Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Andreas Balart/Archive

Evidence submitted by Icallbs
The article Catalonia has been suffering nationalist vandalism by Andreas Balart, who recently stopped editing. Now, another user called Eva Grossjean has appeared and edits the article in the same way. Both vandalize the same article with the same contributions, and both make the same typo when writing the edit summary: byass instead of biass. Icallbs (talk) 18:57, 14 July 2010 (UTC)

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Comments by other users
Question - It says at the top this investigation is open. I admit I am unclear as to the meaning of that... are these two accounts directly related, or not? Jusdafax  22:58, 16 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Note that Eva Grossjean was |indef blocked today. It it is proved that this is the same user, using a sock, then I ask that the Andreas Balart identity be indef blocked as well, and that we start taking a look at a community ban at ANI.  Jusdafax   16:59, 16 July 2010 (UTC)
 * There hasn't been a conclusive decision one way or the other. They're still investigating. Swarm Talk 00:12, 17 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Thanks, standing by. Jusdafax  01:17, 17 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Blocked, was quite WP:DUCKey. NativeForeigner Talk/Contribs 06:15, 18 July 2010 (UTC)

Evidence submitted by Ian.thomson
This is pretty much the same stuff I saw do. Here, she starts calling Icallbs a Spanish nationalist, talking just like Eva. Here she demonstrates previous knowledge of him. Generally foul behavior, if you ask me. Ian.thomson (talk) 19:39, 18 July 2010 (UTC)

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Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments
Blocked and tagged. –MuZemike 00:16, 19 July 2010 (UTC)

Evidence submitted by Jeff G.
Please see these explanations (reproduced below) at User talk:Dexxterious and check for more sleepers. —  Jeff G. ツ  11:35, 16 August 2010 (UTC)

Accusations by User:Maurice27
I suspect this user to be a sockpuppet of blocked account User:Andreas Balart.

His/her contributions at Catalonia are pretty much the same (Removing the Coat of Arms from the article) that other confirmed sockpuppets like User:Peter Punkie, User:Chemitaxx and of course, User:Andreas Balart

Could some admin please block him/her?

Thanks, cheers. --   MauritiusXXVII  (  Aut Disce, Aut Doce, Aut Discede!  ). 10:43, 16 August 2010 (UTC)


 * In addition: as another proof, the user behind this sockpuppet has been editing the very same article (Vueling Arlines, multiple times: as Dexxterious, or Andreas Balart --    MauritiusXXVII  (  Aut Disce, Aut Doce, Aut Discede!  )   . 11:16, 16 August 2010 (UTC)

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These accusations are merely circumstancial and based on the fact that, looking into Catalonia's changes pages, I found some contributions that obviously made sense to me. One of the author was N-HH (his contributions had been subretitiously deleted without any good reason by two other contributors, one Icallbs and another, ehem... MauritiusXXVII), while some others had been contributed by a peppering of writers, for instance one Eva Grossjean (are N-HH and Eva Grossjean also Andreas Balart, I wonder?). Given their apparent validity, I decided therefore to put these ideas back into circulation.


 * (By the way, I have gone back many weeks in contributions to Catalonia and found no Andreas Balart there, so I stand accused of sockpuppeting someone I did not even have the chance to read, or follow. This Andreas Balart, on the other hand, might have abused WP --honestly, I do not know the case-- but having him blocked out would not necessarily unwarrant some of his contributions and/or ideas. At leat this is my POW, where the contribution is far more important than where does it come from).

Nor can I be accused of obssesion. Over the las 72h I've created no less than 7 articles for WP:


 * Zurich Cantonal Bank
 * Banque de Luxembourg (it was merely a stub on the bank's headquarters' architectural style)
 * Seal of the Generalitat de Catalunya
 * punto. (which upon recommendation of an admin I took under the fold of the general Vueling page)
 * Aeroports de Catalunya
 * Edward Hugh
 * Mercado Alternativo Bursátil

That's banking, heraldic/design, air transport, economics, and the stock exchange.

Did this Andreas Balart MauritiusXXVII mentions work on all these articles too? I don't know, as I don't have access to his records, but following MauritiusXXVII's "evidence" does not look like. Otherwise, he would have mentioned it in order to nail me.

Plus, I've made changes to several air transport pages: Adria Airways, Ryanair, Aena. I like planes, I like finance, and I like Catalan culture. Will I be blocked on the basis of my personal tastes?

Dexxterious (talk) 12:08, 16 August 2010 (UTC)

Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments
, as I already blocked Dexxterious per WP:DUCK; marking as closed. –MuZemike 19:02, 18 August 2010 (UTC)