Wikipedia:Suspected sock puppets/Animesouth


 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the case of suspected sockpuppetry. Please do not modify it. No further edits should be made to this page. All edits should go to the talk page of this case. If you are seeing this page as a result of an attempt to open a new case of sockpuppetry of the same user, read this for detailed instructions.

User:Animesouth

 * Suspected sockpuppeteer


 * Suspected sockpuppets

 Seicer  (talk) (contribs) 06:15, 25 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Report submission by:


 * Evidence
 * Muhammad Ali
 * user:68.63.22.57 introduces body of text that introduces libel onto a living-person biography, violating WP:LIVING and WP:NPOV.
 * user:143.88.201.123 introduces the same body of text -.
 * Uucp introduces the same body of text four times -.
 * Animesouth Ditto, three times. -.
 * user:68.1.77.61 also does the same -.
 * List of anime conventions
 * user:Dashikun cleans out significant texts -
 * user:Miss Away cleans out the text as well -
 * Previous to that is user:Animesouth who does the same thing -
 * Anime South - The following all commit the same edits. More may be there -but I gotta scoot to class!
 * user:Animesouth -
 * user:68.105.60.48 -
 * user:68.1.76.55 -
 * The user also editwarred by removing an unreferenced tag -


 * Comments
 * I have added User:DashiKun to the list:
 * In the short term, List of anime conventions should be sprotected so that future sockpuppet accounts are prevented from vandalising the page. Thanks  Seicer  (talk) (contribs) 06:26, 25 January 2007 (UTC)
 * I requested temporary full protection at RFPP-it looks like several of these are "sleepers", DashiKun, for example, would be able to edit an sprotected page as the account was created on the 5th this month. Seraphimblade 06:29, 25 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Accuse me of sock puppetry all you want, because it's untrue. Just because people agree with me does not mean they're sock puppets!  I actually read up on sock puppets and how you could use proxies, but it seems quite dishonest.  I'm an Eagle Scout.  We're sworn not to lie.  - Animesouth 06:57, 25 January 2007 (UTC)
 * That is the best excuse I've heard so far.  Seicer  (talk) (contribs) 12:53, 25 January 2007 (UTC)
 * We accuse you of sock puppetry because you cannot honestly say to us with a straight face that you have people who will come to aid you when you have edits conflicts with others. Don't try and attempt to fool us. If you're Anime South staff, it does not look good for your convention. As it is, I have made this aware to other conventions elsewhere via the ACML. :: Colin Keigher ( Talk ) 07:00, 25 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Are you honestly saying that your "friend who came to support you" made this account on the 5th, but didn't edit until today , just to come to your aid today? Regardless, you should be discussing your desired changes, not edit warring or enlisting people to come do so on your behalf. Seraphimblade 07:05, 25 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Of course I do. All 3 of you have done the exact same thing.  You have written on the talk pages of each other to gang up against me.  It's there in black and white. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Animesouth (talk • contribs)
 * This one is even better.  Seicer  (talk) (contribs) 12:53, 25 January 2007 (UTC)
 * The difference, of course, is that we're long-standing users who are actually separate people. There's no way we could have done each other's work. I've been a Wikipedian for almost three years myself.  Stevie is the man!  Talk &bull; Work 13:45, 25 January 2007 (UTC)
 * ...but that's just it, you're not discussing the changes. For example, you have tried multiple times to remove the "anime-stub" from the Anime South article.  In my revert note, I put "There is not much info here. Guests? Programming? Give us some DETAILS!"  Yet you keep reverting the change over and over and over even though multiple users have put it back.  Now, don't you think that just maybe we could be right and it could be a stub?  Afterall, it is fairly short.  If more details (with reference citations) were added, I think everyone would agree the stub marker could go away.  ...but no, you would rather do an edit war.  Seriously man, WTF?! --PatrickD 15:48, 25 January 2007 (UTC)
 * It is highly unlikely that more than one user would draw the same libelous conclusion using the same commentary and selective quoting from an SI article. It is clearly an attack on Ali's character, and what I've found in cases like this, there is never an actual group of users pushing something like this, but rather one with a grudge.  Stevie is the man!  Talk &bull; Work 13:45, 25 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Particularly in regards to the Anime South article edits, even if these are not all the same people, these IP's resolve to Florida making it extremely likely that this is at the very least a co-ordinated effort to post up a specific version of this article by 1 or more people. Even if it isn't Socking, it is disruptive.--Isotope23 19:40, 25 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Not only do they resolve to Florida, a simple nslookup reveals that they all resolve to the same region of the same ISP (Cox) in Florida.--PatrickD 22:29, 25 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Conclusions

User:Miss Away and User:DashiKun have been blocked as sockpuppets. --Akhilleus (talk) 05:57, 30 January 2007 (UTC)

All named accounts have been blocked and the IPs are either inactive or making good-faith contributions, so closing.