Wikipedia:Suspected sock puppets/Sound check

User:Sound check

 * Suspected sockpuppeteer


 * Suspected sockpuppets


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Sedd&sigma;n talk Editor Review 11:56, 30 July 2008 (UTC)

The puppet master's user page is currently up for deletion at WP:MFD here. The two suspected socks have both voted to keep the user page here and here with reasons like "Sound check rock" and ''"Dude they're awesome". User:Garage Banned also edited the Sound checks user page here. The IP also seemed to have added false information into this article here.
 * Evidence

No. I am just a fan of Sound Check and this is my only account. Feel free to check addresses and see. I think the band is awesome so I edited the page about them. The end. Garage Banned (talk) 12:20, 30 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Comments
 * How is it that you became aware of this MfD within minutes of registering your account? Mayalld (talk) 12:56, 30 July 2008 (UTC)
 * I used to check the Sound Check page on Wikipedia daily Garage Banned (talk) 08:57, 31 July 2008 (UTC)
 * You checked a page that hasn't changed in two years daily? Is there a shortage of wet paint that you could have watched drying? Mayalld (talk) 09:49, 31 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Yup, because Sound Check are awesome. You obviously have not yet encountered their awesomeness. Garage Banned (talk) 11:38, 31 July 2008 (UTC)


 * I don't think they are sockpuppets; Sound check is probably in the UK (at least the IPs that have edited the user page are, and the band is); 203.111.74.59 is in Australia. The IP may have created the Garage Banned account. --Snigbrook ( talk ) 17:08, 30 July 2008 (UTC)
 * I would tend to agree. Somebody, probably not the original page creator (and probably an established editor), has clearly created Garage Banned for non-constructive purposes. Whether this is in order to make some kind of WP:POINT or simply to indulge in a bit of fairly pointless low lever mischief making is a moot point. Mayalld (talk) 17:39, 30 July 2008 (UTC)
 * I would be inclined to agree with you. Do you think a CU would be worth doing to confirm if Garage Banned and the IP are related? Sedd&sigma;n talk Editor Review 21:30, 30 July 2008 (UTC)
 * If the user was editing and then decided to create an account to participate in AFD that is not sockpuppetry. However another edit by the IP, three minutes after the first, was on Alan Light (journalist) and continues a pattern of vandalism by Australian IPs on that article, which is about an American journalist, and other articles which have also been vandalised by suspected sockpuppets of Wroth of Groth --Snigbrook ( talk ) 22:58, 30 July 2008 (UTC)

Both socks. Account blocked indef, IP for 24 hours.  Enigma  message 16:43, 31 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Conclusions