Wikipedia:Suspected sock puppets/Winkers6767

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[edit] User:Winkers6767 HOAXER

Suspected sockpuppeteer

Winkers6767 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log)

Suspected sockpuppets

Dodgers7878 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log)
69.245.51.13 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log)

Report submission by

RJASE1 15:02, 5 February 2007 (UTC)

Evidence

User:Winkers6767 created hoax page Timothy Dees (see AfD discussion here). Subsequent edits were made by User:69.245.51.13 (an ISP in the Nashville, Tennessee area) and from 5 different IPs at Vanderbilt university (also in Nashville):

User:129.59.152.128

User:129.59.150.103

User:129.59.150.135

User:129.59.150.138

User:129.59.181.50

User:Dodgers7878 (note similarity in user names) began editing article on 4 Feb 07. I noticed the edits on vandalism patrol and realized the article was a hoax. User:Dodgers7878 attempted to defend the article on my talk page; when I didn't buy what he had to say, he deleted the 'hoax' tag from the article (the same action that User:69.245.51.13 had done minutes before).

The hoax was particularly egregious because hoax references were also created, and 4 other pages (Anarcho-syndicalism, Industrial Workers of the World, List of Faroese people and Spontaneous human combustion) were vandalized to create links to this hoax. Recommend blocking on all three accounts above (though there's nothing we can do about the university accounts.) RJASE1 15:02, 5 February 2007 (UTC)

Comments

Suckers! All these aliases are sockpuppets for me, RJASE1! I can't be stopped! Winkers6767 23:28, 6 February 2007 (UTC)

A related checkuser case has been declined: WP:RFCU page on "RJASE1". --Akhilleus (talk) 00:25, 10 March 2007 (UTC)

Conclusions

Since he admitted to it, indef blocks for all but winkers, a month for Winkers. RJASE1, an unlikely sockmaster at best, may safely be ignored. Adam Cuerden ^talk 21:36, 14 March 2007 (UTC)

Correction: 1 month for the IP, indefinate for the rest. Winkers has done this before, and should know better. Adam Cuerden ^talk 21:37, 14 March 2007 (UTC)