- 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.
User:PoliticianTexas[edit]
- Suspected sock puppeteer
PoliticianTexas (talk+ · contribs · deleted contribs · tag · block user · block log · CheckUser)
- Suspected sock puppets
- LamyQ (talk+ · contribs · deleted contribs · tag · block user · block log · CheckUser)
- 71.30.148.190 (talk+ · contribs · deleted contribs · tag · block user · block log · CheckUser)
- 75.88.235.6 (talk+ · contribs · deleted contribs · tag · block user · block log · CheckUser)
(see also Category:Suspected Wikipedia sockpuppets of PoliticianTexas)
- Report submission by
- Evidence 1 - uploading same image
LamyQ (talk · contribs) has re-uploaded several copyvio images that were previously uploaded by known and suspected sock puppets of PoliticianTexas (and deleted after the copyvio was discovered). These images include:
- File:Albuquerque Infobox Montage.png (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) - previously uploaded by Burns37 as File:Albuquerque Photo Mix.png (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
- File:EVHSGYM.jpg (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)} - previously uploaded by Martinez07 as File:EMMGym EVHS.jpg (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) (note: not proven copyvio, but was orphaned and deleted after Martinez07 was blocked)
- File:EVHSLOGO.png (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) aka File:Espanola Valley Logo.png (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) - previously upload by Evhs00, Thomasalazar, Burns37
Evhs00, Martinez07, and Thomasalazar are known sock puppets of PoliticianTexas. Burns37 is a suspected sock puppet of PoliticianTexas who was blocked for copyvio.
- Evidence 2 - articles edited
Probably the most convincing article these have in common is Española Valley High School (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views), regarding a 1200-student high school in Española, New Mexico (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views). This is (if I may say so) an obscure subject and the number of people who would add significantly to such an article must be very small. The revision history statistics [http://vs.aka-online.de/cgi-bin/wppagehiststat.pl?lang=en.wikipedia&page=Espa%C3%B1ola+Valley+High+School] [1] show that about 2/3 of the edits were made by the suspect LamyQ and by the previously-mentioned Martinez07, Evhs00, and Thomasalazar, as well as by 75.91.163.47 and by BradlyRM (another known sock puppet of PoliticianTexas). The previously-mentioned Burns37 also edited this article, but did not make many contributions (his account was only active for 9 days before being blocked).
These editors also make many changes to Albuquerque, New Mexico (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) and Espanola, New Mexico (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views).
Thomasalazar created and made over half the edits to NMAA District 2-AAAA (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views), another obscure subject, and this article has also been edited by LamyQ and Burns37.
- Evidence 3 - Common edit patterns
- Editing style
- LamyQ and the known socks have a distinctive editing style, visible in the edit history. Nearly every time they edit a page there is a block of 10 or 20 changes in the edit history log. Examination of the edits reveal that it takes them 4 or 5 tries to make a single final change; apparently they don't use the preview function. The previously-mentioned article Española Valley High School (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) has 13 kB of wikitext and is the result of 1,520 edits. Another shared characteristic is that they rarely provide edit summaries.
- Deletion of maintenance templates
- Deleting warnings off own talk page
- Comments
For more history on PoliticianTexas (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log) and his sockpuppets, see Requests_for_checkuser/Case/PoliticianTexas.
- Conclusions
At the very least, LamyQ appears to be a meatpuppet of PoliticianTexas. That by itself is enough for an indefblock, which has been implemented. See my comments at WP:ANI#More copyvio by User:LamyQ. Blueboy96 13:50, 5 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]