Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Belmaktor/Archive

27 October 2015

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At the article Google Earth there is a dispute about whether to retain or delete a very large table, listing countries that have cities and towns in 3D. Discussion was initiated at the talk page, and the list was removed on October 23. Belmaktor, who is an SPA but not a new user (25 edits since 2013, all to the disputed table at Google Earth), argued at the talk page for retaining the table, 7 minutes after it was deleted. Less than an hour later, a string of brand-new users began to re-add the list to the article (interrupted twice by semi-protection).

The timing was: List deleted on October 23 at 14:06; Belmaktor comments at 14:13; User 95.27.197.69 restores the list at 15:11; User ‪2a02:2f0e:c330:ffff::50d:8592‬ restores the list at 15:44; Coruptia restores the list at 16:25; then semi-protection is imposed (by me). The semi-protection expires October 27 at 00:34. Geshtalt2005 restores the list at 01:27; then semi-protection is reimposed (by User:NeilN).

Note:There is another user, ESRoads, who also argued for retention at several talk pages, but they are not an SPA (here since 2007, never edited at Google Earth before) and they seem open to compromise, so probably unrelated. MelanieN (talk) 05:24, 27 October 2015 (UTC)

The reason I am requesting checkuser: the four socks seem obvious, but the sockmaster is not obvious; their connection with Belmaktor is a guess on my part. --MelanieN (talk) 05:36, 27 October 2015 (UTC)

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 * I would also definitely rule out User:ESRoads' involvement, while on the other hand, Special:Contributions/Belmaktor shows they haven't edited anything but Google Earth. LjL (talk) 13:00, 27 October 2015 (UTC)


 * ‪95.27.197.69‬ is my ip, before i logged in. i've created and edited in an article in russian wikipedia in 2012 https://ru.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Flower&action=history but for some reason it doesn't displays at my account. I'm a passive wiki-user and got involved only for the reson of corruption of the article i use regularly. Geshtalt2005 (talk) 16:00, 27 October 2015 (UTC)

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * and ‪ are to each other.
 * and are ❌ to each other and to the other two accounts.--Bbb23 (talk) 13:36, 27 October 2015 (UTC)
 * Closing the case with no action.  Vanjagenije  (talk)  20:07, 28 October 2015 (UTC)