Wikipedia:Suspected sock puppets/Kenwood 3000


 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the case of suspected sockpuppetry. Please do not modify it. No further edits should be made to this page. All edits should go to the talk page of this case. If you are seeing this page as a result of an attempt to open a new case of sockpuppetry of the same user, read this for detailed instructions.

User:Kenwood 3000
Although this user is blocked he or she is suspected to operate several sock puppets. The edits made by the alleged sock puppets are generally hoax stories about people (Ainsley Harriott, Andi Peters, etc.) being questioned about child pornography as a part of Operation Ore. The edits are sometimes quite convincing and not reverted as vandalism, thus allowing misinformation to spread. Also, the information of user pages seems to match a certain pattern. All users are musicians, or something related to arts. Some sock puppets match the behaviour and names of the sock puppets of another puppeteer, General Tojo, who is known to operate via different IP addresses and through proxies. . mensch • t 20:40, 14 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Evidence

Another factor is that this user has continually added references to Brand X and John Goodsall about some fictitious musician, "Ian Hart-Stein", who he claims was the founder of Brand X (or an alias of John Goodsall). The only references I've ever seen to "Ian Hart-Stein" are on Wikipedia, last.fm, freewebs.com, and some other user-updatable band site. In other words, someone who writes a hoax on Wikipedia could be using other hoax pages and sites in an effort to give legitimacy to this hoax. A reliable source, allmusic.com, has this overview of Brand X indicating that there is no "Ian Hart-Stein". I have several Brand X CDs in my collection, and none of them mention "Ian Hart-Stein". --Elkman - (Elkspeak) 21:03, 14 August 2006 (UTC)


 * Similar notes have been posted under other suspected sockpuppets, including User_talk:Rory_Carrol, where he posted repeatedly about Ian Hart-Stein and a fake song called Phil's solo (a false article which was recently AfD'd, see his talk page for a similar message). I've nicknamed him the Brand X vandal as he seems to focus on members of the group, ranging from recent vandalism to Phil Collins under recent puppets and User:Les4555 (see  for changes which include "Ian" and "Phil's solo" again).  The user's focus seems to be that Collins kicked these fake members from the group after deciding he wanted a more commercial sound, made the "Phil's solo" to give him more playing time, and all edits to Brand X articles seem to reflect this. --Ataricodfish 21:15, 14 August 2006 (UTC)


 * Comments


 * everyone in that category has already been blocked. Iola k ana |T  14:30, 16 August 2006 (UTC)