Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Kxing/Archive

Report date August 5 2009, 13:57 (UTC)

 * Suspected sockpuppets


 * Evidence submitted by TheFarix

Both accounts where created within days of each other. Both accounts are single purpose account that edit the same article relating to Kira Takenouchi. Both accounts cite an unpublished article as a source for information for the related article. Both accounts have commented in and launched personal attacks against other editors participating in the related AfD Articles for deletion/Kira Takenouchi (2nd nomination). And finally, both accounts use similar non-default signature styles to sign their comments. There are just far too many coincidences for this to be coincidental. --Farix (Talk) 13:57, 5 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Note has been blocked by  for edit warring on Kira Takenouchi. --Farix (Talk) 15:07, 5 August 2009 (UTC)
 * has now picked up the edit warring baton. Why am I not surprised? --Farix (Talk) 16:02, 5 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Update has been indefinitely blocked by  for vandalism.  --Farix (Talk) 17:51, 5 August 2009 (UTC)

I just noticed this other accout that was indef blocked over a year ago. Given the very similar name to the one account, I thought it was appropriate to add it to the list. --Farix (Talk) 20:34, 5 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Added as another obvious sock. --Farix (Talk) 00:16, 7 August 2009 (UTC)


 * Comments by accused parties    See Defending yourself against claims.


 * I demand an apology for this. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Katsumasahiro (talk • contribs) 14:37, 5 August 2009 (UTC)


 * Comments by other users

Requested by Farix (Talk) 13:57, 5 August 2009 (UTC)
 * CheckUser requests


 * Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments
 * - These two are acting together somehow, and there might even be enough to block on behavioral evidence. However, they could just be two people who know each other, in which case I don't think there is enough to block. Let us see if a checkuser can establish a connection. NW ( Talk ) 14:47, 5 August 2009 (UTC)


 * Conclusions
 * It's that Kxings = Katsumasahiro. They share a significant number of technical elements, however the elements which differ suggest that it's more likely that they are two people who know each other. -- Versa  geek  15:24, 5 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Can you clarify that please? Such as what do you mean by technical elements? --Farix (Talk) 15:40, 5 August 2009 (UTC)
 * The things they have in common are ISP, IP Range and geolocation. Based on those elements and the ongoing behavior, I'd be inclined to see them falling afoul of WP:MEAT.  -- Versa  geek  16:10, 5 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Is it possible that it's the same person using different computers? Some of the language they use seems a little too coincidental to be different people. --Smashvilletalk 16:14, 5 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Ok, that does sufficiently clear things up enough. --Farix (Talk) 16:29, 5 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Speaking from a non-checkuser standpoint, I would think that if they were the same, the autoblock would have caught Kxings, but it didn't. --Smashvilletalk 16:01, 5 August 2009 (UTC)

<-looking at the deleted contributions for it's pretty clear that it's the same user, they haven't edited since 2008 - so CU is of no use. -- Versa geek  20:58, 5 August 2009 (UTC)

Solid technical evidence plus very clear behavioural evidence. I have blocked and tagged the listed accounts. Peter Symonds ( talk ) 21:26, 12 August 2009 (UTC)