Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Lightspeedx/Archive

11 May 2013

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Disruption During a content dispute on the Erica Andrews article where three experienced editors were challenging Lightspeed's use of primary sources (such as myspace and playbills) on a Biography of a living person (recently deceased), Braveyoda came to the talk page in full support for User:Lightspeedx's position. This was Braveyoda's twelfth edit. Braveyoda was informed of the Sock regulations, and soon after stopped editing for a week. Lightspeedx brought the dispute to Dispute Resolution, and the reviewing editor contacted Braveyoda to let them know. Rather than posting on the DRN which was created by Lightspeedx, braveyoda contacted the editor directly to avoid obvious sock violation. Lightspeedx has since replied to Braveyoda's comment on Howicus's talk page.

Evidence it is the same user
 * 1) User:Braveyoda created on April 14, the same day that the most activity was being seen on the Erica Andrews talk page where Lightspeedx was engaging with three other editors who had similar ideas on what an appropriate source on a BLP should be.
 * 2) User:Lightspeedx states on the Erica Andrews talk page "you clearly want other authors to agree with me before you will hear. This is not difficult to achieve if that is your measure and terms of agreement."  An hour and a half later User:Braveyoda is created, a half hour and 11 edits later Braveyoda enters the discussion on Talk:Erica Andrews by responding to lightspeedx's comment.
 * 3) User:Braveyoda enters the discussion making the exact same claims as Lightspeedx, ie.: they both knew Erica personally, The information was of interest to the LGBT community, challenging sourcing is valuable but not in this case
 * 4) Both editors have significant breaks in their editing with considerable overlap, Lightspeedx has no edits between April 16-27, May 1-11; Braveyoda has no edits between April 14-22, 22-29, May 2-present.
 * 5) Both editors have a tendency to tag all of their edits as minor, they both changed this pattern after Lightspeedx was informed of the definition of minor edits.
 * 6) Both editors have a tendency to make WP:WALLOFTEXT talk page edits, rarely consisting of less than 1000 characters.
 * 7) Both editors characterize the resistance myself and the other two editors in similar terms Braveyoda:"I have been on Wikipedia for a long time (as a reader and as an editor) and I will admit I've never felt such animosity", Lightspeedx:"I have collaborated on many articles with other authors and never once have I ever encountered the animosity I have experience with these three authors"
 * 8) Both make the claim that since the other editors don't know Erica's work (differences above) that our opinion shouldn't be considered.

I would like to request a checkuser to look for sleepers (it was suggested on Qworty's talk page that these may be part of a larger sock network).

Coffeepusher (talk) 17:55, 11 May 2013 (UTC)


 * I almost forgot one more piece of evidance
 * 9. both users very first edit after returning from their first wikibreaks was to remove all the discussion from their page but they didn't blank the page. Braveyoda, April 22, Lightspeedx, April 28.Coffeepusher (talk) 05:09, 12 May 2013 (UTC)

Comments by other users
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Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * - King of  &hearts;   &diams;   &clubs;  &spades; 23:09, 11 May 2013 (UTC)
 * CheckUser data is not particularly helpful, but compliments for the clear report; the behaviour alone is very compelling, and I would support a block on that basis. WilliamH (talk) 09:20, 12 May 2013 (UTC)
 * Master blocked 1 week, sock blocked indef, closing. King of &hearts;   &diams;   &clubs;  &spades; 09:30, 12 May 2013 (UTC)