Wikipedia:Suspected sock puppets/Mrpainkiller7

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User:Mrpainkiller7

Suspected sockpuppeteer

Mrpainkiller7 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log)

Suspected sockpuppets

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Neurophyre^(talk) 00:30, 9 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Evidence

Mrpainkiller7 is using one or more of these accounts to circumvent a one-week block and harass and impersonate me (User:Neurophyre).

Some weeks ago, User:Mrpainkiller7 gets involved in a "content dispute" (so named by User:Thatcher131) with me and another user regarding his vandalism of VampireFreaks.com. After this point, he and Xachna (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log) created an attack page on his user page naming me and the other user on an enemies list. Yesterday when I discovered the page, I {{ifd}}ed a copyrighted image used on the attack page at about the same time that User:Jean-Philippe reported the page as an attack page.

Mrpainkiller7 was then blocked for one week.

Today I logged in and noted in my watchlist that Nueroqhyer (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log) was adding delete tags and blanking content in pages I watch while signing my name. His user page and user talk page were direct copies of mine.

As for the other two sock puppets:

Vactor66 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log) was created out of nowhere yesterday to post a warning to "stop vandalizing work by Mrpainkiller7". The account has no prior edits and only one subsequent edit in which it deleted my warning on its userpage.

Xachna (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log) has a history of editing Mrpainkiller7's user page, edits the same articles as Mrpainkiller7, "agrees" with him, had a strikingly similar user page to Mrpainkiller7 before it was deleted including a knowledge of userboxes unlikely to be possessed by a relatively novice user, and writes with a pattern of spelling and grammatical errors quite similar to Mrpainkiller7's. As soon as the images, Image:Violent.gif and Image:Violent2.gif, used in Mrpainkiller7's attack page were deleted, Xachna deleted its talk page and user page, leaving only one userbox and "I hate this site, I'm outta here." Within minutes of this deletion, Mrpainkiller7 had posted a "sorry to see you go" message on User talk:Xachna. A simple checkuser should prove once and for all whether or not this account is a sock puppet, since it claims to be female and live in a different location than Mrpainkiller7.

User:Jean-Philippe has opened an incident regarding the impersonation/harassment aspects of this case on Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents.

Added:Evicorator666 (talk · contribs). Created 15 minute before Mrpainkiller7 got his one week block, obvious similarities abound, if it's not a sock, it's definitely a copycat. Fun thing, he writes with the most obviously fake bad grammar that I've ever seen (see [1]) :-) Jean-Philippe 04:02, 9 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

In support of the above, it should be noted that the "brand new" user Evicorator666 immediately started editing some of the same articles that Mrpainkiller7 and socks frequented, such as Yawgmoth and Talk:People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals. Further, this suspected sock displays an interest in Magic: The Gathering userboxes (particularly Phyrexians, a particular interest of Mrpainkiller7 who used the exact same userbox). This account started using userboxes within a day of its arrival, making it highly unlikely to be a true new user. This evidence is the most circumstantial of all the socks, but a CheckUser will likely reveal the truth. It should be noted that while this sock has not yet vandalized any pages, it is being used to circumvent a 1 week block. --Neurophyre^(talk) 04:26, 9 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Added November 22: The harassment campaign continues, with User:Nuerephyre created to impersonate me by vandalizing pages with my signature. I'll be calling for CheckUser and an IP block as soon as I can figure out how to do so. --Neurophyre^(talk) 20:09, 22 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

See also User:Jean-Philepe -- Mrpainkiller7 is creating socks to impersonate User:Jean-Philippe for purposes of harassment in the same way he is harassing me. --Neurophyre^(talk) 20:18, 22 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Request for Checkuser is available at Wikipedia:Requests for checkuser#Mrpainkiller7. --Neurophyre^(talk) 21:46, 22 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

User:Dscwp was created recently to recreate in exact detail the page Democratic Socialist Consortiunist Worker's Party, formerly edited by Mrpainkiller7 and Xachna, which was deleted. --Neurophyre^(talk) 21:59, 22 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Comments

Conclusions

I've gone ahead and blocked User:Vactor66 and User:Nueroqhyer, since both were pretty obvious trollsocks. The other two are less blatant, but do seem related; in particular, User:Evicorator666 seems as though it might be the same person, but they're not being too disruptive, that I can see. Oh, well -- I don't do too much work in this area, anyway, just happened to find my way here by your report at WP:PAIN. Luna Santin 04:53, 9 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the intervention. The case for User:Xachna and User:Evicorator666 fitting in under WP:PAIN is, as of now, somewhat weak. They're being used at the moment to circumvent the current one week block of Mrpainkiller7 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log), but that's a case for whoever monitors these sock puppet pages to figure out. Again, thanks. --Neurophyre^(talk) 05:02, 9 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

You've proved your case - I blocked the others. (Better late than never.) AnonEMouse ^(squeak) 15:50, 12 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I stumbled across another case clearly connected to this user today. The account User:Bearcatz was created to impersonate me shortly after I speedied and salted Democratic Socialist Consortiunist Worker's Party on December 25, and was then used to forge several inflammatory comments to talk pages under my name. It's obviously the same user, since he did the same thing to others as well (and since the edit summary on the fake userpage was "Created page with 'The Democratic Socialist Consortiunist Worker's Party is a Socialist party based in New York City. They are referred to as the DSCWP or Consorti...'"). As the matter's already been resolved, and I've already deleted/reverted all the forged comments as well as blocking the account, there's no need to open a new case, but I felt it should be noted here for reference nonetheless. Bearcat 06:51, 16 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]