Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Kelephonestr/Archive

29 January 2015

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 * Kelephonestr started editing on Jan 4 by asking Ronhjones to undelete the article on the Russian Law Journal, which they subsequently edited. The article was deleted after an AFD on Jan 18, but restored on Jan 29 by Yarik1949, essentially identical to the version left by Kelephonestr. In a comment on Talk:Russian Law Journal, Yarik1949 claimed to be its editor-in-chief, Dmitry Maleshin, for which they had also created a biography. I warned them about COI and pointed them to WP:SOCK. Today, Shan162 popped up, editing only the articles on the journal and Maleshin's bio. Per WP:DUCK, I don't think that a checkuser is necessary, but I leave it up to the clerk/checkuser to decide this. Randykitty (talk) 18:20, 29 January 2015 (UTC)
 * I have added, which started editing the same set of articles after the above editors were informed about this sockpuppet investigation. --Randykitty (talk) 19:39, 29 January 2015 (UTC)
 * Added, another SPA. --Randykitty (talk) 22:57, 30 January 2015 (UTC)
 * Added, yet another SPA. --Randykitty (talk) 15:57, 2 February 2015 (UTC)

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Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments
Checkuser comments: The following two accounts are  operated by the same person. Some further discussion of WP:SOCK is likely appropriate here (i.e., redirection to a single account and COI):

The following two accounts are at best :

is to be related to any other accounts. No comment on the IP except to say that it is not geolocated anywhere near the named accounts. Risker (talk) 07:34, 8 February 2015 (UTC)


 * We really need somebody to do something with this case. It has been open for month and a half.  Vanjagenije  (talk)  21:56, 15 March 2015 (UTC)
 * Vanjagenije: If you wish to help expedite the closing of cases, you are welcome to gather behavioral evidence. In cases like this where the checkuser results come up as possible almost always require a behavioral analysis. Mike V • Talk 20:30, 16 March 2015 (UTC)


 * Kelephonestr focused on creating and adding links to the Russian Law Journal page (1, 2, 3, 4, 5). Dimon1949 added external links to the Russian Law Journal (6, 7) as well as editing the article of Dmitry Maleshin, the Editor in Chief of the Russian Law Journal (8, 9). Yarik1949 created and edited the Dmitry Maleshin page (10, 11, 11 - note the linking to Russian Law Journal, 12, 13, 14). Behaviorally, I believe that Eugeni.ta is related to the master account because he or she adding a promotional link to a website that is geared towards increasing one's academic impact (14) and added a link to a Russian equivalent of LinkedIn (15). As for Shan162, I believe that while it is technically unlikely it is the same individual, it's more than likely this is a case of meatpuppetry that can be handled as a sock. The account added external links in a similar fashion as Eugeni.ta (16). Shan162 demonstrated the same difficultly with listing references (17, 18, note how the user added a space and resaved in a attempt to get the reference to format correctly here: 19, 20) as Eugeni.ta. (21, 22 23 - note the same addition of a space). Given this, I have blocked all of the suspected socks and issued a 1 week block to the master account. I'm not taken action against the IP provided, as I don't feel there is enough evidence to tie it to this case. Mike V • Talk 20:30, 16 March 2015 (UTC)