Wikipedia:Suspected sock puppets/Bolly Nickers

User:Bolly Nickers

 * Suspected sock puppeteer


 * Suspected sock puppets


 * Report submission by
 * Qqqqqq (talk) 02:28, 3 December 2008 (UTC).


 * Evidence
 * Previous discussion was at . I'm not even sure which one was the original account. I'll go with Bolly Nickers because it was one that was caught and banned. Over several weeks in April and May of this year, this individual's dozens of sockpuppets were caught and banned. A number of them had made threatening and harrassing statements to me and other users, and most of that abuse had to be removed by Wikipedia's oversight process. I don't have much specific evidence of the connection here, but these sockpuppets mostly edit articles related to license plates in the United States, often creating graphically manipulated images of historical license plates that never actually existed, then inserting them into articles in some elaborate campaign of misinformation against Wikipedia (why, I have no idea). Some of these socks that have not yet been banned include User:Battersea Bosco, User:Campbell Showing, User:Mr. License Plate, and User:Yuck Flu By Road for a comparison of their user contributions with these new sockpuppets. User:NJ Plates, specifically, added the same unsourced content as these most recent sockpuppets have been re-adding recently. I can try to be more specific if necessary, but, unfortunately, I'd venture that more of this puppetmaster's contributions have been oversighted than not. Qqqqqq (talk) 02:28, 3 December 2008 (UTC)


 * Comments

Tigerdude Plates and Issuenews are almost certainly sockpuppets of each other and probably of Bolly Nickers, though I'm not 100% sure of that. Afcx... does not have enough edits to conclusively prove sockpuppetry. However, none of these accounts have edited since December 3. If they come back, you will need to file a fresh report. Hermione1980 16:58, 23 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Conclusions