Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/User Team/Archive

Evidence submitted by JamesBWatson
Following a string of assorted vandalism and other unhelpful behaviour, User Team was finally blocked at 03:37, 17 November 2009 as a result of posting his own password, and the block settings were then extended at 04:16, 17 November 2009. Team1525 started editing at 05:49, 17 November 2009. There is the following evidence: JamesBWatson (talk) 13:52, 23 November 2009 (UTC)
 * 1) The timing given above.
 * 2) The similarity of user names.
 * 3) Both of them have made numerous edits to articles of the family "Deaths in a particular month". A few examples for User Team are, , and , and a few examples for Team1525 are , , , and.
 * 4) Both have done a substantial amount of creating &/or editing templates, e.g. (User Team), , (Team1525) , , , ,.
 * 5) Both have a history of expanding abbreviations in template source to full version, even when doing so makes no visible difference in the use of the template. E.g. (User Team) (Team1525), , , ,.
 * 6) Both have made a significant number of edits relating to American football, eg (Team1525) etc etc, (User Team)  etc etc.
 * 7) In this edit User Team stated that he intended to set up a sockpuppet account if his block was not overturned.

Comments by accused parties
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Comments by other users
Look for any link concerning the user that created a deleted article called Team Freedom. &rArr; Pickboth manlol   22:26, 23 November 2009 (UTC)


 * Editor essentially admitted to being the same editor both at WP:AIV and on his own talk page (.  I am blocking the account, but agree the drawer needs to be checked for other socks.  — Kralizec! (talk) 22:36, 23 November 2009 (UTC)
 * Also, the account has self-identified CIDR 75.47.0.0/16. There are edits in that range, but not a massive amount ... assuming it is not a red herring. — Kralizec! (talk) 22:42, 23 November 2009 (UTC)
 * He seemed to blank his talk page, should I restore it because he was removing that comment about sock suspicision? &rArr;  Pickboth manlol   22:38, 23 November 2009 (UTC)

CheckUser request
Self-endorsing for CheckUser attention to weed out any further socks of this user. User admits to being a sock of User:I-10 ), but unfortunately that account is stale. Also requesting check for an underlying block on other IPs or an IP range. MuZemike 19:22, 23 November 2009 (UTC)

Conclusions
No other socks that I can see now, but the range is used extensively, so rangeblocking should be a last resort. -- Avi (talk) 03:49, 24 November 2009 (UTC)

Evidence submitted by Snigbrook
has recently been blocked as a sockpuppet of, but had previously been blocked as MascotGuy before being unblocked. A new account with a similar username,, has appeared and has edited some of the same articles as Baseball1015. As these articles are related, this is not enough to connect them. However, there seems to be a connection between Baseball1015 and, who was blocked as a sockpuppet of , particularly edits to user warning templates and lists of deaths by month and year. Golf 2010 has also edited a page previously edited by Team1525, and both that page and Whiskey Pete's (another page edited by Golf 2010) have been frequently edited by IP addresses in the range used by Team1525. snigbrook (talk) 21:29, 7 February 2010 (UTC)
 * Another connection between User Team and Baseball1015: both posted their passwords on their user talk pages. snigbrook (talk) 21:41, 7 February 2010 (UTC)

Evidence submitted by Rschen7754
I'm not quite sure I understand the connection to User:I-10, but this user is definitely editing similar articles. --Rschen7754 22:29, 7 February 2010 (UTC)

Comments by accused parties
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Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments

 * Indefinitely blocked, though it would be nice to confirm the I-10 connection. (I think his comments about being related to AL2TB aren't legitimate). --Rschen7754 22:46, 7 February 2010 (UTC)


 * ✅ - User Team sock - A l is o n  ❤ 01:37, 8 February 2010 (UTC)