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Suspected sockpuppets



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APS, as we'll refer to him as here, has gotten into heated disputes over other users such as Jingiby about the names of Balkan ethnicities. There are consensuses about this on Wikipedia which he had refused to abide by, even after several warnings, a community sanctions notice, and a discussion at WP:ANI. During the latter, he disobeyed Wikipedia's policy on WP:OUTING and falsely accused me of conspiring with User:Jingiby.

APS suddenly vanished one day. On the APS account, at least. Thank you for identifying a potential sockpuppet of APS, Gaylordbush69. I'm not sure whether this is a case of one user and multiple accounts, or multiple separate users with similarly nationalist and radical opinions, so I'm requesting CU.


 * Diff for sock: (changing ethnicity names against consensus)
 * Diff for master: (changing ethnicity names against consensus, misusing the term "vandalism") Woshiyiweizhongguoren (🇨🇳) 13:20, 10 April 2019 (UTC)

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 * What's certain is that APS is guilty of some sort of account sock puppetry, not necessarily using Gaylordbush69, as evidenced from the first message on their talk page. Woshiyiweizhongguoren (🇨🇳) 20:13, 10 April 2019 (UTC)
 * Woshiyiweizhongguoren - This doesn't mean anything at all as far as evidence and proof is concerned... It just shows that, at the time, believed that there may be abuse of multiple accounts by this user, and brought the matter to ' attention with a warning. This doesn't validate or confirm anything as true or accurate, and isn't meaningful at all in terms of the need to provide evidence here and have it investigated and determined to be sufficient enough to justify administrative action... If you suspect sock puppetry by but don't know what other accounts that the user may have created and be using against policy, that's not enough for an SPI investigation. There needs to be a list of the other suspected accounts provided, and there needs to be sufficient proof or evidence provided to support the accusations. Your SPI report here was fine; it provided everything required and you provided evidence and proof in good faith. :-) However, the evidence wasn't sufficient enough to be sure enough that your accusation was correct and justify any action against the two accounts. Beyond that, unless you supply a list of more accounts and with sufficient proof, the SPI report you filed should end here.  ~Oshwah~  (talk)  (contribs)   21:18, 10 April 2019 (UTC)
 * Sure, you can archive now. I know of some specific IP addresses used by APS, the diffs of whom have been added to the ANI report. If any more accounts (registered, not IP) show up, Jingiby or I will file another SPI. <b style="color:#00205B">Woshiyiwei</b><b style="color:#0077C0">zhongguo</b><b style="color:#00205B">ren</b> (<b style="color:#0077C0">🇨🇳</b>) 00:18, 11 April 2019 (UTC)

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 * The users haven't edited any same articles, but I do note the two diffs by each account with changes adding the same word to articles between the span of just a few days. However, this is a nationality that's being changed - anyone could change a nationality to this in a common and innocent edit somewhere. Hence, the edits are too common to be used to suspect two accounts of being sock puppets or as evidence in an SPI report to justify any sort of action. I'm declining the CU request because of this...  ~Oshwah~  (talk) (contribs)   19:50, 10 April 2019 (UTC)
 * Sorry, but I just don't see enough evidence outside the two diffs provided (which show an edit changing the nationality on two different articles to be the same country - a common edit that's made all the time) to assert beyond a reasonable doubt and within a high enough level of certainty that these two accounts are being controlled by the same person and in violation of Wikipedia's sock puppetry policy. Closing SPI report...  ~Oshwah~  (talk) (contribs)   19:55, 10 April 2019 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets



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SPA. Active on the same topic Glloboçeni, diff, where the sock-master has been recently blocked diff. The same geo-location: South-Eastern Australia. Using the same manner of providing sources and the same source. Jingiby (talk) 12:04, 1 June 2019 (UTC)

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 * IP blocked for abusing multiple accounts and edit warring. Page semiprotected, indefinitely. El_C 15:38, 1 June 2019 (UTC)
 * Closing. Sir Sputnik (talk) 15:46, 1 June 2019 (UTC)