Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Wahwahpedal/Archive

04 October 2011

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Wahwahpedal has already been blocked by MuZemike for egregious sockpuppetry, as explained at User talk:MuZemike/Archive 9. I believe Xyz or die is also a sock, or possibly meat, puppet, based on this evidence, copied over from the talk page.
 * In addition to the general similarity in their editing patterns, there is a very specific reason why I point the finger at Xyz or die. As may be seen on an, Fastily and I had both observed some rather disturbing edits, in which Wahwahpedal apparently hijacked some (rather useless) articles by replacing their contents and then renaming them. I went through the exercise of reinstating the original articles by splitting the edit histories, and then, a few days later, Xyz nominates  and  for deletion. Also for the Ikeda Jeans/Lance Crother pair there is a "shared intest", witness  and . Favonian (talk) 14:07, 29 September 2011 (UTC)

Piriczki has also submitted evidence, which I'll copy to the next section.

MuZemike could not confirm that they are the same user, but I believe that behavioral evidence is sufficiently incriminating for an indefinite block. Furthermore, because of the misplaced industry of this puppeteer it'll probably be good to have a formalized SPI. Favonian (talk) 13:34, 4 October 2011 (UTC)

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I seconded your suspicions of User:Xyz or die at User talk:MuZemike/Archive 9 but it appears there is no interest in pursuing any further sockpuppets or the sockmaster. I have also noticed some curious editing patterns, particularly surrounding the article Beck and several related articles that have recently been deleted.

On July 14, Articles for deletion/W.I.N. Records was nominated for deletion by the sockpuppet User:Huh direction. The same day, User:Huh direction also nominated Articles for deletion/Tom Grimley (2nd nomination). After no activity, the Grimley article was relisted and received a delete vote from User:Xyz or die. Still having no consensus, it was relisted again and received delete votes from User:duffbeerforme and the sockpuppet User:Zalinda Zenobia.

On July 31, the article Articles for deletion/The Poop Alley Tapes was nominated by User:duffbeerforme and received a delete vote from User:Huh direction.

On August 5, the article Poop Alley Studios was proposed for deletion.

On August 8, sockpuppet User:Know Your NME unlinked Poop Alley Studios and WIN Records in the Beck article (see ). I undid one of the changes because Poop Alley Studios was not yet a red link at the time. I initially noticed this edit because I assumed User:Know Your NME was a sockpuppet of User:Kim Cardassian.

On August 12, Poop Alley Studios was deleted. It would be nice to know which user proposed the deletion. I'm not privy to that information.

On August 16, User:Huh direction unlinked Poop Alley Studios (see diff)

Finally, on August 29 User:Xyz or die deleted the entire sentence that once had links to all of the above deleted articles (see diff).

It all seems peculiar to me. Thought it might be of interest to you. Piriczki (talk) 02:58, 4 October 2011 (UTC)


 * and had welcome messages placed on their talk pages by User:Pewterschmidt Industries and User:Blackzeppelin, both sockpuppets of User:Kim Cardassian. Coincidence? Piriczki (talk) 18:30, 4 October 2011 (UTC)

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments
It's that  and  are the same. Unlike MuZemike, I do see a connection to the Wahwahpedal accounts, but behavior is likely to be a better indicator than technical data. TN X Man 14:38, 4 October 2011 (UTC)
 * Xyz or die is an old account, but combined with the findings that it's likely a sock (if not a sock of the master) and behavioral evidence, I've blocked that account. The other account hasn't edited in months, so I'm going to leave it alone for now. —  Hello Annyong  (say whaaat?!) 02:52, 7 October 2011 (UTC)