Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Judetadeus/Archive

27 January 2013

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Pretty much the entire contrib histories of these accounts. These redlink user accounts have non-overlapping edits entirely focused on the Leonard Oprea article (with wide gaps in-between in most cases, as if maybe somebody forgot a password...) and 5 editors is way too much focus in English on a Romanian writer who self-publishes his English material, self-promotes himself on Facebook and Wordpress, and can be found nowhere else. "In hoc signo vinces" is listed as one of Oprea's favorite quotes on his [Facebook page http://www.facebook.com/leonard.oprea], and he wrote a trilogy called Theophil Magus. The reason the focus concerns me is that all of his supposed press in English (also noted on said page) comes from Romanians, not mainstream literary journals. His own pages are the second hit after WP. In short, there's no way there should be this level of interest in his article.

Sensei2004 claims he is not Oprea but has admitted he is in contact with the article subject directly, so he's a meatpuppet and has a COI at the very least, not to mention suspicious timing. Leonardoprea was banned for NLT and spamming same on the talk page of every editor who ever edited his article.

Checkuser will not do much, as most of the edits are stale, but I'd rather have it done and find any sleepers than not do it and have to come back in a few days. MSJapan (talk) 02:07, 27 January 2013 (UTC)

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Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * - The following three can still be checked:

All of the named accounts share a singular obsession with Leonard Oprea, and also share the belief that questioning his notability is an attack on Romanian culture. And this is not a case of one person forgetting his password. There are overlaps in time with some of these accounts. I'm requesting checkuser to see what other accounts he may still be using. Someguy1221 (talk) 08:04, 27 January 2013 (UTC)
 * the following two groups are related:


 * Sensei2004 is ❌. -- DQ   (ʞlɐʇ)  08:16, 27 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Based on behavioral similarities, especially edit summary usage, I am confident the checkuser-confirmed socks and Judetadeus are, in fact, a sock farm. Blocked and tagged. The other stale accounts I have left untouched. Someguy1221 (talk) 08:23, 27 January 2013 (UTC)