Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Goelia/Archive

05 January 2016

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Both users continuously make the same edits on the same or related pages. e.g. they make controversial page moves, and try to prevent it from being reverted by changing #REDIRECT into #Redirect; an otherwise meaningless edit. Goelia: ; Drüfft: In particular, I noticed this behavior in the article that is currently at Haji Bektash Veli mausoleum; history page of that article is noteworthy as well. Drüfft opened a page on a somewhat obscure topic, it was moved by another user (Nedim Ardoğa), Goelia immediately came to aid and moved it back, and an edit war ensued, and Goelia used the aforementioned method (#REDIRECT → #Redirect) to impose his version. Months later, I noticed the WP:TITLE violation and got involved; this time Drüfft, who had not edited Wikipedia in 2 months, came to revert it within 15 minutes. He did the same thing as Goelia (#REDIRECT → #Redirect) and didn't bother to reply to my explanation in the talk page why Haji Bektash is wrong to use here.

Other than that, they show most signs of sock puppetry. Drüfft doesn't have a lot of edits, and the ones he has are strikingly similar to Goelia, often editing the same obscure pages previously edited by him. On top of those, they both mark all their edits as minor edits, even when they are very far from being minor.

Considering how quick Drüfft came to edit the page, and how otherwise inactive both Goelia and Drüfft are; it is possible that neither of them is the actual sockmaster and they are both sockpuppets of a very active Wikipedia user. Perhaps a Wikipedian who is active in the same area of interest can help expose the real sockmaster at some point in the future, if that is the case. Orwellianist (talk) 01:33, 5 January 2016 (UTC)

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 * All blocked and tagged. Closing.  Vanjagenije  (talk)  11:53, 5 January 2016 (UTC)