Wikipedia:Suspected sock puppets/AndreLapalme

User:AndreLapalme
RFCU
 * Suspected sockpuppeteer

Hers fold  (t/a/c) 07:37, 10 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Suspected sockpuppets
 * Report submission by

The five diffs below clearly duplicate the contributions of User:AndreLapalme and associated accounts. Identical vandalism, as well as a malicious intent to avoid notice and subsequent blocking as noted in the links in the comments section. Hers fold  (t/a/c) 07:37, 10 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Evidence for Toweepformenot
 * 

Name matches pattered followed by many of the other accounts (Nobody's going to convince me otherwise this time, so don't even try!). Recent account creation, very first edit only seconds from account creation was to remove warnings from User talk:Toweepformenot. These warnings have since been restored. Hers fold  (t/a/c) 08:16, 10 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Evidence for Nowimgone


 * Comments
 * Due to the nature of previous dealings with this user (See also Suspected sock puppets/Nexttubeban and User talk:Hersfold, where under User:Toweepformenot, the vandal successfully managed to convince me to (wrongly) assume good faith about his actions), I believe it would be prudent at this time to request a checkuser on these accounts so that the IP address may be blocked to prevent the creation of further accounts by this vandal. At this point there are 14 confirmed sockpuppets of this user, one suspected, and this one currently under accusation. Hers fold  (t/a/c) 07:37, 10 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Update: I'm being bold and listing this for checkuser already. Seems to be a clear-cut case for code A. Hers fold  (t/a/c) 07:59, 10 November 2007 (UTC)


 * I've speedy deleted Image:Glenncommunist.PNG. — Rlevse  •  Talk  • 12:51, 10 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Checkuser is not necessary. This is the IP address. 216.231.162.9 22:47, 11 November 2007 (UTC)
 * We need to know if the two new users use that IP, so yes CU is necessary. — Rlevse  •  Talk  • 22:49, 11 November 2007 (UTC)
 * I am the vandal. I created all the aformentioned usernames (and MANY more), and carried out the malicious edits. 216.231.162.9 22:54, 11 November 2007 (UTC)
 * I went through 216.231.162.9's talk page. In addition to his 22:54, 11 November 2007 disrupting post and immediate vandalism noted on his talk page, the IP has had trouble for the past two years. I blocked 216.231.162.9 for three months but left open the ability to create Wikipedia accounts since the IP is a shared IP. --  Jreferee    t / c  18:25, 12 November 2007 (UTC)

Sirex98 report on sockfarm
I was ask to comment here this is what I was able to find out.

I my believe that the sockpuppeteer is BradSerious (a banned user) who's sockfarm came after his ban with AndreLapalme being one of them.

Early socks

 * Made six acts of vandalism all WP:BLP vio's between April 29-May 1, 2007 starting with
 * Made six acts of vandalism all WP:BLP vio's between April 29-May 1, 2007 starting with


 * April 30-May 13, 2007 starting with same edits as Jealousagain38
 * April 30-May 13, 2007 starting with same edits as Jealousagain38

July 1- July 16, 2007 same edits as Jealousagain38
 * Other ties uploaded album Image:BlackFlag - ICanSeeYou.jpg which seem to be good faith complate with Non-free / fair use media rationale, but which links to Jealousagain38 due to the user name.
 * note: The user name Jealousagain38 comes from an album by the group Black Flag Jealous Again.
 * BradSerious had other album cover art uploads, that were deleted which can be seen at his user take page where Fair use was disputed User_talk:BradSerious.
 * BradSerious was perm ban on 25 October 2007 by sysop Dreadstar. after making serveral act of vandalism on Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, mainly adding his own image upload since deleted to the article.

Beginning of new sockfarm

 * a play on the musician Bob Dylan -Category:Wikipedia_sockpuppets_of_AndreLapalme
 * vandalism on J._Howard_Marshall article on October 29, 2007, four days after BradSerious was banned.
 * vandalism on The_Basement_Tapes using the Image Glenncommunist.PNG uploaded by Toweepformenot
 * 
 * Image was deleted many times

- Category:Wikipedia_sockpuppets_of_AndreLapalme   vandalism on J._Howard_Marshall and The_Basement_Tapes articles on October 30, 2007 which ties to


 * Category:Wikipedia_sockpuppets_of_AndreLapalme
 * vandalism on J._Howard_Marshall on October 31, 2007 same as DanielssJohnston


 * same MO, Category:Wikipedia_sockpuppets_of_AndreLapalme
 * vandalism on J._Howard_Marshall beginning on October 31, 2007
 * same MO, Category:Wikipedia_sockpuppets_of_AndreLapalme
 * vandalism on J._Howard_Marshall beginning on October 31, 2007
 * same MO, Category:Wikipedia_sockpuppets_of_AndreLapalme
 * vandalism on J._Howard_Marshall beginning on October 31, 2007
 * vandalism on J._Howard_Marshall beginning on October 31, 2007

 
 *  same MO has yet to recieve a block.

It is my belief that BradSerious "could" have made for a good faith editor in the area of punk/metal music article but felt the need to vandalize anyways, this may be in part due to the album covers that he uploaded being deleted as well as his eventual ban. the new sockfarm came shorty after his ban.▪◦▪ ≡ЅiREX≡ Talk 22:15, 12 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Being a serious editor was actually my purpose behind creating the account BradSerious. I guess I just got bored with it. Toweepformenot 02:35, 13 November 2007 (UTC)

He just created two more. IrishGuy talk 22:23, 13 November 2007 (UTC)

All three socks (currently listed) are blocked and tagged. Leaving open for awhile as we keep finding more and the IP RFCU case is still pending. — Rlevse  •  Talk  • 11:11, 14 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Conclusions
 * See RFCU IP results here. The real master is Bradserious, so I'm retagging all the accounts. The CU results confirmed our calls. — Rlevse  •  Talk  • 23:58, 22 November 2007 (UTC)

User:BradSerious and all his socks are bannded from wikipedia. He's been listed on the banned user list. — Rlevse  •  Talk  • 00:24, 23 November 2007 (UTC)