Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Jazzster786/Archive

31 October 2012

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The IP, based in Australia, has been used for a while, prior to Jazzster768 registering an account and making virtually identical edits. In the recent edit war at article Sayyid, the IP was used to reinstate deleted edits by Jazzster768, who is also based in Australia. It looks like the editor realised he was in an edit war he couldn't win, so he logged out and reverted using his IP address. Biker Biker (talk) 07:58, 31 October 2012 (UTC)

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Having read the user's note on Biker's talk page, I am prepared to WP:AGF that this is a new user who doesn't understand how Wikipedia works. This is often a problem with academics, because WP is a very different environment from what they are used to. I will try explaining WP:V, WP:NOR and WP:BRD on his talk page; but I will leave this SPI open for another opinion. JohnCD (talk) 11:25, 31 October 2012 (UTC)


 * that seems reasonable --Biker Biker (talk) 12:00, 31 October 2012 (UTC)


 * Perhaps we were a bit quick to assume good faith given that 118.107.148.150 just blanked this page (Diff) --Biker Biker (talk) 07:26, 1 November 2012 (UTC)


 * I agree that this looks like somebody unaware of our policies, and the log out may have been accidental. Closing with no action taken for now. Reaper Eternal (talk) 15:25, 2 November 2012 (UTC)

07 December 2012

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Per the SPI guidelines, I am requesting CheckUser because of a pattern of 3RR violation using apparent sockpuppets.

Over the last year, large amounts of unsourced information have been repeatedly added and deleted from the article at Sayyid. Because the information is in dispute, causing instability and has no sources, I removed it from the page with a request for citations.

In mid-September, we had a long string of edits adding similar information from two IPs, which appear to actually be the same user because they followed the same editing pattern (rapid-fire, small additions with no sources and no edit summaries) and were separated by a very narrow window. The IPs' histories have extensive overlap, with both working on various pages related to Islam and on Joe Hockey, a politician from Sydney, Australia.

Minutes after the second IP was threatened with a block, User:Jazzster786 created his account and described himself as a professor of Islam at the University of Sydney. Jazzster's editing tends to appear within minutes of the above-listed IPs, as here, here, here and here.

Following those edits, User:Biker Biker requested an SPI on Jazzster, which concluded with an AGF, essentially that we were dealing with a new user who didn't understand the protocols and simply needed to be made aware of them. Shortly thereafter, the second IP blanked the SPI investigation, Jazzster blanked the SPI notice from his page, and User:Moshe1chn was created. Moshe1chn's only edit only edit was to restore Jazzster's material that Biker had stricken. I reverted that edit shortly thereafter.

The page remained stable for the next 20 days, until the arrival of User:Yahalom.chn Yahalom effectively restored Jazzster's edits, though not with a simple revert, instead appearing to manually reinsert the material. One minute after Yahalom's edits, User:Aletioan was created and began editing at Sayyid, building off Jazzster/Yahalom's edits. Immediately after Aletioan's edits, User:Arceheles1 was created and began building off the previous edits (then went to the feedback page to congratulate himself). Then User:Zianatin, then User:Fizaz, then User:12 יצחק, all editing with essentially the same pattern. With the exception of one edit, all of these apparent socks' edits have been limited to Sayyid, related pages and interactions with users who have reverted their nonconstructive changes.

Since those short bursts of activity, those users have only edited again to swoop back in after one of the group has committed a 3RR violation, when they will invariably revert again, as here and here.

Looks like a sock to me. — Bdb484 (talk) 15:49, 7 December 2012 (UTC)

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 * See these edits, which make the sockpuppetry very obvious: Moshe1chn, Yahalom.chn, Aletioan, these two for Arceheles1, these two for Zianatin, Fizaz, and 12 יצחק. Reaper Eternal (talk) 16:36, 7 December 2012 (UTC)