Wikipedia:Suspected sock puppets/TyrusThomas4lyf (2nd)

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User:TyrusThomas4lyf

Suspected sockpuppeteer

TyrusThomas4lyf (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log)

Suspected sockpuppets

Hoopsknowledge (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log)
68.253.192.48 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log)

Report submission by

Myasuda 03:09, 10 July 2007 (UTC)

Evidence

User TyrusThomas4lyf was been blocked indefinitely in May for repeated personal attacks and edit warring, after numerous warnings and attempts to mediate. For a summary of this user's past behavior, see the RFC and his talk page User talk:TyrusThomas4lyf. This same user has also edited under the aliases IlliniPride and 68.253.206.119 in the past, as noted at [1] (see section "Problematic edits by IlliniPride / 68.253.206.119 / TyrusThomas4lyf").

Supporting evidence that Hoopsknowledge is indeed a sock-puppet for TyrusThomas4lyf include not only this user's editing of the same selection of articles, but introduction of the very same edits. For example:

1. Identical edit: [2] (TyrusThomas4lyf) and [3] (Hoopsknowledge)
2. Unusual obsession with "game score" (no other editor has supported this inclusion): [4] (TyrusThomas4lyf) and [5] (Hoopsknowledge)
3. Unilateral removal of same cite tag (identical act of vandalism): [6] (Hoopsknowledge) and [7] (TyrusThomas4lyf)
4. Identical commentary: [8] (Hoopsknowledge), [9] (alleged sock-puppet account 68.253.192.48), and [10] (established TyrusThomas4lyf sock-puppet account 68.253.216.115).
5. Same claim inserted [11] (Hoopsknowledge) and [12] (IlliniPride -- a known alias for User talk:TyrusThomas4lyf).
6. Removal of the very same sourced 76ers information: [13] (68.253.206.119 -- a known alias for User talk:TyrusThomas4lyf) and [14] (Hoopsknowledge)
7. Same claim inserted [15] (Hoopsknowledge), [16] from (IlliniPride -- a known alias for User talk:TyrusThomas4lyf).
8. Familiarity with an admin well-known to User talk:TyrusThomas4lyf: In the diff [17], Hoopsknowledge seeks out an admin in an attempt to retaliate against my identification of him as a sock-puppet. But why does Hoopsknowledge select Kafziel out of the hundreds (if not thousands) of available admins? The answer to this apparent mystery can be resolved by examining the contents of User talk:TyrusThomas4lyf. There, it becomes clear that Kafziel is one of the admins that User talk:TyrusThomas4lyf knows very well -- in fact, Kafziel instigated several blocking actions against TyrusThomas4lyf. The fact that Hoopsknowledge would seek out this particular admin of the many ones available (no one claimed TyrusThomas4lyf was a bright guy) is compelling evidence in and of itself.

TyrusThomas4lyf is using active deception to subvert the Wikipedia community's decision to block his harmful activity. Failure to act now will only encourage further sock-puppetry in the future.

Comments

I do find it interesting how they all get rid of the piece they're editing and then they re-insert it after they have edited it. [18] Also, adding and removing the same info from the same articles seems a little too suspicious to be a coincedence to me. Guitarman051392 4:03, 10 July 2007 (UTC) — Preceding comment signed as by Guitarman051392 (talk · contribs) actually added by 12.217.240.86 (talk · contribs) -- Jreferee ^(Talk) 16:51, 27 August 2007 (UTC)

Conclusions

Obvious sock. Blocked indefinitely. Kafziel ^Talk 16:38, 10 July 2007 (UTC)

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