Wikipedia:Suspected sock puppets/River-dawe

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[edit] User:River-Dawe

Suspected sockpuppeteer

River-dawe (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log)

Suspected sockpuppets

Howklam (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log)
Flash man11 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log)
Marshallben00- (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log)
Pitchfluker (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log)

Report submission by

Miss Mondegreen | Talk   23:47, 6 March 2007 (UTC)

Evidence

Howklam, Marshallben00-, Flash man11, River-dawe and Pitchfluker are all accounts that were created today in a one hour period. The first four of these accounts all vandalised the AIV page in the same way, and all of these accounts create pages that have been or are about to be speedidly deleted. I found Pitchfluker in fact, because I looked at the deletion log for Introxasinil.net, an article that River-dawe had been warned about creating, and that apparantly Pitchfluker took up creating. The article was deleted at 31:41, 31:45, 31:47, and 31:58. River-dawe was blocked at 31:49, and Pitchfluker was created at 31:56, and recreating that article is the only edit I can find for Pitchfluker.

Notes by the Reporter

• Please note that I've made River-dawe the primary even though Hawkman came first chronologically. River-dawe seems to have been the most active account and got blocked for repeated violations, and Pitchfluker has already been blocked as a sockpuppet of River-dawe, so it seems simplest to do it this way, even though it is chronologically incorrect. It also seems likely that Hawkman is not this user's first account. Flash man11 has also been blocked, but for inpersonating another user (posting a fake unblock message).

• Currently Flash man11, River-dawe and Pitchfluker are blocked, but only once did this user create a new account because the previous account had been blocked. Some of the previous accounts had not even acquired warnings.

• As has been noted on the AIV talk page, this user seems to have extensive knowledge of Wikipedia [1].

• Because of this and because all of these accounts are being used to create speedy deletion articles, a lot of this blatant vandalism is not being caught, or not being caught properly. An article gets speedily deleted, and the user doesn't get warned so the user creates another article and there is no record of their edits or the article creation, so only when the user gets warned or when the user recreates the same article does the user actually get stopped.

I don't really know how this stuff works, but, is this a case where (depending on the IP) account creation could be canned for the IP? Impersonation was not caught right away, one of these accounts has never even been warned and this user seems to have a real ability to slip through the cracks. Miss Mondegreen | Talk   23:47, 6 March 2007 (UTC)

Comments

Conclusions

• All accounts have been indef blocked. --Akhilleus (talk) 01:38, 7 March 2007 (UTC)