Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/GENIUS(4th power)/Archive

Report date 07:02, 27 August 2009 (UTC)

 * Suspected sockpuppets

Axmannate accounts


 * Evidence submitted by — I've Drunk Brew talk •  contribs

, who first arrived in March 2008, already has a sock drawer of about 140 accounts, including the "good hand" accounts Master of Pies/Is he back? and the "bad hand" Blake The Third accounts, confirmed by various checkusers. Now here's the evidence behind this report:
 * Big Black shiny revenge: This account vandalized the Master of Pies RFCU case, and was immediately reverted and blocked. It is still tagged as a suspected Master of Pies sock. But Master of Pies was confirmed and blocked as a GENIUS sock, so should have been retagged as a confirmed GENIUS sock.
 * Big black shiny woman: Again, suspected to be Master of Pies. Indef-blocked for vandalism á la some "bad hand" GENIUS accounts, and should also have been tagged as GENIUS. Any questions on this account and the above account?
 * Master of Pies 2 claimed to be and was blocked for that reason. He has since been determined, by way of technical and behavioral evidence, to be a proven GENIUS sock puppet, although the user page still says suspected. I'm only placing this account here for full verification as the contributions are pretty obvious to me.
 * Axmannate et al: I now come to explaining about the Axmannate accounts. GENIUS has used imposter accounts before (see here and here), and I suspect Axmannate could as well be another imposter account used by GENIUS (it's username is a synonym of the now-blocked User:Axmann8). The Axmannate accounts' unblock requests were declined as they were established as sockpuppets, but not of Axmann8 (despite the block logs saying "sock of Axmann8"). If Axmann8 was not the master of these accounts (as checked at Axmannate's SPI report), could GENIUS be?

Thanks for taking some time to read this report. -- I've Drunk Brew talk •  contribs  07:02, 27 August 2009 (UTC)


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 * Comments by other users
 * Following the string of Axmann8 impostors, there have been various other harassment-only users that have come after me and User:BQZip01, User:Caden and others. I would ask that the checkuser do some kind of "sweep" and see who else turns up in this spiderweb, going back to roughly March and continuing, so far, into August. Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots 07:25, 27 August 2009 (UTC)


 * CheckUser requests

– unfortunately, there is only one single edit out of all the accounts listed that is not for CheckUser purposes. CheckUser won't be able to show anything here; everything will have to be determined by behavioral evidence unless newer accounts show up. MuZemike 07:48, 27 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments


 * All accounts have already been indefinitely blocked, and Bugs' request is impossible because the accounts are stale (data is kept for 3 months). Anything else that needs to be addressed via this case? Nathan  T 14:40, 28 August 2009 (UTC)


 * If somebody had bothered to look outside the box back in March, maybe it wouldn't have gone "stale". Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots 23:46, 28 August 2009 (UTC)


 * I want someone to answer my question: What is going to take, next time, to get some of these folks to look outside the box when they get a flock of socks, as with the Axmann8 impostors? Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots 00:03, 29 August 2009 (UTC)


 * I think there have been cases about this guy in the past, under different sockmasters, although the names don't come immediately to mind. In order to have an SPI case that comes to a useful conclusion, there needs to be evidence connecting accounts and something that can be done - i.e. blocking, checking to confirm links, etc. Nathan  T 00:04, 29 August 2009 (UTC)
 * When the checkusers feel like it, they can do a "sweep" and look for other socks. In the case of the Axmann8 impostors, it was "swept" under the rug, closed as quickly as possible. I thought, optimistic fool that I am, that maybe they might be doing something behind the scenes, given that the impostors' activity impeached the original account. But no. It was apparently just laziness. It's all on a whim. It depends on which particular checkuser decides to take up the case. Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots 00:11, 29 August 2009 (UTC)


 * They can, but they need someone with contribs still in the database to check - after three months of no identified problematic activity, there is nothing to check. Nathan  T 00:15, 29 August 2009 (UTC)


 * They had plenty of time back in March, they just didn't bother. Which is why I seldom bother with SPI's anymore. They're a pain to put together, and the average checkuser won't look any farther. So it's a waste of my time. When the moles pop up, I whack them. Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots 00:19, 29 August 2009 (UTC)

– Marking as closed. We're done here. MuZemike 00:20, 29 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Conclusions

23 February 2012

 * Suspected sockpuppets


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I think there's enough behavorial evidence (especially the second unblock request) to warrant a check on whether these two are related. Jasper Deng (talk) 05:18, 23 February 2012 (UTC)

Comments by other users
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 * I think it's obvious enough. Tagged.Jasper Deng (talk) 20:48, 23 February 2012 (UTC)

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments
All of the accounts in the archive are, plus this account is already blocked. TN X Man 14:15, 23 February 2012 (UTC)

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Says they are User:GENIUS(4th power) on their user page. Linguist Please respond on the current page. Except on my talk, please ping me (type   before your message) 19:48, 3 June 2016 (UTC)

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Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * Account blocked. Closing. Bbb23 (talk) 21:03, 3 June 2016 (UTC)