Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Maurice07/Archive

02 May 2013

 * Suspected sockpuppets

IP was used by   to evade his AE-imposed ban on Greece-related topics on 26 February 2013.
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 * Reason for report
 * High-decibel quacking
 * The story of IP 188.3.111.74
 * Activity date: 26 February 2013
 * Targets: Multiple Greek-related articles
 * Type: Greek-related onomatogical edit-warring.
 * Date 26 February 2013.
 * Master status: Blocked-AE enforcement, reason: Greek-onomatological edit-warring
 * The IP continued the edit-warring on Echinos for which the master got blocked in the first place. Here the IP is removing information about Cyprus in Mediteranean Sea in an edit the master had introduced in the past.
 * Also see stylistic similarities in edit-summaries: Latest revision as of 18:32, 26 February 2013 188.3.111.74 (Hatay is no longer disputed between Turkey and Syria!) and Maurice07: Maurice07 (See talk page!). Many of the IP edits are also onomatological edit-warring of exactly the same type Maurice07 got blocked for and banned from.
 * And of course the IP edit-warred trying to add Turkey's diplomatic missions to Europe rather than Asia, a personal favourite of Maurice07 when he massively edit-warred in the past about the same issue and got his first block on that account. Sample: Identical edit by master even to the point of reverting the same user: Aquintero82.
 * Onomatological edit-warring at Tenedos, reversing the order of the island names to put "Bozcaada" first. Identical edit to Master almost half a year before: 23 August 2012 Maurice07 with edit-summary: This island not belong to Greece !!.


 * The story of IP 188.3.37.83.
 * Activity date: 29 April 2013.
 * Target: Soumela Monastery
 * Target-related activity details: Trying to move, by copying and pasting, "Soumela Monastery" and also influence the move discussion at talk:Soumela Monastery along with the master and IP sock sibling IP 81.213.109.191.
 * Type: Greek-related onomatology
 * Date: 29 April 2013
 * Master status: unblocked
 * 188.3.37.83 Cut and paste move of Soumela monastery to Sümela Monastery
 * 188.3.37.83 Soumela Monastery article suppression by blanking and redirecting
 * Related Master activity
 * The same day IP 188.3.37.83 was botching the moves of Soumela Monastery the master goes to Anthony Appleyard to request a move of Soumela Monastery back to "Sümela Monastery" (note the diacritics), in violation of his AE topic ban, to which he also admits: I'm topic banned Greek and related articles so,I need your help in this topic. Regards.
 * The Master goes also to RM to request a move:
 * At talk Soumela monastery IP 188.3.37.83 comments about the move supplying two of the four sources Maurice07 gave to Anthony Appleyard.
 * The story of IP 81.213.109.191
 * Activity date: 1 May 2013
 * Master status: Blocked-AE enforcement
 * Type of Activity: Greek onomatology-related edit-warring/vandalism, Armenian onomatology blanking, Vandalism
 * Main target on 1 May 2013: Talk:Soumela Monastery
 * Target-related activity: Trying to influence the move discussion at talk: Soumela Monastery along with the master and IP sock sibling IP 188.3.37.83. Also contacted directly a Turkish editor to make him change his !vote and support the name "Sümela" (with diacritics).
 * commenting on Soumela Monastery move discussion which the master commented on and IP 188.3.37.83 botched.
 * Going to a Turkish user's talkpage, to ask him, in Turkish, to change his !vote to support "Sümela" (with diacritics), instead of no diacritics "Sumela" which he calls efforts to "Greekify" the name:
 * which Google-translates as, (noting that Google does not keep diacritics):


 * Other: Greek-related onomatological edit-warring, onomatogical vandalism on Greece, onomatological suppression of Armenian name, Blanking on Cyprus, a favourite target of Maurice with message:


 * Idiomatic language usage:
 * Compare the syntax and tone of the bolded sentences above to the linguistic samples below.
 * Compare Master:
 * 8 December 2012 December 2012 Master's edit adding: Güney Kıbrıs Rum Yönetimi translating as South Cyprus Greek Administration.
 * Geolocation
 * All three IPs geolocate to the same building in Istanbul.
 * Sock-Master aggregation
 * Event window: 29 April-1 May 2013
 * 2 out of the three socks and the master appeared on talk:Soumela Monastery:


 * Idiomatic delivery of English
 * Event window: 29 April-1 May 2013
 * Similar idiomatic use of the English language:
 * 188.3.37.83 on talk:Soumela Monastery:


 * 81.213.109.191 on talk:Soumela Monastery:


 * Master on talk:Soumela:

Δρ.Κ. λόγοςπράξις  13:22, 3 May 2013 (UTC)
 * Miscellaneous
 * Fanatical adherence to political ideology. Master edit-warring to remove the following passage from Armenia, supported by three GBooks, and commenting: ...vandalic sentence removed. Previous revert of the same paragraph: with edit summary: Unacceptable opinion.I would like to remind you that Mount Ararat in the territory of Turkey.Political opinion can not be included here..
 * See also
 * Maurice07 redux Report date: 30 April 2013
 * Maurice07 evading AE topic ban on Greek-related topics through IP Report date: 26 February 2013
 * Maurice07 Report date: 25 January 2013
 * Maurice07 Arbitration Enforcement Case Closed: 13 January 2013
 * Concerns Report date: 27 April 2013
 * 4 additional reports on Maurice07 at AN/3RR and ANI.

Comments by other users
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This one is pretty detailed. Nice job. Alex2564 (talk) 06:19, 3 May 2013 (UTC)
 * Thank you for your nice comments. Take care. :) Δρ.Κ. λόγοςπράξις  06:25, 3 May 2013 (UTC)

This user has gotten 5 Arbitration Enforcement blocks and 7 total blocks. Alex2564 (talk) 06:27, 3 May 2013 (UTC)


 * Reply to DQ. Thank you very much for taking the time to check this. All the best. Δρ.Κ. λόγοςπράξις  16:19, 3 May 2013 (UTC)

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * I've blocked the most recent IP for a short time (it's dynamic), and has already blocked the Maurice07 account itself. Closing. Reaper Eternal (talk) 14:18, 3 May 2013 (UTC)
 * For the record, I did look over this and agree with Blade's assessment. -- DQ   (ʞlɐʇ)  16:14, 3 May 2013 (UTC)

26 July 2013

 * Suspected sockpuppets


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As evidence I will quote portions of the report I added at the talkpage of The Blade of the Northern Lights: Maurice07 redux:

On 15 July I warned Maurice07 about his clear breach of his Greek topics related AE ban under ARBMAC for removing the picture of a Greek Orthodox Church from the article of Albania twice, edit-warring and  using deceptive edit-summaries. A few days later I noticed that on 20 July he also used IP 78.191.228.109 to add the Turkish name of Xanthi at the lead of the article, an edit the master, Maurice07, has edit-warred over in the past to add to Xanthi cf. and, and also used other IP socks to do the same as shown here by IP 188.3.111.74 and here by the same IP, a known Maurice sock as shown also at the archive of Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Maurice07. As with all the other IP socks of Maurice, IP geolocates in the same building on the same street of Istanbul, as seen also in  Category:Suspected Wikipedia sockpuppets of Maurice07.

In addition to the above report about IP, today I saw through my watchlist that IPs and  are engaging in edit-wars supporting the Turkish POV in various articles and they also geolocate  in the same building in Istanbul as all the other socks of Maurice07. . Δρ.Κ. λόγοςπράξις  17:53, 26 July 2013 (UTC)

Through his actions and also through his use of these IP socks Maurice is evading his ARBMAC ban. I will investigate if he is also banned under ARBAA2. Δρ.Κ. λόγοςπράξις  18:35, 26 July 2013 (UTC) Searching through the AE archives Maurice07 was reported for ARBAA2 violations in the past but no ruling was made due to his being blocked at the time:. Meanwhile IPs and  have edit-warred on  Armenian Genocide-related articles:  and. Δρ.Κ. λόγοςπράξις  18:42, 26 July 2013 (UTC)
 * Note
 * ARBAA2
 * While this SPI is still ongoing
 * Another sock appeared; IP blanking a section at the  Minorities in Turkey article. It also geolocates to the exact same building and street in Istanbul as the other IP socks. Δρ.Κ. λόγοςπράξις   23:02, 26 July 2013 (UTC)

Comments by other users
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Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * I am actively looking into this case and will have a determination shortly. -- DQ   (ʞlɐʇ)  20:23, 30 July 2013 (UTC)
 * From my review, and from evidence not availible to public view, I have concluded that these are not likely Maurice. If a clerk comes up with a different opinion, I would be happy to hear it out. -- DQ   (ʞlɐʇ)  00:33, 4 August 2013 (UTC)