Wikipedia:Suspected sock puppets/E Pluribus Anthony
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- Suspected sockpuppeteer
E Pluribus Anthony (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log)
- Suspected sockpuppets
Cogito ergo sumo (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log)
Ex post factoid (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log)
- Report submission by
AlexCovarrubias 18:14, 17 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- Evidence
Checking the contribution log of every account you can easily note that the same articles were being edited, to name a few: Canada, Toronto, North America, Northern America, Central America, Star Trek, Data (Star Trek), Latin America, etc. in general, articles related to geography and the TV serie Star Trek.
Just minutes ago, the recently created account User:Ex post factoid made an obvious mistake by using the edit summary (stated as a common behaviour of sockpuppeteers in the Sock puppet article) and also using very similar words as in the first edit of Cogito ergo sumo:
Cogito ergo sumo edit on Isaac Asimov
- 13:17, 27 August 2006 (hist) (diff) m Isaac Asimov (fix punctuation ... first edit!)
Ex post factoid edit on Issac Asimov
- 09:44, 17 October 2006 (hist) (diff) m Isaac Asimov (first edit! add detail about Data)
User User:E Pluribus Anthony was a long-term contributor, but suddenly he stopped using that account. I read somewhere in a talk page that it was because he was proven to use sockpuppets. However I was unable to find the source where I first read that, but I'm sure you can investigate it more deeply.
By the time E Pluribus stopped using that account, he created User:Cogito ergo sumo. When this user was not able to achieve his goals in editing using a certain POV, he used anonimous IP edits to make reverts [1] Note last edit, causing the article North America to be temporarily protected [2]. He's an agressive and uncivil user as you can note here [3] (under IPs 142.150.134.55, 142.150.134.52, 142.150.134.53, 65.95.237.248) always trying to disguise as a different user.
- Comments
Behaviour presented by this user is not the best for Wikipedia, and because of the repeatedly use of sockpuppets and anonimous edits, he should be blocked.
- Conclusions
The same person is using 3 different accounts that we know: E Pluribus Anthony, Cogito ergo sumo and Ex post facto and makes anonymous edits, but his IPs are well identified. He is a long-term reverting vandal and a sockpuppeteer. AlexCovarrubias 18:24, 17 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- Blocked. Weak, but accurate evidence, nonetheless. Kilo•T 18:28, 17 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]