Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Lokyz/Archive

27 June 2011

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This appears to be the other (Lithuanian) side of the coin related to the naming disputes in the Polish-Lithuanian area. The Polish side is here. Basically, at the end of March (2011), on the basis of this AE report, three users got topic banned from Eastern European topics; User:Lokyz, User:Dr. Dan and User:Jacurek, for edit warring over naming issues (inclusion/exclusion of Polish names in Lithuanian places). It seems some users on both sides have continued the edit wars using sockspuppets. All the "named" accounts - Vycius 2, Ant kalno murai joja lietuviai and Xraig - appeared soon after the AE decision.

Because User:Lokyz and User:Dr. Dan have tag-teamed in these edit wars for something like 4 years now it's impossible to say definitely which one of them these socks are most likely of (or both). Personally I think the statements (in Lithuanian) and the user name indicate. that this is Lokyz. I think it's also obvious that User:Ant kalno murai joja lietuviai is linked to User:Vycius 2, who tends to post exclusively in Lithuanian. Below is a comparison of the articles edited by the socks and the two users in question:


 * Article: Šnipiškės
 * Recent edits by Vycius 2:, ,
 * Similar edits by IPs:
 * Similar edits by Lokyz in the past: August 09,
 * Similar edits by Dr. Dan in the past: March 11, March 11, August 09, August 09, August 09, August 09, April 07


 * Article: Marijampolė
 * Recent edits by Vycius 2: ,
 * Similar edits by Lokyz in the past: August 2010 (diff name, same idea), August 2009, July 2009, August 2008, July 2008
 * Similar edits by Dr. Dan in the past: September 2009, September 2009, January 2009


 * Article: Burbiškis
 * Recent edits by Vycius 2:
 * Similar edits by IPs:, , ,
 * Similar edits by Lokyz in the past: March 11, March 11, March 2007, March 2007
 * Similar edits by Dr. Dan in the past: March 2011, March 2011


 * Article: Raudonė
 * Recent edits by Vycius 2:
 * Similar edits by IPs: ,
 * Similar edits by Lokyz in the past: July 2006


 * Article: Merkinė
 * Recent edits by Vycius 2:, ,
 * Recent edits by Ant kalno murai joja lietuviai: ,
 * Recent edits by IPs: ,
 * Similar edits by Lokyz in the past: July 2008
 * Similar edits by Dr. Dan in the past: April 2010, January 2007, December 2006


 * Article: Naujininkai
 * Recent edits by Vycius 2:
 * Similar edits by Lokyz in the past:


 * Article: Vilkaviškis
 * Recent edits by Vycius 2: ,
 * Edits by Lokyz in the past: (note Lokyz started the article)
 * Similar edits by others on the article: ,


 * Article: Vilnius
 * Recent edits by Vycius 2:
 * Similar edits by Lokyz in the past: May 2007, September 2007, September 2007, August 2009

Also compare this diff with this diff  for a possible connection.


 * Article: Biržai
 * Recent edits by Ant kalno murai joja lietuviai:
 * Similar edits by Lokyz in the past:, (there's more like this in the article history)
 * Similar edits by Dr. Dan in the past:, ,

. Volunteer Marek (talk) 09:56, 27 June 2011 (UTC)

@Steven. Ah, sorry on Xraig, thought I included it but apparently not. Basically the account was created (apparently as a 'sleeper') in October 2010, and became active again in May 2011, shortly after the AE proceedings which resulted in Lokyz and Dr. Dan's topic bans and immiediately jumped into the Polish-Lithuanian naming edit wars:               

I guess this one could be an independent user or someone else's sock puppet (since Lokyz has not edited these particular articles - just the nature of the edits is the same), but the timing of when this account became active again is certainly suspicious.

(Also, for some reason I thought it was 180 days. 90? Really? That's a pretty short time).Volunteer Marek (talk) 23:09, 27 June 2011 (UTC)

@HelloAnnyong - In fact all these accounts have been active on more or less the same pages as Jacurek. As I've indicated above there were several users who were topic banned as a result of this naming dispute, on both sides of the issue. This here looks to me like socking by the other side.Volunteer Marek (talk) 07:56, 4 July 2011 (UTC)

Comments by other users
''Accused parties may also comment/discuss in this section below. See Defending yourself against claims.''
 * While I have no idea if this user has a sock or not. However I have to outline one important thing - anyone who is willing to make an check should think and rethink this as the initiator of this case is the member of secret nationalist group, WP:EEML. Among of things of this group were plans to stalk users in the real life. Thus maximum sensitivity should be exercised here, especially then so called  behavior "evidence" just a random reverts. M.K. (talk) 05:48, 28 June 2011 (UTC)
 * P.S. another quite characteristic thing - as I see non of accused parties are informed by case initiator of this case. Typical behavior of the WP:EEML.

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * , though noting the request for checkuser is as the master is too stale for a checkuser to be of any use, as the master is just outside the 90 day period. We will have to call this on behaviour alone. I would like more evidence on why Xraig is related, as they've been added as a sock but no info as to why has been added.  Steven Zhang  The clock is ticking....  22:58, 27 June 2011 (UTC)
 * I'm actually going to dig this case back up and endorse it. It's true that the master is stale, but the other accounts aren't, and CU can find out if they're related. Also, Ant kalno was active on an article that was, so I'm wondering if these others are connected to that. —  Hello Annyong  (say whaaat?!) 13:25, 3 July 2011 (UTC)
 * It looks like they're all ❌ to each other. is . On the other hand,  appears to be using the same computer as, not sure what's going on there. Hers fold  (t/a/c) 00:50, 6 July 2011 (UTC)
 * Hmm, alright. I guess we can leave it alone for now. —  Hello Annyong  (say whaaat?!) 02:02, 6 July 2011 (UTC)