Wikipedia:Requests for checkuser/Case/Maleabroad

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Maleabroad (4th request)



 * Code letter: C, F

Reasons: More delving will be helpful here, but I think I've stumbled onto an seemingly endless pit of socks of Maleabroad. If they're not Maleabroad, they still feel very much like all the same person -- same accusations of vandalism when edits are challenged, same aggressiveness, same nasty attitude. I only went a couple levels deep; it just seems so blatant I didn't trust my own judgment. --jpgordon&#8711;&#8710;&#8711;&#8710; 16:44, 10 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Unless you still have CheckUser data for this user, could you provide a userlink for a more recent Maleabroad sock? That seems like the only way to establish a technical connection between these users and Maleabroad. Nishkid64 (Make articles, not wikidrama) 17:52, 10 August 2008 (UTC)
 * I don't have any Maleabroad data; however, another editor noted that one of these seemed to be Maleabroad, so I took a look. I'd been involved in a content dispute with one of them, hence passing it off to some other CU. --jpgordon&#8711;&#8710;&#8711;&#8710; 19:30, 10 August 2008 (UTC)
 * From a cursory glance, it appears that is the most recent suspected sock of Maleabroad. Nishkid64 (Make articles, not wikidrama) 17:59, 10 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Now as a non-clerk, I must admit that the editing pattern of some of the aforementioned users is very similar to that of Maleabroad. Even if CheckUser determines otherwise, I think there's sufficient contribution evidence to determine sockpuppetry. Nishkid64 (Make articles, not wikidrama) 17:59, 10 August 2008 (UTC)


 * ✅ all, plus and  are the same user. Whether or not they are Maleabroad seems a technical quibble at best.  Thatcher 23:05, 10 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Based on a second source of information, these editors are connected with the same institution and the same /24 range as Maleabroad was using a year and a half ago. Make of that what you will. Thatcher 23:12, 10 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Good enough for me, blocked all. is a non-existent user. The actual username was ; could you check that one as well? Nishkid64 (Make articles, not wikidrama) 23:26, 10 August 2008 (UTC)
 * That's confirmed as well. Thatcher 00:49, 11 August 2008 (UTC)

Maleabroad (3rd request)





 * Code letter: C, F

Reasons:
 * Similar pattern of contributions on a multitude of pages with POV pushing (including creation of new POV fork article Hindu (Culture), deleted after AFD), similar edit summaries (accusing other editors of jealousy, saying that there is no consensus for reversion etc)
 * Some of the socks have uploaded images such as and these (which incidentally are copyvios with incorrect tags), which are then added to articles by other socks.
 * User:Redtigerxyz1 has taken a name deceptively similar to User:Redtigerxyz (a editor in good standing) and then edited the same article Ganesha beyond Hinduism.
 * Further discussions on these incidents can be found here,  here, here, here, here and here.
 * There are many other suspected socks of User:Maleabroad listed in  this category and many of them are unblocked; it will be useful if CU could ferret out more and some admin could block them. Abecedare 17:11, 21 March 2007 (UTC)


 * Further evidence: recreated article Hindu (Culture) that was a product of three other socks of Maleabroad, and was deleded after an AFD discussion. Abecedare 17:37, 21 March 2007 (UTC)


 * . --jpgordon&#8711;&#8710;&#8711;&#8710; 20:48, 21 March 2007 (UTC)


 * Jpgordon, can you please clarify if "Unnecessary" means that the above listed accounts can be treated as confirmed socks of Melabroad based on the presented evidence and hence blocked. I ask because, User:Randomatom001 has been disputing (or rather demanding evidence that he is a sock :-) ) and I wanted to be certain myself, before responding and requesting a block. Thanks. Abecedare 21:41, 21 March 2007 (UTC)
 * It's unnecessary because you've provided enough information to demonstrate that they're socks without checkuser helping. But since you asked, I ran the full thing, and every one of them (with the exception of Omkar Y) are on the same college network. --jpgordon&#8711;&#8710;&#8711;&#8710; 21:54, 21 March 2007 (UTC)
 * Thanks Josh. I'll try to keep Maleabroad requests to a minimum, although I dare say his socks will be with us for a long time, especially since range block of college IPs is infeasible. Regards. Abecedare 22:18, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

Maleabroad (2nd request)





 * Code letter: F

Reasons:
 * 1) User account was created after previous sockpuppets of User:Maleabroad were blocked.
 * 2) User's edit summaries are very similar to those used by Maleabroad and puppets (eg ).
 * 3) User edits same topics as Maleabroad (although this is a bit of a stretch - it's a broad range).
 * 4) User account name follows pattern of previous sock puppet accounts by Maleabroad (TypeEditor1, Flourescent1, Draft1, Spectral01 for example).

Maleabroad was blocked by consensus for POV-pushing, edit warring, sock puppetry and so on (see ), hence the code letter F. Orpheus 08:11, 6 March 2007 (UTC)

Additional info: Primary (Maleabroad) account hasn't been used for a while. Most recent one was (already blocked).

The Uninvited Co., Inc. 21:52, 6 March 2007 (UTC)

Maleabroad



 * Code letter: C
 * Code letter: C
 * Code letter: C

Please compare edit summaries. User:Reversionist also recreated article Brahmin Contributions to Other Religions that User:Maleabroad (and hos sockpuppets, such as User:HinduDefender) edited/created under various names. See also Gautama_the_Hindu Abecedare 00:54, 17 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Comment - When editing from IP addresses, this user always comes from the 136.159 subnet. Orpheus 01:35, 17 February 2007 (UTC)
 * He is back and has recreated the oft-deleted article Brahmin Contributions to Other Religions, with politer-than-usual edit-summary "re-created article from attacks by jealous vandals :)" Abecedare 00:08, 21 February 2007 (UTC)


 * . Also perhaps

--jpgordon&#8711;&#8710;&#8711;&#8710; 01:38, 17 February 2007 (UTC)


 * Further comment - here are a couple of relevant diffs., , . Orpheus 01:41, 17 February 2007 (UTC)

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