Wikipedia:Suspected sock puppets/DavidHomewood

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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:DavidHomewood

Suspected sockpuppeteer

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

Suspected sockpuppets

87.233.138.84 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log)
80.77.80.57 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log)
88.198.252.146 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log)
85.10.219.108 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log)
MacSucks (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log)
87.233.138.82 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log)
88.198.241.107 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log)
64.46.38.145 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log)
Davidjerk (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log)


Report submission by

- Davidjk RC Patrol 23:56, 5 February 2007 (UTC)


Evidence

During the course of vandalism patrolling, I came across a user (User:80.77.80.57) heavily pushing POV on the 2Checkout.com article, which I reverted. [[1]] The user re-made the changes within seven minutes, and I reverted them again. User:DavidHomewood (non-coincidentally the name of the founder of the company the article concerns) undid my reversion [[2]]. At this point I made my third revert then went to do something else, at which point User:87.233.138.84, User:85.10.219.108, User:88.198.241.107 and User:MacSucks continued to re-add the text to the article, despite efforts by User:Discospinster and User:74.109.137.229 to continue reverting it.

The large amount of reverting and editing to push POV on this article astounds me, and as far as I can tell, it's all from this one user. Additionally, User:DavidHomewood has been uncivil in both edit summaries and talk page comments, going so far as to make threats to get me fired (albeit from a company I have never worked for). There appears to be no intent to actually improve the article here (I did offer to collaborate on writing a "proper" criticism section for the article, but this offer was ignored). Basically, this seems to be just one user with a large number of socks attempting to use the article as a soapbox for complaints about this company, which is disrupting the article quite severely.

- Davidjk RC Patrol 23:56, 5 February 2007 (UTC)

Two more socks, this time vandalising my userpage [[3]] [[4]] following semi-protection of the original article. - Davidjk RC Patrol 11:57, 6 February 2007 (UTC)
Comments

Given how complicated this is, I'm not entirely sure I've summarised it properly - you may just want to check the edit history ([[5]]) and see for yourself... - Davidjk RC Patrol 23:56, 5 February 2007 (UTC)

  • Another vandalism-only account, presumably the same person: User:Fascist_Pig_Gnangarra (already blocked). - Davidjk RC Patrol 00:17, 7 February 2007 (UTC)
Conclusions
  • Aside from one edit by User:64.46.38.145 there hasn't been anything from these accounts recently, so no further action seems needed. Closing.