Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Mathopo/Archive

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A bunch of single purpose accounts, all piling into Articles for deletion/Tricomplex numbers to 'save' a set of articles up for deletion. Mathopo and 132.209.3.30 are the only ones with extensive edit histories outside this AfD, but only to the articles up for deletion and related articles. The IPs all geolocate to Canada, writing styles are similar with small mistakes made by non-native users of English, all use 'Save', 'Save ALL' and make similar arguments. JohnBlackburne wordsdeeds 01:35, 18 November 2017 (UTC)

Added two more, same reasoning.-- JohnBlackburne wordsdeeds 08:34, 18 November 2017 (UTC) And another IP.-- JohnBlackburne wordsdeeds 14:47, 18 November 2017 (UTC)

Added one more IP, 142.169.78.184, as the first to insert mention of the[ir] OR to Bicomplex number, before 132.209.3.30 and Mathopo restored it. Also geolocates to Canada.

I note that 132.209.3.30 has been blocked by for block evasion; of all the IPs that is the one most clearly a sock of Mathopo, with near identical editing patterns. It could be considered editing while logged out, which is not grounds for sanction, except it involved tag-team edit warring over content in Bicomplex number and editing as if they were separate editors in the AfD.-- JohnBlackburne wordsdeeds 13:12, 19 November 2017 (UTC)

One hopefully last note. Now the AfD discussion is over all the accounts have gone quiet. In fact they went quiet a few days before it closed. Maybe the above block was enough discouragement. The articles have been deleted, their other OR contributions removed, and Maths editors now alerted will be on the look out for further problems in these areas. There is probably no need for further administrative action.-- JohnBlackburne wordsdeeds 02:01, 26 November 2017 (UTC)

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 * - Please check the named accounts. Thanks, GABgab 15:18, 18 November 2017 (UTC)
 * and are editing from the same physical location and are thus, though other explanations, such as meat puppetry, are possible.   is  compared to them, but meat puppetry remains a potentially valid read for the technical data.  .  If I had to make a guess about the named accounts, someone might have recruited help off-site without realizing our prohibition on canvassing. NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 17:32, 18 November 2017 (UTC)
 * - Given that one of the IP's involved is at the Université du Québec à Trois-Rivière, I wouldn't be entirely surprised if this is actually just one person using both personal and public computers. Even if it is multiple people, it's still clearly vote-stacking. Please block Mathopo temporarily and the other two named accounts indefinitely. Blocking the individual IP's probably won't accomplish much. Sir Sputnik (talk) 01:18, 23 November 2017 (UTC)
 * you blocked 132.209.3.30 for block evasion. Are you able to say which was the blocked account that the IP was evading? Mathopo's block log is empty. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 14:46, 23 November 2017 (UTC)
 * Ivanvector - I was just looking at that fact as well (the block log of the account). I'm pretty certain that I believed, at the time, that there was already a block placed upon the suspected sock master (which is why I blocked the IP and with the summary I used) or that I went to block the suspected account and for some reason it didn't save.  ~Oshwah~  (talk) (contribs)   00:36, 26 November 2017 (UTC)


 * ✅ and closing.  Vanjagenije  (talk)  20:37, 26 November 2017 (UTC)