Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Alonsornunez/Archive

Report date March 4 2009, 22:09 (UTC)

 * Suspected sockpuppets

For the last week, Alonsornunez has been disrupting various tennis-related articles, including Serena Williams, Venus Williams, and Women's Tennis Association. His disruptions include edit warring, deleting huge of amounts of information despite the opposition of editors, ignoring WP:Consensus, ignoring WP:BRD, unilaterally declaring that consensus has been reached when it clearly has not, repeatedly making data in articles inconsistent with the sources cited in those articles (in violation of Wikipedia policy) even after his policy violations have been pointed out to him several times, and blatant dishonesty.
 * Evidence submitted by Tennis expert (talk)

The pattern of his disruption is almost identical to that of Musiclover565/Whitenoise 123. On August 10, 2008, IP account 92.1.164.122 admitted to administrator ADK (who has since left Wikipedia) that 92.1.164.122 was both Musiclover565 and Whitenoise123. ADK attempted to rehabilitate Musiclover565/Whitenoise123 and make him a valuable editor. However, Musiclover565/Whitenoise123 abandoned the effort, i.e., never agreed to ADK's terms, and resumed editing under anonymous IP accounts and the registered accounts of Alonsornunez, 03md, and Monokaea (perhaps others) while denying that the latter accounts had any connection to Musiclover565/Whitenoise123. Musiclover565/Whitenoise123 were highly disruptive, as the following administrators' noticeboard links show: (1), (2), (3), (4), (5), (6), (7). See also this. And Musiclover565/Whitenoise123 apparently have recently resumed vandalizing Wikipedia, e.g., this.

The evidence that Musiclover565/Whitenoise123 is operating Alonsornunez, 03md, and Monokaea is clear. Alonsornunez, 03md, Monokaea, and various "92" IP accounts have edited obscure tennis articles with little to know involvement by other editors, sometimes within minutes of each other. They also have made edits to a diverse subject matter of articles, which is very unlikely to be coincidental. The following are some examples: 2008 Masters France - Draw: edits by 03md and 92.4.76.105 within 3 minutes of each other on February 2, 2009 2009 Open GDF Suez - Singles: edits by 03md and Monokaea on February 12-13, 2009 2009 Pattaya Women's Open: edits by 03md, Monokaea, and 92.11.240.102 on February 14, 2009 57th Academy Awards nominees and winners: edits by 03md and 92.4.0.45 on February 8, 2009 FA Cup 2008–09: edits by 03md and 92.4.76.105 on January 3-4, 2009 List of number-one singles from the 2000s (UK): edits by 03md and 92.4.0.45 on February 8, 2009 Popstars The Rivals: edits by 03md and 92.4.76.105 on February 25, 2009, and December 27, 2008 Serena Williams: edits by Alonsornunez, Monokaea, and 92.40.208.210 during 2009 Template:1987 Nabisco Grand Prix: edits by 03md and 92.4.0.45 in mid-February 2009 Template:2009 WTA Tour: edits by Monokaea and 03md during February 2009 Thomas Muster: edits by Alonsornunez and 92.17.140.166 during 2009 Venus Williams: edits by Alonsornunez, 92.40.208.210, and Monokaea during January and February, 2009 Women's Tennis Association: edits by 03md and Alonsornunez during January and February, 2009 WTA Premier Tournaments: edits by Alonsornunez and Monokaea during February 2009 Maria Sharapova, Women's Tennis Association: both Alonsornunez and various "92" IP accounts have shown an intense interest in making sure that International Tennis Federation results are not counted in Wikipedia articles. See (1), (2), (3), (4), (5).

Tennis expert (talk) 22:09, 4 March 2009 (UTC)

Since the checkuser request was endorsed by the clerk on March 5, editing by the following new IP sockpuppets has occurred: Tennis expert (talk) 18:45, 10 March 2009 (UTC)

Since the checkuser request was endorsed by the clerk on March 5, 03md has admitted on my discussion page to using 92.4.76.105, which is clearly a sockpuppet of Musiclover565/Whitenoise123. Therefore, 03md also is a sockpuppet. Tennis expert (talk) 16:50, 11 March 2009 (UTC)

Since the checkuser request was endorsed by the clerk on March 5, I have found additional evidence that 03md is a sockpuppet of Musiclover565/Whitenoise123. See this edit by IP user 92.4.68.148 of a user subpage of 03md. Tennis expert (talk) 11:13, 14 March 2009 (UTC)


 * Comments by accused parties    See Defending yourself against claims.

I just wanted to add a brief note stating that I believe that this argument has been made in bad faith. Tennis Expert has repeated edit-warred with me and reverted and contested any changes I have made regardless of change or location (at one point editing a change I had made to a Prince song for apparently no other reason than I had made it). I also believe this to be made in bad faith as this was recorded during a period of intense edit-warring and blind reverting on Tennis User's part and a seemingly malicious call for deletion of a page which was not given a chance to be edited or commented on by other editors (see Williams Sisters rivalry) He has also, breaking the good faith policy, repeated accused me of being other people and pointing to understanding "obscure" Wikipedia policy (such as GA, BRD, et al.) as evidence of this. I believe I have always tried to remain level-headed and have on numerous cases kindly asked him to refrain. I am certain that the findings will show that none of these IPs are operated by me, or that this account is operated by them. As a new user I am unsure if there is anything more required of me during this time for this investigation but if any administrator or clerk has any questions please feel free to ask me. Alonsornunez (talk) 17:17, 6 March 2009 (UTC)


 * Comments by other users

Requested by Tennis expert (talk) 22:09, 4 March 2009 (UTC)
 * CheckUser requests
 * - Though I do not see what community ban/sanction the above accounts are evading. Tiptoety  talk 20:00, 5 March 2009 (UTC)


 * Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments
 * Viewing and compiling all the WHOIS information regarding the IP addresses, they all are part of the 'Carphone Warehouse Broadband Services' registered range. The IPs geolocate to either:
 * Chester, England
 * London, England
 * Birmingham, England
 * Glasgow, Scotland
 * Colchester, England
 * Stockport, England
 * Or nowhere, i.e. no geolocation information.
 * My thinking is that the geolocation is incorrect or outdated (my ISP habitually assigns me IPs from states 100s of kilometers from my location) and it is the same user, either intentionally or unintentionally (ISP has fast DHCP). Foxy Loxy  Pounce! 07:04, 22 March 2009 (UTC)


 * No conclusive evidence of socking. Closing. KnightLago (talk) 00:00, 31 March 2009 (UTC)


 * Conclusions

--Deskana (talk) 16:34, 23 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Alonsornunez is unrelated to all accounts linked above.
 * It is possible, but unlikely, that 03md and Monokaea are related to each other. They are both using dynamic IPs, some of which have previously been used by administrators.
 * Given the nature of British IPs have notably inaccurate geolocations, I can reveal that 03md has been editing while logged out on a great number of the IPs listed above. Whether or not this against our policies is not for me to decide.