Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Göktuğ538538/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets

 * ( originally filed under this user)

Similar text and disturbing pattern in the same article by 3 users: Keremmaarda, Göktuğ538538, Overvecht3301 1 2 3 4 5 OrionNimrod (talk) 12:28, 19 August 2023 (UTC)


 * New user, same pattern: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Rome99
 * In many articles, these users are always decrease the number of the Ottoman casualties and increase the number of the casulties of the enemies.
 * Keremmaarda was keen to rewrite the numbers to 4000 overwriting the academic sources:
 * Rome99 Same in the same article:  increasing the casualties of the Ottoman enemies in other articles:
 * Total history falsification: Keremmaarda claim that the famous Siege of Belgrade 1456 (which stopped 70 years the Ottoman advance and the noon bell came from here) was a Pyrrhic victory and the Turks defeated the Christians: User talk:OrionNimrod
 * Keremmaarda and  Rome99   make exactly the same history falsification edit.
 * @ Materialscientist, @ Kansas Bear I see you reverted many similar edits, what is your opinion? OrionNimrod (talk) 09:56, 23 August 2023 (UTC)

Comments by other users

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 * You claim that I falsified. Can you tell me in which claim I did not provide a source? Keremmaarda (talk) 21:44, 25 August 2023 (UTC)

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * Seems like it could be meatpuppetry which is too common in Ottoman era edit wars. to shed any light on the situation; please compare Keremmaarda to Overvecht3301 and  who is also mentioned in the next section. DatGuyTalkContribs 19:00, 16 September 2023 (UTC)
 * Keremmaarda, Göktuğ538538, and Overvecht3301 are to each other—they're all from the same country, but there are several instances where they are editing around the same time but on different IPs. Feels more like WP:MEAT than sockpuppetry. I did find the following account which is ✅ to Göktuğ538538: . I have CU-blocked Bigwar5353 as a result. Regarding Rome99, see the section . Mz7 (talk) 08:08, 20 September 2023 (UTC)
 * Thanks, edits such as and  are far too unlikely to be coincidental.  seems to be a meatpuppet with . Leaving  out of it due to the conclusion I reached in the archive.  bit of a headache for you lot but not sure how to proceed here. Probably best to move this section to under Overvecht3301 or Göktuğ538538's names? Or copy and then histmerge? . DatGuyTalkContribs 12:56, 24 September 2023 (UTC)
 * Moved report to the oldest confirmed sock (Göktuğ538538), tagged Overvecht3301 as suspected. Closing. MarioGom (talk) 22:24, 25 September 2023 (UTC)