Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Kraken7/Archive

Report date July 4 2009, 01:24 (UTC)

 * Suspected sockpuppets




 * Evidence submitted by DagosNavy

The first account (Kraken7) has a history of warring attitude specifically on the talk pages of the following articles: Second Battle of Sirte/Talk Archive, Second Battle of Sirte/Current Talk page and Mexican-American War. The editor seems obsessed with definitions (the name of the war in one case and the winner of the battle in the other). He was repeatedly warned about becoming a single propose account. His skills as editor and his knowledge of Wikipedia policies and guidelines don't match the historial of his contributions.

The second account (Firestorm81), while editing apparently from an Italian perspective, seems to be faking a poor English, and all his contributions were made on talk pages, generally on controversial issues, just like Kraken7. The main point of interest here is his 23 February (unsigned) comment on the "Second Battle of Sirte" Talk page (See). It's obvious that the aim of this thread was to reignite the archived discussion about the result of the battle, which has been the obsession of user Kraken7. I posted a comment on Firestorm81 talk page strongly suggesting his relationship with Kraken7, but there is no answer so far. Interestly, all this happened at the same time that a third part (Xyl 54) claimed that consensus had been reached. Xyl 54 had reverted an edit disputing the "result" entry from an IP user (74.73.130.51) thus he made his comment on the talk page. The first contribution of this IP reveals a bold anti-Italian PoV (See), consistent with some of Kraken7 opinions.

The third account (Santos30), even if not related with the precedent articles, is apparently intended only to engage in an edit war with me. I came upon the page of the Battle of Ayacucho. After I performed some changes there to match the British and Irish involvement in the battle according to the cited sources, a recently created account, Santos30, reverted my edits, he accused me of vandalism and called me a "troll". I think that is not by chance that, owing his protracted wikilawyering, I also had recently called Kraken7 a "troll". Santos30 also seems to be faking a poor knowledge of English and displaying a bogus inexperience as editor. I accused him on his talk page of being a sockpuppet, but he didn't defend himself.

Notice that all three user names consisted of a name and a number with no space between them.


 * Comments by accused parties    See Defending yourself against claims.


 * Comments by other users


 * Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments


 * Conclusions

Based on behaviour, it is doubtful any of these accounts are related. Peter Symonds ( talk ) 10:35, 4 July 2009 (UTC)