Wikipedia:Suspected sock puppets/Jvolkblum (13th)

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User:Jvolkblum (13th)

Suspected sockpuppeteer

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

Suspected sockpuppets

James Conoco (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log)
SixtyThompsonGal (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log)
Cookie Carlos 78 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log)
204.15.226.220 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log)
216.12.206.14 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log)

Report submission by

Orlady (talk) 00:47, 4 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Evidence

New user registered at 05:05, 3 July 2008 (UTC) and has proceeded to make many of the same changes that Jvolkblum puppets have made to articles related to New Rochelle, including these diffs, as well as asking an admin how to use the user page (earlier socks have been attentive to their user pages).

Checkuser confirmation is at Wikipedia:Requests for checkuser/Case/Jvolkblum.

Comments

Note that this user has acknowledged editing logged-out as Special:Contributions/75.125.163.139

Response / Defense

I wanted to fix the high school page because it has been tagged for improvements for a long time but no-one has worked to make any improvements. I therefore joined as a member to do so. As a member I do not believe I am required to justify my actions if they help the site. I understand what constitutes vandalism and counter productive behavior and I am not engaging in either. Evenso, my actions might have been misconstrued by another user with whom I had several interactions (disagreements) over contributed information. Several of the following edits that I made were to an article or two that the user had contributed to, my motivation being to improve them even more and show my competancy as a contributor. --JConoco (talk) 03:01, 4 July 2008 (UTC) I do not understand the claim that I am a scokpuppet but I would also like to document myself as stating that I have no connection whatever to other users, either previous or current. --JConoco (talk) 03:17, 4 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

More Comments

I have added User:SixtyThompsonGal and User:Cookie Carlos 78 to this case. The first user joined 4 July, and all but one edit has been to add the New Rochelle template (created by confirmed Jvolkblum sockpuppet User:R.T.Gellar) to many of the various New Rochelle articles that Jvolkblum tends. The second user joined 4 minutes after SixtyThompsonGal and has created articles about several N.R. neighborhoods (such as Premium_Point, New_Rochelle -- unsourced detailed articles about upscale N.R. neighborhoods are a pet project of Jvolkblum), created a user page similar to those of other Jvolkblum socks (this sandbox entry is very similar to one by James Conoco}, and inserted a photo in that Premium Point article that is claimed (by another user name at Commons) to be uploader's own work but that looks like a postcard -- similar to the numerous postcards that Jvolkblum has uploaded in the past. Having noticed these, I assume there may be more active sockpuppets right now. --Orlady (talk) 14:37, 12 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I'm also adding two IPs. User:Cookie Carlos 78 seems to be using 204.15.226.220 when editing logged out (for example, there is an edit on that user's sandbox page). 216.12.206.14 has reverted at Wykagyl, New York to restore content that was repeatedly deleted in a series of "revert banned user Jvolkblum" edits. --Orlady (talk) 18:13, 12 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

For User:James Conoco, looking at his edits at New Rochelle, New York, this looks like a total WP:DUCK case. I didn't check the rest of users. --Enric Naval (talk) 21:46, 12 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Conclusions

Named accounts already blocked and tagged. — Rlevse • Talk • 01:33, 14 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]