Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Agunter999/Archive

30 June 2012

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Agunter999 was blocked indefinitely for "Disruptive editing: edit history nothing but edit warring, POV content forking, talk page vandalism". He has evaded his block and making the same style edits in military equipment lists much like the master account. He's fond of adding neutral countries and weapons which have nothing to do with the list subject. Nboix97 is a SPA account that appeared and re-added the neutral country Spain to a list where it doesn't belong. Although the connection between the two similarly named accounts is obvious, I'm requesting checkuser to confirm socking with the other named account and check for sleeper accounts. — Berean Hunter   (talk)  12:21, 30 June 2012 (UTC) — Berean Hunter   (talk)  12:29, 30 June 2012 (UTC)
 * Added IP as I think he has just patted himself on the back.

Agunter998 continues the disruptive behaviour of the recently indef blocked Agunter999 at List of common World War II infantry weapons (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_common_World_War_II_infantry_weapons&curid=430875&diff=500079613&oldid=500079471), making the exact same additions that Agunter999 had previously been warned for. Even though he apparently realized that doing so wasn't a smart thing to do, since he promptly reverted his own additions. But then creating a sock puppet named Agunter998 when you've been indef blocked as Agunter999 isn't smart either. Thomas.W (talk) 19:19, 30 June 2012 (UTC)

— Berean Hunter   (talk)  11:01, 1 July 2012 (UTC)
 * A new alias seems to have popped up, Davfox9999, editing the exakt same pages as Agunter999. Thomas.W (talk) 10:08, 1 July 2012 (UTC)
 * Yes, that's him reappearing after his Agunter998 account was blocked yesterday. He's editing the same.

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Agunter998 & Davfox9999 are ducks, and both indef-blocked and tagged. 92.25.114.138 looks likely, but has made only one trivial edit of no importance. 188.63.223.206 is very possible, but not obvious. 93.30.39.177 has not edited since the master was blocked, so even if it is the same person I'm not sure there's a problem. Nboix97 has not edited since 4 June, but looks possible. However, a checkuser would be helpful, especially for sleepers. The three IPs geolocate to three different European countries, and I can see no evidence that any of them is a proxy, though of course they may be. JamesBWatson (talk) 13:27, 1 July 2012 (UTC)
 * - And a sweep for sleepers. Dennis Brown - 2&cent;    &copy;  01:16, 1 July 2012 (UTC)
 * ✅; for, with taking an obvious nap.  They are all pretty distinctive, but coming all over at least four very large ranges from a major ISP.  They'll be pretty easy to confirm once spotted, but finding them pre-emptively is unfeasable.  &mdash; Coren (talk) 15:31, 2 July 2012 (UTC)
 * All accounts blocked and tagged. Ready to close. JamesBWatson (talk) 17:49, 2 July 2012 (UTC)

04 July 2012

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 * already indef blocked, added later.


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Three new possible sock puppets for Agunter999. Their only contributions so far are expressing support for Agunter999's indefinitely blocked alias Davfox9999 on Talk:List_of_common_World_War_II_infantry_weapons and creating Talk:Wwii_equipment, the name of a page that was deleted when the alias Davfox9999 was blocked. And both IP addresses are British (Opal-Net), just like Agunter999. Thomas.W (talk) 16:18, 4 July 2012 (UTC)

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@Berean Hunter: He has also tried to recreate the page that was deleted when Agunter999 was blocked (Talk:Wwii equipment), which is why I reported it. See delete log ( http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ALog&type=delete&user=MuZemike&page=&year=2012&month=7&tagfilter= ) 4 July 2012 18:20. Thomas.W (talk) 14:31, 5 July 2012 (UTC)

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— Berean Hunter   (talk)  13:48, 5 July 2012 (UTC) — Berean Hunter   (talk)  13:20, 6 July 2012 (UTC)
 * - because the link between the accounts is obvious. I saw the appearance of this account yesterday and technically he is socking but I would have waited until he resorts to his disruptive behavior before pursuing it. At the time of this decline, he has only commented on the talk page.
 * Since he has now tried to recreate the same page as Agunter999, I agree that he should be blocked for block evasion and continued sockpuppetry.

Blocked and tagged. --MuZemike 23:49, 10 July 2012 (UTC)

14 September 2012

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Shows the same behaviour in every way as Agunter999, ignores both friendly advice and warnings on his talk page, presses ahead with unreferenced changes to a large number of articles (well over 500 unreferenced edits in just over a week) without consulting anyone or discussing the matter on talk pages, resulting in massive clean-up operations afterwards. Thomas.W (talk) 20:12, 14 September 2012 (UTC)


 * I can add that he makes the exact same grammatical errors and spelling errors as Agunter999 (example Google9999: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk%3AThomas.W&diff=512693639&oldid=512633993 and Agunter999: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk%3AAgunter999&diff=499930659&oldid=499646758 ). So he both walks like a duck and quacks like a duck... Thomas.W (talk) 17:53, 15 September 2012 (UTC)

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Let me point out one thing I do not spell that badly and a do not do edits that are pointless and are inaccurate. I did not set out to vanderlise. Sorry about putting this here I didn't know where to put it And by the way this is not my IP address its not my computer so do not block. Thank you Agunter999 Sorry

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— Berean Hunter   (talk)  00:22, 18 September 2012 (UTC)
 * - The provided evidence is a little too thin for my liking, but looking at the actual edits, there is definitely some overlap between the two named accounts. The similar grammar editors is not necessarily a tell, as there are many non-native english speakers on the site, but there's some overlap with the articles that have been edited, and similar communications on the filers talk page. The check is endorsed for the named accounts only.  Steven   Zhang  Help resolve disputes! 22:26, 15 September 2012 (UTC)
 * - I'm sorry guys, but i'm not digging through and making your case for you. Please present diffs with more than just "grammatical errors and spelling errors" (which in the diffs given, are not the same as noted above). One diff from the current suspected sock, and one from a previous sock at least. Thanks guys :) -- DQ  (ʞlɐʇ)  02:28, 16 September 2012 (UTC)
 * Not convinced this is Agunter999 but I do see common misspellings and they both geolocate to same area and similar Sky BB providers. I've blocked Google9999 48 hours for dropping back to sock with the IP after having received warnings. IP 1 month. If this user resumes without providing sources, we will increase block time.