Wikipedia:Suspected sock puppets/AlexLevyOne

User:AlexLevyOne

 * Suspected sockpuppeteer


 * Suspected sockpuppets

Mayalld (talk) 06:44, 16 September 2008 (UTC)
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Pretty clear sockpuppet. Performing exactly the same unthinking deletions of anything fact-tagged, linking years without good reason.
 * Evidence


 * Comments

It doesn't seem so clear to me - do you have some diffs showing similar edits? Kevin (talk) 07:05, 16 September 2008 (UTC)


 * The evidence is pretty compelling to those of us who've been following the AlexLevyOne saga and laboring to clean up the messes he leaves behind. This is at least the fourth user id associated with this user.  In one of the ANI items about this user, he admitted to being the same person as User:Elsass3.  User:AlexLevyOne is the second.  After that account was blocked for two weeks for vandalism, he created the (rather obvious) sock puppet User:AlexandreLevy, which was itself also quickly blocked.  Now we have User:NORD74, created on September 5 during the AlexLevyOne block (which ran from August 31 through September 13) and the day after AlexandreLevy was blocked as a sock.


 * The evidence is not only that which Mayallid alludes to (a representative pair of diffs here - NORD74 and AlexLevyOne) but also the very quick accumulation of commentary on the user's talk page about non-notable entries, vandalism (Osama bin Laden is a popular target, see AlexLevyOne and NORD74), followed by an equally quick blanking of the warnings by the user. The history of the two user's talk pages betrays the similarity clearly.  Compare ALO and NORD74.


 * User:NORD74 also edits two or three very obscure pages (or types of pages) in common with AlexLevyOne - see History of Jews in Alsace or any number of pages about French cinema such as Jean-Pierre_Bacri, Jamel Debbouze (both NORD74) and Marguerite Durand, Alain Mamou-Mani (AlexLevyOne). (The foregoing pages aren't offered as examples of bad editing, but instead just to show the commonality of interests between these two users.)


 * The typical absence of edit summaries is another clue. And both users, when they *do* add an edit summary, tend toward unhelpful single words ("useless" being employed often).


 * I'll quit there. Honestly, it's too much work to go through this guy's edits (typically scores in a day) to find more egs of similar edits when the *only* thing he does is make the same kinds of edits, all the time.  User:NORD74 is User:AlexLevyOne.  He created the sock to evade the block of his account when another, too-obvious sock failed to accomplish his purpose.  JohnInDC (talk) 11:41, 16 September 2008 (UTC)

Confirmed and sockpuppet blocked indefinitely as well as user:VingtSix and user:Elsass3. fayssal  / Wiki me up® 12:17, 16 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Conclusions