Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Mevagiss/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets



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All showed up at Talk:Siege of Jerusalem (AD 70), with no previous edits to the article or talk, supporting the same agenda. All have a history of era style changes, many in violation of MOS:ERA. All appear to edit at the same time of day and have additional matches in editing style and behavior as well. And (what prompted me to file this report), for accounts with so few edits, a huge percentage of overlap in the Editor Interaction Analyser. Mojoworker (talk) 18:04, 19 March 2018 (UTC)

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Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * ✅ + . . Please move to Mevagiss, the oldest account.--Bbb23 (talk) 22:08, 19 March 2018 (UTC)
 * ✅. Closing. Sir Sputnik (talk) 22:43, 19 March 2018 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets

 * ( original case name)


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 * The day the accounts were created they edited their user pages to just say "TBC".
 * They both edit almost exclusively to change things like "Scottish", "English", "Welsh" to "British". Samples from Politovsky, , . Sample from Muirofsara , ,
 * They both like to change "BCE" to "BC". Politovsky . Muirofsara.
 * They both talk about reverting or restoring to "consensus" even though clearly no consensus exists as the articles are reverted back and forth endlessly.
 * They both leave similar edit summaries "restore version changed by X on Y".
 * They edit a bunch of the same articles to make identical edits. AlistairMcMillan (talk) 00:37, 14 March 2021 (UTC)

Just realised there is another similar account, Polyssotsky.
 * Another editor who likes to change "English" and "Scottish" to "British".
 * Who edits the same article as Muirofsara and Politovsky.
 * Just realised two of their first edits were to the User:Mevagiss and User:CouncilConnect user pages who were previously blocked for sockpuppetry. And they made similar edits . — Preceding unsigned comment added by AlistairMcMillan (talk • contribs) 00:52, 14 March 2021 (UTC)

And another with suspiciously similar edits, Capristic.
 * Similar to Muirofsara
 * Similar to Polyssotsky
 * Similar to Politovsky — Preceding unsigned comment added by AlistairMcMillan (talk • contribs) 01:12, 14 March 2021 (UTC)

Also seems to edit as a logged out user (94.119.64.1)
 * 10 March 2021 - 94.119.64.1 asks on the teahouse how to leave a comment on an article and receives a reply.
 * 11 March 2021 - Muirofsara leaves a comment on an article.
 * Aside from that very similar edits. The dedication to making everyone "British" rather than "English", "Scottish", etc.
 * The same dedication to eliminating "BCE" and "CE".
 * Editing the same articles as Capristic.
 * Editing the same articles as Muirofsara.
 * Editing the same articles as Politovsky.
 * Editing the same articles as Polyssotsky. — Preceding unsigned comment added by AlistairMcMillan (talk • contribs) 01:21, 15 March 2021 (UTC)

And another IP address (94.119.64.34) with the same editing patterns
 * Editing the same articles as Capristic.
 * Editing the same articles as Muirofsara.
 * Editing the same articles as Politovsky.
 * Editing the same articles as Polyssotsky. — Preceding unsigned comment added by AlistairMcMillan (talk • contribs) 13:39, 25 March 2021 (UTC)

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Can someone explain what this is all about? Seems like I have offended someone/the complainer with some edit I have made? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Capristic (talk • contribs) 10:19, 14 March 2021 (UTC)

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * Good filing, thank you, though I want to ask you to please sign any comments you make at SPI. – per filing, timecards  and some additional edit summary similarities. This is long-running, so CU seems warranted. Please compare the accounts and look for sleepers. This seems to trace back to Sockpuppet investigations/Mevagiss; if feasible, a comparison to the CU logs for that case would be appreciated. Blablubbs&#124;talk 11:53, 14 April 2021 (UTC)
 * The users are somewhat to Mevagiss - same country, but the geolocation data of that country isn't reliable. That's all I can really give you...
 *  ~Oshwah~  (talk) (contribs)   15:04, 14 April 2021 (UTC)
 * The users are somewhat to Mevagiss - same country, but the geolocation data of that country isn't reliable. That's all I can really give you...
 *  ~Oshwah~  (talk) (contribs)   15:04, 14 April 2021 (UTC)
 * The users are somewhat to Mevagiss - same country, but the geolocation data of that country isn't reliable. That's all I can really give you...
 *  ~Oshwah~  (talk) (contribs)   15:04, 14 April 2021 (UTC)
 * The users are somewhat to Mevagiss - same country, but the geolocation data of that country isn't reliable. That's all I can really give you...
 *  ~Oshwah~  (talk) (contribs)   15:04, 14 April 2021 (UTC)
 *  ~Oshwah~  (talk) (contribs)   15:04, 14 April 2021 (UTC)


 * Thanks. I'm convinced on behaviour. Edit summaries clearly show that this is one group and the same person as Mevagiss; no details per BEANS, but compare e.g. these four accounts . please merge this into Mevagiss, and, if you have time, indef the named accounts and give  a 6 month timeout; the range has been mostly them for months now. The WHOIS makes it look like a webhost (and some ranges in the ASN are blocked as such), but this is a public access wifi operator (see https://www.bloomberg.com/profile/company/1242455Z:LN, plus https://thecloud.net redirects to https://www.sky.com/wifi). Thanks and best,  Blablubbs&#124;talk 11:43, 15 April 2021 (UTC)
 * The IP range is already 7 months into a 3yr timeout Cabayi (talk) 10:31, 17 April 2021 (UTC)
 * That appears to be a single IP at the start of the range. The range shows up as unblocked for me – looking at the logs, the most recent block seems to have been a 3 month one placed by Ponyo in August . Blablubbs&#124;talk 10:34, 17 April 2021 (UTC)
 * Figured out where I got the wrong idea - User:94.119.64.0/18 - still a careless mistake on my part. Named accounts indeffed, . Tagged. Back to . Cabayi (talk) 16:44, 17 April 2021 (UTC)
 * Thanks. Tweaked the tags slightly, closing. Blablubbs&#124;talk 23:01, 18 April 2021 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets



 * Tools: Editor interaction utility • Interaction Timeline • User compare report Auto-generated every hour.

User has a history of similar edits to previous suspected sockpuppets, such as changing nationalities on the same articles edited by the aforementioned accounts e.g. changing "Scottish" or "English" to "British", which was previously done by Polyssotsky.

Another example: Similar edit at Keira Knightley by Riftbase ,previously done by Capristic.

Generally making similar edits to the same articles as previous socks did in the past Muirofsara Capristic Polyssotsky. Magatta (talk) 23:56, 1 December 2021 (UTC)

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

 * All socks in the archive are for comparison using the CU tool. However, based comparing the CU logs this user is  based on the limited technical evidence that I can compare. No additional accounts seen when running CU on the reported sock. . Dreamy Jazz talk to me &#124; my contributions 10:15, 2 December 2021 (UTC)
 * Behaviourally, it's a match to this case; besides what's in the filing, see e.g. . There are numerous other similarities. - please indef the sock. Thanks, Spicy (talk) 20:43, 5 December 2021 (UTC)
 * Already blocked by ; setting this to open, I'll leave the rest to you, --Blablubbs (talk) 16:57, 6 December 2021 (UTC)
 * Thanks. Tagged, closing. Spicy (talk) 19:00, 6 December 2021 (UTC)