Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Erebedhel/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets




And probably a series of other "131.178" IPs that are related to this problem, but there are too many and I might have missed some by mistake.

Evidence submitted by MarshalN20

 * The IP Addresses all have the same editing patterns. Either they edit the Diablada article, the Talk:Diablada page, or the User Talk: Erebedhel page (Or a combination of these).
 * I kept having arguments with the IP Addresses, but they all claimed to be of different places and nationalities (Here are some of the alleged nationalities of the IPs: New Yorker, Traveler to Bolivia, Chilean, among others). I attempted to classify all of these different people and found they were from the same IP Address, but the IP (showing clear usage of Wikipedia tools; despite the IP account had started September 27, 2009 or two days prior) reverted my classification (Probably because it threw down his little game of passing himself as different people): . However, User:Connormah reverted these deletions done by the IP:.
 * The IP Address then also shows his knowledge of how the same port can be used for different users (though it seems obvious that it is still the same person): . New WP users don't generally know that they have shared IPs; at least not until they get blocked or get a message to their IP box (Neither which can be found in the IP's talk page).
 * I politely ask for the IP to reveal his true Wikipedia username, but the IP directly avoids the question (If he did not have a WP account, he could have just stated that and got it over with):.
 * User:Erebedhel comes into the picture in the English WP on the 29 September, 2009 (almost after the IP Address is found to be the same person acting as different people); and he came on the same day from a calling the IP Address made in the Spanish WP, which also seems to be a result of a discussion where I once again asked for him to reveal who he truly was.
 * To make matters even more suspicious, in the Spanish WP User:Erebedhel had already mentioned the incident of the English WP Diablada article in August 28, 2009 ; basically, the user was already aware of the situation, and it creates quite a bridge that connects the user in the Spanish WP to the IP Addresses and then to the same user in the English WP.
 * Additionally, I found a similar editing style from both the IP and User:Erebedhel. Here's an example of how User:Erebedhel likes to add little dashes ("---") and always seems to forget to sign his name: . This is also the trend of User talk:131.178.241.109, which also adds the dashes and forgets to sign his name: . But that might be making a Duck Test.
 * The IP also has a tendency to constantly mention the "UNESCO", deletes a particular sourced paragraph that they don't agree with, and impose Bolivia in the introduction . This is a similar trend with User:Erebedhel (Deletes paragraph he doesn't like, Once again mentions the UNESCO and imposes Bolivia in introduction).
 * User:RBCM comes into play when he suspiciously claims to be the IP Addresses and makes only two edits (in almost 1 month) regarding the same "Request for Comment" article: . What is even more suspicious is that the "RfC" would have already been deleted had it not been for this user "certifying" a problem.

Maybe I'm just being paranoic and creating something that is not there, but I'd really like to know if all of these accounts are truly related. I mean, first the IP Addresses claim to be different people, then Erebedhel comes in and acts quite similar to the IP Addresses (which go away nearly at the same time Erebedhel comes in), and then RBCM pops up at the "right moment" to make only 2 contributions and claim to be the IP Addresses. I would like for things to be cleared up once and for all.-- MarshalN20 | T a l k 14:21, 29 October 2009 (UTC)

Comments by accused parties
Thank you very much to the admins for conducting this investigation and your time. I really hope that this could help to ease my communication with MarshalN20 and clean my name.--  Erebedhel  -  Talk  00:39, 30 October 2009 (UTC)

Comments by other users
Thank you for clearing things up. Now I can finally associate which contributor is which.-- MarshalN20 | T a l k 01:04, 30 October 2009 (UTC)

CheckUser requests
Requested by MarshalN20  | T a l k 14:21, 29 October 2009 (UTC)

(marking as "C" as this would be considered possible vote-stacking to gain support in an RFC/U) – I'm sure that the IPs are RBCM (even though we don't need a block on the IPs as they haven't edited in over three weeks), but I'm not sure about RBCM/Erebedhel. Could use some technical evidence here. MuZemike 18:23, 29 October 2009 (UTC)

Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments
RBCM and Erebedhel are ❌. The IPs are RBCM's. Hers fold  (t/a/c) 19:28, 29 October 2009 (UTC)

Conclusions
No action taken, since RCBM decided to create an account after being anonymous. I'll leave it up to another admin to rectify the RFC/U in which RCBM certified the basis for dispute. This would also come into play at the corresponding MFD, I'm sure. MuZemike 01:50, 30 October 2009 (UTC)