Wikipedia:Requests for checkuser/Case/98E

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I can't help but see a striking similarity between the editing habits of banned User:98E and the currently active User:Rappingwonders. This report is not meant to be an "attack" on Rappingwonders but it's to ensure 98E isn't evading a ban. The bold headings state the similar editing patterns. Spellcast (talk) 02:25, 30 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Uploading images of these musicians and their song covers

T-Pain

• From User:98E: Image:Tpainjam.jpg

• From User:Rappingwonders: Image:Tpaincropped.png, Image:T-Pain Rappa Ternt Sanga.jpg, Image:Buyuadrank.jpg, Image:Bartendervinyl.jpg, Image:Rappaterntback.jpg

Akon

• From User:98E: Image:Akon.PNG, Image:Akon Image.jpg, Image:Akon CD Mr Lonely.jpg.
• From User:Rappingwonders: Image:Akon2007.jpg, Image:Akonperforms.jpg, Image:Akonghettoback.jpg, Image:Akon-SmackThat.jpg, Image:AkonTrouble.jpg, Image:Troubledeluxe.jpg

50 Cent:

• From User:98E: Image:50cent.JPEG, Image:50 Cent Performing.jpeg

• From User:Rappingwonders: Image:50centcropped.png

If it's a picture of the musician, they add a caption in this format: "<artist name> performing".

• From User:98E: [1]

• From User:Rappingwonders: See the captions of any image at Wikipedia:Possibly unfree images/2008 January 27#Image:Fat-joe.jpg.

Claiming to have taken questionably free images

• From User:98E: [2], [3]

• From User:Rappingwonders: [4], [5], [6]

Requesting images be resized to 150px: [7], [8]

Editing images using MS Paint: [9], [10]

Creating or editing categories by adding a fair-use image gallery

• From User:98E: created Category:Images of living people in music videos and Category:Crash Bandicoot images

• From User:Rappingwonders: created Category:Images of rappers

Both revert the first time someone adds a "__nogallery__" tag to nonfree image categories.[11], [12]

Both know a "__nogallery__" tag is added to categories if all images are nonfree.[13], [14]

Both say it's ok to remove the "__nogallery__" tag if one image is free.[15], [16]

Similar userpages

• Both claim to be born in 1987.[17], [18]

• Both claim to like hip hop, R&B, pop, South Park, Family Guy, Pokemon, and Tony Hawk video games.[19], [20], [21]. Also note User:79Bottles' userpage (a sock of 98E) showing Image:Thugbox.jpg with a caption saying "Cover of my favourite video game."[22]

• User:79Bottles said his favorite song is "Give It to Me" by Timbaland. [23] User:Rappingwonders' first edit was uploading that song's cover.[24]

Similar style of headings and sentences in userpage

• From User:98E: "Free use images I like"[25]

• From User:Rappingwonders: "Songs I think should be on NOW 27" or "Articles about albums or singles I've helped by uploading their cover image or uploading a lower resolution cover",[26]

• From User:Super48 (sock of 98E): "Above is a list of pages I've reverted in the last 24 hours, and the time of reverting".[27]

Continually creating similar-style redirects

• From User:98E: 1, 2, 3, 4.

• From User:Rappingwonders: 1, 2, 3, 4.

Possible vandalism

User:98E was obviously disruptive. One of his suspected socks, User:PitOfBristol1973, edited Lindsay Lohan with a false edit summary. This could be compared to these series of diffs by User:RappingWonders on Sean Kingston (both could've purposely used a false edit summary to add possible vandalism).

Regarding RappingWonders' first edits, it's unusual for a newbie to be familiar with adding fair-use rationales. I don't want to accuse an unrelated person but the last thing we want is 98E to be active. Spellcast (talk) 02:25, 30 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

 Possible verging on  Likely based on identical ISP and similar geographical location. Dmcdevit·t 05:34, 1 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

If there's no other comments, I'll block the likely sock. I can give more evidence if anyone wants, but I think those diffs are adequate enough. Especially with the ISP and location, this can't be a massive coincidence from two unrelated people. Spellcast (talk) 15:17, 1 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I've blocked the account. I would've waited longer but another user tagged Rappingwonders' user page with a sock tag. He still would've been blocked either way. Spellcast (talk) 15:46, 1 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]