Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Japanhero/Archive

Evidence submitted by Ryulong
Japanhero is a chronic spammer turned annoyance who owns a series of fanpages to Japanese television shows. Before, he added external links to articles. Until recently, he has become disruptive in articles, talk pages, and user talk pages. Category:Wikipedia sockpuppets of Japanhero contains all known sockpuppets. Ryurong is a poor impersonation attempt account that made vindictive edits. Riderfanace is a wild guess, KamenRiderKivala was an obvious sock who did not improve the project, and the other two accounts showed up today to be a good hand bad hand pair. The IP address is the only one that is positively linked because it reverted an edit I made to a known sock's user talk. This person needs to be shown the door, even if there is a possibility that it is not possible to block the individual's IP range. Discussions about the sockpuppeteer can be found here and here, and I had contacted Nishkid64 by e-mail to deal with other sock outbreaks. This needs a formal case to track further sockpuppets.— Ryūlóng ( 竜龙 ) 15:51, 2 December 2009 (UTC)

Comments by accused parties
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CheckUser requests
Requested by — Ryūlóng ( 竜龙 ) 15:51, 2 December 2009 (UTC)


 * - But with the understanding that is stale, and with the recommendation that a check not be ran on  as I fail to see a link to the other accounts listed. This one edit made by that account does not appear to be similar to that of the others.  Tiptoety  talk 06:11, 3 December 2009 (UTC)

Conclusions
-- Avi (talk) 05:02, 4 December 2009 (UTC)


 * All already blocked. Tiptoety  talk 05:18, 4 December 2009 (UTC)

Evidence submitted by Ryulong
I have no idea if it is possible for a check to be performed because the last account is so old, but the name matches the fact that in the past he has created accounts with names that are direct copies of names of items in the articles he edits.— Ryūlóng ( 竜龙 ) 00:05, 9 March 2010 (UTC)

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Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments
Requested by — Ryūlóng ( 竜龙 ) 00:05, 9 March 2010 (UTC)

, stale in relation to (and associated socks) but it couldn't hurt to run a quick check on FINALKAMENATTACKFORMRIDE for any sleepers. Regards, SpitfireTally-ho! 21:30, 11 March 2010 (UTC)
 * No obvious sleepers. – Luna Santin  (talk) 11:34, 13 March 2010 (UTC)

05 October 2011

 * Suspected sockpuppets




 * User compare report Auto-generated every hour.

Although this sockmaster disappeared, the sudden appearance of this account and its first ever edit being something complex leads me to believe that we have a sock of someone, if not Japanhero. — Ryulong ( 竜龙 ) 02:28, 5 October 2011 (UTC)

Comments by other users
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Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * Usernames match up, so I've blocked and tagged Decade. As to OOO, it hasn't edited in months so I'll leave it alone for now, I think. —  Hello Annyong  (say whaaat?!) 03:10, 5 October 2011 (UTC)

16 October 2011

 * Suspected sockpuppets




 * User compare report Auto-generated every hour.

Another account that matches the old naming form and somehow has a working knowledge of the website. Perhaps this will match the accounts that previously edited. — Ryulong ( 竜龙 ) 05:00, 16 October 2011 (UTC)

Comments by other users
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Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * CheckUser comes back, but the username and edits are a dead give away. Blocked. Tiptoety  talk 05:40, 16 October 2011 (UTC)
 * What about in comparison to the IP in the old request or in comparison with ?— Ryulong ( 竜龙 ) 06:41, 16 October 2011 (UTC)
 * I used the non-stale account in the archive to compare to this current one and came up with my results that way. As for, they are . Tiptoety  talk 06:43, 16 October 2011 (UTC)
 * I meant . That's the one you checked?— Ryulong ( 竜龙 ) 06:44, 16 October 2011 (UTC)
 * I used, yes. Tiptoety  talk 06:46, 16 October 2011 (UTC)
 * Would be at all related to these recent cases?— Ryulong  ( 竜龙 ) 06:48, 16 October 2011 (UTC)
 * No. That said, if it were I would not publicly release that information per the privacy policy. Tiptoety  talk 06:51, 16 October 2011 (UTC)
 * I believed it was related to another banned user who recently resurfaced on en.wiki and the commons who edited with that IP on this project, but logged in at the Commons. But it appears I was wrong.— Ryulong ( 竜龙 ) 06:54, 16 October 2011 (UTC)
 * Just because I said it wasn't related to these recent cases does not mean that it isn't related to another sock. I haven't looked into it though, and won't unless there is a compelling reason to do so (evidence). Tiptoety  talk 06:56, 16 October 2011 (UTC)