Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Jiangtaozhu/Archive

19 October 2013

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All are SPAs that have only edited Tamotsu Miyahira, an orphan article that has been tagged for notability. While none have been blocked or warned for specific violations (other than Sagamikei, who removed maintenance templates), each adds borderline promotional information on this karate teacher using obscure sources or adds photos taken from Miyahira's home page (which have then been removed for copyright violations). The appearance of a new puppet in 24 hours after I marked yet another photo as a copyright violation concerns me. I believe this touches on WP:ILLEGIT, specifically the condition "Contributing to the same page or discussion with multiple accounts." Particularly since the page seems to be largely promotional, I fear this is a single user using multiple accounts to create the impression this karate teacher has a following, or to avoid the impression of COI editing. Michitaro (talk) 20:24, 19 October 2013 (UTC)
 * I have added User:陳元騏, another SPA who has just appeared to edit the same article. Michitaro (talk) 17:24, 21 October 2013 (UTC)

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 * Well this is a mess; will take a little time. -- Sh i r ik  ( Questions or Comments? ) 18:29, 2 November 2013 (UTC)
 * After some coordination with a Commons admin to get information about some of the deleted files, I've come up with the following "sets" of users:
 * Group 1: WP:DUCK
 * Group 2: Probably related
 * Group 3: Insufficient evidence to relate to any other user
 * While there are similarities between groups 1 and 2, there are also significant differences. Because none of the users in group 2 have edited recently, I do not consider it valuable to block any of them. Users in group 1 will be blocked as socks of each other. Users in group 3 do not appear to be related, but a lack of information makes it impossible to be certain. They will remain unblocked unless further evidence shows up. Note that a checkuser request here is not useful, because the questionable accounts are . -- Sh i r ik ( Questions or Comments? ) 19:03, 2 November 2013 (UTC)
 * Moved case to WP:Sockpuppet investigations/Jiangtaozhu in accordance with the above investigation. -- Sh i r ik ( Questions or Comments? ) 19:05, 2 November 2013 (UTC)
 * Group 2: Probably related
 * Group 3: Insufficient evidence to relate to any other user
 * While there are similarities between groups 1 and 2, there are also significant differences. Because none of the users in group 2 have edited recently, I do not consider it valuable to block any of them. Users in group 1 will be blocked as socks of each other. Users in group 3 do not appear to be related, but a lack of information makes it impossible to be certain. They will remain unblocked unless further evidence shows up. Note that a checkuser request here is not useful, because the questionable accounts are . -- Sh i r ik ( Questions or Comments? ) 19:03, 2 November 2013 (UTC)
 * Moved case to WP:Sockpuppet investigations/Jiangtaozhu in accordance with the above investigation. -- Sh i r ik ( Questions or Comments? ) 19:05, 2 November 2013 (UTC)
 * Group 3: Insufficient evidence to relate to any other user
 * While there are similarities between groups 1 and 2, there are also significant differences. Because none of the users in group 2 have edited recently, I do not consider it valuable to block any of them. Users in group 1 will be blocked as socks of each other. Users in group 3 do not appear to be related, but a lack of information makes it impossible to be certain. They will remain unblocked unless further evidence shows up. Note that a checkuser request here is not useful, because the questionable accounts are . -- Sh i r ik ( Questions or Comments? ) 19:03, 2 November 2013 (UTC)
 * Moved case to WP:Sockpuppet investigations/Jiangtaozhu in accordance with the above investigation. -- Sh i r ik ( Questions or Comments? ) 19:05, 2 November 2013 (UTC)
 * While there are similarities between groups 1 and 2, there are also significant differences. Because none of the users in group 2 have edited recently, I do not consider it valuable to block any of them. Users in group 1 will be blocked as socks of each other. Users in group 3 do not appear to be related, but a lack of information makes it impossible to be certain. They will remain unblocked unless further evidence shows up. Note that a checkuser request here is not useful, because the questionable accounts are . -- Sh i r ik ( Questions or Comments? ) 19:03, 2 November 2013 (UTC)
 * Moved case to WP:Sockpuppet investigations/Jiangtaozhu in accordance with the above investigation. -- Sh i r ik ( Questions or Comments? ) 19:05, 2 November 2013 (UTC)
 * Moved case to WP:Sockpuppet investigations/Jiangtaozhu in accordance with the above investigation. -- Sh i r ik ( Questions or Comments? ) 19:05, 2 November 2013 (UTC)


 * Blocked all users in group 1. Master is blocked 2 weeks; socks are blocked indef. Groups 2 and 3 remain unblocked. Tagged accordingly. Closing case. Sh i r ik  ( Questions or Comments? ) 19:08, 2 November 2013 (UTC)