Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Klaus Ebner/Archive

Evidence submitted by Elektrik Shoos
Per this discussion at WP:AN/I I'm reporting this here to get the attention of a checkuser. For evidence, read the initial comments for that discussion. (tl;dr - All have worked on the Klaus Ebner account on various wikis, and most are single-purpose accounts.) A few of the users above may be cross-wiki, if they are, don't mind as I was just putting together a raw list. I also may have forgotten a few; if so, others can add them.  elektrik SHOOS  02:57, 7 August 2010 (UTC)

Given Klaus' recent admission of sockpuppetry (and meatpuppetry) at the discussion listed above, Checkuser will no longer be necessary.  elektrik SHOOS  11:02, 7 August 2010 (UTC)

Comments by accused parties
See Defending yourself against claims.

Comments by other users
A lot of these are probably stale and, correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think we can run the checkuser tool on accounts that haven't edited this Wikipedia. That being said, there is definitely something fishy going on and it might be worthwhile to check the active accounts.  Them From  Space  03:49, 7 August 2010 (UTC)
 * In this "lengthy spiel", Klaus openly admits to being: Ennius, Smetana, Veronika, Livia Plurabelle, Aranka, Manuela, Kevin M, Doron, the Russian JurijVV and Christoph. Quack?  Quack... Doc9871 (talk) 10:49, 7 August 2010 (UTC)

Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments

 * - Admitted Socks need to be verified. Socks can't be trusted, and some of the listed users could still use a check, but I will refain on commenting on that. -- &#47; DeltaQuad &#124; Notify Me  &#92; 03:42, 14 August 2010 (UTC)

All but three of the accounts listed are either stale or have not edited this project. The three that the tool did return results from are, , and. From a technical standpoint, all three have the same OS, and the latter two used the same browser, but the ISP is quite large, and I don't think this is very conclusive either way. J.delanoy gabs adds 02:05, 24 August 2010 (UTC)

Okay, here are my conclusions based on behaviour, as technical evidence was somewhat inconclusive:
 * and demonstrate very similar behaviour: See here and here for an example.
 * and also demonstrate similar behaviour, for example the langugage box creations here and here, as well as the similar editing patterns to the others.
 * demonstrates a familiarity with Wikipedia, and edits the same topics in similar styles to the other accounts.
 * may be related, but his only edit is not conclusive to block for behaviour.
 * The other named accounts do not exist on this Wikipedia.

So, with that in mind, I've blocked all the accounts mentioned above as sockpuppets of Klaus Ebner, with the exception of Francesca la Bola. Peter Symonds ( talk ) 13:40, 27 August 2010 (UTC)