Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Jpesch95/Archive

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I think this one person using several accounts to vote-stack at XfD.

Jpesch95 created Category:Incidents of violence against boys. It was nominated for CfD in April 2020. The Louisianajones1978 account was created on 21 April and !voted keep that same day.

On Commons, Louisianajones1978 uploaded pictures of a young man who passed away in 2017. At a deletion discussion, Jpesch95 and Louisianajones1978 both showed up to !vote keep. The VirginiaBeach78 account was created on August 1 and !voted keep on August 5.

Similarly, on Wikiquote, Louisianajones1978 created an entry for the same young man and VirginiaBeach78 showed up to a deletion discussion to !vote keep.

The editor interaction analyzer tool shows a fair bit of overlap between Jpesch95, Louisianajones1978, and Garcia1865 on Wikidata:. This overlap is also evident on enwiki: see the page histories of Beatriz Peschard, Eugenio Peschard, Alejandro Peschard Fernández, etc. Cross-wiki, compare es:Museo de Arqueología Ganot-Peschard (Louisianajones1978) with Ganot-Peschard Museum of Archeology (Jpesch95), and es:Eva Zorrilla Tessler (Louisianajones1978) with Eva Tessler (Garcia1865). Both Garcia1865 and Louisianajones1978 have added artwork by the modern artist Marc-Anthony Macon.

In January 2021, Garcia1865 created an article at Gay men. Crossroads AfDed it as a content fork. VirginiaBeach78, Garcia1865, and Jpesch95 cast the first three keep !votes, with similar rationales.

On Commons, Louisianajones1978 created a "Heteroflexibility" category. At a deletion discussion in January, Louisianajones1978 said he wanted it kept. Garcia1865 showed up the next day to !vote keep.

Most recently, Louisianajones1978 created an article at Gayphobia (now moved to Discrimination against gay men). It went to AfD, where Louisianajones1978, Jpesch95, and Garcia1865 all !voted to keep or merge/move. gnu 57 19:21, 16 March 2021 (UTC)

Comments by other users
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 * We’re students who live together and a lot of times use the same computer. We all study Latinos / gender and sexuality, so that’s why a lot of our common interactions on Wikidata and Commons have to do with either Mexicans or LGBT issues. In terms of the articles created and their translations into Spanish, that was mostly started as a way to tease our roommate and make them feel uncomfortable (though some of the image files and quote page created were made with genuine intentions). A lot of times we did vote to back each other up in AfD debates, but each one of us always used our own account and nobody ever forced anybody else to edit something or vote in a way they didn’t agree with. Louisianajones1978 (talk) 22:14, 16 March 2021 (UTC)
 * I always thought the accounts of these that I knew about were suspicious. Even if the claims above were true (it comes off to me as highly implausible that roommates would just happen to be so similar), they are in clear violation of WP:MEAT. Two accounts both having "78" in the name is unlikely to be coincidental. Crossroads -talk- 03:14, 19 March 2021 (UTC)
 * I did not recruit or enlist my roommates to edit any pages or ever agree with me. We live together because we have similar interests, and because a few of us are in similar points in our lives (age, life circumstances, etc.). Wiki materials on Latinos and LGBT people are still pretty limited, so a few of us have been working together toward expanding that base, but none of us really works on the exact same thing. We did regularly discuss what we were working on over meals, but we thought of it as a way to make the house into a year-round Art+Feminism event. Louisianajones1978 (talk) 15:16, 22 March 2021 (UTC)
 * Ok, so considering my editing history - 4,371 total across Wikimedia, 36 pages created, and 138 files uploaded - I guess I sort of resent being called Louisiana’s meat puppet. Just because I also edit pages related to Mexican Americans and LGBT issues doesn’t mean she’s ever directly or indirectly influenced what I've worked on. That is just where my interests also lay (and that's part of the reason why we live together), but I’ve always acted independently and worked on my interests. So yeah, there is agreement in where we feel there are obvious gaps on Wikipedia - and we have both been working to address that in respect to LGBTs and Chicanos - but I can honestly say I've always been my own editor. Garcia1865 (talk) 15:59, 26 March 2021 (UTC)
 * * I have now been on Wikipedia for several years, but I don't really use it much anymore. I did vote to keep the two pages about gay men and gayphobia - not because I live with Louisiana or Garcia1865 - but because I personally believe the efforts to delete them were frankly very clear examples of Liberal homophobia. Jpesch95 (talk) 20:58, 29 March 2021 (UTC)
 * *** Just a mom here who went back to grad school a bit later in life and is now living with these folks. There’s probably less overlap between what I edit and they do because my interests are a bit different, but I agree with Jpesch95 and elected to keep the page about gay men because I thought the noms’ rationale was very confusing (something about comparing it to a page about Men in STEM), esp. considering the history of violence gay males specifically have faced over history, and which I personally found to be offensive considering the bullying my two sons experienced growing up. Now, I’m not sure if I will continue editing on Wikipedia much going forward, but I'll always feel proud with what I have done while living with these folks. Louisiana is right, in a way it has been like living with people at a year-round Art and Fem event. Considering everything going on in this world and especially in the past year, I will always cherish this time we've lived together. Also, I just wanted to say that Louisiana is a very talented womxn and always inspires and pushes us all to do and be our very best. Love, VirginiaBeach78 (talk) 23:03, 29 March 2021 (UTC)


 * Jpesch95, if you don't live with them, why did WP:CheckUser find a match for you? Crossroads -talk- 17:09, 30 March 2021 (UTC)
 * Sorry, I guess Louisiana was right, my language was really unclear there. I do live with them. I was trying to say I did not vote with them because I live with them, but voted to keep the pages because I believed the articles should be kept. Does that makes sense? Like I voted what I believed, not out of loyalty or anything like that. Jpesch95 (talk) 17:37, 2 April 2021 (UTC)

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * Also found and ✅:
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 * Blocked and tagged. CaptainEek  Edits Ho Cap'n!⚓ 17:00, 8 May 2021 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets
Last year, Jpesch95 votestacked with socks to keep his newly created articles about gay men from being merged into more general articles about homosexuality. Something similar is going on now at History of gay men: he used one account to create the article, and another to remove a speedy deletion tag.

Crosswiki, Depressedchicano created a Wikidata item for "LGBT protests against the American Psychiatric Association" several hours before Gnawedacorn published the enwiki article. The editor interaction analyzer shows overlaps with Jpesch95's other accounts, particularly in the topic areas of LGBT history and Mexican-American history:

I've noticed several other related accounts that aren't active on the English Wikipedia:, , , and. I am requesting CheckUser in case he has other socks on the go. Cheers, gnu 57 14:42, 3 May 2022 (UTC)

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Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * - -- RoySmith (talk) 16:21, 3 May 2022 (UTC)
 * The following are all various combinations of to ✅ to each other just on the technical data  -- RoySmith (talk) 16:38, 3 May 2022 (UTC)
 * There's no hard data to tie them back to Jpesch95, but there's some hints in the logs that makes it seem likely. Dual-tagging this bunch as confirmed to BretonAmoux and proven to Jpesch95. -- RoySmith (talk) 16:44, 3 May 2022 (UTC)