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Long-term and frequent sockpuppeteer who specializes in adding
hoaxes and unverified/poorly-sourced info to a wide variety of articles, and/or creating entire hoax articles, often involving the name "Cody Taylor." Has at least 38 confirmed socks since 2019, as of this report (March 2024), with a further 42 suspected socks. Makes some reasonable-seeming but unnecessary edits, often lacking a source, followed by outright false information.
Targeted areas, pages, themes
Varied over the years from sock to sock, but primarily a few areas:
Frequently adds a "Cody Taylor" (who one can assume to be himself) to
band members,
show casts,
team rosters, etc, and as of early 2024 seems to have begun
adding friends as well. These edits are never backed by reliable sources. He's also attempted to create multiple articles about himself (
Cody Taylor,
Cody Taylor (musician),
Cody Taylor (ice hockey)), which have all been deleted as hoaxes. Often makes grandiose, detailed, and overall false claims about Taylor/himself, such as:
Usually adds unverified, often outright false information without sources, such as here and here. If sources are added, they're normally of poor quality/reliability, such as
Sportskeedahere and
Twitterhere.
As of late 2023, has begun to "back" these hoaxes with nonexistent citations; the book provided here literally does not exist, and the links given here, here, and here all return a "404 – Not Found" page.
Usernames are normally two/three stitched-together words with all initially capitalized, such as SpeakingConsequences, SkatingBoy, UntimelyHouse, ContractUsers, etc. Formerly included "Power" in usernames (TaylorManPower, PowerOfGaming, LionsOfPowerInTheSky). Sometimes includes Taylor (ProTaylorCraft, TaylorManPower, Taylorc013). As of April 2024, has also begun using ATV as a prefix (ATVNorth, ATVSouth, ATVEast).