Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/JP Youtube/Archive

08 September 2015

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(all times are in PDT) 2015-09-01T22:30:43‎ AnnonomousUser, this report's suspected sockmaster, creates page Activation Lock, describing an anti-theft feature of Apple devices. Note, all subsequent refs to "the page" refer to this page, unless otherwise stated. 2015-09-02T15:30:01‎ 110.148.115.162 edits the page 2015-09-02T16:50:07 AnnonomousUser, less than an hour later, edits the page, inserting among other things BLP material, claiming that "Joshua Picchioni" is the developer of this "Activation Lock" feature 2015-09-02T16:51:48‎ AnnonomousUser writes at user talk:66.229.180.157 that he (AU) is the developer of the Activation Lock feature; we may conclude that AU is claiming to be Joshua P. 2015-09-03T00:14:47‎  110.148.115.162 edits the page again 2015-09-03T02:42:52 I removed the BLP claim noting that it needed a reference 2015-09-03T15:34:23‎ AnonomousUser put the claim back, this time with what was soon a redlink to page for the claimed designer of the feature, Joshua Picchioni a page AnonomousUser had previously created and was subsequently speedy deleted, at least twice 2015-09-03T15:40:04‎ The last of three speedy deletion nomination notifications for the Joshua Picchioni page 2015-09-03T15:44:31 I deleted the claim again 2015-09-03T18:08:51 AnonomousUser asked me, on my talk page, how the BLP claim should be "referenced". (I replied that such things should be asked on the article talk page, not on mine; there is a notice on my talk page and also an editnotice to that effect. There was no reply anywhere.) 2015-09-04T10:03:29 AnnonomusUser was blocked for sockpuppetry 2015-09-06T18:18:40 ActivationLock, new user and suspected sockpuppet per this report, sets up a few user pages 2015-09-05T18:18:54 121.219.139.96, suspected IP sock reported here, edits the article 2015-09-06T22:01:02 ActivationLock edits the article again

Points:
 * Both IPs .162 and .96 geolocate to Melbourne, Austrailia.
 * Clearly these two IPs, along with already-blocked sockmaster AnnonomousUser and new suspected sock ActivationLock, share a common interest in this Activation Lock page.
 * Editing history for .162 suggests a possibly benign case of "forgot to log in", but ...
 * use of .96 and of the ActivationLock account to edit the same page shortly after AU's block strongly suggests block evasion.
 * All four edit at largely compatible times of day, from about 1500 to 0000 PDT... or 0800 to 1700, i.e. daytime in Melbourne.

-- Jeh (talk) 10:00, 8 September 2015 (UTC)

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Reply to 's question below: I thought AnnonomusUser was the puppetmaster. Jeh (talk) 06:10, 10 September 2015 (UTC)

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * You blocked AnnonomusUser as a sockpuppet. Who is the master?  Vanjagenije  (talk)  21:19, 8 September 2015 (UTC)
 * The following accounts are ✅ to each other:
 * The oldest known account from this group seems to be JP Youtube. . Mike V • Talk 19:06, 10 September 2015 (UTC)
 * Moved to the oldest name and closing.  Vanjagenije  (talk)  19:22, 10 September 2015 (UTC)
 * The oldest known account from this group seems to be JP Youtube. . Mike V • Talk 19:06, 10 September 2015 (UTC)
 * Moved to the oldest name and closing.  Vanjagenije  (talk)  19:22, 10 September 2015 (UTC)
 * The oldest known account from this group seems to be JP Youtube. . Mike V • Talk 19:06, 10 September 2015 (UTC)
 * Moved to the oldest name and closing.  Vanjagenije  (talk)  19:22, 10 September 2015 (UTC)