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19 October 2010
Suspected sockpuppets


Evidence submitted by Stwalkerster

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/David Cote (film director) I think sums it all up. All the IP addresses (and Hbtz and LosAngelsbaby) have edited that AfD, all in some way pushing to keep the article, and all have only edited relating to this topic (recently). Impersonation[1], breaking AfD tags[2] and interesting moves[3] are just some of the tactics used in this AfD. I'm not going to give a diff of every single malicious edit, unless you want me to. It's all in the page history of the AfD / contribs.

TBH: it seems too obvious. I've requested checkuser to flush out any sleepers that may/may not exist

I should note that Davecoteproductions is already blocked and marked as a sockpuppet, I've included it here for completeness. [stwalkerster|talk] 11:53, 19 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Varying anons, socks, etc
Nick

And that's the diffs. [stwalkerster|talk] 12:08, 19 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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One additional IP to consider:

This editor added more questionable claims to the affected article: [43] [44] —Tim Pierce (talk) 17:39, 19 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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All blocked and tagged. TNXMan 18:15, 19 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]
22 October 2010
Suspected sockpuppets



Evidence submitted by Twp

ArtMystery created Dave Cote immediately after an extended AfD for David Cote (film director), an article which was created by NickSoroka who was subsequently found to have several sock puppets in the discussion. —Tim Pierce (talk) 02:11, 22 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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 Confirmed TNXMan 02:29, 22 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

25 October 2010
Suspected sockpuppets



Evidence submitted by Twp

Recreated article David Cote (Actor) substantially identical to previously deleted David Cote (film director) —Tim Pierce (talk) 13:49, 25 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

User EveryTimeElectric, a new account with two edits, marked this article as "looks accurate" two minutes after it was created.

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 Confirmed and  IP blocked as well. TNXMan 14:09, 25 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

27 October 2010
Suspected sockpuppets


Evidence submitted by Twp

YesYesWow created Dave Cote, an article that has repeatedly been created and deleted by sock puppets and proxies of NickSoroka. —Tim Pierce (talk) 05:59, 27 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Evidence submitted by Gogo Dodo

Just a bit of cleanup, Abconetwothree marked the article created by ArtMystery as reviewed and "looks good." No other edits made. -- Gogo Dodo (talk) 06:01, 27 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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02 November 2010
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Evidence submitted by Twp

User created Cote, David. (See previous sockpuppet listings.) —Tim Pierce (talk) 13:19, 2 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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 Confirmed, no sleepers. TNXMan 13:36, 2 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

14 November 2010
Suspected sockpuppets


Evidence submitted by Shearonink

User:EveryThingSameSame recreated a previously deleted article by:
1) Completely deleting the content of another/valid article whose subject has the same first/last name of the previously socked subject, also used misleading edit-comments while doing so
2) Replacing the now-empty article-space with the content of the AfD'ed article
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=David_Cote_(writer)&diff=395907458&oldid=386084722, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/EveryThingSameSame, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Sockpuppet_investigations/NickSoroka/Archive Shearonink (talk) 14:36, 14 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]


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 Confirmed

21 March 2011

This is related to yet another re-creation of the deleted David Cote biography. Per TnXMan,

are likely matches to each other. I'm adding this to the NickSoroka SPI page at TnXMan's suggestion, to collect the info in one place.[45] I think no action is being requested other than archiving.

Further info: ANI thread.

75.57.242.120 (talk) 09:39, 21 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

These accounts will also need blocking. TNXMan 21:10, 21 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Both are blocked and tagged. — HelloAnnyong (say whaaat?!) 23:33, 21 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

The following comment from Tnxman307 is copied over from the ANI thread, from [46], for clarity (and to show a CU check took place)  Chzz  ►  15:06, 22 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

There is a history of activity here, please see WP:Sockpuppet investigations/NickSoroka. As far as that goes, the accounts in the SPI archive are  Stale, but Davecotefilm (talk · contribs) and JulieLeon80 (talk · contribs) are  Likely matches to each other. If someone could add this to the SPI page, it would help keep everything together. TNXMan 21:02, 20 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Note: (to clerk?) - did the CU action here check for possible sleeper accounts? If not - given the background - I suggest that happens prior to archiving this. Thanks,  Chzz  ►  15:09, 22 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Based on TNX's comments on ANI, yes, a CU was done. — HelloAnnyong (say whaaat?!) 15:22, 23 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Yes; my question is, whether xe checked for sleepers. I'll ask Tnxman307 to comment here. Cheers,  Chzz  ►  17:54, 23 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
I did check for sleepers, there were none (also, I'm male, so "he" is fine :)). TNXMan 02:28, 24 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Fine, thanks. As far as I am concerned, this can be archived.  Chzz  ►  12:26, 24 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
19 April 2011
Suspected sockpuppets


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Edits to "Dave Cote". Part of an ongoing campaign to promote filmmaker Dave Cote. —Tim Pierce (talk) 07:21, 19 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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The following are matches to each other:



20 April 2011
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More attempts at changing Dave Cote: see Special:Contributions/76.74.205.48, especially [47] [48] [49] [50] [51] —Tim Pierce (talk) 06:18, 20 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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Dave Cote has been indefinitely full-protected. –MuZemike 06:21, 20 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

16 July 2011
Suspected sockpuppets


Repeated recreation of previously deleted article for minor actor/film director whose name has been promulgated as Dave M. Cote and/or David M. Cote (and/or Dave Cote) who shares name with Chairman/CEO of Honeywell. Creators using a Redirect page for the Honeywell CEO.
See the following edit diffs:
Edit diff of David M. Cote/Dave M. Cote Redirect page
Edit diff of David M. Cote/Dave M. Cote Redirect page
Edit diff of David M. Cote/Dave M. Cote Redirect page
Shearonink (talk) 00:55, 16 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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03 August 2011
Suspected sockpuppets

Recreation of a subject that has been declined multiple times with a long history of sockpuppetry, meatpuppetry and continued submissions under various names and titles. This AfC is a resurrection of a previous AfC, see AfC edit history. See also the AfD Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/David Cote (film director). Shearonink (talk) 19:36, 3 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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11 August 2011
Suspected sockpuppets

Inserted a "Dave Cote" (sock's usual fare) spam-link into three different articles: David M. Cote owing to the similar name also a usual target of these sockpuppets but is the CEO of Honeywell, Nous - an article about a philosophical concept and Lou Albano. Other previous edits in edit history are all connected with the non-notable subject of Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/David Cote (film director). Shearonink (talk) 13:00, 11 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Other editors have also expressed concern that this IP is a NickSoroka sock [52]. Also IP just had a two-week block for being a sock on 16 July 2011. --Shearonink (talk) 13:04, 11 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]
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IP blocked for a month. TNXMan 16:26, 11 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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