Wikipedia:Suspected sock puppets/Tryfoncastro

User:Tryfoncastro

 * Suspected sock puppeteer


 * Suspected sock puppets


 * Report submission by
 * Pinkadelica (talk) 02:34, 2 October 2008 (UTC)


 * Evidence
 * All of the accounts appear to be SPAs with the sole intent of changing the DOB on the Sofia Shinas article. Since the article isn't high profile, this has been going on since March 2007 (admittedly, I missed these changes as well when working on the article). Each one of the above accounts have only one edit which just happens to be to on the Sofia Shinas article only. Every edit for each account changes the DOB claiming it is wrong (See diffs: diff 1, diff 2, diff 2, diff 3, diff 4, diff 5, diff 6), or with the rationale that they know the subject in real life (see diffs: 1, 2, 3). Per IMDb, the 1968 DOB is not wrong. Since there seems to be precious little online about the subject, that is the only source that is avaliable. The users are not offering up any references except claims of it being wrong and their own original research which I find dubious.

Since I became aware of the mistake, I changed the DOB back and watchlisted the page. In the past two days, two new accounts, Annemarie.lalande and TonyKay1 (diffs 1 & 2), have popped up to changed the information back. I contacted one of the accounts, Annemarie.lalande, to discuss the changes (before I was aware there was a sockfarm) but they have yet to answer. I think it's also fairly safe to say that the similarly named accounts Annemarie.lalande and Anne Marie Lalonde are related. Some of the accounts are probably too old to check, but I felt they should be listed here and tagged as SSP if they pop up again and start to edit. That probably won't happen as it seems the person or persons create new accounts in an attempt to go undetected.

I would urge some sort of resolution on this case, it has a lot of parameters, including potentially a fraudulent identification through OTRS. Thank you. Wildhartlivie (talk) 03:43, 12 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Comments


 * Conclusions
 * ✅ Page protected; see page in question for details. seicer  &#x007C;  talk  &#x007C;  contribs  18:21, 17 November 2008 (UTC)