Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Zimmermanh1997/Archive

16 December 2012

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All three accounts have been creating edits that are less than helpful. Continuous additions of direct links to images on websites, like this, this, and this. For reference, the IP is out of Walkersville, Maryland. Admins and experienced editors have tried to talk to the editor on both the Zimmermanh1997 and the 98.204.145.138 accounts (with a block on the IP account) to no avail. It is pretty clear from the behavior of the edits and the names "Zimmermanh" and "Hollisz" (obviously the same), that they are the same user (aka: DUCK). -  Neutralhomer •  Talk  • 02:47, 16 December 2012 (UTC)
 * I have notified all associated users of this SPI. -  Neutralhomer •  Talk  • 02:50, 16 December 2012 (UTC)


 * A note, unhelpful and disruptive edits are still coming from User:Hollisz with these two edits this evening at 22:34 and 22:36 UTC. -  Neutralhomer •  Talk  • 04:01, 17 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Yet more disruptive edits are comming from User:Hollisz since 22:11 UTC on December 19. None of them are constructive. -  Neutralhomer  •  Talk  • 03:20, 20 December 2012 (UTC)


 * User:Hollisz has, once again, posted more "poor edits" here and here. These are the first two edits after coming off a 31 hour block by User:Drmies.  I have alerted both User:Dennis Brown (clerk on this SPI) and User:Drmies (the blocking admin) of this information to keep everyone in the loop. -  Neutralhomer  •  Talk  • 16:22, 26 December 2012 (UTC)

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 * Homer, I didn't know that Zimmerman was involved too--I believe I looked into that one at the time. I support this SPI and the suggestion of DUCKness, and think CU is helpful here. Drmies (talk) 03:33, 16 December 2012 (UTC)


 * To DQ below: this is NOT a simple misplaced password. The user has not responded to any comments from admins or other editors, most of their edits are repeating previous ones, most trying to add images direct from the website.  Several people have tried to tell the user that this will not work.  After so long, it becomes obvious the user is not here to edit constructively. -  Neutralhomer  •  Talk  • 08:21, 19 December 2012 (UTC)

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 * They do seem to be the same, and in that case if it's a "duck" as you say, then CU isn't needed. Furthermore, There does not appear to be an attempt to decieve the community or a block evasion. There is no edit overlap with the accounts, and could be a lost password deal. And with no evasion of a block, I don't see where the abuse of multiple accounts comes in. -- DQ  (ʞlɐʇ)  05:44, 19 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Since Hollisz was blocked for edit warring, but there still isn't a definitive showing of abuse, I've left this open for a bit, for observation. Dennis Brown -  2&cent;    &copy;  Join WER 22:10, 20 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Still no overlap, closing SPI case. There may be other issues, but SPI isn't the proper venue for those. Dennis Brown -  2&cent;    &copy;  Join WER 16:47, 26 December 2012 (UTC)

05 February 2014

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HZ100, an account created today, and the IP (used back in January) are just two of the many sockpuppet accounts and IPs used by Zimmermanh1997. I am hoping with this SPI that we can flush out any additional sleeper accounts. A checkuser is requested. -  Neutralhomer •  Talk  • 21:27, 5 February 2014 (UTC)  Neutralhomer  •  Talk  • 21:27, 5 February 2014 (UTC) 21:27, 5 February 2014 (UTC)

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 * This isn't a fishing expedition. User:Zimmermanh1997 has several socks under his belt including User:Do Not Delete, User:Hollisz, User:Zman9000, User:24.170.254.249, User:69.138.30.59, and User:98.204.145.138.  All of the IPs trace back to the same ISP and the same location.  The socks have all targeted the same page and posted the same information (and incorrectly formatted image links) repeatedly.  The page targeted, WICL, is indef semi-protected due to continued and repeated vandalism for a year (as of January 5, 2014).  The page has been protected repeatedly for vandalism from Zimmermanh1997, et al.


 * Checkusers have been used in the page for check for sleeper accounts of a socking vandal, I believe this is one of those cases. -  Neutralhomer •  Talk  • 21:20, 6 February 2014 (UTC)
 * Thank you all for your help. -  Neutralhomer •  Talk  • 02:24, 7 February 2014 (UTC)

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 * - There's no history of sleepers and very little history of sock puppetry so I don't see a reason to run a check. I'll leave the case open in case  has reason to believe that there are sleepers. Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 10:27, 6 February 2014 (UTC)
 * Given Neutralhomer's comment above I've endorsed for CU. I don't really think that CU will be able to tell us much, but I'll endorse and leave it up to a CU. Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 22:38, 6 February 2014 (UTC)
 * Since everything else is, the most I can say is that == . . ​—DoRD (talk)​ 23:18, 6 February 2014 (UTC)
 * Both confirmed accounts tagged and blocked indef, closing now. Mark Arsten (talk) 02:22, 7 February 2014 (UTC)

05 July 2014

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Pickleboy's first edit was a "Semi-protected edit request" to the WICL talk page. Previous Zimmerman socks have made similar requests on the WICL talk page, all of which have been denied. The WICL page is a typical haunt for Zimmerman et. al.

Zimmerman used the 69.88.41.64 IP twice on in a 24 hour period, once at 17:42 UTC on July 4 and again at 16:57 UTC on July 5. Zimmerman has previously used this IP before.

As evidenced by the semi-protection the WICL page and others, plus the numerous sockpuppets (past and now present), along with a history of IP hopping, a checkuser is needed to flush out any sleeper accounts (something he also has a history of). I would also request the possibility of some range blocks as well to prevent this from happening again in the future. Thank you. -  Neutralhomer •  Talk  • 22:25, 5 July 2014 (UTC)
 * Zimmerman used another sockpuppet IP today to vandalize another radio station article, this time WEPM. Reverts have been made, but this will give another IP to trace any sleepers or just to block. -  Neutralhomer  •  Talk  • 21:04, 8 July 2014 (UTC)

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Obvious socks. I have blocked the named account indefinitely and the IP for one month as it seems to be a stable IP that no one else is using. -- Diannaa (talk) 23:34, 5 July 2014 (UTC)
 * Second IP address reblocked again. ​—DoRD (talk)​ 21:25, 8 July 2014 (UTC)