Wikipedia:Suspected sock puppets/Spectacular1234

User:Spectacular1234

 * Suspected sockpuppeteer


 * Suspected sockpuppets

Kafka Liz (talk) 11:59, 28 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Report submission by

Newly created single-purpose accounts working on Timothy Haylen, an apparent hoax with spurious citations. The accounts remove speedy deletion tags and attack editors who restore them.
 * Evidence
 * Both User:Blushmagazine and User:Spectacular1234 do not sign their posts on talk pages properly with tildes, but add their own signature which points the talk link at the ir user page. LittleOldMe (talk) 13:00, 28 May 2008 (UTC)


 * Comments
 * I have some doubts about Blushmagazine being the same, as they talk a bit differently, and, Blushmagazine signs their posts, while Spectacular1234 does not. They also don't seem to agree all the time. Also, the times on edits made from those two are a bit close at times (it's rather difficult to get an edit in, within 1min, while logging out, logging in, etc) The IP, yeah, probably Spectacular1234. SQL Query me!  18:25, 28 May 2008 (UTC)
 * It may be rather difficult to sign in, edit, sign out, and sign back in as someone else but, it is simple enough to simply have two browsers open at the same time and be logged in with separate accounts on each one. No opinion either way on this specific case just want to make sure things are looked at fully. Jasynnash2 (talk) 12:20, 30 May 2008 (UTC)
 * User:Spectacular1234 has been blocked for 55 hours, and none of the the accounts have edited since. Kafka Liz (talk) 18:47, 28 May 2008 (UTC)


 * Admin assistance requested Please look at the timestamps for deleted contribs by these users and for the deleted article Timothy Haylen. Based on the contrib logs available to non-admins, there's a lot to suggest sockpuppetry.

Edits by Spectacular1234
 * Deleted edit at 12:39 SQL Query me!
 * 12:38, 28 May 2008 (hist) (diff) User talk:Spectacular1234‎ (←Blanked the page)
 * 12:35, 28 May 2008 (hist) (diff) User:Bonadea‎
 * 12:34, 28 May 2008 (hist) (diff) User:Kafka Liz‎
 * Deleted edit at 12:31 SQL Query me!
 * 12:28, 28 May 2008 (hist) (diff) User talk:Spectacular1234‎
 * 12:19, 28 May 2008 (hist) (diff) User:Spectacular1234‎ (←Blanked the page)
 * 12:18, 28 May 2008 (hist) (diff) User talk:Spectacular1234‎
 * 12:16, 28 May 2008 (hist) (diff) User talk:Bonadea‎
 * Deleted edit at 12:14 SQL Query me!
 * 12:12, 28 May 2008 (hist) (diff) User talk:Spectacular1234‎ (←Blanked the page)
 * 12:11, 28 May 2008 (hist) (diff) User:Spectacular1234‎ (←Blanked the page)
 * 12:11, 28 May 2008 (hist) (diff) User:Kafka Liz‎
 * 12:10, 28 May 2008 (hist) (diff) User:Kafka Liz‎
 * 12:08, 28 May 2008 (hist) (diff) Wikipedia:Suspected sock puppets‎
 * 12:03, 28 May 2008 (hist) (diff) Wikipedia:Suspected sock puppets/Spectacular1234‎ (←Replaced content with ' ')
 * 12:01, 28 May 2008 (hist) (diff) User:Spectacular1234‎ (←Blanked the page)
 * Deleted edit at 11:50 SQL Query me!
 * Deleted edit at 11:49 SQL Query me!
 * 11:46, 28 May 2008 (hist) (diff) User talk:Spectacular1234‎ (Undid revision 215476640 by Kafka Liz (talk))
 * Deleted edit at 11:35 SQL Query me!
 * Deleted edit at 11:24 SQL Query me!
 * Deleted edit at 11:06 SQL Query me!
 * Deleted edit at 11:03 SQL Query me!
 * Deleted edit at 11:00 SQL Query me!
 * Deleted edits from 09:58 - 11:00 SQL Query me!

Edits by Blushmagazine
 * 11:43, 28 May 2008 (hist) (diff) User talk:Blushmagazine‎ (top) [rollback]
 * 11:42, 28 May 2008 (hist) (diff) User talk:Blushmagazine‎
 * 11:41, 28 May 2008 (hist) (diff) User talk:Blushmagazine‎
 * 11:41, 28 May 2008 (hist) (diff) User talk:Blushmagazine‎
 * Deleted edit at 11:31 SQL Query me!
 * Deleted edit at 11:29 SQL Query me!
 * Deleted edit at 11:22 SQL Query me!
 * 11:19, 28 May 2008 (hist) (diff) User talk:Blushmagazine‎
 * 11:14, 28 May 2008 (hist) (diff) User talk:Blushmagazine‎
 * Deleted edit at 11:07 SQL Query me!

Edits by Spectacular1234
 * 11:04, 28 May 2008 (hist) (diff) User talk:Spectacular1234‎ (←Blanked the page)
 * 11:02, 28 May 2008 (hist) (diff) User talk:Spectacular1234‎

This looks pretty strong to me. It's not likely to be a coincidence, but I'd need to see deleted revisions to be sure, and not being an admin, I need to ask someone else to check that. Shalom (Hello • Peace) 04:12, 30 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Filled in what I could from the deleted edits for you, HTH. SQL <sup style="font-size: 5pt;color:#999">Query me!  12:53, 30 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Thanks, SQL, that does help. I think it confirms a link between these two accounts.  I suggest blocking Blushmagazine and asking Spectacular1234 not to repeat the mistake. Yechiel (Shalom) 01:15, 5 June 2008 (UTC)

They only edited on 28 May. Blocked two named accounts as SPAs. — Rlevse  •  Talk  • 17:04, 15 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Conclusions