Wikipedia:Suspected sock puppets/BusterA

The following discussion is an archived debate of the case of suspected sockpuppetry. Please do not modify it. No further edits should be made to this page. All edits should go to the talk page of this case. If you are seeing this page as a result of an attempt to open a new case of sockpuppetry of the same user, read this for detailed instructions.

[edit] User:BusterA

Suspected sockpuppeteer

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

Suspected sockpuppets

BusterE (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log)
BusterF (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log)
BusterH (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log)

Report submission by

Rjd0060 03:32, 10 October 2007 (UTC)

Evidence

Sockpuppeteer created account and 3 sockpuppet accounts within 2 minutes of each other. This is evident from the user creation logs:
BusterA; Sockpuppeteer; Created
BusterE; Sockpuppet; Created by BusterA
BusterF; Sockpuppet; Created by BusterA
BusterH; Sockpuppet; Created by BusterA

Comments

There have not been any (malicious) edits from any account yet, however I feel that a report is justified per WP:SOCK which states "A sock puppet is an additional username used by a Wikipedian who already has one or more accounts.". That doesn't say if we have to wait until there are malicious edits or not.

I am creating this report on behalf of User:Tckma. See this section of Tckma's talk page. - Rjd0060 03:32, 10 October 2007 (UTC)

I believe the creation of these socks was in my honor (such a dubious honor as it is), and more properly belongs to this case below. One of the other established page editors (User:Bkonrad) on Mexican-American War page has seen a name imitator (User:Bkonrad0) already blocked as a bad faith user for vandalizing the page. BusterD 12:51, 12 October 2007 (UTC)

I just looked at the User:Kraken7 report. The accounts were created on October 10th. Mexican-American War is currently semi-protected. Perhaps your sockpuppeteer is waiting out the four-day period required to edit a protected page. In that case, someone should watch these accounts on October 14th (Sunday). I'm going to be out of town this weekend and I'm not sure I'll have reliable internet access, so I can't make any promises. --Tckma 13:29, 12 October 2007 (UTC)

I've just added these four new socks to BusterD's checkuser request for Kraken7. --Tckma 14:00, 12 October 2007 (UTC)

I'm still not seeing any contribs on any of these accounts. Which isn't to say that there won't be... --Tckma 14:09, 15 October 2007 (UTC)

Conclusions

As pointed out above, these accounts aren't obvious violations of WP:SOCK, but the usernames are too close to BusterD, in my opinion, and I'm blocking them on that basis. --Akhilleus (talk) 16:51, 19 October 2007 (UTC)