Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/IvanOS/Archive

14 June 2015

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User IvanOS has a history of disruptive editing, edit warring, and ignoring consensus for which he has been blocked seven times, most recently on 7 June 2015, for a period of 3 months. He has made hundreds of edits removing the co-official Croatian settlement names in Serbian language (e.g. and many more in his recent and not so recent contributions).

I suspect FDrago77 is a sock of IvanOS because:
 * 1) FDrago77 is very nearly a single-purpose account which is focused on removing settlement names in Serbian language (e.g.  and many more in his recent contributions).
 * 2) His recent activities and modus operandi seem to coincide with that of IvanOS: e.g. he removed dozens of settlement names on 8 June, one day after IvanOS was blocked for the same offense.
 * 3) His rare interactions with other editors also coincide with IvanOS's position that consensus is supposedly to remove minority settlement names, so he was free to do so, yet refusing to provide evidence that such agreement ever took place. GregorB (talk) 19:40, 14 June 2015 (UTC)


 * BTW, I neglected to set checkuser to "yes", but since there is reason to believe a sock is used for block evasion, I believe CU investigation is needed. GregorB (talk) 19:57, 14 June 2015 (UTC)

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Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * - - per the diffs posted above.  Vanjagenije   (talk)  22:26, 14 June 2015 (UTC)
 * Based upon checkuser evidence, it's the accounts belong to the same individual.  Mike V • Talk 23:36, 14 June 2015 (UTC)
 * Give me some time. I'm going to compile some behavioral evidence. Mike V • Talk 00:06, 15 June 2015 (UTC)

Identical reverts:


 * Ada, Croatia
 * IvanOS: 1, 2,
 * FDrago77: 3, 4


 * Palača
 * IvanOS: 5, 6
 * FDrago77: 7, 8


 * Paulin Dvor
 * IvanOS: 9, 10
 * FDrago77: 11, 12


 * Bijelo Brdo, Croatia
 * IvanOS: 13, 14
 * FDrago77: 15, 16


 * Erdut
 * IvanOS: 17, 18
 * FDrago77: 19, 20


 * Kamenac
 * IvanOS: 21
 * FDrago77: 22


 * Kotlina, Baranja
 * IvanOS: 23
 * FDrago77: 24

There are additional edits at the editor interaction tool, but this should sufficiently establish a connection. In my capacity as an administrator, I'm blocking FDrago77 indefinitely as a proven sock of IvanOS. I'm also extending IvanOS's block to 6 months for sockpuppetry and block evasion. Mike V • Talk 00:51, 15 June 2015 (UTC)