Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/LisaKachold/Archive

Report date March 13 2009, 16:18 (UTC)

 * Suspected sockpuppets
 * Note:Checkuser bot keeps removing this account, which is different than the LisaKachold account

At least one of these claims to be a role account (Lisakachold). All have similar editing style, such as signing edit summaries with 4 tildes, for example. (contribs) (contribs) (contribs) (contribs) and all have an interest in editing the article Lisa Kachold, which is currently up for Afd. All accounts show a connection with obnosis.com which is the website of the real Lisa Kachold (diff)

Various of the accounts have also been weighing in at the Afd. It has been brought up at Afd that these accounts might be a subtle form of attack. However, the IP originates from Phoenix, Arizona, which apparently is where Ms. Kachold is based. Let me know if you need more evidence and diffs.

Katr67 (talk) 16:18, 13 March 2009 (UTC)


 * I have added Hear0Evil as an SPA that has only made one edit, which was to the Afd discussion. Katr67 (talk) 17:42, 13 March 2009 (UTC)


 * Comments by accused parties    See Defending yourself against claims.

It appears that Wikipedia has blocked access from the IP address that 3 people beginning and editing the Lisa_Kachold page originate from as "sockPuppet" citing investigation of me. This is a case where multiple people access from the same systems (gateway), from the 60MHZ 802.11/g beacon, and use X11 via sit/VPN tunnels, to show an origination from the same IP gateway from

During the blocking, LisaKachold quickly fat fingered the login to Lisakachold and when prompted to enter a new username/login as if user was again deleted (as it was in August 2008. Request deletion of Lisakachold.

Can users submitting content to Wikipedia only be non-technically astute? If they are technical women, accessing/editing/submitting content via more than one human editor from the same IP, this must be sockpuppetry, (xterminal, Wifi home businesses, and complex technical systems group access are not considered possible for most accesses, especially those promoting women's issues; we use L3 load balancers, and proxy which can make for non-standard cookie behavior)?

This IP ban was done while the original group who submitted content was trying to fix the Lisa Kachold page, nominated for Deletion, as suggested by LinuxChix editors, within the time frame (premature since good faith editors generally suggest a reliable sources tag before nomination) of 5 days?

LisaKachold (talk) 02:47, 17 March 2009 (UTC)

We're trying to explain wikipedia process to a bunch of folks all working from the same office who would like to make a decent article, afaict. They're not exactly socks.
 * Comments by other users

We've explained the rules. Lisakachold is now being operated by just 1 person, and the other users created accounts so that we can tell them apart.

Is that ok, and can we unblock? We're kind of working on an article rescue. --Kim Bruning (talk) 20:50, 16 March 2009 (UTC)

Per Kim Bruning's request and evidence, all have been unblocked. Peter Symonds ( talk ) 21:03, 16 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments

Lisakachold has been blocked for operating a role account. and have been blocked per WP:DUCK (indef and 55 hours respectively). Peter Symonds ( talk ) 19:04, 16 March 2009 (UTC) being handled via user education. Mayalld (talk) 09:58, 17 March 2009 (UTC) Mayalld (talk) 09:58, 17 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Conclusions