Wikipedia:Suspected sock puppets/Upward15 (2nd)

User:Upward15

 * Suspected sock puppeteer


 * Suspected sock puppets

Cumulus Clouds (talk) 00:06, 27 August 2008 (UTC)
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User's contribution history, naming scheme and registration time all fit the profile of Upward15 who is a King County Republican operative that has whitewashed the Wikipedia pages of Republican politicians and inserted POV and unsupported OR into Democratic candidates' articles.
 * Evidence

New: added, who has made substantially similar edits to those made by Upward15 and its socks. See that article's history for more information. I suspect that the autoblock on Upward15's IP has expired, and they've begun socking again. I would recommend a hardblock of that IP, if possible.

Update, per below: at the risk of letting the cat out, there is no overlap in edit times between all accounts. This again lends itself to support the case.

Ok there's something seriously fishy going on here. Several new accounts have been registered to edit Eric Cantor which match the naming scheme and slant of all these other socks. User:Mountain23 registered on 17:11 29 August 2008 and made a single procedural edit (MOS required) to that article and then disappeared. User:Ziva11 registered on 19:45 27 August 2008, made a single edit to (correctly) cite a source and then disappeared forever. User:Majorpush15 returned today at 19:37 29 August 2008 to make another procedural edit.

Following the edits made by Upward15 and the geographical diversity of candidates they either promoted or vandalized, and given the strange new trend in new registrations and edits on the page for Virginia's Eric Cantor, I believe this is an organized partisan effort being made to discredit Democratic politicians and promote their Republican counterparts on Wikipedia by one or few people within a central location. For more evidence of the range of candidates, check the contributions for Upward15.

Added another one who appeared on Geoff Simpson inserting the same POV smear as his predecessors.

Every politically-aware person is western Washington knows about the governor's race and Mr. Simpson’s situation was well-publicized. I only contributed the bit about the primary race as it was actually a contested election between three individuals. I am not affiliated in anyway with truthseeker509. Majorpush15 (talk) 23:13, 27 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Comments


 * Conclusions
 * that is a sock puppet of, further to extensive review of the contributions of both accounts.
 * that these two are related to or to.
 * Upwards and Majorpush are ❌ to this case and to each other.
 * Ds53 tagged (as sock the sock puppet) and blocked indefinitely.
 * Truthseeker509 tagged (as the sock master) and blocked indefinitely, without prejudice to unblocking under an agreement to refrain from practising further abusive sock puppetry.

Closing and archiving case. Anthøny  ✉  18:21, 18 September 2008 (UTC)