Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Baltvilks/Archive

30 July 2015

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I think they are the obvious socks of each other. They messed up with comments the Afd I've nominated here. By checking their contributions which are non-existent outside their topic of interest I highly believe all of them are socks. Jaqeli 10:58, 30 July 2015 (UTC)
 * Added 69.246.219.227 based on similar contributions to the talk page of the AfD. —David Eppstein (talk) 16:21, 1 August 2015 (UTC)
 * That's an evident meatpuppetry. It is evident for example that User:Iberieli and User:Pirveli came to this AfD as they were asked to vote against the deletion. User Iberieli's last edit was on 8 December 2014 and User Pirveli's last edit before this AfD was on 12 December 2011. This is evident that they were told to vote against. Such behavior should be definitely addressed as it's clearly a violation. Jaqeli 14:59, 2 August 2015 (UTC)
 * I am not a sock of anyone, and not editing for a while does not mean that I dont monitor the articles and discussions, its my decision where and when I should make an edit or just stand by and read. Please avoid any further attacks on Wiki contributors and empty accusations which are highly unproductive and offensive. Cheers! Iberieli (talk) 20:02, 26 August 2015 (UTC)

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 * 's edit history supports the idea of meatpuppetry. His account was dormant since 2010 prior to this AfD. A friend asking him to participate, which caused him to dust off his old account, sounds a lot more likely than a sleeper going back five years being used by the same sockmaster that's using new accounts heavily. ~ RobTalk 01:21, 6 August 2015 (UTC)

Comment by Bearcat
Just wanted to offer a couple of quick comments on this. Baltvilks is reacting in a really defensive way in the AFD discussion, and has also uploaded a jpg of the article subject's own personal coat of arms with the file credit given as "own work". In a nutshell, he's heavily pinging my conflict of interest radar — I can't prove anything outright, but I strongly suspect that he is the subject of the article. All of the other contributors are newbies for whom their comments in the AFD discussion were their first Wikipedia contributions ever. Both Baltvilks and Normansdottir have claimed to be longtime financial contributors to Wikipedia who are about to withdraw their support because we're mistreating the article subject, despite being brand-new editors with no prior history; both Baltvilks and Ikhulor are excessively hung up on the existence of an article about Drena De Niro, as if an actress and a political scientist had anything whatosever to do whether or not the other one has the level of RS coverage needed to support a Wikipedia article. And several of the contributors named in this SPI request have also alleged that the AFD nomination is politically motivated, rather than "lack of reliable sourcing" motivated. This all seems very much like either one editor logging in under multiple names, or a few friends who are coordinating their talking points to amplify their bullcrap. Bearcat (talk) 06:10, 31 July 2015 (UTC)

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments
— Berean Hunter   (talk)  23:39, 29 August 2015 (UTC)
 * - There is also who voted the same way. I'm endorsing a CheckUser to compare them (  Vanjagenije   (talk)  16:27, 30 July 2015 (UTC)
 * is very to . Surprisingly, the other accounts are ❌ to each other. I would suspect meatpuppetry here. Mike V • Talk 18:19, 1 August 2015 (UTC)
 * I'm inclined here to suspect that all of the accounts are meatpuppets, even given the one likely checkuser hit. Now that the article is deleted, all the accounts but Baltvilks have gone dormant. I'm not sure there is anything that needs to be done here, but if this "summoning an army of meatpuppets" occurs again, well...Someguy1221 (talk) 09:58, 28 August 2015 (UTC)
 * Concur. This looks like meats but there isn't much to do now so closing. Please refile if there is further evidence and we will revisit.