Wikipedia:Suspected sock puppets/King of America

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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:King of America

Suspected sockpuppeteer

King of America (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log)

Suspected sockpuppets

70.149.41.227 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log)
70.149.41.166 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log)
72.144.55.44 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log)
65.11.113.254 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log)
74.225.135.221 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log)
74.144.206.28 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log)
74.225.213.96 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log)
72.144.55.37 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log)
74.225.211.177 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log)
Coconutfred73 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log)

Report submission by

Kariteh 08:19, 29 June 2007 (UTC)

Evidence

Contributions are focused on video game articles and show a pattern of removing/altering non-North American information, such as changing European release dates or box shots. He seems to use multiple accounts, and seems to be following A Link to the Past around with the intention of reverting pro-EU edits on his part. Could an administrator look at the following contributions and consider blocking these accounts?:

Here are some examples of American bias:

The following are done to show connection through edit history.

  • Worms: Open Warfare 2 edits: [1] - [2] - [3].
  • Metroid Prime Hunters edits: [4] - [5]
  • Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney - Justice for All edits: [11] - [12]

Unrelated articles which possibly show similar editing interests (between most of them for the most part):

Personality:

  • Often swears
  • Blanks pages (especially sandbox)
  • Rude tone
  • Anti-IGN tone
  • Almost every single user/IP knows how to use reversion software
Comments

The presence of User:74.225.211.177 and all the circumstances described above may point towards these accounts/IPs all being sockpuppets of User:Super World Champions, a previous sockpuppeteer who has been banned. Super World Champions and his socks (this 74.225.211.177, as well as User:Da D00d Uploader and User:UltraNintendoEntertainmentSystem) showed a very similar pattern (see Contributions):

  • focus on video games and release dates
  • on wrestling games articles
  • on Danny Phantom and the Fairly OddParents
  • on Nintendo DS and Wii related articles
  • and expressed an anti-IGN tone regarding release dates

Kariteh 08:26, 29 June 2007 (UTC)

Conclusions

Both named accounts are clearly socks of User:Super World Champions, and have been blocked indefinitely. I have no doubt that the IPs listed were used by the same user as well, but appear to be highly dynamic, so blocking them would likely be ineffective and cause collateral damage. Seraphimblade Talk to me 06:44, 10 July 2007 (UTC)