Wikipedia:Suspected sock puppets/Mclao

User:Mclao

 * Suspected sockpuppeteer


 * Suspected sockpuppets


 * Report submission by

w L &lt;speak&middot;check&gt; 23:11, 17 September 2007 (UTC)

Please see the all contributions to the Iglesia ni Cristo article. This editor is a POV pusher in favor of the Ang Dating Daan, a religious group who opposses the Iglesia ni Cristo. This editor has a record of adding stronly POV edits to the Iglesia ni Cristo article, each under a different username. At first, I let the edits go while neuturalizing them. However, the user began posting made up and/or tabloid stories about how ministers kill innocent people. This cause the Iglesia ni Cristo article to be semi-protected for a month. The latest edit was a page blank from a sleeper account. I feel this user is only here to disrupt the encyclopedia, and the style of writing, grammar and edit summaries lead me to the sockpuppetry suspicion.
 * Evidence

All of the edit summaries appear similar, so I would say that is a start. More evidence is needed and as it may be hard to turn up, consider taking over to WP:RFCU. -- Тhε Rαnδom Eδιτor 20:35, 23 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Comments


 * The problem with Random Editor's suggestion of taking it to RFCU is that there's no criteria (unless this user continues to blank articles he doesn't like). I believe this user holds a serious liability risk to Wikipedia, and as such I would suggest pushing a community ban at the Community sanction noticeboard be more fitting? -- w L &lt;speak&middot;check&gt; 03:03, 26 September 2007 (UTC)


 * I agree with The Random Editor: the edit summaries are similar and the editing pattern (i.e. when the user edited, how many times, to which articles) is extremely similar among all accounts. This person has been using multiple accounts to try to win an argument.  I would recommend to indef-block all accounts except for the most active one, Vinvinkid, and give that main account a two-week block with a stern warning not to act up again. Shalom Hello 19:19, 24 September 2007 (UTC)


 * Have a look at the editing of Eliseo Soriano for further evidence. I agree with permanently blocking all accounts, except the Vinvinkid one which should get a two week block and final warning. Disclosure -- I edit the Soriano article too, but examination will show that my edits have been to establish objectivity and NPOV. Moriori 23:49, 25 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Umm. I hope you know that you can't block people you are in an editing dispute with. I've unblocked him as well as opened a community ban proposition at Community sanction noticeboard in order to finalize this whole thing.
 * I disclosed I edit the article too. I did NOT say I am in an edit dispute with him, nor am I in one. Moriori 07:23, 26 September 2007 (UTC)


 * Please see βcommand 05:28, 2 October 2007 (UTC)

Closing with these results...Not blocking the IP because it's an IP and this case seems to be stale. Not blocking Mickey0000 because Wikileon removed his sock tag, it was created weeks before the other accounts, and the edit pattern is sufficiently different to make me unsure it's a sock. I think Mickey0000 is merely interested in similar articles. Of the remainder, Mclao and Vinvinkid are the mostly likely master accounts; the rest are obvious throwaway socks. I'm calling Vinvinkid the master because it was created a day before Mclao and still edits, Mclao has ceased editing for now. Vinvinkid gets a stren warning (since the case seems stale now) and Mclao an indef block. Chiesalvador, Pamiote, Sevillamindz, Bradjack, Hearty01, Keith92, and Beliveer4ever are indef blocked for being obvious socks and throwaways created at the height of this matter in mid Sep. Rlevse 15:50, 18 October 2007 (UTC)
 * Conclusions