Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/IBobi/Archive

16 February 2013

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Voyage321 made a fairly suspicious first edit given Wikivoyage:Wikivoyage talk:Search Expedition and Wikivoyage:Wikivoyage talk:Search Expedition. I suspect this is User:IBobi avoiding his indefinite block. There might be additional sleeper accounts. —Ruud 01:47, 16 February 2013 (UTC)


 * Also see Special:CentralAuth/Voyage321.

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 * It might be worth contacting the administrator of this site: http://www.mywot.com/en/scorecard/wikivoyage.org as a single-purpose account "WorldTravelller" was posting there on 02/14/2013 with clearly libellous content (false computer virus accusations). I'd be curious to know if this is a sockpuppet of the same user.
 * http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log&user=IBobi indicates "18:24, 10 August 2012 User account PunchJudith (talk | contribs) was created by IBobi (talk | contribs)" ... one more sock for the washload? K7L (talk) 16:36, 16 February 2013 (UTC)
 * The sockpuppets are now turning up on alexa.com to submit bogus reviews praising wikitravel.org and condemning wikivoyage.org, have reported five so far: borisc, travelasia, worldtravelller, karolina2000, aleks123. Someone has been busy. K7L (talk) 02:59, 18 February 2013 (UTC)

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * Could also be a meatpuppet, not sock. --Rschen7754 01:52, 16 February 2013 (UTC)
 * - - for sleeper check per User:Vituzzu's block on enwikivoyage; however this may need additional assistance. Rschen7754 09:53, 16 February 2013 (UTC)
 * The two given accounts are ✅ matches, as are the following sleepers:
 * WilliamH (talk) 11:00, 16 February 2013 (UTC)
 * Blocked and tagged. Please hold open for a little bit so that a steward can take a look. --Rschen7754 11:07, 16 February 2013 (UTC)
 * I've blocked and tagged per above. It was not checked as all data for it is, and it has no other logged actions on a WMF wiki. WilliamH (talk) 16:41, 16 February 2013 (UTC)
 * Voyage321, Awocial2012, PunchJudith, Alekshultschool1 and FrankTraveller have been locked by stewards upon my request, as they're socks here on WMF projects for only one reason. I'd ask that clerks refrain from archiving this case until I say so. Thanks. WilliamH (talk) 14:16, 17 February 2013 (UTC)
 * Oh well, this long-term abuse started on en.voy but it seems to be spreading on other wikis, please allow me ~1h to re-check some stuffs on en.voy and then I'll be able to write down a short report for the checkusers' mailinglist. --Vituzzu (talk) 14:37, 17 February 2013 (UTC)
 * Marking for checkuser hold then. Reaper Eternal (talk) 04:26, 18 February 2013 (UTC)
 * Voyage321, Awocial2012, PunchJudith, Alekshultschool1 and FrankTraveller have been locked by stewards upon my request, as they're socks here on WMF projects for only one reason. I'd ask that clerks refrain from archiving this case until I say so. Thanks. WilliamH (talk) 14:16, 17 February 2013 (UTC)
 * Oh well, this long-term abuse started on en.voy but it seems to be spreading on other wikis, please allow me ~1h to re-check some stuffs on en.voy and then I'll be able to write down a short report for the checkusers' mailinglist. --Vituzzu (talk) 14:37, 17 February 2013 (UTC)
 * Marking for checkuser hold then. Reaper Eternal (talk) 04:26, 18 February 2013 (UTC)