Wikipedia:Suspected sock puppets/Radiopeople

User:Radiopeople

 * Suspected sockpuppeteer


 * Suspected sockpuppets


 * Report submission by

Dravecky (talk) 10:59, 16 June 2008 (UTC)


 * Evidence

These IP accounts are used to add references to "UFO Phil" to related and unrelated articles (see, , , , , and among many others) as well as extensively edit the UFO Phil article (see  plus , , , , , , and ).


 * Comments

These IP accounts are all Spokane-based Comcast accounts and "UFO Phil" consistently claims to reside in the Spokane area. I discovered this during an otherwise routine AfD for the UFO Phil article and was shocked to see this long-term pattern of abuse stretching back roughly three years over multiple accounts and IP addresses.

Update: I know the investigation will be complicated now that the UFO Phil has failed to survive the AfD process but I am hopeful that an admin can still see the pattern of editing and take action against these sockpuppet accounts.

Comment from Shalom: I am not able to see deleted revisions. None of the user accounts has made any edits in 2008, and most of the IP addresses are also from a long time ago. I agree that they are all one person in the same IP range, but with UFO Phil deleted, that point is academic. If an admin wants to spend two minutes blocking two of the three named accounts, go ahead; I don't see the point. Yechiel (Shalom) 03:04, 23 June 2008 (UTC)

I agree w/Yechiel, there's no reason to do anything here. --Akhilleus (talk) 05:17, 2 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Conclusions