Wikipedia:Suspected sock puppets/PoliticianTexas (2nd)

User:PoliticianTexas

 * Suspected sock puppeteer

(see also Category:Suspected Wikipedia sockpuppets of PoliticianTexas)
 * Suspected sock puppets


 * Report submission by
 * Uncia (talk) 23:49, 3 October 2008 (UTC)
 * DoriSmith (talk) 03:20, 4 October 2008 (UTC)

has re-uploaded several copyvio images that were previously uploaded by known and suspected sock puppets of PoliticianTexas (and deleted after the copyvio was discovered). These images include:
 * Evidence 1 - uploading same image


 * - previously uploaded by Burns37 as
 * } - previously uploaded by Martinez07 as (note: not proven copyvio, but was orphaned and deleted after Martinez07 was blocked)
 * aka - previously upload by Evhs00, Thomasalazar, Burns37

Evhs00, Martinez07, and Thomasalazar are known sock puppets of PoliticianTexas. Burns37 is a suspected sock puppet of PoliticianTexas who was blocked for copyvio.


 * Evidence 2 - articles edited

Probably the most convincing article these have in common is, regarding a 1200-student high school in. This is (if I may say so) an obscure subject and the number of people who would add significantly to such an article must be very small. The revision history statistics     show that about 2/3 of the edits were made by the suspect LamyQ and by the previously-mentioned Martinez07, Evhs00, and Thomasalazar, as well as  by 75.91.163.47 and by BradlyRM (another known sock puppet of PoliticianTexas). The previously-mentioned Burns37 also edited this article, but did not make many contributions (his account was only active for 9 days before being blocked).

These editors also make many changes to and.

Thomasalazar created and made over half the edits to, another obscure subject, and this article has also been edited by LamyQ and Burns37.


 * Evidence 3 - Common edit patterns


 * Editing style


 * LamyQ and the known socks have a distinctive editing style, visible in the edit history. Nearly every time they edit a page there is a block of 10 or 20 changes in the edit history log. Examination of the edits reveal that it takes them 4 or 5 tries to make a single final change; apparently they don't use the preview function. The previously-mentioned article has 13 kB of wikitext and is the result of 1,520 edits. Another shared characteristic is that they rarely provide edit summaries.


 * Deletion of maintenance templates
 * Thomasalazar: ,
 * Martinez07:
 * Evhs00:
 * LamyQ: ,


 * Deleting warnings off own talk page
 * Thomasalazar: ,
 * Martinez07:
 * Evhs00:
 * LamyQ: ,


 * Comments

For more history on and his sockpuppets, see Requests_for_checkuser/Case/PoliticianTexas.

At the very least, LamyQ appears to be a meatpuppet of PoliticianTexas. That by itself is enough for an indefblock, which has been implemented. See my comments at WP:ANI. Blueboy96 13:50, 5 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Conclusions