Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Balaenoptera musculus/Archive

12 April 2014

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It's fairly obvious the IP accounts are being used by the same person. They both participated in an RFC at RT (TV network). The 109.64 did a "count up" of votes in the RFC and counted the various accounts as separate users in a pretty transparent attempt to "vote stack". The fact that at least two of the IP accounts were the same person was pointed out by another user on the talk page. Shortly there after, a newly created account,User:Balaenoptera musculus showed up and repeated the IPs claims. The fact that this was a likely sock was noted on the talk page by administrator User:Ymblanter. Now, if this was just a case of an IP editor getting around to registering an account that'd be one thing. But Balaenoptera musculus denied being the IP editors on the talk page of the article, though the connection is fairly obvious.

User:LarryTheShark (note that Balaenoptera musculus is a whale) is a user who also participated in talk page discussion/RFC on RT (TV network), sharing the view point of the IPs and Bm. He was recently indef blocked after a spate of relentless edit warring. Stylistically they appear to be very similar to the IPs. Furthermore, aside from sharing an interest in marine animals with Bm, LarryTheShark also seems to share an interest in poisonous snakes with the IP editors: Larry and one of the IPs. I seriously doubt this is all a coincidence.

These accounts are being used to create a false appearance of "consensus" in the RFC and talk page discussion, in order to try and force their preferred version of the article. LarryTheShark has been blocked for edit warring. The IPs' edit warring on the article necessitated that the article be protected on at least two separate occasions (including currently, the article is locked until May 2). All of them are behaving very disruptively and causing grief to regular editors.

Volunteer Marek (talk) 13:39, 12 April 2014 (UTC) Volunteer Marek (talk) 13:39, 12 April 2014 (UTC)

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I don’t want to cast unfounded accusations, but I have a feeling that at least one other contributor the RfC may also be the same person. There are elements of Sietecolores history and edits that raise suspicions for me.--Trappedinburnley (talk) 15:26, 12 April 2014 (UTC)

Comment Hello! Let me know if I can help at all. My content at User:Balaenoptera musculus may be relevant. Balaenoptera musculus (talk) 11:06, 16 April 2014 (UTC)


 * Trappedinburnley, please, either be more specific about your accusations or desist. I recommend you to do the latter since your claim has no basis. Sietecolores (talk) 16:55, 18 April 2014 (UTC)

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * is to be the same user as . --Jezebel's Ponyo bons mots  21:41, 15 April 2014 (UTC)
 * The four IP addresses geolocate to two different places, Tel Aviv and Petach Tikva (the 79's to the former, the 109's to the latter). The two cities are less than a half hour apart (according to Google Maps) so it's not a stretch to suggest they are from the same person, perhaps editing from a home location and work location. Beyond that, I can't draw any other conclusions. The only intersection point for all of these editors is at Talk:RT (TV network), other than that they have nothing in common (and both of the named accounts have participated in many other articles). Checkuser has made it clear that the two named accounts are unlikely to be each other. So bottom line is that it looks like we have perhaps three different people... Whoever is behind the IPs, Larry the Shark, and Balaenoptera musculus. In any case, there doesn't seem to be any sockpuppetry, so I'm going to mark this case for closure. --  At am a  頭 17:05, 18 April 2014 (UTC)