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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:CenturyRain

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Suspected sockpuppeteer

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

Suspected sockpuppets

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


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Cool Bluetalk to me 17:09, 28 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]


Evidence

One piece of strong evidence is reviewing the contributions of Payapichit and those of CenturyRain. Payapichit repeatedly adds the photo Image:Srirasmi.JPG to the page Srirasmi, in which CenturyRain has made revisions to. They both also have made revisions to Srirasmi and Ploypailin Mahidol Jensen. CenturyRain has also loaded Image:Ploy Jensen.JPG in which CenturyRain added the picture, but Payapichit re-added it when it was removed. Payapichit and CenturyRain have both been adding information to pages about Thai royalty. Both accounts were created within] a few days of eachother. Cool Bluetalk to me 17:09, 28 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Comments
Conclusions

Both CenturyRain and Payapachit appear to be the same user as MKPluto (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log) and FlamingSpear (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log). Compare these edit summaries:

  • User:MKPluto:
    • "Srirasmi at a social function in 1994. I took the photograph myself and recently scanned it and cropped it. I'm releasing it to the public domain"[1]
    • "uploaded "Image:Srirasmi.JPG": Reverted to earlier revision"[2]
  • User:CenturyRain:
    • "Cropped photograph of Ploy Jensen taken at a social function in 2006. I took the photograph myself."[3]
    • "uploaded "Image:Srirasmi.JPG": Reverted to earlier revision"[4] (violates 3RR).

Proabivouac 06:00, 30 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

  • User:FlamingSpear:
    • "Prem Tinsulanonda being received by villagers at an official function in the south. I took this photograph myself and then resized it."[5]
    • "I am a professional photographer. I took this photograph on a trip to the North. I believe in releasing as many of my photographs as possible in the public domain.""[6]

Per Luna Santin, both FlamingSpear and MKPluto claim to have taken Image:Prem.JPG.[7][8] Proabivouac 06:44, 30 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Evidence

I think CenturyRain and MKPluto are the same since they uploaded the same photo Image:Srirasmi.JPG and claimed the ownership. CenturyRain uploaded on 13 July 2007, then it was deleted. MKPluto uploaded again on 26 July 2007; already mentioned above. You might be able to find more info at Admin noticeboard --Manop - TH 06:21, 30 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

05:05, 28 July 2007 MKPluto (Talk | contribs) (393 bytes) ({{hangon}})
05:08, 28 July 2007 FlamingSpear (Talk | contribs) (263 bytes) (←Created page with '==This photograph is public domain== I am a professional photographer. I took this photograph on a trip to the North. I believe in releasing as many of my photogr...')
2T 17:14, 30 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Comments
I'm thinking the owner of those sockpuppets are still active in Wikipedia. Every sockpuppets help Wikipedia by adding {{unreferenced}} and so forth to many articles. See those from CenturyRain, from FramingSpear, and from MKPluto. I'm kind of surprised at first to see those sock know those templates including {{cn}} --Manop - TH 05:25, 31 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Conclusions

It's likely that CenturyRain and Payapichit are sockpuppets of MKPluto/Flaming Spear. There's a Checkuser case on this that's been pending forever, I guess it never got listed. Anyway, all of these accounts are serial violators of image policy, presenting copyrighted work as their own, and then supposedly releasing it into the public domain. I can't see the images they uploaded, but some of their uploads have been considered vandalism. I'm going to indef block all of the accounts. --Akhilleus (talk) 15:42, 22 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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