Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Jjjoooonnn/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets



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I believe the IP and user to be sockpuppets used by Jacob for WP:TIPPING in Mubarak Muyika.

As can be seen in the edit history of the article, starting on June 8, an edit war started on the article. There was first an edit by the IP address, which was also the first edit they ever made. This edit seems to have prompted to the article, who removed content that was violating WP:NPOV from it. Jacob then reverted the change 8 and a half hours later, which is what probably brought the article to 's attention. Neil, seeing that one of the sources Jacob reverted back into the article was Quora, reverted one of his changes due to it being a violation of WP:BLP and WP:RS. This caused an edit war to erupt between the two (1234) which then made the article show up while I was patrolling recent changes. After reading the sources for about an hour I made an edit to fix some issues in the article. Half an hour later, following my edit, there was a minor style variation (MOS:VAR) edit by the IP address, their second ever edit, on the same article, on the same day this edit war was happening. Only 4 minutes later, Kevin created his account, and then promptly reversed some of the edits I made, in a similar fashion to Jacob: not by using the undo button, but by editing the article to resemble its past look.

Since Jacob has used his 3 daily reverts per Wikipedia policy, I suspect he used Kevin to bypass this, and bypass the criticism of his edits that can be seen on his talk page. All of the edits by the suspects were specifically to Kenyan BLP articles, and Kevin first created his account and edited the article the day of the edit war (June 8), same as the IP address. Both can be seen in their contributions. (Jacob contributions, Kevin contributions, IP contributions) Hecseur (talk) 12:00, 9 June 2018 (UTC)

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 * The Kevin3242423 account is a probable sock but doesn't yet exhibit the sheer WP:CIR characteristics of Jacobbs2090322. A cursory read of their posts will show what I mean. --Neil N  talk to me 15:36, 9 June 2018 (UTC)

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * ✅ plus:
 * . Please move case to Jjjoooonnn.--Bbb23 (talk) 16:46, 9 June 2018 (UTC)
 * ✅. Closing. Sir Sputnik (talk) 19:00, 10 June 2018 (UTC)
 * . Please move case to Jjjoooonnn.--Bbb23 (talk) 16:46, 9 June 2018 (UTC)
 * ✅. Closing. Sir Sputnik (talk) 19:00, 10 June 2018 (UTC)
 * ✅. Closing. Sir Sputnik (talk) 19:00, 10 June 2018 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets



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Very similar name to another sock, User:Kevin3242423, created just to edit Mubarak Muyika, just like the original Kevin (3242423) was. Very similar edit summaries to those of 3242423, sounding unclear, though reasonable, which include issues, such as this diff by 3242423, which has problems with WP:CITEFOOT, while this diff by 3355622 violates WP:NPOV, has some grammatical errors, and cites very weak references to support the NPOV violating claims. Other examples of the unclear edit summaries: 3242423: 1 2, 3355622: 1. Note that both users were created only to edit Mubarak Muyika, and absolutely nothing else, and have incredibly similar names. If it had been only for 3355622's behavior, I wouldn't have filed this investigation, but I find the fact that both users have virtually identical names and were created only to edit this article highly unlikely to be a coincidence. Hecseur (talk) 01:24, 29 January 2019 (UTC)

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Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * Sock blocked and tagged. Closing.  Vanjagenije  (talk)  15:21, 30 January 2019 (UTC)