Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Efeinberg/Archive

Report date February 2 2009, 17:16 (UTC)

 * Suspected sockpuppets



User Efeinberg created the article Klaus Kronenberg, which was subsequently edited mostly by Efeinberg, user Aimulti, and user Wwuwwu. Edits by user Wwuwwu follow the last edit by Efeinberg by three days; edits by both Efeinberg and Wwuwwu are mostly unsourced and seem to be based on personal/family knowledge (for example, Efeinberg's version and the diff above). Wwuwwu then added and, after a partial reversion, readded without discussion information about Klaus Kronenberg to the Magnetic water treatment article.
 * Evidence

User Wwuwwu created articles on Eitan Feinberg (note similarity to Efeinberg) and an apparently one-person company (the latter article has since been speedy-deleted) reportedly run by Eitan Feinberg. After source tags were placed on the article, user account Jajiggles was created and used to delete the tags without discussion.

Given the provided biographical details of Eitan Feinberg and an interest of these editors in Klaus Kronenberg and Magnetic water treatment, I also suspect a relation to user Began aged 13, who has been indefinitely blocked. However, I have no concrete evidence of this without CU.


 * Evidence submitted by Keepcalmandcarryon (talk)


 * Comments by accused parties    See Defending yourself against claims.


 * Comments by other users


 * Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments

The behavior similarities and timing of the two suspected sock accounts is just too great to be a coincidence. Also, wwu's claim that this E.F. person has been notable enough to have "changed the face of the industry" is so obviously over the top it can hardly be a good-faith contributor. I propose blocking the two socks under WP:DUCK. There may not be a pressing need for sanctions on the suspected main account right now, as it hasn't been editing for a while anyway. Fut.Perf. ☼ 10:59, 17 February 2009 (UTC) Mayalld (talk) 22:17, 17 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Conclusions