Wikipedia:Suspected sock puppets/151.199.250.29

User:151.199.250.29

 * Suspected sockpuppeteer


 * Suspected sockpuppets


 * Report submission by

orlady 01:17, 8 September 2007 (UTC)

This is a group of persistent vandals, focused on Madison University and its talk page, who appear to be the same person. Note: The choice of account to list as puppetmaster was completely arbitrary. Evidence of their relatedness is the similarity (yea, even identical nature) of their edits. Furthermore, the three IPs are all in Pennsylvania (one is a corporation, presumably a workplace, and the other two belong to an ISP). The purpose of these accounts seems to be to annoy/harass other wikipedians (i.e., me), but they also aim to remove negative statements to the effect that Madison University has been called a diploma mill.
 * Evidence

Some diffs from the article (there are many more like these):
 * most recent edit of the article (removal of sourced content), by 151.199.250.29
 * identical change, a few hours earlier, by 192.122.250.250
 * in-article complaint about the article content that most of the other edits are concerned with, by 192.122.250.250
 * similar edit to the above, by 151.199.250.29
 * in-article complaint about the same content, but with different wording, by Leman123456
 * edit on 14 August, to modify the same statements that most of the other edits are concerned with, by Patrick Vo
 * earlier edit to article, similar to many of the others, by 151.201.156.180

Some diffs from the talk page:
 * first comment in response to my creation of talk page, signed Exmarine, not signed by actual contributor, posted by Patrick Vo
 * reply by 151.199.250.29 - Interesting features are removing "Patrick Vo" from my comment and addition of some paragraphs that later were added to article
 * Extensive revision of the "Exmarine" comment originally posted by Patrick Vo; also adds text (same text later added to article by multiple users) to the effect that the user had made a phone call to determine that the article's source is wrong, by 151.199.250.29
 * Removed "Patrick Vo" from my comment, by 192.122.250.250

There have been several additional edits to Madison University by User:151.199.250.29 since this case was started.--orlady 19:46, 9 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Comments

Note: User Patrick Vo apparently has changed his name to Patrick Vorkapich --Orlady 17:43, 14 September 2007 (UTC)


 * Conclusions
 * It's reasonable to think that all of these accounts were used by the same person, but since the activity is stale, I don't see much point in blocking. If disruptive activity resumes, then blocks would be an option, but semi-protecting the article might also help. --Akhilleus (talk) 16:58, 22 September 2007 (UTC)