Wikipedia:Suspected sock puppets/Dragonball1986


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User:Dragonball1986

 * Suspected sockpuppeteer


 * Suspected sockpuppets

Dragonball1986 was for many months an active Wikipedian. Towards the end of August/early September he began to accumulate a few warnings about one thing or another, and an equal number of explanations about why edits he had made were reverted. Seemingly in response to his swell in "mistakes", the Dragonball account ceased to see any use. Almost immediately afterwards though (ie. within an hour or two), Kabuto Yakushi became an active editor and began making many of the same edits to the same articles that Dragonball had made in the past, all the while showing to be oddly knowledgeable of Wikipedia functions (redirects, edit summaries, etc.). In response to one of Kabuto's edits a few days after the account's creation, I suggested that he was in fact Dragonball1986, to which he replied on my talk page that my suggestion was correct.
 * Evidence

At the time, I saw no reason to do anything about this new account as he had stopped using the older account, and for a few weeks it stayed that way. Recently though, the Dragonball account has seen renewed usage, and makes a few edits every few days. Again, I did nothing about this; while he was now using two accounts, he was using the Kabuto account substantially more, and had yet to really do anything wrong. It wasn't until earlier today that this double usage became a problem, where he made an obvious and bad attempt at swaying "consensus" in favor of one of his edits by using both accounts. It was with this edit that I and another editor felt it was time something was done about his two accounts, which is why I have finally brought attention to him here. ~SnapperTo 03:31, 3 October 2006 (UTC)

I wasn't sure which account to call the SOCKPUPPETMASTER. The Kabuto account has been the more active of the two for the last month, though the Dragonball account is the oldest. Ultimately I went with the older account, though I've just noticed that the Kabuto account has slightly more edits, if that matters at all. ~SnapperTo 03:58, 3 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Comments

Blocked. Why did you not tag the user page? Iola k ana • T 19:22, 3 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Conclusions