Wikipedia:Suspected sock puppets/Dodgechris (2nd)

The following discussion is an archived debate of the case of suspected sockpuppetry. Please do not modify it. No further edits should be made to this page. All edits should go to the talk page of this case. If you are seeing this page as a result of an attempt to open a new case of sockpuppetry of the same user, read this for detailed instructions.

User:Dodgechris (2nd)

Suspected sockpuppeteer

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

Suspected sock puppets

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

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Frickative 23:27, 25 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Evidence

User:Notdoppler first began contributing the day after Dodgechris made his final edit, having been indef banned for a second time].
Notdoppler's contribution history show's that he edits almost solely Coronation Street related articles on a highly frequent basis, as did Dodgechris. Prior to Dodgechris joining Wikipedia, and in the brief lull before the Notdoppler account began editing heavily, these articles received much less traffic, and were edited noticeably far more infrequently.
Notdoppler has stated his intent to nominate the Molly Compton article for deletion [1], something which Dodgechris did twice in two months, despite its content being on very much the same level as almost all other Coronation Street character articles.
Notdoppler's contribution history shows that he spends a great deal of time merging, unmerging, redirecting and unredirecting various Coronation Street articles, something which Dodgechris spent a great deal of editing time doing also, to the extent that even he clearly can't keep track of his own edits [2].
Despite editing almost nothing but Coronation Street articles, Notdoppler is almost the sole contributor to the article List of Horrid Henry characters [3], and has also edited the main Horrid Henry article [4]. Prior to being indef banned, Dodgechris would also often edit Horrid Henry related articles [5] (User:PAWSFORSPORT, User:Killerboyratz and User:Chesseman,ganster rabbit here are all confirmed and blocked sock accounts of Dodgechris), and listed Horrid Henry as an interest on the userpage of various sock accounts.
Notdoppler's first direct contact with me was to leave praise on my talkpage [6], a tactic Dodgechris previously emplyoed with his sock account User:Kingsausages [7], presumably hoping I'd be so flattered I wouldn't notice it was clearly still Dodgechris...
And while it's less conclusive, just reading talk pages both the Dodgechris and Notdoppler accounts have contributed to [8] [9] demonstrates a similarly poor grasp of spelling, punctuation, and the same inability to correctly format a comment thread. Frickative 23:27, 25 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Comments

One other point that may be worth noting is that Notdoppler has already informally strongly denied the claims made against him on Frickative's talk page. The same denial was also spoken of by Dodgechris as one of his unblock reasons on the old account here, but decided to later own up and admit lying. This behaviour of denial seems similar in both instances. Bungle ^{(talk • contribs)} 09:18, 26 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
All seems fairly conclusive; at the moment i'm chasing the suspected sock around the wiki; he keeps creating blatantly non-notable corrie pages. Recommend checkuser to confirm, simply because if it IS dodgechris I doubt he'll openly admit it this time around. Ironholds 10:53, 26 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Notdoppler has already been checked, and, came up Unrelated, here, at RFCU. SQL^{Query me!} 19:46, 26 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  - I checked with the admin responsible for blocking Dodgechris, who said that the negative checkuser result was no reason not to open a sockpuppet case. I was willing to assume good faith after the checkuser result, but over the past few weeks its become increasingly clear that the two are the same editor. Frickative 20:22, 26 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
    - I didn't say the case was without merit, I was just pointing out that he was checked recently, and, relaying the results. SQL^{Query me!} 20:36, 26 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
      - Aha, sorry, thank you for clearing that up :) Frickative 20:43, 26 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
User:Notdoppler has today created an article for the school he says he attends in Leicestershire [10], where User:Dodgechris also reportedly lives [11]. Frickative 22:07, 1 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Conclusions

This edit where Notdoppler admits the sockpuppetry seals the case. Already indef blocked. Kevin (talk) 00:34, 4 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]