Wikipedia:Suspected sock puppets/BusterA

User:BusterA

 * Suspected sockpuppeteer


 * Suspected sockpuppets


 * Report submission by

Rjd0060 03:32, 10 October 2007 (UTC)

Sockpuppeteer created account and 3 sockpuppet accounts within 2 minutes of each other. This is evident from the user creation logs: BusterA; Sockpuppeteer; Created BusterE; Sockpuppet; Created by BusterA BusterF; Sockpuppet; Created by BusterA BusterH; Sockpuppet; Created by BusterA
 * Evidence

There have not been any (malicious) edits from any account yet, however I feel that a report is justified per WP:SOCK which states "A sock puppet is an additional username used by a Wikipedian who already has one or more accounts.". That doesn't say if we have to wait until there are malicious edits or not.
 * Comments

I am creating this report on behalf of User:Tckma. See this section of Tckma's talk page. - Rjd0060 03:32, 10 October 2007 (UTC)


 * I believe the creation of these socks was in my honor (such a dubious honor as it is), and more properly belongs to this case below. One of the other established page editors (User:Bkonrad) on Mexican-American War page has seen a name imitator (User:Bkonrad0) already blocked as a bad faith user for vandalizing the page. BusterD 12:51, 12 October 2007 (UTC)


 * I just looked at the User:Kraken7 report. The accounts were created on October 10th.  Mexican-American War is currently semi-protected.  Perhaps your sockpuppeteer is waiting out the four-day period required to edit a protected page.  In that case, someone should watch these accounts on October 14th (Sunday).  I'm going to be out of town this weekend and I'm not sure I'll have reliable internet access, so I can't make any promises.  --Tckma 13:29, 12 October 2007 (UTC)


 * I've just added these four new socks to BusterD's checkuser request for Kraken7. --Tckma 14:00, 12 October 2007 (UTC)


 * I'm still not seeing any contribs on any of these accounts. Which isn't to say that there won't be... --Tckma 14:09, 15 October 2007 (UTC)

As pointed out above, these accounts aren't obvious violations of WP:SOCK, but the usernames are too close to BusterD, in my opinion, and I'm blocking them on that basis. --Akhilleus (talk) 16:51, 19 October 2007 (UTC)
 * Conclusions