Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/ISWAK3/Archive

Report date August 18 2009, 18:56 (UTC)

 * Suspected sockpuppets


 * Evidence submitted by Kotiwalo

KAWSI3's user name greatly resembles ISWAK3, which originally aroused my suspicion. KAWSI3's contributions begun abruptly with reverting several edits made by other users, and that seems very unlikely behavior for a newcomer to me. Furthermore, this diff is a probable result of getting confused with the current account. Also, I suspect that they both are currently being used as block evading socks of the operator of GMA Fan, seeing their similar fields of interest and GMA Fan's previous use of socks. In fact, when GMA Fan began contributing in mid April 2009, ISWAK3's rate of edits plummeted significantly for a couple of weeks. Kotiwalo (talk) 18:56, 18 August 2009 (UTC)

EDIT:It turns out that while I was writing this report the socks were blocked. No need for investigation. Kotiwalo (talk) 19:00, 18 August 2009 (UTC)


 * Comments by accused parties    See Defending yourself against claims.

This investigation should follow through because there is a troubling triangle of sockpuppetry/meatpuppetry going on with GMA Fan, Witchy2006 and ISWAK3. GMA Fan has been popping up with sockpuppets randomly accusing others of sockpuppetry. I would not be surprised if KAWSI3 is a GMA Fan sockpuppet trying to get ISWAK3 blocked because they have had disputes in the past. I say meatpuppetry because GMA Fan and Witchy2006 appear to be on different continents. -- Mufka (u) (t) (c) 19:12, 18 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Comments by other users
 * KAWSI3 is a confirmed GMA Fan sock; ISWAK3 is unrelated. See the linked page. -  Jeremy  ( v^_^v Tear him for his bad verses! ) 19:39, 18 August 2009 (UTC)


 * Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments


 * Conclusions
 * Close and archive per Jeremy. NW ( Talk ) 22:39, 18 August 2009 (UTC)