone IP address making all those vandalisms, please say so... I'd love to block it until about the day after the end of the next ice age... Tabercil (talk) 02:32, 9 April 2009 (UTC)

Anything left to do? Tiptoety talk 18:51, 9 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Conclusions
 * some time ago :) I check the page once in a while and block the sleepers. Hopefully the abuse filter will slow down this stupidity. -- lucasbfr  talk 09:44, 9 April 2009 (UTC)

Report date May 5 2009, 00:28 (UTC)

 * note: no such user named "VK vandal" -just giving the vandal a universal and descriptive name. R. Baley (talk) 04:18, 5 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Recent Sockpuppets


 * Evidence submitted by R. Baley (talk)

Vandalism to remove the album image has been ongoing since at least at least (November 2008) at Virgin_Killer. Semi-protection has been tried, but the vandal was consistently able to reach auto-confirmed status by adding and removing a single letter to old user pages (early example). Page has been fully protected multiple times since attention was brought to the article because it was blacklisted in the UK (link)

An abuse filter has also been tried (add: still in place, see link) but was regularly circumvented (Mar18 - May4 VK page history link) and the article is fully protected again. I have reason to suspect this might be related to Tile join (link to check user case).

Request that that the underlying IPs be checked to see if a range block might be useful.

Thanks, R. Baley (talk) 00:28, 5 May 2009 (UTC)

Link to other VK abusive accounts named in the Tile join checkuser archive closed on April 9, 2009: link (scroll to "Comments by other users"). R. Baley (talk) 22:05, 5 May 2009 (UTC)


 * Comments by accused parties    See Defending yourself against claims.


 * Comments by other users

See also WP:Sockpuppet investigations/W3ez/Archive. --Pontificalibus (talk) 07:10, 5 May 2009 (UTC)

Requested by R. Baley (talk) 00:28, 5 May 2009 (UTC)
 * CheckUser requests


 * Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments
 * Posted a note on the person that requested the check because there is no registered user named "VK vandal". Maybe a typo. OhanaUnitedTalk page 04:12, 5 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Nah, he means the "Virgin Killer" vandal :).

Can this be moved to ../Tile Join (I'm unsure about the bot stuff)? -- Luk  talk (lucasbfr) 11:54, 5 May 2009 (UTC)
 * are you sure about ? I blocked the stable IPs the other were using this morning already. -- Luk  talk (lucasbfr) 11:59, 5 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Oops, sorry about that one. . .he actually reverted the vandalism. Removed Uncle Dick from the list.  R. Baley (talk) 20:48, 5 May 2009 (UTC)


 * Tagged. Nathan  T (formerly Avruch) 22:01, 5 May 2009 (UTC)


 * Conclusions

20 May 2012

 * Suspected sockpuppets


 * User compare report Auto-generated every hour.

Typical Tile join behavior. The first sock is an obvious (self-declared) sock of the second (which is community banned). This is mainly for whether these two sockmasters are linked. Jasper Deng (talk) 04:09, 20 May 2012 (UTC)

Comments by other users
''Accused parties may also comment/discuss in this section below. See Defending yourself against claims.''

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * - Keilana | Parlez ici 02:08, 21 May 2012 (UTC)
 * GoldenGlory84 is . ✅ the following are the same:
 * ...and other, previously blocked accounts. I blocked an IP as well. TN X Man  13:56, 21 May 2012 (UTC)
 * All are already blocked and tagged. -- DQ  (ʞlɐʇ)  16:31, 21 May 2012 (UTC)
 * ...and other, previously blocked accounts. I blocked an IP as well. TN X Man  13:56, 21 May 2012 (UTC)
 * All are already blocked and tagged. -- DQ  (ʞlɐʇ)  16:31, 21 May 2012 (UTC)
 * ...and other, previously blocked accounts. I blocked an IP as well. TN X Man  13:56, 21 May 2012 (UTC)
 * All are already blocked and tagged. -- DQ  (ʞlɐʇ)  16:31, 21 May 2012 (UTC)
 * ...and other, previously blocked accounts. I blocked an IP as well. TN X Man  13:56, 21 May 2012 (UTC)
 * All are already blocked and tagged. -- DQ  (ʞlɐʇ)  16:31, 21 May 2012 (UTC)
 * All are already blocked and tagged. -- DQ  (ʞlɐʇ)  16:31, 21 May 2012 (UTC)

05 June 2013

 * Suspected sockpuppets




 * User compare report Auto-generated every hour.
 * Editor interaction utility

Courtesy of the WMF, we now have, where the editor thanked blocked socks of this user. Obvious same subject interest looking at the contributions. Known socks are stale but requesting a sleeper check. Rschen7754 03:11, 5 June 2013 (UTC)

Comments by other users
''Accused parties may also comment/discuss in this section below. See Defending yourself against claims.''

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * Rschen7754 03:25, 5 June 2013 (UTC)
 * I've gone ahead and blocked the account based on behavioral evidence and the thanks log. [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Bevo74&diff=prev&oldid=558351624 This] suggests the editor isn't here for the right reasons anyways. Legoktm (talk) 06:01, 5 June 2013 (UTC)
 * No sleepers or socks. Keegan (talk) 07:26, 5 June 2013 (UTC)
 * Nothing more to do - behavior evidence is pretty strong by itself. Rschen7754 07:30, 5 June 2013 (UTC)