Wikipedia:Suspected sock puppets/Kristy22

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User:Kristy22

Suspected sockpuppeteer

Kristy22 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log)

Suspected sockpuppets

Lovato45 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log)

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

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

DemiLovato15 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log)

Report submission by

Delicious carbuncle (talk) 15:11, 19 April 2008 (UTC)

Evidence

Lovato45 copypasted American Idol webpages to their talk page, just as Kristy22 did. Lovato45 made this edit to Kristy22's talk page. They also helpfully made this edit on their talk page, pointing to an assumed autoblock of IP 76.118.87.126. Lovato45 (talk · contribs) and 76.118.87.126 (talk · contribs) share an interest in Miley Cyrus, but who doesn't? Add to that their shared habit of making "mistakes" and pleading for forgiveness endlessly and trollishly on admin talk pages.

I've added new arrival SDLexington (talk · contribs), whose very first edit was leaving nonsense about Michael Jackson on my talk page. Their unblock request and other contributions share that familiar pleading Kristy22 style. Delicious carbuncle (talk) 15:48, 28 April 2008 (UTC)

Comments

At the time of writing, I believe all three are blocked from editing, for various reasons.

I've waded through all of the non-deleted contribs of all three parties, and I have to say that the similarities are very strong: there's a lot of starting sections on User Talk pages called "Hey!" or similar, and a great deal of removal of warning/block/unblock requested/denied messages from Talk. All the unblock requests made by any of these parties follow the same patterns ("please unblock me, i am very sorry" or "IT WAS A MISTAKE"). Kristy and the IP are surely one and the same; they both posted unblock-granted templates signed by themselves (yep, even the IP). Lovato doesn't immediately seem so similar (the modus operandi there seems to be, find any article or Talk section, scroll down, and delete everything up to the end of the section) - but as noted in Evidence, Lovato did provide confirmation of using the same IP. Hoping this helps, non-admin SHEFFIELDSTEEL^TALK 17:59, 19 April 2008 (UTC)

Just a quick clarification - only User:Kristy22 is currently blocked. Blocks on the other two accounts have expired. Delicious carbuncle (talk) 18:08, 19 April 2008 (UTC)

I would recommend indef-blocking all of the accounts. The evidence of sockpuppetry is sufficient to justify such an action. The users, taken as a whole, have provided virtually no useful contributions to the encyclopedia, and have spent dozens of edits bothering admins on their talk pages and posting copyvios in their userspace. We're dealing with an immature child, or someone acting like a child, who really doesn't understand what we do. Let's block the accounts and hope the person grows up and returns to make a new start. Shalom (Hello • Peace) 18:59, 7 May 2008 (UTC)

Adding a new one: DemiLovato15 (talk · contribs). I'm not even going to bother citing evidence - just look at the contribs. Delicious carbuncle (talk) 19:03, 9 May 2008 (UTC)

Conclusions

If this is a child, or childlike person, they need firm discipline. Lets start with a request for checkuser citing this report as the evidence, code G. A Checkuser will probably eliminate all doubt and may reveal addition socks, and help get the underlying IPs blocked. Jehochman ^Talk 02:53, 8 May 2008 (UTC)

See WP:Requests_for_checkuser/Case/Kristy22 for confirmations. All confirmed except SDLexington. --NrDg 02:11, 10 May 2008 (UTC)

All blocked and tagged accordingly. _GB^T/C 16:45, 10 May 2008 (UTC)

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