Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/MLKLewis/Archive

31 January 2015

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MLKLewis section blanked material in  Landmark Worldwide claiming it was a BLP violation. It was restored. Tgeairn started removing material a bit at a time over 22+ edits. When it was restored Tgeairn reverted the enblock, and as soon as that was restored, the IP started removing the material claiming BLP (see the IP's edit history or Landmark Worldwide history. The IP appears to be a sock of either MLKLewis or Tgeairn trying to avoid having edit warring or ArbComm discretionary sanctions applied to their main user account. The IP has been blocked for 36 hours by User:Bbb23 but the Sockmaster needs to be found and sanctioned since the IP is a SPA who did not just stumble into edit warring on Landmark. Legacypac (talk) 00:49, 31 January 2015 (UTC) Legacypac

Based on his support of the IPs actions and attack against the editors who reverted the IP who kept deleting the material, adding DaveApter to this SPI. Legacypac (talk) 08:41, 4 February 2015 (UTC)

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It should be noted that the editing domain here is subject to Discretionary Sanctions, and reviewers of this filing should take those increased expectations into account in any decisions here.
 * Statement by Tgeairn

Per claims, this filing is a bad-faith attack intended to chill discussion and influence DR mechanisms. The filer has cited this filing in an Arbcom request as well in their attempt to influence that case. Ample evidence of the filer's aggressive behaviour and proclivity for bad-faith accusations may be found throughout their edit history, and I see no need to defend myself here.

However, given the active DS ruling in this topic area, I do request that the reviewing admins and/or checkusers comment or take action on this bad-faith attack. Thank you, Tgeairn (talk) 18:03, 1 February 2015 (UTC)


 * Yes I noted this SPI request in a Arbcomm request file by Tgeairn seeking sanctions against another user. Interesting that Tgeairn did not deny he used the IP to edit war, just attacked me and misrepresented my user history. Legacypac (talk) 08:24, 4 February 2015 (UTC)

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 * It's possible that the IPs are the same individual, as they belong to the same provider and geolocate to the same area. However, the evidence connecting the accounts to the IP is very, very light in terms of behavior (since it cannot be done via checkuser). The evidence presented on behalf of the accounts is much too thin to warrant a check. At best it only shows there are a couple of users who hold similar viewpoints. Mike V • Talk 03:46, 5 February 2015 (UTC)

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Hello. The evidence that proves my belief that these two editors are socks of MLKLewis is that, for one, they all share a similar interest in Landmark-related articles (such as Erhard Seminars Training and the like.) They also all edit articles that have similar themes in the same way (like copy-editing, adding wiki links and the like): such as happiness, personal development, etc. RecoveringAddict and MLKLewis both share a interest in the theatre, according to the Editor Interaction Analyser: https://tools.wmflabs.org/sigma/editorinteract.py?users=MLKLewis&users=RecoveringAddict&users=&startdate=&enddate=&ns=&server=enwiki&allusers=on. Additionally, both NerudaPoet and RecoveringAddict use the term "Wiki Link" in an edit summary, with both words capitalised, like this: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Eve_Ensler&diff=prev&oldid=829459085 by RecoveringAddict, and: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Adult_education&diff=prev&oldid=826030289 by NerudaPoet. 92.30.189.185 (talk) 15:46, 27 March 2018 (UTC)

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 * - Please, compare those three accounts.  Vanjagenije  (talk)  10:15, 1 April 2018 (UTC)
 * Standby. We are discussing. Mkdw  talk 00:06, 2 April 2018 (UTC)
 * . . Mkdw  talk 01:14, 2 April 2018 (UTC)
 * Closing without action. Behavioral evidence does not appear to be strong enough especially given the technical findings. Sro23 (talk) 05:02, 9 April 2018 (UTC)