Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Frankovsky S/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets
SPA created 27 February 2023. Edits so far have been tendentious deletions and edit-warring at Black Sea slave trade, and creation of a POV CFORK at The Crimean slave trade when their deletions at the former article were reverted. Deletion diffs: Special:Diff/1216865827, Special:Diff/1216865945, Special:Diff/1216865945, Special:Diff/1216866073.

New SPA created today, following multiple warnings at master's user talk. 5 minutes after creation, AzaqQara resumed wholesale deletions at Black Sea slave trade: Special:Diff/1216868340.

SPA anon sock has edited exclusively at Black Sea slave trade and The Crimean slave trade, with identical vandalism to. Wikishovel (talk) 19:01, 2 April 2024 (UTC)


 * has just admitted sockpuppetry in this edit at Talk:Black Sea slave trade. Claims that second account was needed for forgotten password, but this is demonstrably false, as master edited . Wikishovel (talk) 19:04, 2 April 2024 (UTC)
 * has also noticed the conversation about SP at my talk page, and has just replied there about it, muttering about frozen phones and wallpaper. Wikishovel (talk) 19:07, 2 April 2024 (UTC)


 * has been blocked for 31 hours for vandalism. Wikishovel (talk) 11:06, 3 April 2024 (UTC)

Adding per User:Aciram below: identical edit pattern. Wikishovel (talk) 14:29, 3 April 2024 (UTC)

Comments by other users

 * Accused parties may also comment/discuss in this section below. See Defending yourself against claims.
 * Comment: My impression is that User:AzaqQara is indeed a sock puppet of user:Someone Qırımlı, beside having at least two IP-adresses. Unless I am mistaken, both AzaqQara and Someone Qırımlı are Crimean tatar inspired names, which may explain their bias in the issue of slavery and slave trade in the Crimean Tatar Khanate, and their apparent agenda to make it appear benevolent, and erase any negative information concerning it. It is concerning that they have started their own article about the subject; in my opinion Draft:The Crimean slave trade should be deleted, not mowed to a draft, though I may not know the rules regarding it.--Aciram (talk) 21:07, 2 April 2024 (UTC)
 * I would ad the IP:adress 178.133.217.184 to this user.--Aciram (talk) 13:34, 3 April 2024 (UTC)

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * The Wordsmith Talk to me 18:48, 5 April 2024 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets
(talk | contribs) 12:35, 6 April 2024 (UTC)

Comments by other users

 * Accused parties may also comment/discuss in this section below. See Defending yourself against claims.


 * The user:Frankovsky S may be another sock puppet: --Aciram (talk) 18:36, 8 April 2024 (UTC)

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * - CheckUser tools may not be used to connect IP addresses to accounts. Sir Sputnik (talk) 15:56, 7 April 2024 (UTC)
 * The IP edits are old, closing. Bbb23 (talk) 13:40, 27 May 2024 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets

 * ( original case name)

Same views towards same article (Black sea slave trade). Cites the same sources as sockpuppeteer (now blocked & investigation closed), similar writing styles. (talk | contribs) 11:15, 6 April 2024 (UTC)

Comments by other users

 * Accused parties may also comment/discuss in this section below. See Defending yourself against claims.
 * Yes, it is clearly the same user. They have also used the IP-adress 178.133.240.86: --Aciram (talk) 11:24, 6 April 2024 (UTC)
 * A third sock puppet may be IP-adress 178.133.216.74: --Aciram (talk) 12:27, 6 April 2024 (UTC)
 * The user:Frankovsky S may be another sock puppet: --Aciram (talk) 18:42, 8 April 2024 (UTC)
 * Note: the user claims that the three accounts are all three different individuals, who all have the same issues with the article subject. I am not certain how this affects the investigation.--Aciram (talk) 18:56, 8 April 2024 (UTC)
 * WP:BOLDly adding sock, per User:Aciram. Account was created 19 February, with similar global footprint to master, yet zero edits until today, both to Talk:Black Sea slave trade in similar style to master and to . As that's the oldest account so far, it could be the correct master. Wikishovel (talk) 21:54, 8 April 2024 (UTC)

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * is . is technically ❌.--  Ponyo bons mots 20:29, 19 April 2024 (UTC)
 * - this case seems like it needs to be renamed to Frankovsky S, since that account is slightly older. based on behavioral evidence. Particularly,  and  are identical in argument, structure and wording with a few slight rephrases. They're also a very close match to comments made by the sockmaster and previous socks. The Wordsmith Talk to me 18:33, 12 June 2024 (UTC)
 * ✅.  ~Oshwah~  (talk) (contribs)   01:51, 9 July 2024 (UTC)