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User:Daniel Chiswick[edit]

Suspected sockpuppeteer

User:Daniel Chiswick

Suspected sockpuppets

Andrew16 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log)
Daniel Chiswick2 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log)
76.211.248.38 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log)

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BrendelSignature ^(talk) 17:42, 13 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Evidence

I have strong reason to beleive that User:Andrew16 is User:Daniel_Chiswick sockpuppet:

Both users state to be 16
Both users edit the same articles, w/ the same outlook
Both users seem to be patriotic
Both users give California as a place of residence/origin
Both users agree with each other on the Superpower talk page
User:Andrew16 claims to know User:Daniel_Chiswick from a poli-sci class
User:Andrew16 is a brand new account opened just one day after User:Daniel_Chiswick got blocked for two weeks.

The only difference is that User:Andrew16 gives SF as a place of residence/origin rather than LA. Something that he/she might have done to throw off supicious editors (and how could he be in the same class w/ User:Daniel_Chiswick if the two were truly 400 miles apart?!). The problem is that he or she is using this sock-puppet to evade a block and agree with him or herself on talk pages. Regards, Signature ^brendel 06:06, 19 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Comments

This is so obvious that I feel sorry for the admin that has to waste their time on this. Anyway, the most direct evidence is this edit by Andrew [1] and these edits by Daniel[2][3]. Even if they are really friends, they are clearly operating on the same bias and modus operandi. Gdo01 06:32, 19 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Also note that the editor claims that the two users are in the same high school yet one is in Los Angeles and the other one in San Francisco. Maybe if they were college students, I might understand but for two high school students that is unlikely. Gdo01 06:40, 19 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Daniel has now edited from Andrew's username: [4]. Please block immediately. Gdo01 06:46, 19 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Uh we have another obvious one now: User:Daniel Chiswick2. Gdo01 07:21, 19 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

And another one: User:Daniel565. Gdo01 07:40, 19 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Note that all accounts were created within the span of one hour. [5][6][7]. Gdo01 07:43, 19 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Note that I have blocked all three as obvious sockpuppets (two were blocked before this report, the other was going to be), and pending discussion of any further blocks on the original account, or the emergence of further sockpuppets, it can be closed. This date of the above report should be 06:15, 19 April 2007. -- zzuuzz^(talk) 10:03, 19 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I believe I have found one of Daniel's IP's: 76.211.248.38. Note that the Andrew username uploaded the pic Image:World 1945.PNG that the IP added back into the Superpower article[8] and the Andrew username had also been editing a Russia related article [9] as the IP did[10]. Also the location of the IP is consistent with being in California and near San Francisco[11]. Gdo01 22:46, 19 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Conclusions

All the socks have been blocked already. Closing. --Akhilleus (talk) 20:01, 20 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]