Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/HaTikwa/Archive

23 July 2011

 * Suspected sockpuppets




 * User compare report Auto-generated every hour.

identical attempts to enter citespam here, here & here as HaTikwa and here and here as Okdone. Alcmaeonid (talk) 17:57, 23 July 2011 (UTC)

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Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * CU isn't necessary here. Per WP:DUCK I've blocked and tagged the sock. I've also blocked the master 3 days for edit warring (see their contribs) and for socking. —  Hello Annyong  (say whaaat?!) 13:01, 24 July 2011 (UTC)

25 September 2011

 * Suspected sockpuppets




 * User compare report Auto-generated every hour.

Discussion at ANI has established beyond a doubt that User:NoHounding was part of the HaTikwa sockfarm, which is related to a (self-)promotion campaign for writer Michael Kühntopf. This person's named wikipedia account has been banned on other projects for related disruption, and has participated in the socks' reverting campaign at least once recently, so there are obvious grounds for suspecting he is the actual sockmaster behind HaTikwa. As this account has otherwise made some reasonable contributions, it might be characterized as a good-hand-bad-hand scheme. Since it's a real-name account of an identifiable person, I'd feel better about blocking if there was checkuser confirmation. Fut.Perf. ☼ 07:09, 25 September 2011 (UTC)

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Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * - Michael Kühntopf is a pretty old account, so I don't think it's a sock here; it is, though, clearly related to the rest of this. I'll endorse for confirmation of NoHounding, as well as to see if there are other acccounts related to the master. —  Hello Annyong  (say whaaat?!) 13:21, 25 September 2011 (UTC)
 * ✅ NoHounding is a straight match.
 * No direct check on, but this username consistently showed up during the sleeper checks and ✅ a straight match.
 * Also uncovered sleepers, and  ✅
 * All accounts blocked. - Mailer Diablo 14:02, 25 September 2011 (UTC)
 * Interesting. Well, everyone's been blocked, so I'll close for now. —  Hello Annyong  (say whaaat?!) 14:23, 25 September 2011 (UTC)