Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Megastrike14/Archive

Evidence submitted by CapitalLetterBeginning
I encountered this diff, wherein Megastrike14 adds a claim that Karima Adebibe is in a relationship with a female Canadian MP. A quick web search turns up nothing supporting this, whereas one would expect such a relationship to have garnered some attention in the press. Ten minutes prior to this edit by Megastrike14, Jamzd had added a sentence about Adebibe's sexual orientation (diff). Both of these edits cite print editions of celebrity gossip magazines, which would be difficult to check.

Another instance of both users editing a biographical article to add unsourced or dubiously sourced information regarding sexual orientation: this edit by Megastrike14 to Maryam Nemazee, followed a few days later by a sequence of edits by Jamzd (cumulative diff). The only source offered among these edits is an article that supposedly appeared in Arena Three magazine in June 2009. Note that Arena Three, if the Wikipedia article as it stands is accurate, folded in 1972.

If this is indeed sockpuppetry, then it is disruptive because it would appear that the user is knowingly inserting apocryphal information with fabricated sources that will be difficult to verify, and seeking to give this false information the appearance of legitimacy by making it seem that information added by one user has been independently corroborated by another.

Finally, an additional similarity in the users' edit patterns: both users have shown a preference for the term "Alevi Islam" over just "Alevi": Jamzd made this edit on 30 October 2009, and Megastrike14 moved Alevi to Alevi Islam (move log) on 31 October 2009.

CapitalLetterBeginning (talk) 16:00, 7 May 2010 (UTC)

Comments by accused parties
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Comments by other users
Along with Megastrike14's three obsessions mentioned above (lesbians, Iran, inserting citations to non-existant sources), he has a fourth: inserting new, false information into otherwise well-sourced articles about ethnic groups (e.g. ).

Compare with, where Jamzd made an edit to the Pakistanis in Malaysia article in which he: Cheers, cab (talk) 16:33, 7 May 2010 (UTC)
 * 1) Inserted a citation to a non existant source
 * 2) Into an ethnic group article
 * 3) Claiming that there was a Pakistani lesbian kidnapping gang running amok in Kuala Lumpur
 * 4) And that they were kidnapping Iranians


 * It should also be noted that Megastrike14 edits frequently while logged out. A recent example: --- quite certain this is Megastrike14: the IP is editing an article he started (Afghans in Iran), and cites the exact same non-existent source which Megastrike14 inserted on Iranian Azeris last year  and again today on Iranian Kurdistan . A rangeblock may be warranted if abuse continues.


 * And of course, that last edit illustrates Megastrike14's long-term pattern of damaging Wikipedia, which in my mind should earn him and his sockpuppet account an indefinite block. cab (talk) 14:16, 17 May 2010 (UTC)

Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments
I see a here in that both edited Maryam Nemazee within four days of each other (20 April and 24 April 2010) and both edited Alevi within one day last year (30 and 31 Oct 2009) with similar POVs. Auntie E. (talk) 05:32, 8 May 2010 (UTC)

Self-endorsing for CheckUser attention. I don't quite think this fits within WP:DUCK; could use a CU to sort it out, even if that has to me be possibly running the check ;) –MuZemike 01:06, 22 May 2010 (UTC)

✅ beyond all shadow of a doubt. Unfortunately, he has access to far too many IPs to allow a rangeblock to be placed. Semiprotection may be useful if he targets only a few pages typically. J.delanoy gabs adds 05:13, 23 May 2010 (UTC)
 * Jamzd blocked indefinitely; Megastrike14 blocked for a week. NW ( Talk ) 17:04, 23 May 2010 (UTC)

Evidence submitted by CaliforniaAliBaba
Megastrike14 has been blocked for a week, but he appears to be continuing to make abusive edits via the above IP address (which was blocked for 31 hours on May 30).

Megastrike14 was definitely using this IP before he was blocked (Megastrike14 and IP, both inserting the same non-existent source to support false claims). I believe that abusive edits coming from this IP in the past few days (after Megastrike14's block) are still Megastrike14 rather than another guy on the same ISP, though this is less clear-cut.


 * 1) The IP was mainly making unsourced edits in religion/ethnicity-related Iran articles (e.g. ), which is a topic area where Megastrike14 is known to edit extensively as mentioned in the archives of this SPI case.
 * 2) The IP also seems interested in heavy metal music --- another area in which Megastrike14 is interested (he describes himself as "a huge metalhead" on User:Megastrike14, and made occasional edits in that area ).

Either one of these individually wouldn't be very strong evidence that it's the same guy, but the intersection of them indicates to me that Megastrike14 is circumventing his block in order to continue to damage Wikipedia --- grounds for extending his block or even making it indefinite. cab (talk) 11:41, 30 May 2010 (UTC)

Comments by accused parties
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Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments
Good report, but now rather moot since this hasn't been handled sooner, the block has expired almost a week ago, and the account hasn't edited anyway since then. Are the edits of the IP still vandalistic? Amalthea 12:22, 5 June 2010 (UTC)
 * Well, although IP and editor are back on related pages I still don't see that a block at this point would be anything else but punishment. Amalthea  15:16, 6 June 2010 (UTC)