Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Andreisme/Archive

Report date August 20 2009, 22:31 (UTC)

 * Suspected sockpuppets


 * Evidence submitted by Spinningspark

This user confines his/her edits to talk pages and are all unsourced opinions or requests for unsourced additions to articles. While on the face of it, this appears to be good faith, a number of editors have characterised it as disruptive and issued warnings including to Andreisme, on Tesla page, to SWORDINHAND and several including a final warning to PINEAPPLEMAN. All have interests in Southern California (eg Talk:Huntington Beach, California) and electrical inventors, notably Talk:Nikola Tesla. Most of their edits conclude with a characteristic "Thanks!" eg. The user has been warned several times about using multiple accounts, including this message on a talk page of an article known to be frequented by the user (in case he/she is not seeing messages due to switching accounts). The response to all these warnings is invariably the same: not to engage and simply to create a fresh account. Although any one edit can be construed as good faith, the overall effect is to troll the talk pages with the appearance of many editors taking part and to disrupt the running of the encyclopedia by getting editors to chase down all these unsourced claims. I could accept this as good faith if just once the editor would engage but he/she does not. I therefore think a checkuser is justified and the underlying IP should be blocked.  Sp in ni ng  Spark  22:31, 20 August 2009 (UTC)


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 * Comments by other users

Requested by  Sp in ni ng  Spark  22:31, 20 August 2009 (UTC)
 * CheckUser requests


 * NW ( Talk ) 22:38, 20 August 2009 (UTC)


 * Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments

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 * Conclusions

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Given my success (or lack thereof) on the last case similar to this, I'm going to ask that another CU to confirm (or reject) my results before any blocks are made. J.delanoy gabs adds 04:17, 21 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Dominic said my results looked OK. J.delanoy gabs adds  04:38, 21 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Does that mean I am free to block these guys?  Sp in ni ng  Spark  19:55, 21 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Yes. Brandon (talk) 01:32, 22 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Tagged. Closing. NW ( Talk ) 19:57, 22 August 2009 (UTC)

Evidence submitted by Adolphus79
Just a few more obvious sockpuppets of ... - Adolphus79 (talk) 18:31, 18 October 2009 (UTC)

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Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments
Blocked them all. This was obvious, as the socking editor was kind enough to sign most of his entries in exactly the same fashion. Can we get a CU on underlying IP's? Hiberniantears (talk) 03:52, 19 October 2009 (UTC)


 * the checkuser to check for the IPs, per Hiberniantears. NW ( Talk ) 19:10, 19 October 2009 (UTC)

Conclusions

 * The following account is likely related to those above.

While all of the The IP ranges used are varied, I will try a rangeblock for a while and see if collateral damage may require it being lifted. The range blocked will be one used exclusively by this vandal; other ranges may have too much collateral damage. -- Avi (talk) 16:53, 20 October 2009 (UTC)


 * All accounts listed blocked and tagged. NW ( Talk ) 02:18, 21 October 2009 (UTC)

Evidence submitted by Hu12

 * Same pattern as the others in this case, even hit some of the same Talkpages.
 * Category:Wikipedia sockpuppets of Anonmoi
 * Probably more lurking. Thanks --Hu12 (talk) 07:23, 11 January 2010 (UTC)

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Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments
Requested by Hu12 (talk) 07:23, 11 January 2010 (UTC)

– even though it's likely that WP:DUCK applies, I think there might be some other sleepers out there, given the sporadic range of talk pages edited. –MuZemike 08:19, 12 January 2010 (UTC)

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All of these are either blocked, globally locked, or both. J.delanoy gabs adds 23:39, 12 January 2010 (UTC)


 * Note: Please see Sockpuppet_investigations/Anonmoi/Archive for related case. -- B s a d o w s k i 1   01:37, 13 January 2010 (UTC)

Report date March 12 2010, 21:16 (UTC)

 * Suspected sockpuppets

Couple of new accounts with similar names echoing Andreisme's past behaviour of doing nothing but posting vague "Didn't I hear...?" questions at Talk:Nikola Tesla and other articles. McGeddon (talk) 21:16, 12 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Evidence submitted by McGeddon (talk)


 * Comments by accused parties    See Defending yourself against claims.


 * Comments by other users

. Peter Symonds ( talk ) 22:57, 14 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments


 * Conclusions


 * ✅ The two named socks match other socks of this sockmaster. The sockmaster himself is stale. -- Versa geek  23:36, 14 March 2010 (UTC)

Peter <b style="color:#02b;">Symonds</b> ( talk ) 23:38, 14 March 2010 (UTC)

29 January 2011

 * Suspected sockpuppets


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Has Andre in it which has occasionaly been a MO for him, A different sockpuppet WINNERMOI that I welcomed was also on very recently blocked.

Thebirdlover (talk) 22:51, 29 January 2011 (UTC)

Did I go in without enough evidence?

--Thebirdlover (talk) 00:23, 30 January 2011 (UTC)

The original account had regular capitalization, but I understand your reasoning. Want me to withdraw the sockpuppet template?

--Thebirdlover (talk) 02:28, 30 January 2011 (UTC)

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Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * User above. Sleeper check only. This user only has an account creation against him or her, I don't see the behavoir in just having that name. --  DQ  (t)   (e)  00:08, 30 January 2011 (UTC)
 * It's not his username pattern. His pattern is using capital letters for his username and using "MOI" or "ANDRE", and other ones. --Bsadowski1 01:39, 30 January 2011 (UTC)


 * -- Avi (talk) 06:01, 1 February 2011 (UTC)


 * Very well. -- DQ  (t)   (e)  11:14, 1 February 2011 (UTC)