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User:Bremskraft[edit]

Suspected sockpuppeteer

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

Suspected sockpuppets

Urgeback (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log)
Ladeda76 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log)
RebelAcademics (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log)
Sliat 1981 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log)

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Spartaz ^Humbug! 23:08, 6 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Evidence

Following Bremskraft's 3RR [1] block RebelAcademics and Ladeda76 weighed in on his behalf and got autoblocked. [2] & [3]. Ladeda76 claims they are living together. Sliat1981 gets himself blocked for image abuse [4] and Bremskraft & Urgeback get caught in that autoblock and all 3 use the same malformed unblock request. [5]. Bremskraft doesn't know the others by this stage but Urgeback does [6].

Given the correlation between these users, similarities of unblock requests, conflicting admissons of who knows who when and the suggestion that 5 people share one computer in one household; I'd say that the case of meat/sockpuppetry is fairly conclusive.

I have blocked all accounts indef until more credible explanations arise. I have raised this SSP for information and review. Spartaz ^Humbug! 23:08, 6 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Comments

It's obvious that Ladeda76 and RebelAcademics are throwaway socks of Bremskraft (the accounts were created just after that 3rr warning). The other three are unclear. First, Bremskraft doesn't appear to have any editing in common with Urgeback and Sliat1981. Tracing Bremskraft back to his/her first edit indicates what his/her IP address was [7], but it's not static, as there's a similar IP now [8], but this one strangely traces back to Louisiana. In any case, they aren't the same IP as that claimed by Sliat in unblock requests here. In fact, that IP traces back to California, not Nevada. What's more, Bremskraft's auto-unblock request had the wrong block reason for him to have gotten caught in Sliat's block [9].

I think there are perhaps two groups here. Bremskraft and the two obvious meatpuppets are one group. Urgeback and Sliat are the other group. Urgeback and Sliat share an interest in Australian football and may be the same person. Urgeback's light edit history is at least consistent with an alternate account and these two edits are similar [10] [11].--Chaser - T 01:52, 7 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Conclusions

I've ran some checks on this, and there are indeed two batches, Sliat and Urgeback are different from the others. Voice-of-All 23:15, 10 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you VOA, I'm unblocking Urgeback now and reviewing the block of Bremskraft. Spartaz ^Humbug! 23:26, 10 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

• Bremskraft has now been unblocked but I have left the block on Ladeda76 and RebelAcademics until is it shown that they are not Bremskraft socks or meatpuppets. Spartaz ^Humbug! 23:35, 10 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I think this is a fair resolution.--Chaser - T 00:31, 11 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

• No further action seems needed, so let's close this. --Akhilleus (talk) 17:24, 16 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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