Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Greekboy12345er6/Archive

20 May 2010

 * Suspected sockpuppets

Identical edit pattern -- contentious unsourced characterisation of political parties, many edit summaries saying "I think this is so", poor spelling and erratic capitalisation. The IP has been blocked twice in the past two days for this behaviour, and the puppeteer was blocked for the same reason the previous day. RolandR (talk) 00:01, 20 May 2010 (UTC)
 * Evidence submitted by RolandR (talk)
 * IP now blocked for third time in three days. RolandR (talk) 07:01, 20 May 2010 (UTC)


 * And the suspected puppeteer is still continuing his disruptive editing. RolandR (talk) 07:17, 21 May 2010 (UTC)


 * Comments by accused parties    See Defending yourself against claims.


 * Comments by other users
 * Same comments in comment line about change to template ideologies of political parties. No willingness to discuss changes or provide sources. Ground Zero | t 02:29, 20 May 2010 (UTC)

They look like the same user. Same types of articles, language, etc. Greekboy12345er6 blocked 1 week for block evasion. IP's block reset and extended for 1 week.  E lockid  ( Talk ) 14:48, 21 May 2010 (UTC)
 * Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments

Evidence submitted by RolandR
Cklear sock. Exactly the same pattern of disruptive editing for which this puppeteer and puppets have been repeatedly blocked:, , , and many more. RolandR (talk) 19:04, 22 May 2010 (UTC)

Comments by accused parties
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Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments
Lugiboy78 blocked indef. Unlike the first IP, the IP in this report did not really quack for me. Secondly, the first IP and this report's IP do not geolocate to the same country, not even the same continent. So, I'm leaving that alone.  E lockid  ( Talk ) 01:42, 23 May 2010 (UTC)

Evidence submitted by RolandR
Contimnuing to make exactly the same disruptive edits as other socks of this multiply-blocked editor. RolandR (talk) 17:48, 7 June 2010 (UTC)

Comments by accused parties
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Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments
Blocked for 55 hours. TN X Man 18:06, 7 June 2010 (UTC)

Evidence submitted by RolandR
Identical unsourced edits, without capital letters, and with absurd edit summaries, to articles about political parties and politicians. RolandR (talk) 11:55, 10 June 2010 (UTC)

Comments by accused parties
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Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments
Quack. Blocked and tagged. TN X Man 13:54, 10 June 2010 (UTC)

Additional note. I've blocked Greekboy12345er6 indefinitely for continued and repeated disruptive editing.  E lockid  ( Talk ) 15:10, 10 June 2010 (UTC)

Evidence submitted by RolandR
Quack quack RolandR (talk) 09:26, 30 June 2010 (UTC)

Comments by accused parties
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Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments
Blocked and tagged. Reports on IPs like this can probably be reported to AIV. TN X Man 14:40, 30 June 2010 (UTC)

10 November 2011

 * Suspected sockpuppets


 * User compare report Auto-generated every hour.

Very similar behaviour, including edit-warring over unsupported changes to descriptions of politicians and political parties and refusal to take part in talk pages. Compare edits by this editor and blocked socks to, eg, Workers' Party of Korea, Fiorello La Guardia, Mongolian People's Party and many more. RolandR (talk) 22:53, 10 November 2011 (UTC)

Comments by other users
''Accused parties may also comment/discuss in this section below. See Defending yourself against claims.''
 * I agree with Roland that this IP's articles and editing misbehavior are strikingly like Greekboy12345er6's, enough to warrant a check-user or SPI. Kiefer .Wolfowitz 15:08, 11 November 2011 (UTC)

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments
CheckUser can't do anything here - the IP is already blocked and CheckUsers will not publically link accounts and IP addresses. Not much more to do here I'd say. WilliamH (talk) 15:44, 11 November 2011 (UTC)

All sockmaster accounts are. Have blocked based on the very loud quacking. --Elen of the Roads (talk) 15:52, 11 November 2011 (UTC)
 * Yep, seems like we're done here. WilliamH (talk) 15:54, 11 November 2011 (UTC)

23 November 2011

 * Suspected sockpuppets


 * User compare report Auto-generated every hour.

Obvious puppet of serial puppeteer, altering ideologies of political parrties without sources or discussion. Compare this edit by IP with this one by previously blocked sock. RolandR (talk) 01:03, 23 November 2011 (UTC)

Comments by other users
''Accused parties may also comment/discuss in this section below. See Defending yourself against claims.''

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * No, I don't think it's a match. The geolocation of that previously blocked IP - 24.23.161.104 - is California; the 87 IP is Denmark. Other IPs in the archive also geolocate to California. Closing with no action taken. —  Hello Annyong  (say whaaat?!) 01:47, 23 November 2011 (UTC)

21 March 2012

 * Suspected sockpuppets




 * User compare report Auto-generated every hour.

Exactly the same editing pattern as described in previous Greekboy12345er6 cases: arbitrarily and unilaterally altering ideologies and party spectrum positions in the infoboxes of political parties without sources, explanations or discussion. RJFF (talk) 00:51, 21 March 2012 (UTC)

Comments by other users
''Accused parties may also comment/discuss in this section below. See Defending yourself against claims.'' This editor, who does indeed look very like the serial puppeteer Greekboy12345er6, appears to be carrying on his disruptive behaviour using several Chilean IPs. I have added a couple more; there are probably others. RolandR (talk) 17:34, 22 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Most previous IP socks of Greekboy have located to Oakland. So, though the above IPs are clearly socks of Danrolo (who states on his userpage that he comes from Chile), this may be another disruptive editor with similar editing patterns, rather than a puppet of Greekboy. RolandR (talk) 17:42, 22 March 2012 (UTC)

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * Closing, per RolandR's second comment really. I add that Danrolo is a very established account from 2007, that alone makes it in this case a bit unlikely. If this is really disruptive enough I'm afraid you'll have to bring him to ANI again (with diffs of problematic edits, diffs that show it was explained to him why they are problematic, and diffs that show he ignored those attempts and continued). Amalthea  16:46, 26 March 2012 (UTC)

05 June 2013

 * Suspected sockpuppets


 * User compare report Auto-generated every hour.
 * Editor interaction utility

This IP has the same characteristic editing pattern, of unexplained and unsourced changes to ideologies of political parties, organisations and individuals. IP does not ever take part in talk page discussions or justify edits. The IP appears to be in the same range as other blocked socks of this serial puppeteer.
 * In fact, on checking, it turns out that this IP has itself previously been blocked as a puppet. Quack Quack! RolandR (talk) 09:16, 5 June 2013 (UTC)

Given the very large number of edits from this account, it may take some time to clear up the damage. Are there any admin tools that can roll back large numbers of edits, if they are not the last edits on a page? RolandR (talk) 09:13, 5 June 2013 (UTC)

Comments by other users
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Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * I've blocked the IP for a year now. Closing. Reaper Eternal (talk) 12:15, 5 June 2013 (UTC)

08 December 2014

 * Suspected sockpuppets


 * User compare report Auto-generated every hour.
 * Editor interaction utility

Restoring AsharaDayne's edits Sjö (talk) 20:48, 8 December 2014 (UTC)

Comments by other users
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This is not AsharaDayne/Greekboy, but JarlaxleArtemis, who has been stalking me, reverting my edits, and leaving abusive edit summaries. RolandR (talk) 23:45, 8 December 2014 (UTC)

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * IP has been blocked for a month by HJ Mitchell. I've upped the account's block to 2 weeks for block evasion. Keep an eye on this account. The revision deleted edit summaries by the IP are concerning. Mike V  •  Talk  22:10, 8 December 2014 (UTC)

08 December 2014

 * Suspected sockpuppets


 * User compare report Auto-generated every hour.
 * Editor interaction utility

Same pattern of unexplained and unsourced changes to ideologies and alliances of political parties, and of failure/refusal to engage in discussion. RolandR (talk) 11:01, 8 December 2014 (UTC)

Comments by other users
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Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * Thanks for pointing this out. I saw the request above first, but didn't make the connection until I saw this one. I've blocked the account indefinitely. Previous reports haven't really turned up any additional accounts, so I don't think a check is needed here. Mike V  •  Talk  22:25, 8 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Okay, per ANI, let's reopen this. Checkuser helps a little, because there is (or at least was) socking going on.  Specifically, these three accounts are ✅ for each other, but before that is stale:



That's as far as CU can take us, but it is worth another look over just to be sure. Courcelles 14:27, 11 December 2014 (UTC)
 * I've looked over the contributions and the 3 accounts definitely are connected to each other. The accounts have the same behavior as Greekboy12345er6, so I feel it's fair to conclude that they are related. In regards to the IP, the edit summaries are similar to JA's MO, but the IP made the same edits to the redirects as AsharaDayne did. It's possible that JA made those edits in an attempt to mimic the user or it could be that the user decided to make rude comments similar to what JA would do. Either way, the IP has been blocked and it's really not important to figure out who the IP actually is. Mike V  •  Talk  19:29, 11 December 2014 (UTC)

01 May 2015

 * Suspected sockpuppets


 * User compare report Auto-generated every hour.
 * Editor interaction utility

Looks like (much) more of the same: unexplained changes to ideologies of political parties, with no edit summaries and no participation in talk pages. This editor targets many of the same articles, with an identical MO. Previous socks may be stale as far as CU is concerned, but it would still be useful in order to identify any further current or sleeper accounts of this prolific puppeteer. RolandR (talk) 11:23, 1 May 2015 (UTC)
 * Vanjagenije, it's difficult to identify any one edit as clear evidence; what we see here is a clear pattern of editing. For instance, Travelbybus frequently adds an unsourced characterisation as "far-right", "centre-left", "centre-right, or similar to articles about political parties. Previously blocked socks have done the same:, , . This editor has made several hundred such edits, as have previously blocked socks. Like the previously blocked socks, the editor rarely uses edit summaries, and never engages in talk-page discussion. The pattern of editing is so similar that it appears to me an obvious sock, following the same obsessive and disruptive pattern. — Preceding unsigned comment added by RolandR (talk • contribs) 01:09, 2 May 2015 (UTC)

Comments by other users
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Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * Please, provide WP:diffs of edits made by Travelbybus and diffs of edits made by Greekboy12345er6 (or previous socks) and explain how are they similar.  Vanjagenije  (talk)  23:38, 1 May 2015 (UTC)
 * per diffs provided by RolandR.  Vanjagenije  (talk)  16:42, 14 May 2015 (UTC)

— Berean Hunter   (talk)  13:31, 16 May 2015 (UTC)
 * The only things that CU can tell us here is that 1) there are no other matching accounts and 2) the geolocation is completely different than previously-checked accounts in the archive, but open proxies probably are/have been in use. ​—DoRD (talk)​ 17:58, 14 May 2015 (UTC)
 * Indeffing and closing.

03 August 2015

 * Suspected sockpuppets


 * User compare report Auto-generated every hour.
 * Editor interaction utility

Continued unsourced alteration of political ideologies, as per many already-blocked socks of this serially disruptive puppeteer RolandR (talk) 10:27, 3 August 2015 (UTC)
 * For example, compare these edits by Buzzbuzzwilli with these by Greekboy sock Travelbybus; or, on another article, this by Bbw with this by an IP blocked as a Greekboy sock; or this by Bbw with this by yet another IP blocked as a Greekboy sock. Across a score or more of articles, this editor is making the same, or very similar, edits as several previously identified and blocked socks. RolandR (talk) 16:40, 3 August 2015 (UTC)

Comments by other users
''Accused parties may also comment/discuss in this section below. See Defending yourself against claims.'' GreekBoy diffs:, , or just about any from his contribs page. See also this SPI which I filed, attempting to connect Buzzbuzzwili with several other accounts, with lots of diffs, but I hadn't noticed the connection to greekboy. The behavior is indeed highly similar. with these by Greekboy sock Travelbybus MissPiggysBoyfriend (talk) 13:08, 3 August 2015 (UTC) Consta132, whom I mentioned in the other investigation, was active as recently as August 1. MissPiggysBoyfriend (talk) 20:27, 3 August 2015 (UTC)

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * - In order to facilitate and expedite your request, please provide diffs to support your case. Please give two or more diffs meeting the following format:
 * 1) At least one diff is from the sockmaster (or an account already blocked as a confirmed sockpuppet of the sockmaster), showing the behaviour characteristic of the sockmaster.
 * 2) At least one diff per suspected sockpuppet, showing the suspected sockpuppet emulating the behaviour of the sockmaster given in the first diff.
 * 3) In situations where it is not immediately obvious from the diffs what the characteristic behaviour is, a short explanation must be provided. Around one sentence is enough for this.  Vanjagenije   (talk)  11:44, 3 August 2015 (UTC)
 * - to compare Buzzbuzzwili with, the only non-stale sock.  Vanjagenije  (talk)  17:51, 3 August 2015 (UTC)
 * Possible on a geographical basis, but that's as helpful as I can be. Courcelles (talk) 22:16, 4 August 2015 (UTC)
 * Buzzbuzzwili is blocked, son no need to investigate further. Closing the case.  Vanjagenije  (talk)  12:42, 6 August 2015 (UTC)