Wikipedia:Suspected sock puppets/Tryptech

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User:Tryptech

Suspected sockpuppeteer

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

Suspected sockpuppets

Donwilson (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log)
Yixian (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log)
Gamma286 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log)

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Bazzargh (talk) 16:34, 13 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Evidence

Sequence of edits on Will Smith, which most of them renamed to 'Woll Smoth'[1][2][3]. Started by Your Mother (see contribs), who was indef-blocked; immediately Yixian started, then stopped; followed by Gamma286 (blocked 24h); finally Donwilson. All of them are uploading photoshopped images with shrunken facial features - Image:Updated_picture.jpg was uploaded by Tryptech, the same image was uploaded by Gamma286 and Donwilson; similar images uploaded by the others: Image:Woll Smoth original.jpg by Gamma286, Image:Gorgecolney.jpg by Yixian, Image:Woll smoth.jpg by Donwilson. (most of the images have been speedied, but still appear in the page edit histories)

If the edits were simultaneous, I'd expect this was coming from 4chan, and is meatpuppetry at least, but the sequence of edits on Will Smith looks more like the work of a single user.

Comments

I bet we're seeing some sleeper troll accounts coming out of the woodwork here, since Will Smith (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) has been semiprotected for several months. Some of these trolls (and a number of IP users) have been vandalizing the user and talk pages of TheBlazikenMaster (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log). I'm also thinking Chivie1 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log) is one of these sockpuppets. --Elkman ^(Elkspeak) 18:09, 13 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Found this: [4] Yixian posting images of the vandalism, and encouraging others to do more. It looks like this may have been more of a forum thing. --Bazzargh (talk) 19:17, 13 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Conclusions

None of these accounts are up to anything good so I am blocking them all indefinitely. They are indeed old sleeper socks. I'm choosing Donwilson (talk · contribs) as the sockpuppeteer since it's so old, there is no entry for it in the user creation log. I traced through the contribs including deleted contribs and indefblocked a few other accounts and tagged a few IPs - see Category:Suspected Wikipedia sockpuppets of Donwilson. Admittedly, several are probably meatpuppets, not socks, but they all needed blocking anyway. —Wknight94 (talk) 01:36, 17 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]