Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Cosmos416/Archive

Evidence submitted by Athenean
The odds of a brand new user with a very similar username, from the same country and with an interest in Indian topics appearing on the same day cosmos was banned is pretty small indeed. This has WP:DUCK written all over it. --Athenean (talk) 04:14, 22 October 2009 (UTC)
 * User:Cosmos416 was an aggressive Indian nationalist who was blocked indef on October 13 by User:Tanthalas39 for disruptive editing.  The User:Diamond912 account was created within a few hours of the block.
 * Diamond912 shows an interest in Indian topics, as did Cosmos, and in this instance is pushing a nationalist POV.
 * The user names are remarkably similar.
 * User:Diamond912 hails from Canada, as did Cosmos416.
 * User:Cosmos416 had a vendetta against me   .  In this edit  Diamond 912 reverts me saying "Agree with Shreevatsa", when in fact the edit he undid was a revert of User:KnowledgeAndVision , not User:Shreevatsa.  It thus appears that he performed the edit mechanically, without bothering to look at the content before reverting.  This would be consistent with an attempt to spite me personally, rather than a genuine interest in the subject.

Comments by accused parties
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CheckUser requests
Requested by Athenean (talk) 04:14, 22 October 2009 (UTC)

– when WP:DUCK applies, CU is not necessary. MuZemike 15:11, 22 October 2009 (UTC)

Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments
Note: Diamond912 already blocked by Tanthalas. Fut.Perf. ☼ 06:36, 22 October 2009 (UTC)

Conclusions
Tagged. MuZemike 15:11, 22 October 2009 (UTC)

16 February 2012

 * Suspected sockpuppets




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I have come to suspect that HonestopL may be a sockpuppet of the banned user Cosmos416. This is because:


 * HonestopL was created the day after [] Cosmos416's last identified sock, Censorship234, was blocked [].
 * HonestopL began by editing the page [] that Censorship234 had been editing prior to blocking []; (the talk page; Talk:Haplogroup R1a (Y-DNA) (which seems quite an unusual/obscure, or very coincidental, page for first edits))
 * HonestopL has edited heavily [] Haplogroup R1a (Y-DNA), Scythians, Anglo-Indian and Kalash people which were the articles that Cosmos416 primarily edited [].
 * HonestopL has, from the start and until the present, replicated exactly Cosmos416's controversial editorial positions on those articles; e.g. [] & [] and [] and []
 * HonestopL has often been disruptive and has received two blocks [].
 * From his edits[] HonestopL appears, like Cosmos416, to be from Canada.

Perhaps you could investigate. Romper (talk) 02:36, 16 February 2012 (UTC)

Comments by other users
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Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * - Cosmos is incredibly stale, so this will have to be decided by evidence. I can't help but think this case is retaliation for disagreement between the reporter and the sock on Talk:Anglo-Indian, so I'm mildly inclined to close, but.. —  Hello Annyong  (say whaaat?!) 03:44, 16 February 2012 (UTC)
 * Little evidence. Seems quite punitive. NativeForeigner Talk 06:36, 17 February 2012 (UTC)