Wikipedia:Suspected sock puppets/Jackkofspades

User:Jackkofspades

 * Suspected sockpuppeteer


 * Suspected sockpuppets


 * Report submission by

MKoltnow 07:41, 26 December 2007 (UTC)

Original article Walter Ratcliffe was created by puppeteer who has no other edits. diff Successive edits to article (which appears to be a hoax are by, diff and by diff who by their edit histories are vandalising Death Metal in similar fashion. Ratcliffe is also being added to the article Chaos Theory but there are no WP:RS to substantiate the edit.
 * Evidence

only has two edits, both vandalism. They are specifically to pages listed on User:Dlohcierekim (the creator), a page which has vandalised.

I think the actual puppeteer is. Per diff, this editor claims to know, and per his talk page, this user repeatedly created (to salting) Hypothesis (band) who are from Durham, North Carolina, referred to in some of the other accounts' edits. Further, the message left on this user's page is from admin, so I suspect that Jackkofspades is an allusion to that username.


 * Comments (by Makesfolkslose)

There are indeed strong cases for the vandalism caused by the users Luckiducki004 and Nori Llane, and you can easily see the pages that were altered by these accounts. However the vandalism of pages such as Chaos Theory (is it only the allusion to Ratcliffe?) and Death Metal bear no resemblance to each other, were vandalized in altogether different fashions, and are based around completely different subjects. If Luckiducki0004 and Nori Llane were both controlled by the same person, it would seem that the puppetmaster would be attempting to work towards a goal. Instead, Nori Llane seems to be just randomly vandalizing (albeit the somewhat random reference to Ratcliffe) while Luckiducki004 eventually strongly and seriously argues for the existence of the Walter Ratcliffe page (and may be no longer vandalizing).

The find of Street Llane and Nori Llane is indeed interesting, and one could suggest that these two users are puppets of each other (in some way or another), but Street Llane bares no similarities or relationships to Luckiducki0004, and so it is even more of a stretch for the other puppets to relate to one another in some way.

I do indeed know JackofSpades, and the parallels between JackofSpades and KingofHearts are very... circumstantial I have to say. They do not relate to eachother in anyway. I admit to repeatedly editing the Hypothesis (band) page, with KingofHearts responding. I am at fault for not explaining myself to him, but he and JackofSpades have nothing in common. The page I was attempting to make did also center around Durham, North Carolina, but all that I can see relating to that is the fact that Walter Ratcliffe relocated to North Carolina later in his life.

Thanks.


 * Please file an RFCU on this. — Rlevse  •  Talk  • 15:28, 26 December 2007 (UTC)


 * Conclusions
 * The RFCU was turned down because of the way it was written, you may want to refile with good diffs showing disruption. — Rlevse  •  Talk  • 02:09, 29 December 2007 (UTC)

At first it looks like there are two different people here, with Lucki and Nori being one, but when you look at the deleted contribs of the article Walter Radcliffe, it makes a pretty convincing case of socking. I also find the activities of Makesfolkslose very sock in nature as his only interest (edits) are things related to this case. Blocked and tagged all indef. — Rlevse  •  Talk  • 14:45, 30 December 2007 (UTC)