Wikipedia:Suspected sock puppets/Garhauer (2nd)

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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:Garhauer (2nd)

Suspected sockpuppeteer

Garhauer (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log) (2nd)

Suspected sockpuppets

124.197.37.109 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log)
Anchoring (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log)
124.197.16.33 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log)
Rewih (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log)


Report submission by

bad·monkey talk to the {:() :: 14:04, 15 April 2008 (UTC)


Evidence

Edits to Anchor relating to promotion of "Anchor Buddy" anchoring accessory.

First IP placed first promo spam a few weeks ago:

Then once more:

User Garhauer and Anchorbuddy then made attempts to keep it against reverts - these accounts now both permanently banned after 1st incident report (for promotional user names).

First IP then went through and re-added some of the promo material plus defaced some elements of other article relating to product they appear to have a problem with:

New user Anchoring appeared and re-did above.

Second IP reverting as above again.

New user Rewih single purpose and appearing to take a more subtle approach. Nonetheless likely a sockpuppet.

Comments

IP is callplus.net.nz, a common New Zealand ISP.

  • Addition: Added User:Anchoring as additional sockpuppet. bad·monkey talk to the {:() :: 11:32, 16 April 2008 (UTC)
  • Addition: Added User:124.197.16.33 as additional sockpuppet. bad·monkey talk to the {:() :: 05:57, 17 April 2008 (UTC)
  • Addition: Added User:Rewih as additional sockpuppet. bad·monkey talk to the {:() :: 09:33, 27 April 2008 (UTC)
Conclusions

I'm confident that these are all the same person. I didn't check the diffs, so I'm not certain, but the editing pattern is shared by all accounts and IPs listed here.

Rewih is the only account that's not currently blocked. I'm going to leave a note on his talk page advising him to be careful, and that should be sufficient. Shalom (Hello • Peace) 03:13, 5 May 2008 (UTC)