Wikipedia:Suspected sock puppets/AlexLevyOne(6th)

User:AlexLevyOne

 * Suspected sock puppeteer


 * Suspected sock puppets


 * Report submission by
 * JohnInDC (talk) 15:00, 31 December 2008 (UTC)


 * Evidence
 * This account is the most recent in a series of sockpuppets of blocked user User:AlexLevyOne, prior incarnations having been User:Elsass3, User:AlexandreLevy, User:NORD74, User:VingtSix, User:XXVI, User:WALL_STREET, User:Italik, User:ANGGUN, User:AlexLevy, User:Splendide Hasard and User:Blum41. User:Nullah was created on December 31, 2008, and immediately began to edit in the same style as the foregoing.  Like the other accounts, this user provides cryptic edit summaries (or more often, none at all), and displays an interest in French personalities and cinema as well as cinema generally.  The history of Marc Zermati illustrates the overlap most persuasively.


 * More disruptive edits will follow soon.


 * The IP address was previously blocked for sockpuppetry, see WP:Suspected_sock_puppets/AlexLevyOne(5th), and is included here because of likely puppet activity from that IP since the end of the block.


 * For more details and history see WP:Suspected_sock_puppets/AlexLevyOne


 * WP:Suspected_sock_puppets/AlexLevyOne(2nd)


 * WP:Suspected_sock_puppets/AlexLevyOne(3rd)


 * WP:Suspected_sock_puppets/AlexLevyOne(4th) and


 * WP:Suspected_sock_puppets/AlexLevyOne(5th).

Editing from the IP address User:81.64.4.162 (most or all of it unhelpful) has stepped up in the new year. JohnInDC (talk) 21:37, 3 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Comments
 * I'd have no problem with an indef block of all the accounts mentioned here. Suggest (1) be sure everyone is notified, (2) go through the past reports on AlexLevyOne and check all the IPs that were given short blocks, to see if any of them are continuing to edit. If so they should be blocked for three months or more. This has been a long-running case. EdJohnston (talk) 21:16, 6 January 2009 (UTC)
 * The problem with this user is not so much confirming the puppet once you find one - it's pretty plain to anyone who's followed this user - but finding the puppets in the first place. AlexLevyOne typically abandons accounts as soon as they're unmasked, at which point it becomes a waiting game for the newest account.  I (personally) think the evidence is sufficient for Nullah, and that blocking the IP for a bit would be a good idea; but it is, sadly, likely only a matter of time before we're filing another one of these.  JohnInDC (talk) 21:53, 6 January 2009 (UTC)


 * Conclusions
 * Blocked User:Nullah indef and the IP for three months. Let me know if any further action is needed, or if we can close this. EdJohnston (talk) 23:52, 6 January 2009 (UTC)
 * That should do it for these accounts, and I have nothing further right now. Thanks.  JohnInDC (talk) 00:38, 7 January 2009 (UTC)