Wikipedia:Suspected sock puppets/Willdakunta

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:Willdakunta

Suspected sockpuppeteer

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

Suspected sockpuppets

Report submission by

— Preceding unsigned comment added by Jrclark (talk • contribs) 13:23, 29 February 2008 (UTC) Jrclark (talk) 13:21, 2 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Evidence

- - Update #2 - [1] - 'Willdakunta' mistakenly posted as anonymous '47.234.0.59,' one of the above suspected sockpuppets. Jrclark (talk) 20:35, 29 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

[2] - Berkshire East Ski Resort - Continued edits under different user names/anonymous IPs
- - Update - [3] - Willdakunta —Preceding unsigned comment added by Jrclark (talk • contribs) 18:38, 29 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- [4] - Willdakunta
- [5] - Freeskier328
- [6] - 71.181.48.130
- [7] - 71.168.80.203
- [8] - 71.181.62.191
- [9] - NHguardian

[10] - Pocumtuck Mountain - Continued edits under different IPs and past user name
- [11] - 47.234.0.59
- [12] - 71.181.51.206
- [13] - NHguardian

[14] - Was suspended for 31 hours after 3RR violation and removing content for administrative discussions regarding 3RR. Conducted some above edits under IPs and possibly under alternate username during suspension period.

User_talk:NHguardian#response - Another user suspected an earlier instance of this user of sockpuppetry

[15] - Was previously reported as a Vendetta account

Plenty of other examples in related articles can be provided if needed.

Comments

User's contributions have almost exclusively been vendetta related. Thank you for looking into this. Jrclark (talk) 13:23, 29 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Agree I have been following this for some time and I second this claim. This user has been using socks to systematically attack User:Jrclark and to engage in controversial edits with the intention of coming into conflict with Jrclark. This user has not demonstrated any other interest in Wikipedia. Talk page and edit summary rhetoric by all of these socks matches, as does singularity of purpose. See also where user begins a post editing from ISP 47.234.0.59 and ends his post editing from Willdakunta 1 1a. An even more damning similarity is the exposing of personal information of other users as punishment for disagreeing with him, here most recently on my talk page as Willdakunta 2, here as Isp 71.168.80.203 3 here as Nhguardian, 4, and here as Isp 71.181.68.181 5. This alone justifies blocking per Wikipedia:Blocking policy#Protection "disclosing personal information."--Pgagnon999 (talk) 18:07, 1 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Note also attempts to disguise username with pipes "|" as was done here [16], [17], [18]. --Pgagnon999 (talk) 18:37, 1 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Note Also reported on Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents.--Pgagnon999 (talk) 18:37, 1 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Conclusions

Per WP:DUCK, I am blocking NHguardian (the oldest account and thereby the sockpuppeteer) and all of the IPs for one month for sockpuppetry and blocking the other two accounts indefinitely as obvious socks. If NHguardian would like to choose one account, s/he may, but there is a clear intent to elude detection and that needs to stop. Jrclark, you may wish to pursue WP:OVERSIGHT for the personal info revisions but, be warned that your activity (sprinkling links to your own web site around) combined with public records do make your personal information fairly easy to discern. —Wknight94 (talk) 21:39, 2 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]