Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/KerAvelt/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets

 * (added by Magog the Ogre (talk) 05:06, 29 September 2010 (UTC))
 * (added by Magog the Ogre (talk) 05:06, 29 September 2010 (UTC))

Evidence submitted by Mosmof
seems to edit simply to support and give an illusion of consensus. Also, it's hard to imagine two different people leaving an edit summary that says "Primary source not compliant". Mosmof (talk) 03:42, 29 September 2010 (UTC)

Comments by accused parties
See Defending yourself against claims. He obviously is trying to use tactics to silence me, and my support for KerAvelt's position. —Preceding unsigned comment added by FederalInvestigator (talk • contribs) This is quite sickening. --KerAvelt (talk) 04:46, 29 September 2010 (UTC)

Comments by other users

 * Comment - I've been advised by to link this to Requests for checkuser/Case/Emetman, as the case is quite similar. Magog the Ogre (talk) 05:08, 29 September 2010 (UTC)

Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments
- at very least this is meatpuppetry. Who steps into this as an edit war? Magog the Ogre (talk) 05:06, 29 September 2010 (UTC)

✅ –MuZemike 05:17, 29 September 2010 (UTC)
 * Everything's all blocked up. TN X Man  11:45, 29 September 2010 (UTC)

Evidence submitted by Magog the Ogre
New user comes in and soon comes to edit one of KerAvelt's favorite articles. This edit in particular was a tip off. Also known socks: and. Magog the Ogre (talk) 06:12, 18 October 2010 (UTC)

Comments by accused parties
See Defending yourself against claims.

Comments by other users

 * Please note that "Yaakov Weiss" is the name of a son-in-law of Sholom Rubashkin (see ) -- this might not figure into the sockpuppet angle, but it does suggest that there is a problem with this editor on this article. Nomoskedasticity (talk) 09:20, 18 October 2010 (UTC)

Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments

 * There seems to be some similarity between KerAvelt and Yaakovweiss. Also, a dormant account becoming active again having similar interests are suspicious. However, KerAvelt hasn't used any old accounts or accounts created within the past 3 months. When one account is blocked, he/she just creates a new one. For example when was blocked,  popped up and when that was blocked,  popped up. So then, the use of an old account doesn't fit the MO of KerAvelt for use of sockpuppets.  E lockid (Alternate)   ( Talk )  15:06, 18 October 2010 (UTC)

Appears, although I agree meatpuppetry seems likely (and was the main basis for me doing the check). There is a match on user agent but the KerAvelt account had enough different UAs that this is far from conclusive, and the match wasn't a particularly unique UA either. Frank |  talk  16:51, 18 October 2010 (UTC)
 * I'm going to close this for now. If they are meatpuppeting (and it seems like that's the case) then that can be dealt with at other venues. —  Hello Annyong  (say whaaat?!) 21:55, 22 October 2010 (UTC)