Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/7oceans/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets




Following users added after the CheckUser was done; sorry if I messed up here. Rees11 (talk) 01:20, 25 October 2009 (UTC)

Evidence submitted by Atama
What brought about this investigation is the Vivek Kundra article. I was made aware of an edit war at the article by a post at the conflict of interest noticeboard. The post was complaining about a repeated removal of sourced info by an IP (66.171.128.239). The complainant was engaged in a 2-sided edit war and both he and the IP were warned about 3RR. The complainant stopped reverting but the IP continued and was blocked. About an hour and a half after the block, 7oceans made the same content removal and I reverted. He then made the same revert two more times. Having reached the 3RR limit, he didn't revert again, but then a new IP, 173.12.38.241 made the revert again. This article has been a controversial one with a long history of disruption from anonymous and new users (both adding and removing controversial information) and has been semi-protected in the recent past. I worry about sockpuppetry or meatpuppetry because these actions seem too well-coordinated. Also, there appears to be a correlation between edits made by 7oceans and 66.171.128.239 in the history of that article, making similar edits on similar dates and times.

Comments by accused parties
See Defending yourself against claims.

Comments by other users
I've added another IP, from the same Verizon block as the first one, removing the same material. Rees11 (talk) 18:11, 23 October 2009 (UTC)
 * I've added EditorTwo to the list as they too have now removed the same content without any discussion. Smartse (talk) 16:31, 24 October 2009 (UTC)


 * Actually, I provided an explanation for my edits on the discussion page. This is ridiculous - what's up with censoring anyone who offers a different viewpoint?  Maybe I should start an investigation on all users who want to keep this irrelevant and gossipy information? User:EditorTwo  —Preceding undated comment added 16:43, 24 October 2009 (UTC).
 * I have added Author2010 to the list. Rees11 (talk) 23:57, 24 October 2009 (UTC)

Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments

 * Taking this case early as it relates to Sockpuppet investigations/SusanLesch - just completed.


 * ✅ - all of the above, also . I'm including the IPs here as this editor is logging out repeatedly to edit-war on Vivek Kundra and others - A l is o n  ❤ 18:56, 24 October 2009 (UTC)


 * ✅ - also logging out to evade detection:







- A l is o n  ❤ 22:41, 25 October 2009 (UTC)

Conclusions
And welcome back Alison! Peter Symonds ( talk ) 00:13, 26 October 2009 (UTC)