Wikipedia:Suspected sock puppets/South Philly (2nd)

User:South Philly

 * Suspected sockpuppeteer


 * Suspected sockpuppets


 * Report submission by

Deor (talk) 02:25, 15 May 2008 (UTC)

Aside from the obvious relationship of usernames, my evidence is a bit thin, but please bear with me. South Philly was indefinitely blocked last October for abusing multiple accounts. Since then he has thrice, most recently at the end of March, requested unblocking; all were declined and his talk page was protected. In April, Sur de Filadelfia shows up, making edits that are obviously not those of a new user, such as adding WikiProject Philadelphia (a project that South Philly had been involved with) tags to talk pages. Recently, he suddenly showed up at AfD to support, in a rather uncivil fashion, an article that had been created by User:Evrik, who lists South Philly as an acquaintance on his user page. Since then Sur de Filadelfia has been engaged in various disruptive activities related to that AfD, such as AfDing an article about the person who AfDed Evrik's article and repeatedly tagging the article Schadenfreude (which is involved in the AfD as a potential redirect target) for nonexistent copyright violations. If it hadn't been for the similarity of usernames, I probably wouldn't have associated these accounts, but the behavior of Sur is close enough to that of South that block evasion seems very likely to me here.
 * Evidence

Actually, the evidence is a bit stronger than that. South Philly first showed up to support Evrik and engage in tag-team reversions. The checkuser admin noted there are strong meatpuppetry concerns. So it is quite a coincidence indeed that when Evrik is yet again needing support, another similarly named user shows up behaving in yet again disruptive fashion. --C S (talk) 03:08, 15 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Comments

This is painfully obvious. Just for the record, I agree that South Philly is not Evrik, but maybe knows him or something along that line. — Rlevse  •  Talk  • 17:32, 15 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Conclusions