Wikipedia:Suspected sock puppets/Palmer-Ridge

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User:Palmer-Ridge

Suspected sockpuppeteer

Palmer-Ridge (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log)

Suspected sockpuppets

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NatureBoyMD (talk) 01:55, 9 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Evidence

The talk pages of all or most of these accounts are littered with pages containing information about a fictional wrestler (called "Derek Bryan"‎), a fictional pro-wrestling promotion, fictional wrestling shows, etc. The accounts have even made edits to eachother's user talk pages. They have also made edits to other legitimate articles adding the name of their fake wrestler and moves that he performs.

Comments

There is a real "Derek Bryan" that these users vandalized to make the article about the fake wrestler. The vand was reverted, but they later moved from Derek Bryan‎ the article to Bryan Derek Herman (which is also an improper move as the names are in an incorrect order). Until just recently the edits were mostly harmless, as they were only made to thier user pages. I wanted to report them earlier, but didn't becuase I wasn't sure about this process (and I am still unsure as to whether or not I am doing it right).

Conclusions

These just have to be the same person trying to bring their fantasy to life. NatureBoyMD (talk) 01:55, 9 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Comment: I found the move of the real Derek Bryan (an article I started) to Bryan Derek Herman quite outrageous, as that wasn't his name, and today I've moved Bryan Derek Herman on to Derek Bryan (diplomat). At the same time, I moved the new Derek Bryan to Derek Bryan (wrestler), not knowing he was fictional, and set up Derek Bryan as an hndis page. Thank you for anything you can do to control this annoying user. Xn4 14:55, 9 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I'm pretty sure you're all correct; I've just left Palmer-Ridge a note saying that if he keeps up with this he'll be blocked, and will keep an eye on their talk pages for further activity. Tony Fox (arf!) 18:13, 9 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

...and I just found four more. I'm going to get some other admins to look at this and advise. Tony Fox (arf!) 18:18, 9 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

At least 3 of those pages represent GFDL breaches and should be deleted. --Fredrick Dayton (talk) 15:52, 10 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I'm playing whack-a-mole with this bunch; a couple are indef-blocked, a couple are doing edit-stop-edit-stop things, and most are idle. There's a checkuser request in, as well, because I think there's quite a sock farm to be dealt with here. Tony Fox (arf!) 21:33, 11 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Call me harsh (I've been called worse) but none of them are here to contributed to the encyclopaedia, so I've indefinitely blocked the lot. They are almost certainly one and the same person, so hopefully the RFCU will turn up any other socks that haven't been caught above. _GB^T/C 12:47, 12 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

And I've just blocked the other 43 sleepers that the checkuser turned up.