Wiki143:Suspected sock puppets/Nathann sc

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User:Nathann sc

Suspected sockpuppeteer

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Suspected sockpuppets

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Dachannien^Talk_Contrib 19:16, 7 January 2008 (UTC)

Evidence

A multitude of edits to similar articles, and I've put a sampling below. Mostly, these consist of an obviously bad edit by User:Nathann sc which is reverted by other users, only to be reinstated numerous times by the other accounts. More info follows the evidence list.

Hydrochloride: Six edits by Nathann sc One edit by Hudson Hawk21

Roland TR-808: One edit by Nathann sc One edit by 67.188.99.192 One edit by Hudson Hawk21 One edit by PRINCETON007 Another edit by PRINCETON007 violating 3RR if these are sockpuppets Another edit by PRINCETON007 violating 3RR with that account alone Yet another edit by PRINCETON007

Variable: One edit by Nathann sc One edit by Hudson Hawk21 Three edits by Hudson Hawk21 One edit by Hudson Hawk21 Two edits by The Austrian Oak

See also the contribution logs by these accounts.

The user pages for some of these accounts except Nathann sc are also unusual, consisting of a reference to an Ivy League school inside a math wikitag. However, it is Nathann sc's userpage I believe to be at the core of this problem.

The trouble started with this MfD on Nathann sc's userpage due to having an immense amount of social networking content while making few or no contributions to mainspace on Wikipedia. While the MfD was withdrawn in an effort not to bite the newbie, comments made to the MfD (which was also edited/vandalized by Nathann sc while it was open) suggested that a user who makes good faith contributory edits to Wikipedia will be afforded greater leeway with their userpage. After that, Nathann sc began making numerous edits consisting solely of things like adding commas where they aren't necessary, boldfacing words where emphasis isn't necessary, wikilinking obvious words that aren't important in the article context, and replacing words with thesaurus synonyms that are inappropriate for the article's context.

Just around the end of that account's edits, the account Hudson Hawk21 was created and began making numerous edits to the same articles, in many cases reinstating reverted changes. That account also launched personal attacks against other editors in the edit logs for articles. Later, the accounts PRINCETON007 and The Austrian Oak were created. These other accounts are now being used to do the vast majority of bad edits, presumably in an effort to deflect attention away from the original account's userpage. --Dachannien^Talk_Contrib 19:16, 7 January 2008 (UTC)

Comments

This egregious user has also been vandalising my user talk page when I reverted some of his mischief.--feline1 (talk) 19:42, 7 January 2008 (UTC)

Same here: erased a large chunk of my userpage[1] and vandalised it again here. Thankfully, restored it. Michael Bednarek (talk) 03:45, 8 January 2008 (UTC)

File:Pictogram voting comment.svg Note: The "5 edits" by Nathann had quite a few revisions not shown. --EoL talk 23:32, 7 January 2008 (UTC)

I honestly think that if these users aren't sockpuppets, they are very close meatpuppets. Maybe we should file an RFCU just to be sure. --EoL talk 23:35, 7 January 2008 (UTC)

Conclusions

See RFCU, all blocked and confirmed. — Rlevse • Talk • 22:24, 12 January 2008 (UTC)

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