Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Before2012/Archive

Evidence submitted by Cargoking
I noticed the three above editors on WP:ITN/C, when commenting here. My initial suspicion arose when two users (Before2012 and Naloenal) I have never seen before appeared on the page and had no created user talk pages. I then looked at their contributions to see they both had contributions to P:CE and ITN/C. Also, they both supported, within 3 minutes of each other, the same nomination. I then accidentally came across the nominator of the topic. Most of Lanolamua's contributions are at ITN/C.

This evidence alone is probably investigation worthy, but then I noticed one other trend. On the exact minute that they contributed to a page that involves a signature, Lanolamua and Naloena created their userpages with either 'hi' or 'To start a page called User:Naloenal, type in the box below', not the usual content of a userpage. Before2012 did something very similar, but after 17 minutes. Cargoking  talk  13:14, 30 December 2009 (UTC)


 * Gothic4ben, another new, ITN/C only contributor with a similar userpage. Left a message at Lanolamua's talk page. Cargoking   talk  12:47, 31 December 2009 (UTC)

Comments by accused parties
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Conclusions
Blocked and tagged. –MuZemike 22:10, 2 January 2010 (UTC)

Evidence submitted by User:AlexandrDmitri
146.110.102.158 seems to be the underlying IP behind User:West News and User:East News which created a number of accounts, some of them automatically (and hence tracing these two accounts back here where they also exist and edit in the same area), working on the same article Brad_Pitt_hits_the_bottle_as_Angelina_Jolie_demands_open_relationship along with wikinews:en:User:Pleased, wikinews:en:User:IMDB news and wikinews:en:User:Tennessee. Also blocked were wikinews:en:User:Lum lease and wikinews:en:User:Naloenal; as User:Naloenal is listed as a sockpuppet of User:Before2012 there is a possibility that these two accounts on en-WP are also sockpuppets. Both User:West News and User:East News have contributed to the same areas [] and [] respectively. Apologies if SPI is malformed, this is my first. -- Александр Дмитрий (Alexandr Dmitri) (talk) 16:00, 12 January 2010 (UTC)

Comments by accused parties
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Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments
Requested by -- Александр Дмитрий (Alexandr Dmitri) (talk) 16:00, 12 January 2010 (UTC)


 * It seems that has already done a check, but I'll let them confirm. Timotheus Canens (talk) 16:50, 14 January 2010 (UTC)


 * Looks like the accounts are all blocked. Declining CU as moot (or performed by Avi). Nathan  T 23:26, 14 January 2010 (UTC)