Wikipedia:Suspected sock puppets/Jvolkblum (17th)

User:Jvolkblum (17th)

 * Suspected sock puppeteer


 * Suspected sock puppets


 * Report submission by
 * Orlady (talk) 00:25, 25 August 2008 (UTC)


 * Evidence

It is clear from their contributions that none of these users are newbies.

Like past Jvolkblum sockpuppets, EXP11-09 has a focus on embellishing articles about New Rochelle, New York and related topics, as indicated by the list at User:EXP11-09/sandbox and the edits listed at Special:Contributions/EXP11-09. Like Jvolkblum puppets, this user has paid particular attention to creating and editing a user page -- User:EXP11-09. The user's edits are individually unremarkable, but collectively they strongly resemble the work of Jvolkblum, including minor format changes and addition of templates that are of questionable value or inappropriate and embellishing the New Rochelle article with minor details.

NashuaNH has a user name that suggests "Nashua, New Hampshire," but this user's focus is clearly New Rochelle (see contributions and user pages). This group of diffs is a classic pattern of Jvolkblum's: adding names of notables to the New Rochelle article, accompanied by reference citations that are naked URLs (although at least they are now surrounded by ref templates) and that include some totally erroneous/inappropriate sources (I deleted the link that pointed to sedoparking.com).

In the last few hours, EXP11-09 and NashuaNH edited as a tag team in the New Rochelle article. In the last few hours, both have been busy adding articles to Category:People from New Rochelle, New York, as in this diff by NashuaNH and numerous edits by EXP11-09, such as this diff.

User:TerrenceGuion has done little other than create a user page that is remarkably similar to many others created by Jvolkblum puppets. The user's two article edits were to articles of interest to Jvolkblum puppets, including adding a source to the Davids' Island article shortly after citation-needed templates had been added to material added a few hours earlier by EXP11-09. The earlier article edit was to remove information about a famous golf course from an article about another New York City suburb -- Jvolkblum and puppets have a strong interest in publicizing New Rochelle's golf courses and similar assets while making sure that other NYC suburbs don't have similar content in their articles.


 * Comments

Note: When Rudget closed the last sockpuppetry case for Jvolkblum, he suggested simply contacting him instead of opening new cases, but unfortunately he is gone. Also note that there probably are other active sockpuppets that I have not yet noticed. Orlady (talk) 00:25, 25 August 2008 (UTC)

These have all been indef. blocked already. SQL Query me! 19:49, 26 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Conclusions