Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Blocci/Archive

Report date April 17 2009, 12:51 (UTC)

 * Suspected sockpuppets

This involved tag-teaming and Edit Warring at Giuseppe Rossi and Talk:Giuseppe Rossi, over how the nationality of the player is described in the article. has been blocked for edit warring over this issue several times. Blocci has been around since 2007, and got involved in the dispute over Rossi's nationality on 19 November 2008. Tesaux made his first edits on 21 December 2007, immediately showing good understanding of wikilinking, text formatting and wikitables, but waited until April to get involved in the Rossi edit war, after which time that account had several hundred edits and could be accepted as a legitimate account. Both Blocci and Tesaux use the same distinctive edit summary - Tesaux, 2, 3 vs. Blocci, 2, 3.
 * Evidence submitted by – Toon (talk) 

In the dispute, the edit summaries are again distinctive - compare Tesaux: [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Giuseppe_Rossi&diff=prev&oldid=282066686 this is unacceptable...rv. nationalistic edit from user :PeeJay2K3]; [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Giuseppe_Rossi&diff=prev&oldid=282060404 rv. ridiculous and nationalistic edit made again by user Hyppo43, who wants to hide the reality..this is unacceptable for Wikipedia...], Rossi is an italian footballer, revert vandalism from user Hippo43 with Blocci: revert nationalistic edit, vandalism by PeeJay2K3.

Both accounts have also constantly described others' edits as "vandalism" in their edit summaries: Tesaux:, , and Blocci: , , ,.

Another damning piece of evidence emerges when you look at the users' edits on 6 April 2009; it becomes clear that this is one person switching between accounts. Tesaux edits 8.28, 8.34, switches to Blocci 8.37, 8.38, 8.40, Tesaux: 8.46, 8.48, 8.52, 9.00, 9.06, 9.15, 9.18, 9.19, Blocci: 9.25, 9.55, 9.56, 9.57, 9.58... It is clear when you look further and compare the rest of their edits - there is no overlap between the two, despite being active around the same times.

The puppetmaster is attempting to sway consensus by having two voices in the discussion at Talk:Giuseppe Rossi, tag-team edit warring at Giuseppe Rossi, as well as the Blocci account being used to evade the blocks given to Tesaux for 3RR and edit warring.

– Toon (talk)  12:51, 17 April 2009 (UTC)


 * Comments by accused parties    See Defending yourself against claims.

I blocked User:Tesaux for edit warring (always with edits identical to this); I soon get a message from Thumperwald that User:Blocci is tag teaming, with this edit. They are exactly the same edits. Enough has happened between the edits that the only way for either editor/username to restore their preferred lede is to copy/paste it from the history, not by reverting. Xavexgoem (talk) 23:01, 17 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Comments by other users


 * Checkuser request


 * - Though, the evidence against is not that strong in my opinion. I will leave it up to the CheckUser to determine if a check is warranted on him. Otherwise, like Nathan says below, there is pretty strong evidence.  Tiptoety  talk 22:49, 17 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments


 * Evidence here is pretty strong, but no smoking gun that makes it obvious. Posting a request for checkuser, would like another clerk to review and endorse/decline (and refer for blocking). Nathan  T (formerly Avruch) 22:33, 17 April 2009 (UTC)


 * Conclusions
 * ✅. Nishkid64 (Make articles, not wikidrama) 16:52, 18 April 2009 (UTC)


 * Any uninvolved admin fancy taking care of this? I would feel uncomfortable given that I initiated the case, plus I'm not sure what to do with the puppetmaster. Cheers, – Toon (talk)  20:26, 18 April 2009 (UTC)


 *  Syn  ergy 22:55, 18 April 2009 (UTC)