Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/BlueMario1016/Archive

08 May 2012

 * Suspected sockpuppets

(A more recent account for which there may not be sufficient evidence to make a determination.)

(Following accounts are historical, two are blocked, discussed near the bottom, but show a similar pattern of interests and behavior.)


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Earlier today, I gave a third warning regarding BLP sourcing to BlueMario1016, who had a long history of editing Hindi voice actors, his talk page had a number of warnings and a previous block. I indicated that a block was a possible outcome of continuing to ignore policy.

As a result, that editor appeared to come to my talk page in good faith in response, and engage with me on the topic of the importance of reliable sources and how to go about it... for Hindi voice actors. A few hours later, I notice a removal of a WP:BLPPROD tag on another Hindi voice actor article BlueMario1016 had created, in violation of policy, from an IP, [diff], I get curious.

This IP appears *also* to be very interested in Hindi voice actors, and both the IP and BlueMario have edited a large number of the same articles together. The closest timelines found,, , , , , , , , , .

In every case presented above, which represent all ten cases where the two edited the article within a 5-minute window, in every case, the edits by BlueMario preceded the IP, a 1/512 probability were it a coincidence. In at least two cases, the IP editor "noticed" the article within 5 minutes of its creation. In no case was there any contemporaneous back-and-forth.

The IP involved has, near as I can tell, removed two BLPPROD tags recently, the one I noted above, and. Both edits were the most recent two BLPPRODs warned at BlueMario's talk page, both removals are followed by edits that don't really do anything to the article (one, putting in a fake "ref" to a Wikipedia URL, the other moving some stub templates), which might or might be an attempt to mask the removals.

This two edit BLPPROD removal is similar in style to, which happend on the previous article to the two listed above, except in this case, BlueMario1016 handles the removal and second edit (this one is more useful, but also adds in part a really unRS looking source.)

Other weak hints: - Neither uses edit summaries as a rule.  - Both talk pages are littered with a similar pattern of warning templates: ,

The account significantly predates the IP, though.

BlueMario1016 admits 1-year block on JAWIKI:, and admits blocks three other non-Wikimedia sites:.

In short, I believe that these two accounts may represent the same editor, using an IP address in order to evade policy enforcement. joe deckertalk to me 03:50, 8 May 2012 (UTC)

Notified at both talk pages. --joe deckertalk to me 05:05, 8 May 2012 (UTC)

IP has extraordinarily wide cross-wiki contributions, appears to be blocked at JA and NL:
 * JA: JA/JA block log, sockpuppetry noted in block log, JA block is a handful of days from expiration
 * NL: NL/NL block log.   --joe deckertalk to me, NL block is only a couple weeks old

Regarding KTfan
I've added "KTfan" here on a hunch this morning, based on a timing and a precocious new article on another Hindi voice actor, sourced to a similar non-RS wiki site, second (non-deleted) edit of this editor. , deleted edits reflect another voice actor Afd, That voice actor was sourced to a Facebook page, and shows a high level of understanding Wikipedia markup, as is the case with the examples above. Not a lot of history to make a case from, though. --joe deckertalk to me 14:55, 8 May 2012 (UTC)

Regarding the last three accounts listed
Okay, three more possible socks, largely based on behavior and pattern, note coincident editing here, the two Ranjith accounts are currently indef blocked for sockpuppetry, the Czech account isn't, but shows precocious editing, same subjects, blah blah blah.

I don't think I have all of the socks out there by any means, I see a lot of 20-40 edit, precocious edits in the same subject matter, same behavior, same writing style, many blocked for copyvio, etc., I just don't have the time to dig into all of this. --joe deckertalk to me 16:55, 8 May 2012 (UTC)

Reported to META
Note: I've also reported to Meta

Comments by other users
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 * Case withdrawn by reporting user. ​—DoRD (talk)​ 01:07, 15 May 2012 (UTC)