Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/CUDz/Archive

21 May 2010

 * Suspected sockpuppets

All these editors look to be the same editor, as they are only contributing to the article Birtukan Mideksa. Some of the sockpuppets are reverting other socks' edits, and are hence violating the three revert rule excessively, especially CUDz and YareadMan. These accounts have flooded the history box too. Minima c  ( talk ) 05:02, 21 May 2010 (UTC)
 * Evidence submitted by Minima  c  ( talk )


 * Comments by accused parties    See Defending yourself against claims.


 * Comments by other users

Requested by Minima  c  ( talk ) 05:02, 21 May 2010 (UTC)
 * CheckUser requests

–MuZemike 00:25, 22 May 2010 (UTC)


 * Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments

Not sure if they are all the same person, or (more likely) if they are two or more people who disagree with each other who happen to be at the same place, but ✅. J.delanoy gabs adds

All registered accounts indefinitely blocked and tagged. –MuZemike 16:29, 26 May 2010 (UTC)

Evidence submitted by Gyrofrog
On May 26, GchDenver modified the article , adding details (diff) that did not appear in the existing cited sources. Specifically, the exact number of parliament seats that the EPRDF won, and the allegation that a recent murder was alcohol-related, do not appear in the given sources. GchDenver also added a link to an audio BBC report (diff), which I subsequently moved to the External links section.

On May 27, WilliamKartum added information about AU election observers and cited a YouTube link (diff). I re-wrote WilliamKartum's text, both for stylistic reasons, and to add details along with a newspaper source, which I believe is preferable to a YouTube link (and which I indicated in the edit summary). I don't believe I substantially changed the information being presented, although I do think it was more in line with WP:NPOV. WilliamKartum subsequently undid my edit (diff)

On May 29, MarkRepo undid my revisions, effectively restoring GchDenver's earlier edits (diff).

Athough the article's subject has recently been in the news, and would certainly lead to increased editing activity in this article, I don't believe the three editors' edits are unrelated. The "Undo" actions all favor the initial edits by GchDenver, and all of the named accounts have only made edits to this article (WP:SPA; exception: MarkRepo has also made 1 edit to , a related subject as the article is about an Ethiopian politician). All of the accounts omit edit summaries, as well.

Thanks, -- Gyrofrog (talk) 15:58, 1 June 2010 (UTC)


 * Update: Also adding HenokAtlanta to the list of accounts. HenokAtlanta's June 2 "undo" edit (diff) restored  the original GchDenver edit, but also added unattributed information about the ruling and opposition parties.  I should have mentioned that, in all cases, these edits slant the article in favor of the EPRDF. -- Gyrofrog  (talk) 20:51, 2 June 2010 (UTC)


 * Based on my knowledge of Ethiopian politics, if these aren't sockpuppets, then they are meat puppets -- different people editting in collusion to advocate the same pro-EPRDF POV. Sheesh, they won the election, allegedly by means not entirely fair & ethical, & now control Ethiopia completely: why do they also want to own these articles so badly? Only a handful of people living inside Ethiopia can even access Wikipedia. -- llywrch (talk) 23:42, 2 June 2010 (UTC)


 * I am updating this to request CheckUser. This activity continues across different accounts, most recently by KibromForever (diff) and MuhammedET (diff). -- Gyrofrog  (talk) 16:09, 7 June 2010 (UTC)

Comments by accused parties
See Defending yourself against claims.

Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments

 * - Not quite sure on the behavior here, but one cannot help but notice the sudden arrival of SPAs. A check would probably help. Tim Song (talk) 06:07, 8 June 2010 (UTC)

✅ that are all the same as (Sockpuppet investigations/CUDz/Archive). Amalthea 08:41, 8 June 2010 (UTC)
 * All blocked and tagged. This investigation needs to be moved to Sockpuppet investigations/CUDz, I think. TN X Man  11:51, 8 June 2010 (UTC)

Sockpuppet investigations/GchDenver merged here.  E lockid  ( Talk ) 12:56, 8 June 2010 (UTC)