Wikipedia:Suspected sock puppets/Kraken7

User:Kraken7

Suspected sockpuppeteer

Kraken7 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log)

Suspected sockpuppets

Report submission by

BusterD 17:31, 5 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Evidence

This user has 79 mainspace edits over roughly 16 months since account creation. Edits are on three pages exclusively, 52 of those on Mexican-American War, with 34 of 58 total talkspace edits in the Talk:Mexican-American War page. The very first account post is here, and since this time user has continually pushed this particular assertion through various talk discussions (including page move discussions). Consensus doesn't agree with this position.

Since the unsuccessful page move request in mid-July, the pagespace has been vandalized some 57 times, by listed ip users and "Ghost accounts", in all circumstances on the subject of disputing the name of the war and the corresponding name of the pagespace, and in a majority of cases by an ip or account using "rv" or "reverted vandalism" in edit summary, usually mocking the editor who reverted user's previous vandalism attempt.

Accounts User:Ghost account 1, and User:Ghost account 2 have already been blocked as socks and several of the ips listed are Tor nodes.

It is possible that some other user is running these socks and in that case I will offer apology to User:Kraken7. It seems more likely to me that user is a content-area-specific sock puppetmaster for someone using other content-area-specific sock puppetmasters as middle managers to avoid blocking.

No matter the culprit, it is obvious that someone is running these socks and proxies, and while the accused may not be the guilty party, sock behavior is demonstrated here.

Diffs (with edit summaries):

Ghost account 8

05:04, 5 October 2007 (Undid revision 162344447 by Haemo (talk)rv vandalism by user Haemo (talk))

15:11, 5 October 2007 (no summary)

15:50, 5 October 2007 (Undid revision 162469233 by BusterD (talk)reverted obvious vandalism by BusterD)

Ghost account 2

03:09, 4 October 2007 (edit symantics)

07:13, 4 October 2007 (Undid revision 162177327 by Griot (talk) rv vandalism by (talk))

17:43, 4 October 2007 (Undid revision 162214529 by BusterD (talk) rv vandalism by BusterD (talk))

19:18, 4 October 2007 (removed repeated vandalism by North Shoreman (talk)) Ghost account 1

17:09, 29 September 2007 (changed as per talk page)

17:20, 29 September 2007 (Undid revision 161146315 by Bkonrad (talk)reverted to title name as found in talk page)

17:27, 29 September 2007 (Undid revision 161147920 by Bkonrad (talk)do not continue to violate the 3rr BKonrad)

68.108.3.215

0:609, 23 September 2007 (Edit spelling)

12.198.94.194

18:47, 23 September 2007 (Undid revision 159773626 by Griot (talk)rv vandalism by user Griot)

18:48, 23 September 2007 (Undid revision 159773840 by Griot (talk)rv vandalism by user Griot)

20:36, 23 September 2007 (Undid revision 159848624 by BusterD (talk)removed vandalism by BusterD)

211.178.81.118

21:15, 23 September 2007 (Undid revision 159872196 by Bkonrad (talk)removed vandalism by user Bkonrad)

71.166.49.7

21:58, 23 September 2007 (Undid revision 159879864 by BusterD (talk)removed repeated vandalism attempts by user BusterD)

209.121.220.178

04:29, 5 September 2007 (no summary)

01:39, 6 September 2007 (Undid revision 155798162 by Darkspots (talk))

01:46, 6 September 2007 (Undid revision 155961326 by North Shoreman (talk)Re: identified vandalism by North Shoreman)

74.86.134.106

18:02, 7 September 2007 (changed spelling)

18:10, 7 September 2007 (Undid revision 156315764 by North Shoreman (talk)No I was always taught the other name.)

81.201.56.15

16:39, 8 September, 2007 (Undid revision 156321532 by Griot (talk) rv; vandalism by user Griot)

23:17, 9 September 2007 (Undid revision 156805033 by North Shoreman (talk)Undid repeated vandalism by North Shoreman - who made you the Führer?)

69.30.195.20

17:15, 9 September 2007 (Undid revision 156511663 by BusterD (talk)edit grammar)

64.113.84.91

21:54, 9 September 2007 (Undid revision 156737543 by Bkonrad (talk)Re: rv repeated vandalism by Bkonrad) 76.104.162.147

22:48, 9 September 2007 (Undid revision 156797378 by North Shoreman (talk)Undid repeated vandalism by North Shoreman)

67.88.206.98

04:05, 25 August 2007 (no summary)

159.49.254.2

16:52, 25 August 2007 (Undid revision 153538822 by Bkonrad (talk)re: Undid vandalism by BKonrad)

24.69.51.102

02:07, 26 August 2007 (Undid revision 153599286 by Bkonrad (talk)re: removed vandalism by Bkonrad)

03:32, 26 August 2007 (Undid revision 153665597 by North Shoreman (talk)edit: removed vandalism by North Shoreman - do not change the name)

69.80.238.93

19:58, 26 August 2007 (Undid revision 153675060 by Bkonrad (talk)Edited to undo vandalism by Bkonrad)

12.165.108.130

03:15, 27 August 2007 (Undid revision 153812444 by North Shoreman (talk)Re: removed VANDALISM by North Shoreman)

75.127.83.84

20:42, 28 August 2007 (Undid revision 153924895 by Bkonrad (talk)re: Undid vandalism by Bkonrad)

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