Wikipedia:Suspected sock puppets/74.244.11.122

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[edit] User:74.244.11.122

Suspected sockpuppeteer
74.244.11.122 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log)
Suspected sockpuppets
70.46.67.98 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log)
Legacy7 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log · rfcu)
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Rjd0060 18:20, 10 November 2007 (UTC)

Evidence
  • All accounts became active within a couple days of eachother.
  • All the edits on all 3 accounts are to articles relating to Georgia Tech:
(articles are Georgia Institute of Technology‎, Lyman Hall (academic), and Georgia Tech traditions).
  • All 3 accounts have made the exact same edit (see [1] [2] [3]).
Comments
  • Is there evidence of these accounts supporting each other's actions as sock/meat puppet accounts or is this just a case of someone forgetting to login resulting in the creation of alternate accounts? -- Jreferee t/c 19:11, 10 November 2007 (UTC)
The fact that they all seem to be trying to add the same section to one article seems very suspicious. - Rjd0060 19:25, 10 November 2007 (UTC)
  • For the record, I don't think that 74.244.11.122 is actually involved in any of this, but rather was at the wrong place at the wrong time and is having his reverted good-faith edit used to make a point. I ran a WHOIS on the two IPs, and 74.244.11.122 is a Bellsouth IP from Atlanta, and 70.46.67.98 is a FloridaDigital IP from Maitland, FL. There is an off-chance that there is meatpuppeting going on, but I don't think that is the case either as 74.244.11.122 hasn't really shown a pattern of tendentious editing the way 70.46.67.98 and Legacy7 have.
The latter two started by adding something about the results of a homecoming event and reverting back to that, but not they have been reverting back to 74.244.11.122's edit, with Legacy7 saying in this edit, "Ya'll don't like anyone editting (sic) your page no matter on the content, do you? It a WIKI group. Get over it." From that, I infer that he's almost trying to make himself feel better by rationalizing that the core editors of the article are just ganging up on outsiders. Legacy7 and 70.46.67.98 haven't reverted back to the added information on any of the other articles that 74.244.11.122 added to (which, BTW, was the exact same text).
Also, I think that the puppeteer/puppets might be mixed up anyway, as this entire line of editing started with 70.46.67.98 on November 4. Legacy7 showed up around the 6th, and 74.244.11.122 on the 8th (I think). However, as per the request over at WP:RFCU, they seem to believe that it is "obvious" that 70.46.67.98 and Legacy7 are one and the same. (The case is Wikipedia:Requests for checkuser/Case/Legacy7.) LaMenta3 04:36, 11 November 2007 (UTC)
Conclusions

Legacy 7 was indef blocked by Deskana on the RFCU case, with 70 as his obvious sock, so I've blocked the IP for 1 week. 74 IP is not related but small chance of meat puppet. — Rlevse • Talk • 15:51, 11 November 2007 (UTC)