Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Goblin Face/Archive

24 December 2014

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Logo filed a sockpuppet investigation (see Sockpuppet investigations/Bender235/Archive against myself and two other editors who disagreed with him on the talk page of the [Atlantis]] article. The accusation was quickly dismissed. Somethingabitodd's only edits were repeating Logos unsourced accusations.  . PlatoAtlantis's only edits were repeating Logos unsourced accusations. DefendingJohnVLuce's only posts is supporting PlatoAtlantis's unsourced accusations. Somethingabitodd and PlatoAtlantis are currently blocked for abusing multiple accounts. Logos and DefendingJohnVLuce are not blocked. I have requested checkuser for two reasons. There is a small chance that the listed socks are a third party trying to get Logos in trouble and not Logos themselves. There has also been recent problems with socking on Atlantis (see Sockpuppet investigations/Platonics/Archive and I think a check for undetected socks would be useful. Edward321 (talk) 23:20, 24 December 2014 (UTC)

Since Logos has not been checkusered and checkuser has revealed Platonics as one of the socks, I suggest this be archived under Sockpuppet investigations/Platonics. Edward321 (talk) 04:49, 25 December 2014 (UTC)

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I encourage checkuser to accept this case and investigate further, so that I can see what common I have with these 3 accounts. This is more amusing than my filing at Sockpuppet investigations/Bender235/Archive. At least I had some arguments; the only mistake was to include Deor in the list (Somethingabitodd was right). When Deor excluded, the intersection set of Edward and Bender seems considerable. As far as I know, nobody disagreed me on atlantis talk page, because I made only 1 comment. Since any user can see edits of any other user, Somethingabitodd must have seen my filing (either by looking at Edward's or Bender's history) and have tried to promote Edward=Bender suspicion further. Logos (talk) 00:10, 25 December 2014 (UTC)


 * @Deltaquad Goblinface might be a false-positive; because that account's edits are on completely different subjects. Logos (talk) 10:20, 25 December 2014 (UTC)


 * Mike, are you okay? You tagged my userpage as a sock of goblinface, in spite of Deltaquad's "Logos does not appear to be connected" comment below. I'm not connected with neither goblinface nor any account below listed.
 * Apart from that, I think there is a false-positive about goblinface; how come a user with a skeptic POV (i.e. goblinface), objects the presentation of Atlantis as fiction? Logos (talk) 17:16, 25 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Sorry, it's an automated tool that accidentally included you as well. My apologies. I've reverted my edit to your user page. In regards to the link to Goblin Face, while I don't have checkuser access, DeltaQuad has mentioned that it's a strong technical connection with the other socks. Mike V  •  Talk  17:20, 25 December 2014 (UTC)

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 * - Major sockfarm here, but it doesn't appear connected to Logos, and I have not checkusered Logos. -- DQ   (ʞlɐʇ)  01:45, 25 December 2014 (UTC)
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 * I've tagged the socks. I don't think Logos is related to this farm at all. Most of the evidence presented involved the named sock accounts and Logos was only tangentially suspected. Mike V  •  Talk  17:12, 25 December 2014 (UTC)

10 June 2015

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Per edits at Sockpuppet investigations/bender235 / editing overlap on Atlantis. Discovered sockfarm during CU check. Tiptoety talk 23:57, 10 June 2015 (UTC)

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I wonder if this sock farm is related to other incidents of sockpuppetry. The overlap between Atlantis and British Israelism in this sock farm (see the contribs of User:AncientScribal) is really intriguing--a few months ago a sockpuppet investigation ([]) turned up a huge sockfarm, some of which edited British Israelism (e.g., User:HerodotusReader) and some of whom edited Talk:Atlantis (e.g. User:PlatoAtlantis, User:DefendingJohnVLuce, User:Somethingabitodd). Some of those posts were hostile towards Edward321 and Bender235, e.g.. Seems like the same guy. --Akhilleus (talk) 03:10, 11 June 2015 (UTC)


 * As someone who has watched and contributed to the Atlantis page, assuming that the other editors were (more or less) in good faith I find this very concerning. Particularly as Quack Hunter was arguing against JesusWater and SolontheAthenian. I didn't see any notification about this on the page, but I think that this would be a good idea. I thought that Bender235 was extremely aggressive in pushing his point of view, but perhaps that was a reaction against this behaviour.--Jack Upland (talk) 08:43, 19 November 2015 (UTC)

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 * All of the above are ✅ / ✅. Unknown who the "real" master account is, so I just picked the one with the most edits. Feel free to rename the case / tag differently if a different master is discovered. Tiptoety  talk 23:58, 10 June 2015 (UTC)
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 * Accounts tagged. Mike V • Talk 01:37, 11 June 2015 (UTC)