Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Willrocks10/Archive

21 December 2010

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Willrocks10 created a page which is being considered for deletion here. Willrocks10 has already engaged in various forms of disruptive editing, which led to a 24hr block over the weekend. During the AfD Willrocks10 has voted multiple times, all but one of which were later struck through by other editors for clarity. Willrocks10 has repeatedly reverted this. One hour before the AfD is due to close, user Wokingrocks came into existence. The name is clearly similar to Willrocks10 (bearing in mind they edit on Woking articles).

Their fist contribution to wikipedia was to create Willrocks10's user page, praising them for creating the article which is in AfD. Diff (well URL as its a new page) http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Willrocks10&oldid=403516088

Thier second (and at present only other) edit was to vote keep in the AfD and revert the strikethroughs in exactly the same way Willrocks10 keeps doing. Diff http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/List_of_tallest_buildings_in_Woking&diff=prev&oldid=403515912

It's a small thing, but they also appear to use caps in the same way as Willrocks10 and failed to sign comments.

Willrocks10 is clearly a new user and has repeatedly shown a complete disregard (or more likely ignorance) for how wikipedia operates, including comment reverting, page blanking and uncivil behaviour, hence they were banned. I think it highly plausible they would create a sockpuppet for the AfD, and the behavior of Wokingrocks is IMO very suspicios. ThePaintedOne (talk) 13:44, 21 December 2010 (UTC)

Jargonia has only edited the List of… article and the AfD of the same. Pbl1998 was the second editor to List of… and they've (Pbl1998 and Willrocks10) been alternating for most of the article's edit history. They edit mostly the same articles. L Faraone  21:23, 21 December 2010 (UTC)

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To be fair, while I was initially suspicious of pbl1998, given the disagreements and some minor edit warring, unless it's a rather sophisticated good hand/bad hand setup (unlikely given thier general ignorance of wikipedia), I think they are separate. Jargonia has only posted to vote against the other two, so again unless it's overly subtle I think it's a third person.

I am however certain they all know each other in real life, and quite possibly all edit through a common IP, e.g.school library. --ThePaintedOne (talk) 22:59, 21 December 2010 (UTC)
 * I have to say, while there is no love lost between Willrocks10 and myself, I'm not convinced that the right decision has been made with regards pbl1998. Wokingrocks was definitely a sock, and a very unsubtle one at that. But Willrocks10 and pbl1998 have argued and edit warred with each other over these articles (see for example the BAT/b.a.t back and forth on Export house), so for pbl to be a sock would imply a high level of sophistication from Willrocks10 in creating a plausible false persona, and to have done so prior to any of the edit controversey arising. This is of course possible, but given his otherwise almost total ignorance of wikipeida policy and convention, plus the very obvious way the Wokingrocks sock was created and used, I find it hard to beleive. If Willrocks was that knowledgable and sophisticated in gaming Wikipedia, they wouldn't have ploughed so hard into the rules and consensus in a way that was obviously not going to work if you have any knowledge of wikipedia. I think that they are real world friends, who decided in the real world to collaborate on wikipedia editing. I also think they are likely at school together (probably in Woking), so the times when they could edit would be similar (lunch break, etc) and they could be using a common IP, e.g. a school library. As for Jargonia, their only contribution was to oppose Willrocks in AfD, so it makes no sense for them to be a sock. More likely this is a third student who saw over thier shoulder what they were doing and jumped on to give them a hard time. I find that a lot more plausible than the sock explanation. I'm not sorry to see Willrocks10 blocked, thier contributions have been disruptive and often uncivil, PBL1998 also has a lot to learn about wikipedia, but hasn't been as obnoxious as Willrocks and I really don't think is a sock.--ThePaintedOne (talk) 09:27, 29 December 2010 (UTC)
 * (copied to user page as unblock request with diffs added)--ThePaintedOne (talk) 10:03, 29 December 2010 (UTC)

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * Blocked and tagged the sock per WP:DUCK, warned the master. —  Hello Annyong  (say whaaat?!) 17:55, 21 December 2010 (UTC)
 * I'm moving this up to an endorse to check the two accounts LFaraone just added, and also to see if there are any sleepers. —  Hello Annyong  (say whaaat?!) 21:24, 21 December 2010 (UTC)

All above-reported accounts are ✅ to be the same person. –MuZemike 23:43, 26 December 2010 (UTC)
 * All socks blocked and tagged, master blocked for a week. —  Hello Annyong  (say whaaat?!) 00:03, 27 December 2010 (UTC)