Wikipedia:Suspected sock puppets/G-man80

User:G-man80

 * Suspected sock puppeteer


 * Suspected sock puppets


 * Report submission by Franamax (talk) 08:08, 13 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Franamax (talk) 08:08, 13 January 2009 (UTC)


 * Evidence

Fairly close interconnections here between edits, timing, article names, and user names (and warnings). Behaviour alone does it, no need for a CU, unless to catch the next one... Franamax (talk) 08:08, 13 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Basis for the evidence begins here, an apparent fan site by someone named "G-man".
 * G-man80 creates an account on 05-Jan. According to Kate, three edits have been deleted. One of the first seems to be creation of G-Man's Reviews, CSD:A7 notice by User:Mr._Vernon 02:48, 4 Jan 09 here.
 * G-man80's first undeleted edit (as I write) is to Sly Cooper (series), and several more are to various Sly... articles.
 * G-man80 goes on to make a series of edits mostly to Fog Warning (film), then to Articles for deletion/Fog Warning (film).
 * G-man80 is warned multiple times on their talk page for spam links, unconstructive/vandal edits, and finally for COI. G-man80 ceases editing 22:35 11Jan09.
 * User:Slycooper100 edits beginning 02:17 13Jan09, Kate says 2 deleted edits.
 * Slycooper100 has a talk page notice for CSD of (oh my gosh) G-Man's Reviews - presumably the deleted edits.
 * Slycooper100 has three undeleted edits, all to Fog Warning (film), all concerning the blog G-Man's Reviews cited at top. A further link warning was given to Sly.


 * Comments
 * The mentioned edits by Slycooper100 to Fog Warning (film) have since been reverted. And toward the involvement of User:G-man80 as the pupetmaster, on his own blog below his review of Gran Turino, he states, "I've been mentioned on a website (again)! Recently, a wikipedia page about "Fog Warning" has been posted. What's interesting is that the "Reception" part, they pointed out that My review was the most notable of all the early reviews. That's pretty cool." He wrote the article and included his review as self-promotion of himself and his blog. User:Slycooper100's edits to Fog Warning (film) diff were identical diff to those of G-man, not merely similar.  Schmidt,  MICHAEL Q. 21:51, 13 January 2009 (UTC)

G-man80 blocked 24 hours, Slycooper100 blocked indef. Cirt (talk) 08:41, 16 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Conclusions