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Guydebordgame
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05 April 2021
[edit]Suspected sockpuppets
[edit]- Exaltedmoon (talk+ · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · spi block · block log · CA · CheckUser(log) · investigate · cuwiki)
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There have been numerous IP only edits to the Ryder Ripps page and only that page, there are several more examples. The main socketpuppet account also has a history of creating pages for Ripps's businesses and family, almost exclusively. Today after further sockpuppetry Guydebordgame has embarked on a vandalism edit war on all the pages I have created, as well as other solid and cited edits. Hesperian Nguyen (talk) 01:34, 5 April 2021 (UTC)
- What I think is that Ryder Ripps uses Guydebordgame (he started his page, his dad's page, and pages for his businesses with this account) and exaltedmoon before, coupled with numerous mobile phone edits with 'IP users' (all from LA, most from Beverly Hills, where he lives and works) to create sense of a consensus, and to try to derail people who want to follow the rules of Wikipedia (e.g. not using social media as citations, which he does *all the time*). This is classic Sockpuppetry and disruptive editing covered up only by his persistent baseless and condescending accusations (e.g. that I uploaded a creative commons photo of a notable artist therefore I am that person, or that I create pages for notable artists only because they are my friends). The guy is a little prince demanding full access to edit his page whenever and however he likes. He's a net artist and a programmer of sorts so is well versed at obfuscating his online trail. Why does it matter? It doesn't that much, but he's a pest – and in my ever so humble opinion an egomaniac – that continues to engage in unprincipled behaviour that runs against Wikipedias standards to meet his own ends. Hesperian Nguyen (talk) 13:48, 14 April 2021 (UTC)
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[edit]- I agree that Exaltedmoon doesn't appear to be the new user they claim to be, and almost certainly has some kind of COI. But they haven't edited in six months, and the IPs are all various levels of inactive as well, so I don't see anything worth doing here. My suggestion is to keep an eye on Ryder Ripps and if the IPs come back, asking on WP:RFPP will certainly be a faster way to arrest the damage than the chronically backed up WP:SPI. I left uw-agf-sock on Guydebordgame's talk page, but I'm going to leave it there for now. -- RoySmith (talk) 21:33, 28 May 2021 (UTC)