Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Bonsairolex/Archive

15 September 2011

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Very similar edit patterns (all of them recently appeared and recreating/contesting article about anon notable company. Very similar writing styles and article interests. (E.g., both editing Salem, Massachusetts recently and both often putting exclamation points in edit summaries as well as their username ). OhNo itsJamie Talk 22:11, 15 September 2011 (UTC)

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 * Tortuga trading was blocked as a username violation, not as a sock. Having said that, the other accounts are almost certainly the same on behavioral grounds, so I've blocked and tagged Ilovetosurfthewaves as a sock, and blocked the master for 24h. —  Hello Annyong  (say whaaat?!) 01:21, 16 September 2011 (UTC)

16 September 2011

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Edit summaries for both users use 'Personal tools edit by * USERNAME'. Both Surfingecuador and Twitterwiki keep complaining about how Chile and Peru have surfing articles.  Ish dar  ian  20:56, 16 September 2011 (UTC)

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 * I'm going to add a checkuser to this to see if they're the same, and also to find sleepers. —  Hello Annyong  (say whaaat?!) 13:17, 18 September 2011 (UTC)
 * Sorry, I'm a bit lost here. I can see how the socks themselves behave like each other, but what merits a check against the alleged master, since no check was run the previous time round? - Mailer Diablo 17:04, 18 September 2011 (UTC)
 * So last time I blocked the sock Ilovetosurfthewaves because that account and the master edited the same articles (that are now deleted). The connection between the master itself and these socks, however, is a little more tenuous for me - but the connection is there between Ilovetosurf and the socks. More specifically, Ilovetosurf created and Twitterwiki edited Surfing in Ecuador; similarly, Ilovetosurf and Surfingecuador were both active on the talk page to the Ecuador surfing article. —  Hello Annyong  (say whaaat?!) 17:24, 18 September 2011 (UTC)
 * I endorsed this check with regards to the three socks, but declined with regards to the suspected master because there was no clear reason to suspect that Bonsairolex was socking here. However, when I ran the check on Surfingecuador, it popped up clear as day that he is a ✅ sock of Bonsairolex. It's that Twitterwiki is also a sock, and also technically  that Adammartinavalon is a third sock.  AGK  [&bull; ] 22:21, 18 September 2011 (UTC)
 * I've blocked and tagged the two confirmed/likely socks per the finding. I've also blocked Adammartin as a sock on behavioral grounds, and I've blocked the master for a week for socking a second time. (Note that they were blocked once before for the same offense.) —  Hello Annyong  (say whaaat?!) 22:57, 18 September 2011 (UTC)

21 September 2011

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Again, multiple edit summaries include "Personal Tools * Museumofwiki". The username follows the same format as the rest of his socks (First letter capitalized, no space). His current user page includes the Flora Huayaquilensis picture can caption taken from the article that Bonsairolex created. To top it off, Museumofwiki didn't start editting heavily until after Bonsairolex was blocked. This account seems to be one of his sleepers.  Ish dar  ian  19:22, 21 September 2011 (UTC)

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✅ the following are the same:
 * TN X Man 19:45, 21 September 2011 (UTC)
 * Oh dear. Socks blocked and tagged; master indefinitely blocked. —  Hello Annyong  (say whaaat?!) 23:48, 21 September 2011 (UTC)
 * TN X Man 19:45, 21 September 2011 (UTC)
 * Oh dear. Socks blocked and tagged; master indefinitely blocked. —  Hello Annyong  (say whaaat?!) 23:48, 21 September 2011 (UTC)
 * TN X Man 19:45, 21 September 2011 (UTC)
 * Oh dear. Socks blocked and tagged; master indefinitely blocked. —  Hello Annyong  (say whaaat?!) 23:48, 21 September 2011 (UTC)