Wikipedia:Suspected sock puppets/Riccosimba6

User:Riccosimba6

 * Suspected sockpuppeteer


 * Suspected sockpuppets
 * (Removed the speedy tag from In the news this week, a hoax article by Radiodad)
 * (Removed the speedy tag from In the news this week, a hoax article by Radiodad)

 role player 01:12, 16 July 2008 (UTC)
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Riccosimba6 has been blocked indefinitely, and Radiodad has now appeared creating hoax articles for films and TV series in a similar fashion. What clinches it for me though is that yesterday Radiodad removed the afd notice from a suspected hoax article created by Riccosimba6. With no other useful edits on the new account it really does point to one being a sock of the other.
 * Evidence

Note - there has been a suspected sockpuppeteer tag at User:Riccosimba6 since 6th July, though I can find no supporting evidence of this. --  role player 01:14, 16 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Comments
 * I suspected that was either a sockpuppet or was the IP of Riccosimba6. This IP would, along with Ricco, would remove the deletion templates of pages that were scheduled for deletion, and also contributed to the same pages as Ricco.   [Jam] [talk] 02:28, 16 July 2008 (UTC)

Agree per nom, and also per the edits of, which I suspect to be the IP for Ricco (see comment above). [Jam] [talk] 02:28, 16 July 2008 (UTC)


 * Comments by EdJohnston
 * User:Radiodad has created a number of hoax articles on nonexistent shows or films. Most of these have been deleted by WP:PROD. He was blocked 24 hours on 18 July by User:FisherQueen for creating nonsense articles. When he resumed editing, he worked on The Kevin Bishop Show, which appears to really exist, so is not a hoax. The bad articles so far seem to be: Ugly barbie, The Harry Hill Show, Ty Hut, Material Entertainment, In The News This Week, Jude Brown's LMAO, Hello Germany, and Big fun random gameshow.  There is a deleted edit mentioned above, where on 15 July he removed the AfD notice from Kevin Johns, an article which is a copyvio but not a hoax. I think he is getting close to an indefinite block, whether he is a sock or not. EdJohnston (talk) 03:14, 21 July 2008 (UTC)


 * After FisherQueen's 24-hour block of 18 July, I hoped Radiodad might sort himself out and make normal contributions. But on 24 July User:Radiodad went ahead and created a new hoax article, In the news this week, and the IP sock blanked the article after it was tagged for speedy deletion. I have blocked both Radiodad and the IP for 3 months each, but welcome review of my action. EdJohnston (talk) 17:00, 24 July 2008 (UTC)


 * Conclusions


 * Blocks handed out, no further action necessary. GBT/C 07:31, 29 July 2008 (UTC)