Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Dodona/Archive

Report date August 1 2009, 20:28 (UTC)

 * Suspected sockpuppets


 * Evidence submitted by Fut.Perf.

Obvious returned sock of old long-time sockpuppeter User:Dodona; evident on behavioral grounds, same POV obsessions, same articles, same style, same broken English. Fut.Perf. ☼ 20:28, 1 August 2009 (UTC)


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 * Comments by other users

please provide diffs Sedd&sigma;n talk|WikimediaUK 21:26, 2 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments
 * Every single contribution by either account displays the pattern. Just look at any random diff from each. Fut.Perf. ☼ 22:09, 2 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Conclusions

After studying the contributions, there is strong evidence that they are both the same user. As such, blocked/tagged. Peter Symonds ( talk ) 22:36, 3 August 2009 (UTC)

Evidence submitted by Fut.Perf.
Obvious sock on criteria of behaviour and known IP range. Same mode of operation as long-term sockpuppeter Dodona: taking some half-digested bits from sources that he feels boosts his Albanian national ideology, and then mindlessly spamming it across multiple talk pages and articles with no sense nor reason. Same IP range as multiple earlier Dodona socks, cf. old ones blocked in 2007/08:

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Conclusions
80.78.77.182 blocked 1 week. An anon-only rangeblock wouldn't be a good idea as there has been some good-faith edits on other articles unrelated to the sockmaster's MO. MuZemike 01:28, 20 October 2009 (UTC)

Evidence submitted by Fut.Perf.
The usual pattern: randomly inserted quotation chunks on Albania-related pages, poor English, following the same types of edits as earlier socks. Fut.Perf. ☼ 14:30, 4 November 2009 (UTC)

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Evidence submitted by Fut.Perf.
Return of long-term sockpuppeter Dodona, same behaviour pattern as innumerable socks before: blindly pasting bits and pieces of outdated/unreliable or irrelevant sources into talk pages ; pushing nationalist POV about ethnic continuity of Albanians and about prehistoric links (or even identity) between Albanians, "Pelasgians" and Greeks ; bizarre personal attacks ; same broken English.


 * Not to mention the classic accusations of "vandalisem" . Athenean (talk) 16:58, 5 April 2010 (UTC)

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Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments
Registered accounts indefinitely blocked and tagged, IP blocked 72 hours. –MuZemike 22:19, 5 April 2010 (UTC)

21 February 2011

 * Suspected sockpuppets




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Same behaviour pattern as innumerable socks before: repetitive posting on several pages of a poorly understood excerpt from an unreliable source, in broken English, to support this editor's idee fixe of emphasizing Albanian/Arvanite role in Greek history. Also same pattern of Albanian patriotic-themed account names and signature misspelling of "vandalisem". Fut.Perf. ☼ 14:46, 21 February 2011 (UTC) Fut.Perf. ☼ 14:46, 21 February 2011 (UTC)

Comments by other users
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Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments
Nothing to do here; stale CU data. Frank &#124;  talk  01:43, 26 February 2011 (UTC)
 * Of course. I never requested CU. I'm just waiting for somebody to finally block this annoyingly obvious DUCK sock. Fut.Perf. ☼ 06:32, 26 February 2011 (UTC)

Blocked and tag updated. Elockid  ( Talk ) 00:59, 28 February 2011 (UTC)