Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Chorlseton/Archive

29 March 2011

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During a recently closed AfD I noticed an odd pattern of contributions from a series of accounts that were all newly created and/or only had a few previous minor edits. In most cases they had no preceding edits in the topic area and in some cases showed a editing pattern that suggests sleeper sockpuppets (see for instance Chorleseton's contributions, which suggests a number of random minor edits to get the account over the autoconfirmed limit). They all supported each other in the AfD. I've named Chorlseton nominally as the sockmaster but this shouldn't be taken literally, it's just a convenience for the purposes of this SPI. Prioryman (talk) 09:59, 29 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Re Tnxman: User:AFolkSingersBeard and User:ElenaLeonardo look to me likely to be the same person. Prioryman (talk) 18:43, 29 March 2011 (UTC)

Comments by other users
''Accused parties may also comment/discuss in this section below. See Defending yourself against claims.'' I suspect that may be another sock of this puppeteer. The account (another new one) has been edit-warring with identical diffs on Al-Azhar University. RolandR (talk) 11:20, 29 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Who is filing a "complaint" against me and why? Is this a simple aggression by a person which wasn't contented by my opinion???Doogielien (talk) 17:32, 29 March 2011 (UTC)

Re Tnxman below: I doubt that this is Ledenierhomme. There are several articles which he and his socks cannot avoid editing, and none of these have touched them. Regardless, I am certain that they are all the same editor, possibly a sock of another banned vandal. RolandR (talk) 18:52, 29 March 2011 (UTC)

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments
User:Chorlseton and User:Maresi are ✅ to each other; all others (User:Doogielien, User:AFolkSingersBeard, and User:ElenaLeonardo) are seemingly ❌, although the degree of uniqueness almost suggests the use of open proxies. Frank &#124;  talk  17:09, 29 March 2011 (UTC)
 * I glanced at this earlier and concur with Frank. Frank, what do you think of the possibility this may be ? The edits are in the same topic area and Ledenierhomme has been known to use proxies. TN X Man  18:34, 29 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Can't really say one way or the other. But if you have more info (email me if that's more appropriate) that might help. Frank  &#124;  talk  19:17, 29 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Hmm, I thought I saw something strange on the technical data. However, after reviewing RolandR's comments, I'll mark this for close and keep an eye out. Thanks for taking a look. TN X Man  11:30, 30 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Maresi blocked indef, Chorlseton blocked 1 week. TN X Man  11:32, 30 March 2011 (UTC)