Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Jeremyraves4/Archive

14 March 2018
(Clerk note: originally filed at Sockpuppet investigations/Rarelythere Ivanvector (Talk/Edits))

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All SPIs that have edited only either Shinichi Mochizuki (a mathematician) or Inter-universal Teichmüller theory (the somewhat controversial theory for which he is known). Each account edits only for one day. Account naming follows a variety of predictable patterns (sometimes a single mathematical word or phrase, sometimes something that resembles a name, often with a few digits at the end). Edit summaries are rare but when present they are often "(minor)", in addition to marking edits as minor regardless of whether they are or not. Content of edits (puffery, particularly use of the word "fundamental") is often duplicated. See discussion here for more background. Because each has a short editing history, I am not 100% certain that all of these (as opposed to most) really are socks; but I am also not certain that this list is comprehensive. (In particular, there are certainly more members of this family going back in time: I cut off my search at the beginning of 2017, although I see that the IP user from whom I got part of this list went back further.) JBL (talk) 12:09, 14 March 2018 (UTC)

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Here is a chronological list. The accounts are used sequentially, never simultaneously, in most cases for for no more than a day. In response to the clerk request, does this mean that they are all "stale"? The characterization of substantial edits as minor is a persistent feature, and many edits are pushing a similar point of view, namely that Mochizuki's work on the ABC conjecture is accepted by knowledgeable experts and that statements to the contrary come from unqualified people. In addition to the edits to Shinichi Mochizuki and Inter-universal Teichmüller theory, there have been edits in the same style to articles on related topics in number theory going back a few more years. The list below starts in 2015, which is when the edits to IUT-related articles began. Will Orrick (talk) 13:46, 17 March 2018 (UTC)


 * And I have moved the page. I agree with Will Orrick that it is not clear what "stale" means in this context. --JBL (talk) 15:36, 17 March 2018 (UTC)


 * In answer to the question "is the second list the same as the first?", it is a superset of the first, and so the first list could be replaced by the second. (Although at this point I am hesitant to do so myself, for obvious reasons!) --JBL (talk) 21:16, 17 March 2018 (UTC)


 * In view of the new socks found by the checkuser, and the fact that that Ivan Fesenko was also a target of Elseford, I think we should also look at the (stale) SPAs who have created and edited this article, with very similar behavior and naming patterns:
 * The first five of these predate Elseford. Chrangers has also edited Local class field theory, Hecke character, Adele ring, Algebraic number theory, Local field, Class field theory‎, and John Tate Adele362 has also edited Local field. Steklov13 has also edited Stanislav Smirnov, Alexander Merkurjev, Yuri Matiyasevich, Grigori Perelman, and Saint Petersburg Mathematical Society; 3a2delg has also edited Arithmetic zeta function; 7baccata has also edited Nottingham group; Adelic7574 has also edited Tate's thesis and Haar measure; Multi49 has also edited Saint Petersburg Mathematical Society; Essdim5 has also edited Kazuya Kato, Alexander Merkurjev, and Andrei Suslin.
 * The first five of these predate Elseford. Chrangers has also edited Local class field theory, Hecke character, Adele ring, Algebraic number theory, Local field, Class field theory‎, and John Tate Adele362 has also edited Local field. Steklov13 has also edited Stanislav Smirnov, Alexander Merkurjev, Yuri Matiyasevich, Grigori Perelman, and Saint Petersburg Mathematical Society; 3a2delg has also edited Arithmetic zeta function; 7baccata has also edited Nottingham group; Adelic7574 has also edited Tate's thesis and Haar measure; Multi49 has also edited Saint Petersburg Mathematical Society; Essdim5 has also edited Kazuya Kato, Alexander Merkurjev, and Andrei Suslin.
 * The first five of these predate Elseford. Chrangers has also edited Local class field theory, Hecke character, Adele ring, Algebraic number theory, Local field, Class field theory‎, and John Tate Adele362 has also edited Local field. Steklov13 has also edited Stanislav Smirnov, Alexander Merkurjev, Yuri Matiyasevich, Grigori Perelman, and Saint Petersburg Mathematical Society; 3a2delg has also edited Arithmetic zeta function; 7baccata has also edited Nottingham group; Adelic7574 has also edited Tate's thesis and Haar measure; Multi49 has also edited Saint Petersburg Mathematical Society; Essdim5 has also edited Kazuya Kato, Alexander Merkurjev, and Andrei Suslin.
 * The first five of these predate Elseford. Chrangers has also edited Local class field theory, Hecke character, Adele ring, Algebraic number theory, Local field, Class field theory‎, and John Tate Adele362 has also edited Local field. Steklov13 has also edited Stanislav Smirnov, Alexander Merkurjev, Yuri Matiyasevich, Grigori Perelman, and Saint Petersburg Mathematical Society; 3a2delg has also edited Arithmetic zeta function; 7baccata has also edited Nottingham group; Adelic7574 has also edited Tate's thesis and Haar measure; Multi49 has also edited Saint Petersburg Mathematical Society; Essdim5 has also edited Kazuya Kato, Alexander Merkurjev, and Andrei Suslin.
 * The first five of these predate Elseford. Chrangers has also edited Local class field theory, Hecke character, Adele ring, Algebraic number theory, Local field, Class field theory‎, and John Tate Adele362 has also edited Local field. Steklov13 has also edited Stanislav Smirnov, Alexander Merkurjev, Yuri Matiyasevich, Grigori Perelman, and Saint Petersburg Mathematical Society; 3a2delg has also edited Arithmetic zeta function; 7baccata has also edited Nottingham group; Adelic7574 has also edited Tate's thesis and Haar measure; Multi49 has also edited Saint Petersburg Mathematical Society; Essdim5 has also edited Kazuya Kato, Alexander Merkurjev, and Andrei Suslin.
 * The first five of these predate Elseford. Chrangers has also edited Local class field theory, Hecke character, Adele ring, Algebraic number theory, Local field, Class field theory‎, and John Tate Adele362 has also edited Local field. Steklov13 has also edited Stanislav Smirnov, Alexander Merkurjev, Yuri Matiyasevich, Grigori Perelman, and Saint Petersburg Mathematical Society; 3a2delg has also edited Arithmetic zeta function; 7baccata has also edited Nottingham group; Adelic7574 has also edited Tate's thesis and Haar measure; Multi49 has also edited Saint Petersburg Mathematical Society; Essdim5 has also edited Kazuya Kato, Alexander Merkurjev, and Andrei Suslin.
 * The first five of these predate Elseford. Chrangers has also edited Local class field theory, Hecke character, Adele ring, Algebraic number theory, Local field, Class field theory‎, and John Tate Adele362 has also edited Local field. Steklov13 has also edited Stanislav Smirnov, Alexander Merkurjev, Yuri Matiyasevich, Grigori Perelman, and Saint Petersburg Mathematical Society; 3a2delg has also edited Arithmetic zeta function; 7baccata has also edited Nottingham group; Adelic7574 has also edited Tate's thesis and Haar measure; Multi49 has also edited Saint Petersburg Mathematical Society; Essdim5 has also edited Kazuya Kato, Alexander Merkurjev, and Andrei Suslin.
 * The first five of these predate Elseford. Chrangers has also edited Local class field theory, Hecke character, Adele ring, Algebraic number theory, Local field, Class field theory‎, and John Tate Adele362 has also edited Local field. Steklov13 has also edited Stanislav Smirnov, Alexander Merkurjev, Yuri Matiyasevich, Grigori Perelman, and Saint Petersburg Mathematical Society; 3a2delg has also edited Arithmetic zeta function; 7baccata has also edited Nottingham group; Adelic7574 has also edited Tate's thesis and Haar measure; Multi49 has also edited Saint Petersburg Mathematical Society; Essdim5 has also edited Kazuya Kato, Alexander Merkurjev, and Andrei Suslin.
 * The first five of these predate Elseford. Chrangers has also edited Local class field theory, Hecke character, Adele ring, Algebraic number theory, Local field, Class field theory‎, and John Tate Adele362 has also edited Local field. Steklov13 has also edited Stanislav Smirnov, Alexander Merkurjev, Yuri Matiyasevich, Grigori Perelman, and Saint Petersburg Mathematical Society; 3a2delg has also edited Arithmetic zeta function; 7baccata has also edited Nottingham group; Adelic7574 has also edited Tate's thesis and Haar measure; Multi49 has also edited Saint Petersburg Mathematical Society; Essdim5 has also edited Kazuya Kato, Alexander Merkurjev, and Andrei Suslin.
 * The first five of these predate Elseford. Chrangers has also edited Local class field theory, Hecke character, Adele ring, Algebraic number theory, Local field, Class field theory‎, and John Tate Adele362 has also edited Local field. Steklov13 has also edited Stanislav Smirnov, Alexander Merkurjev, Yuri Matiyasevich, Grigori Perelman, and Saint Petersburg Mathematical Society; 3a2delg has also edited Arithmetic zeta function; 7baccata has also edited Nottingham group; Adelic7574 has also edited Tate's thesis and Haar measure; Multi49 has also edited Saint Petersburg Mathematical Society; Essdim5 has also edited Kazuya Kato, Alexander Merkurjev, and Andrei Suslin.
 * The first five of these predate Elseford. Chrangers has also edited Local class field theory, Hecke character, Adele ring, Algebraic number theory, Local field, Class field theory‎, and John Tate Adele362 has also edited Local field. Steklov13 has also edited Stanislav Smirnov, Alexander Merkurjev, Yuri Matiyasevich, Grigori Perelman, and Saint Petersburg Mathematical Society; 3a2delg has also edited Arithmetic zeta function; 7baccata has also edited Nottingham group; Adelic7574 has also edited Tate's thesis and Haar measure; Multi49 has also edited Saint Petersburg Mathematical Society; Essdim5 has also edited Kazuya Kato, Alexander Merkurjev, and Andrei Suslin.
 * The first five of these predate Elseford. Chrangers has also edited Local class field theory, Hecke character, Adele ring, Algebraic number theory, Local field, Class field theory‎, and John Tate Adele362 has also edited Local field. Steklov13 has also edited Stanislav Smirnov, Alexander Merkurjev, Yuri Matiyasevich, Grigori Perelman, and Saint Petersburg Mathematical Society; 3a2delg has also edited Arithmetic zeta function; 7baccata has also edited Nottingham group; Adelic7574 has also edited Tate's thesis and Haar measure; Multi49 has also edited Saint Petersburg Mathematical Society; Essdim5 has also edited Kazuya Kato, Alexander Merkurjev, and Andrei Suslin.
 * The first five of these predate Elseford. Chrangers has also edited Local class field theory, Hecke character, Adele ring, Algebraic number theory, Local field, Class field theory‎, and John Tate Adele362 has also edited Local field. Steklov13 has also edited Stanislav Smirnov, Alexander Merkurjev, Yuri Matiyasevich, Grigori Perelman, and Saint Petersburg Mathematical Society; 3a2delg has also edited Arithmetic zeta function; 7baccata has also edited Nottingham group; Adelic7574 has also edited Tate's thesis and Haar measure; Multi49 has also edited Saint Petersburg Mathematical Society; Essdim5 has also edited Kazuya Kato, Alexander Merkurjev, and Andrei Suslin.
 * The first five of these predate Elseford. Chrangers has also edited Local class field theory, Hecke character, Adele ring, Algebraic number theory, Local field, Class field theory‎, and John Tate Adele362 has also edited Local field. Steklov13 has also edited Stanislav Smirnov, Alexander Merkurjev, Yuri Matiyasevich, Grigori Perelman, and Saint Petersburg Mathematical Society; 3a2delg has also edited Arithmetic zeta function; 7baccata has also edited Nottingham group; Adelic7574 has also edited Tate's thesis and Haar measure; Multi49 has also edited Saint Petersburg Mathematical Society; Essdim5 has also edited Kazuya Kato, Alexander Merkurjev, and Andrei Suslin.
 * The first five of these predate Elseford. Chrangers has also edited Local class field theory, Hecke character, Adele ring, Algebraic number theory, Local field, Class field theory‎, and John Tate Adele362 has also edited Local field. Steklov13 has also edited Stanislav Smirnov, Alexander Merkurjev, Yuri Matiyasevich, Grigori Perelman, and Saint Petersburg Mathematical Society; 3a2delg has also edited Arithmetic zeta function; 7baccata has also edited Nottingham group; Adelic7574 has also edited Tate's thesis and Haar measure; Multi49 has also edited Saint Petersburg Mathematical Society; Essdim5 has also edited Kazuya Kato, Alexander Merkurjev, and Andrei Suslin.
 * The first five of these predate Elseford. Chrangers has also edited Local class field theory, Hecke character, Adele ring, Algebraic number theory, Local field, Class field theory‎, and John Tate Adele362 has also edited Local field. Steklov13 has also edited Stanislav Smirnov, Alexander Merkurjev, Yuri Matiyasevich, Grigori Perelman, and Saint Petersburg Mathematical Society; 3a2delg has also edited Arithmetic zeta function; 7baccata has also edited Nottingham group; Adelic7574 has also edited Tate's thesis and Haar measure; Multi49 has also edited Saint Petersburg Mathematical Society; Essdim5 has also edited Kazuya Kato, Alexander Merkurjev, and Andrei Suslin.
 * The first five of these predate Elseford. Chrangers has also edited Local class field theory, Hecke character, Adele ring, Algebraic number theory, Local field, Class field theory‎, and John Tate Adele362 has also edited Local field. Steklov13 has also edited Stanislav Smirnov, Alexander Merkurjev, Yuri Matiyasevich, Grigori Perelman, and Saint Petersburg Mathematical Society; 3a2delg has also edited Arithmetic zeta function; 7baccata has also edited Nottingham group; Adelic7574 has also edited Tate's thesis and Haar measure; Multi49 has also edited Saint Petersburg Mathematical Society; Essdim5 has also edited Kazuya Kato, Alexander Merkurjev, and Andrei Suslin.
 * The first five of these predate Elseford. Chrangers has also edited Local class field theory, Hecke character, Adele ring, Algebraic number theory, Local field, Class field theory‎, and John Tate Adele362 has also edited Local field. Steklov13 has also edited Stanislav Smirnov, Alexander Merkurjev, Yuri Matiyasevich, Grigori Perelman, and Saint Petersburg Mathematical Society; 3a2delg has also edited Arithmetic zeta function; 7baccata has also edited Nottingham group; Adelic7574 has also edited Tate's thesis and Haar measure; Multi49 has also edited Saint Petersburg Mathematical Society; Essdim5 has also edited Kazuya Kato, Alexander Merkurjev, and Andrei Suslin.
 * The first five of these predate Elseford. Chrangers has also edited Local class field theory, Hecke character, Adele ring, Algebraic number theory, Local field, Class field theory‎, and John Tate Adele362 has also edited Local field. Steklov13 has also edited Stanislav Smirnov, Alexander Merkurjev, Yuri Matiyasevich, Grigori Perelman, and Saint Petersburg Mathematical Society; 3a2delg has also edited Arithmetic zeta function; 7baccata has also edited Nottingham group; Adelic7574 has also edited Tate's thesis and Haar measure; Multi49 has also edited Saint Petersburg Mathematical Society; Essdim5 has also edited Kazuya Kato, Alexander Merkurjev, and Andrei Suslin.
 * The first five of these predate Elseford. Chrangers has also edited Local class field theory, Hecke character, Adele ring, Algebraic number theory, Local field, Class field theory‎, and John Tate Adele362 has also edited Local field. Steklov13 has also edited Stanislav Smirnov, Alexander Merkurjev, Yuri Matiyasevich, Grigori Perelman, and Saint Petersburg Mathematical Society; 3a2delg has also edited Arithmetic zeta function; 7baccata has also edited Nottingham group; Adelic7574 has also edited Tate's thesis and Haar measure; Multi49 has also edited Saint Petersburg Mathematical Society; Essdim5 has also edited Kazuya Kato, Alexander Merkurjev, and Andrei Suslin.


 * Similarly, looking at contributors to Alexander Merkurjev, as well as Steklov13 and Essdim5, finds


 * And in Tate's thesis we find
 * Symmetries134 also edited Arithmetic zeta function (created), Riemann hypothesis, Hasse–Weil zeta function, Riemann zeta function, List of zeta functions, Adele ring, and Langlands program.
 * Symmetries134 also edited Arithmetic zeta function (created), Riemann hypothesis, Hasse–Weil zeta function, Riemann zeta function, List of zeta functions, Adele ring, and Langlands program.
 * Symmetries134 also edited Arithmetic zeta function (created), Riemann hypothesis, Hasse–Weil zeta function, Riemann zeta function, List of zeta functions, Adele ring, and Langlands program.


 * But I think the remaining articles edited by this group may be too mainstream to be useful in digging up even more stale socks. —David Eppstein (talk) 00:42, 18 March 2018 (UTC)

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments
Please organize this case properly. First, move the case to the oldest account. Second, separate the suspected puppets into two lists, one non-stale and one stale. Finally, please decide whether to endorse the CU request. Thanks.--Bbb23 (talk) 13:21, 14 March 2018 (UTC)
 * Both of you have in good faith made a mess of an already messy filing. FYI, CheckUser data is retained for 90 days. If a user hasn't edited in the last 90 days, their account is stale. I still need a clerk (no one else) to fix all this. First, review the move that JBL should not have performed and fix it if it needs fixing. Second, make sure that Elseford is the oldest account. Third, I don't know if the second list added by Will is the same as the first list. We need that sorted out. There is NO reason to keep two lists - it's just clutter. Finally, I don't care about chronological; I want the stale and non-stale alleged puppets separated. Two lists for that purpose will be helpful. And, as before, please decide whether to endorse the CU request. I will ping a few clerks who may be able to do this sooner rather than later: Thanks.--Bbb23 (talk) 15:46, 17 March 2018 (UTC)
 * The move was mostly okay, assuming Elseford is a sock; they are the oldest of the listed accounts. However, because of the throwaway nature of this case and the long period of disruption, it seems likely that it's gone on for longer than the two filers have investigated, and it will be impossible to determine the actual odest account. I suggest it be moved to the name of whichever is the oldest confirmed sock after the following request. A clerk will take care of this at the appropriate time. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 21:28, 17 March 2018 (UTC)

for the following non-stale accounts, of which Jeremyraves4 is the oldest:

I consider these behaviourally confirmed but would like a CheckUser to check for sleepers, and see if any additional technical countermeasures can be implemented. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 21:28, 17 March 2018 (UTC)
 * ✅ plus:
 * Blocked without tags.--Bbb23 (talk) 22:16, 17 March 2018 (UTC)
 * well aren't those two interesting? Seems this sockfarm also has an interest in Ivan Fesenko. This smells like paid (or academically coerced) throwaway editing. Since none of the accounts edit for more than a day I'm leaving the unconfirmed accounts unblocked, and will move this case to the name of the oldest CU-confirmed sock. If any become active again, they should be blocked immediately, and please request CheckUser as there likely will be sleepers. The two researchers' articles will be semiprotected indefinitely and I will report at COIN for further investigation, given the extent of disruption. I'm going to do all of this when I have coffee and a mouse, so placing for now. If any other patrolling clerk would like to take care of all of this (admin rights are not required) please go ahead, I'll be a couple hours but I don't think it's urgent. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 11:58, 18 March 2018 (UTC)
 * My mistake: Shinichi Mochizuki has already been ECP protected. Courtesy ping . Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 12:00, 18 March 2018 (UTC)
 * well aren't those two interesting? Seems this sockfarm also has an interest in Ivan Fesenko. This smells like paid (or academically coerced) throwaway editing. Since none of the accounts edit for more than a day I'm leaving the unconfirmed accounts unblocked, and will move this case to the name of the oldest CU-confirmed sock. If any become active again, they should be blocked immediately, and please request CheckUser as there likely will be sleepers. The two researchers' articles will be semiprotected indefinitely and I will report at COIN for further investigation, given the extent of disruption. I'm going to do all of this when I have coffee and a mouse, so placing for now. If any other patrolling clerk would like to take care of all of this (admin rights are not required) please go ahead, I'll be a couple hours but I don't think it's urgent. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 11:58, 18 March 2018 (UTC)
 * My mistake: Shinichi Mochizuki has already been ECP protected. Courtesy ping . Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 12:00, 18 March 2018 (UTC)


 * All confirmed accounts ; see my notes for older accounts. For further developments see WP:COIN. Please only report active accounts in future reports. Thanks everyone, report closed. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 15:15, 18 March 2018 (UTC)

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New editor; all edits to Talk:Shinichi Mochizuki, to remove critical information. Name and habits fit standard behavior. --JBL (talk) 16:44, 20 May 2018 (UTC) JBL (talk) 16:44, 20 May 2018 (UTC)

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 * ✅ plus:
 * . Closing.--Bbb23 (talk) 17:32, 20 May 2018 (UTC)
 * . Closing.--Bbb23 (talk) 17:32, 20 May 2018 (UTC)
 * . Closing.--Bbb23 (talk) 17:32, 20 May 2018 (UTC)