Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Lihaas/Archive

Evidence submitted by O Fenian
I have been directed here per a discussion at Arbitration/Requests/Enforcement. I believe Lihaas has been using an IP sockpuppet to circumvent the 1RR restriction, which he has already been blocked for violating once. There is Lihaas restoring a disputed incident, and there is the IP doing the same within 24 hours of the previous edit. The IP address is also taking part in the same discussion as Lihaas in much the same way. Talk:Tapuah junction stabbing and Northern Cyprus presidential election, 2010 also see both the account and IP active on the same pages, it seems quite clear cut to me that they are the same person, and not only is this not made clear when they are participating in the same discussion, the IP is being used to violate a 1RR restriction. O Fenian (talk) 11:30, 21 April 2010 (UTC)

Comments by accused parties
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Comments by other users

 * I think invoking SPI is an unnecessary escalation of what has been a fairly slow-burn, civil discussion. Lihaas frequently forgets to sign in, and I've commented to him about this, but his IP is reasonably static and I see no attempt to obfuscate his identity - we've carried on a decent discussion at Talk:Tapuah junction stabbing. I think he should be reminded again to sign in, and we should drop this whole business. Ray  Talk 18:53, 21 April 2010 (UTC)

Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments
Requested by O Fenian (talk) 11:30, 21 April 2010 (UTC)

,, no CU necessary. I'll defer to AE on the question of what, if any, action is appropriate. Tim Song (talk) 18:51, 21 April 2010 (UTC)
 * Agree that this can be dealt with at Arbitration/Requests/Enforcement. SpitfireTally-ho! 20:44, 21 April 2010 (UTC)

08 February 2012

 * Suspected sockpuppets




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New user whose first edits are to support Lihaas at Talk:Child sexual abuse and at his MfD. Perhaps I'm being a little paranoid, but that seems a suspicious editing pattern for a brand new user. Yunshui 雲&zwj;水 08:37, 8 February 2012 (UTC)

User:MichelleBlondeau has been identified and blocked as a sock of User:Cataconia, not, as I suspected, User:Lihaas. This investigation can be closed. Yunshui 雲&zwj;水 15:15, 8 February 2012 (UTC)

Comments by other users
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 * I'm not him, but if you hate him so much, why not just ban him for disruption or just make something up like you guys usually do? MichelleBlondeau (talk) 10:04, 8 February 2012 (UTC)

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments
- ❌ to Lihaas, blocked as a sock of User:Cataconia along with another sleeper account. -- Versa geek  15:50, 8 February 2012 (UTC)
 * Interesting. Guess there's not much else to do but close. —  Hello Annyong  (say whaaat?!) 04:24, 9 February 2012 (UTC)

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The user s blocked over reverting a closure of by an admin of Ad Orientem These are 3 reverts of the Admin closure  This 1 This 2 and This 3 .Now it appears to have bene done by IP after being blocked Here Pharaoh of the Wizards (talk) 02:16, 26 December 2017 (UTC)

Comments by other users
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 * I think this is a coincidence, given the different locations of the IP vs. Lihaas and their drastically different language styles. Closing without action. GABgab 03:03, 26 December 2017 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets



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Off-wiki evidence provided by User:GSS links all of these accounts to the same profile on a freelancing website advertising Wikipedia editing services, strongly suggesting that they are either the same user abusing multiple accounts or that they are a co-ordinated paid editing ring. On review, I concur with GSS's conclusions, and have blocked all the above accounts that were not already dealt with. There is a strong possibility that this SPI has connections to the following investigations: I'd be grateful if another admin or CU could review this. Please contact either myself or GSS for a link to the profile indicating the connection. If these findings are confirmed, clerk action may be necessary to reorganise these various SPIs. Yunshui 雲 水 09:14, 26 November 2018 (UTC)
 * Sockpuppet investigations/Danthemanlok/Archive
 * Sockpuppet investigations/Sumitmpsd/Archive
 * Sockpuppet investigations/Woohi/Archive


 * I came across this while patrolling RFU. Could you please send me the link by my wiki email?  GoldenRing (talk) 14:14, 11 January 2019 (UTC)
 * Email sent. Yunshui 雲 水 14:29, 11 January 2019 (UTC)

Comments by other users
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Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments
This report has been sitting here for a while. What do you want to do with it?--Bbb23 (talk) 14:06, 19 February 2019 (UTC)
 * Meh, it can probably be archived, it's pretty old now and all the accounts are blocked. No reason to leave it lying around. Yunshui 雲 水 14:10, 19 February 2019 (UTC)