Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Distributor108/Archive

04 January 2012

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Relationship between Distributor108 and 114.76.220.19

114.76.220.19 has been involved in an edit war (1, 2) on Sri Lanka Armed Forces and was blocked. Within an hour of the block Distributor108 was making the same reverts as 114.76.220.19 (3 4 5, 6). Distributor108 was also blocked. Prior to getting involved in this edit war Distributor108 had not made any edits since 20 September. It is unlikely a separate user would come back after a long absence to get involved in another user's edit war. They are the same user.

114.76.220.19 and Distributor108 also share similar interests - the articles they have both edited include Southern Expressway (Sri Lanka), Ministry of Defence (Sri Lanka), Sri Lanka Army, Economy of Australia, Colombo Stock Exchange and Sri Lanka.

Relationship between Distributor108 and Micheal faraday

In September Distributor108 opened a cabal case. A new user, Micheal faraday, offered to mediate. This was Micheal faraday's first edit on Wikipedia - it is unlikely that the first act of a real new user would be to offer in a mediation case. This was clearly Distributor108 using a separate account to try to fool other editors. Fortunately no one fell for Distributor108's deception.

Relationship between Micheal faraday and 114.76.220.19

Micheal faraday had not made any edit since September until today when they have started editing Economy of Sri Lanka, an article that 114.76.220.19 had been editing in the last couple of weeks. Isn't it odd that Micheal faraday should only start editing when Distributor108 and 114.76.220.19 have been blocked?  obi2canibe talk contr 20:49, 4 January 2012 (UTC)

Comments by other users
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 * If I may add both the user (Distributor108) and Ip in question used the words persistent vandalism within minutes. To me this strikes as the same person I could be wrong.

For ex. Vandalism started a thread using "persistent vandalism". While 114.76.220.19 started a section called "persistent vandalism" on my talk page. Secondly both users do not sign when they right on talk pages which is another indicator of the accounts being the same. Intoronto1125 Talk Contributions  21:12, 4 January 2012 (UTC)

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * The two user accounts have both been blocked - seems quite obvious that they are the same person. &mdash;Dark 06:48, 5 January 2012 (UTC)
 * ✅ that relevant accounts are blocked, with no others on the underlying IP being used. The IP mentioned in the SPI is a largely used dynamic IP, affecting a large number of populace (available to anyone in the whois link listed above).  Keegan (talk) 06:50, 5 January 2012 (UTC)
 * Marking for close. TN X Man  19:19, 5 January 2012 (UTC)

20 February 2013

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User:Distributor108 was indefinitely blocked on 1 May 2012. User:Eng.Bandara is an account that was created on 18 February 2013. My suspicions were raised that they were the same person when User:Eng.Bandara started a RfC on Talk:Sri Lanka about amending the Sri Lanka article so that the country's only official language is shown as Sinhala (as opposed to Sinhala and Tamil). This was something that User:Distributor108 had tried to do before in September 2011 and April 2012. Both User:Distributor108 and User:Eng.Bandara have tried to use the CIA fact-book to make their point: Distributor108 in April 2012 v Eng.Bandara in February 2013. Both also want Sinhala to be shown as the de-facto language: Distributor108 in September 2011 v Eng.Bandara in February 2013.

Both users has also edited the same articles:
 * Southern Expressway (Sri Lanka) - Distributor108 in August 2011 v Eng.Bandara in February 2013.
 * Ministry of Defence (Sri Lanka) - Distributor108 in August 2011 v Eng.Bandara in February 2013.
 * Alleged war crimes during the final stages of the Sri Lankan Civil War - Distributor108 in September 2011 v Eng.Bandara in February 2013.
 * Sri Lanka Armed Forces - Distributor108 in September 2011 v Eng.Bandara in February 2013.

Both editors seem to be "keen" on promoting articles to FA: Distributor108 in April 2012 v Eng.Bandara in February 2013.

And both editors also use the same IP address -. A previous SPI established relationship between User:Distributor108 and User:114.76.220.19. And now User:Eng.Bandara is editing on the same articles as User:114.76.220.19:
 * Newly industrialized country - 114.76.220.19 in February 2013 v Eng.Bandara in February 2013.
 * Talk:Indian Armed Forces - in February 2013 v Eng.Bandara in February 2013.

I have no doubt that User:Distributor108 and User:Eng.Bandara are the same person. And I have no doubt that this individual intends use the User:Eng.Bandara account for purely disruptive purposes as they did with the User:Distributor108 account.  obi2canibe talk contr 13:20, 20 February 2013 (UTC)

Comments by other users
''Accused parties may also comment/discuss in this section below. See Defending yourself against claims.'' First off, that IP does appear to be mine, however I categorically reject this malicious allegation that that user is me. It is regrettable that User:obi2canibe chose to present evidence from a number of highly spurious and uncorroborated allegation and seek entirely to falsely to implicate members of socket puppetry, User:obi2canibe has chosen to ignore the many positive contribution that I have made, User:obi2canibe behavior would harm the ongoing and comprehensive contributions to develop the sri lanka pages on Wikipedia. It appears User:obi2canibe is very enthusiastic to open a ridiculous amounts of socket puppetry cases [] which Wikipedia alarmingly seems to openly endorse. As the conduct of Wikipedia has fallen well short of the 'standards and fairness' expected of a reputed and responsible organization, I do not wish to be associated with the organization at anytime unless and until a suitable retraction is made to my satisfaction. Eng.Bandara (talk) 19:36, 20 February 2013 (UTC)

Further it also appears the accusing party is involved in a broad ranging war with Distributor108 [] across a number of different articles regarding various topics. As the accusing party stated ' My suspicions were raised that they were the same person when User:Eng.Bandara started a RfC on Talk:Sri Lanka about amending the Sri Lanka article so that the country's only official language is shown as Sinhala (as opposed to Sinhala and Tamil) (Which is ONE of the many topics this user appears to be edit warring with the other user) ' Nonetheless I started this RfC to gain comments as I found a source to contend what appears to be UN-cited material on the said article. Which I presented with valid concerns and fact. As you can see from User:obi2canibe own link the user acting based on the Constitution, I have repeatedly said in my RfC the Constitution is a primary source, and we should focus on the secondary source keeping inline with the OR policy. His claim that the other user cites the factbook as source is ridiculous and its evident from the diff he provided. Regarding the de facto language, it appears the other user has raised the same valid points that I have. It is a very valid logical point, linking 2 and 2 together by two different people is not in anyway an indication that they are same person. Eng.Bandara (talk) 19:55, 20 February 2013 (UTC)


 * IMPORTANT NOTICE: I have sent message to a CheckUser Allison, regarding the checkuser authorized by the clerk. Could any checkusers standby until I receive a response from her. Eng.Bandara (talk) 00:55, 21 February 2013 (UTC)

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 * - Eng. was familiar with prod on his first mainspace edit. He was referring to NPOV about an hour later . Requesting CU to confirm whether there is a connection to Distributor, but it is clear that Eng is someone's sock. Someguy1221 (talk) 00:18, 21 February 2013 (UTC)
 * Sorry we do not hold investigations because someone emails a CU to defend themselves. You can email ArbCom or functionaries if you have sensitive information to contribute to your defense. Either way, I have determinted that this user is a sock. Since the user has admited use of the IP, I have also blocked it. -- DQ   (ʞlɐʇ)  03:47, 21 February 2013 (UTC)

23 December 2014

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User:Distributor108 was indefinitely blocked on 1 May 2012. User:Eng.Bandara was indefinitely blocked on 21 February 2013 after being found to be a sock of Distributor108. User:Eng.M.Bandara was created 16 December 2014. Other than the similar names - Eng.Bandara v Eng.M.Bandara - this new account has been busy over the last seven days doing things that you would not expect a newly registered user to do: This is not the behaviour of a new account.
 * On his first day Eng.M.Bandara requested a peer review - user Eng.Bandara also requested a peer review soon after creating his account.
 * Within a week of creating his account Eng.M.Bandara has made a Rfc - user Eng.Bandara made a Rfc on his second day. Distributor108 has also made Rfc.
 * Eng.M.Bandara went to WP:DRN on his second day. Eng.Bandara tried to become a volunteer on his second day.

The three accounts have also edited/shown an interest the same articles:
 * Alleged war crimes during the final stages of the Sri Lankan Civil War - Eng.Bandara tried to merge with Human rights in Sri Lanka in February 2013 v Eng.M.Bandara is trying to get it deleted in December 2014.
 * Sri Lankan expressways: Distributor108 in August 2011 v Eng.Bandara in February 2013 v Eng.M.Bandara in December 2014
 * 2012 Indian Ocean earthquakes - Distributor108 in April 2012 v Eng.M.Bandara in December 2014.
 * Sri Lanka Armed Forces - in September 2011 v Eng.Bandara in February 2013 v Eng.M.Bandara in December 2014.

All three accounts have done nothing other than cause disruption and waste other editors time.  obi2canibe talk contr 18:37, 23 December 2014 (UTC)

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

 * You've raised some pretty valid connections and the similar username can't be ignored. I've blocked the account based upon the behavioral evidence. Unfortunately, the checkuser data is stale (no longer available for the old accounts) so we can't use it here. Mike V  •  Talk  02:57, 24 December 2014 (UTC)