Wikipedia:Suspected sock puppets/Round55

User:Round55

 * Suspected sockpuppeteer


 * Suspected sockpuppets


 * Report submission by

AdamRoach (talk) 15:28, 19 July 2008 (UTC)


 * Evidience

I am rather certain that these accounts are both being wielded by the same individual who was blocked for sockpuppeting on the accounts User:76.121.222.248, User:Fixedit1980, User:Okay2009, and User:Improve2009. These four other accounts have already been identified as socks in Suspected sock puppets/Improve2009.

I will first tie both Round55 and Betternow to these blocked accounts that have already been demonstrated to be operated by the same person.

Key diffs:

Hillary Rodham Clinton:
 * Betternow:
 * Fixedit1980: and

Larry Craig:
 * Betternow:
 * Improve2009:

Barack Obama:
 * Round55:
 * Fixedit1980:

Dave Reichert:
 * Round55:
 * Improve2009:

And, for the coup de grace -- a direct link between the puppet and the puppetmaster:

Washington, DC:
 * Round55:
 * Betternow:

For Round55, there is also a very credible set of somewhat circumstantial evidence tying the account to the other 5. In particular, this user has edited a scant 16 articles; of these 16, at least 8 also been edited by Improve2009 or one of its socks in the same style as Round55. The "style" I'm referring to is minor edits that make the article somewhat worse stylistically while usually not adding any new information. The rare exception appears to be an axe this individual has to grind with Obama's decisions on public campaign funds.

Here is a complete list (omitting User talk pages) of the pages Round55 has edited:


 * Angela Merkel
 * Ann Richards - User:76.121.222.248:
 * Barack Obama - User:Fixedit1980:          - User:Improve2009:
 * Canada - User:Fixedit1980:  - User:Improve2009:
 * Carrie Underwood - User:76.121.222.248:       - User:Improve2009:
 * Dave Reichert - User:76.121.222.248:  - User:Improve2009:
 * David Archuleta - User:76.121.222.248:  - User:Improve2009:
 * Dino Rossi - User:Betternow:   - User:Improve2009:
 * Laura Schlessinger
 * Rob McKenna
 * Stephen Harper
 * Susan Collins
 * Talk:Larry Craig - Very, very closely related to the Larry Craig edits cited above
 * Tom Allen
 * Washington gubernatorial election, 2004
 * Washington, D.C. - User:Betternow:


 * Comments

Master already blocked. Sock is blocked indefinitely.  Enigma  message 17:34, 31 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Conclusions