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22 August 2013

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Either sock, or meatpuppet. Repeated insertion of spamlinks for products written by haephrati, but most tellingly is this diff which copies this offwiki post by haephrati  where yvalg spontaniously acting on haephrati's behalf. 

But see also and which are trying to link to haephrati. Gaijin42 (talk) 15:33, 22 August 2013 (UTC)

See also this previous SPI, with similar usernames (Haephrati) puppeting on the similar articles. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Sockpuppet_investigations/Photopinka

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''Accused parties may also comment/discuss in this section below. See Defending yourself against claims.''

Hello, I am Michael Haephrati. I came here to address the ridicules claim about sock-puppets and meat-puppets associated with my account.

This investigation has been initiated following an 'editing war' about 3 small paragraphs or end-notes I have added to 3 articles, which lead not to a "personal blog" but to professional articles at Code_Project. It seems that then, MrOllieasked picked Rashumon, an article that exists here for 3 years, and has not been edited for the last 3 months and nevertheless MrOllieasked decided it's time to nominated it for deletion.

To begin with, I am afraid to say that it seems that several Administrators here are too easy on the trigger when it comes to accusing others of being puppets of any kind. In my case, I was shocked to see that without any exception, anyone who voted in favor of keeping the article, is automatically assumed or accused to be a puppet. To put everything on the table of this investigation, there are more accounts referred to as puppets, and I would like to list them here as well:

1. Agovrin

2. Cesarp123 - See the talk page where his legitimate vote to keep the article has been refused claiming he is a puppet!

3. Marko75 - who voted to keep the article and in return, MrOllieasked asked him very rudely: "Would you mind telling me how you came across this AFD after a seven month absence?".

Needless to say, I am not any of them, nor control any of them, controlled by any of them and/or associated with any of them in any way whatsoever.

Then there is Yuvalg9 who is NOT me, and I am not responsible to anything he has done here, including quoting a forum message I indeed published outside of Wikipedia, in the AFD page. Please refer to my message on my Talk page dated 15:03, 22 August 2013 (UTC): "I indeed canvased outside of Wikipedia not knowing that it is against the policies. I did not publish a similar request on the deletion page and the user who have done that, have done that on his own (probably copied from my forum message). I have nothing to do with him. In any case, I am sorry for that and apologies".

About Johnstone, haven't seen any of his votes here.

Please close this investigation. Please remove the semi protection of the AFD, as it has only been semi-protected based on the assumption that one or more commenters / voters are puppets, which is entirely not true. To make the debate a fair play, please allow any Wikipedia editor, new or old, to express their opinion and to vote. Thank you! M. H. 09:20, 24 August 2013 (UTC)


 * I strongly protest against the accusation that me and Mr. Michael Haephrati are the same person. I was among the developers of "Photon Paint" and has edited the article about it a long time ago (please see the history). I have no affiliation with Mr. Haephrati whatsoever.Yuvalg9 (talk) 12:30, 24 August 2013 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Yuvalg9 (talk • contribs) 12:27, 24 August 2013 (UTC)

I highly doubt Yuvalg is MH. Yuvalg posted something on-wiki that MH clearly intended to hide from the Wikipedia community, as he immediately reverted it. The article's creator, though, seemed to be claiming to be MH in his last edit after being blocked in 2011 (MH was the founder of Harmony Soft, and likely the only one to use the company name in his personal dealings). I actually don't mind users who get blocked for username violations creating new accounts instead of changing their username, but in this case he has claimed not to be the same person in the article's defense ("More than one person has edited this article, so it must be notable"). Hijiri 88 ( 聖やや ) 13:40, 26 August 2013 (UTC)


 * I looked for the admission and only found this: "I would like to appeal the block for the reason that I use the name HarmonySoft over the last 20 years for personal needs and not for commercial reasons.". I personally never used this name for any user name, account or similar, and everyone who knows me knows that I always use Michael.Haephrati (i.e. I use my real life name). Please close this investigation (that has started following the assumption that me and yuvalg9 are the same person. It's time that we all move on.M. H. 19:08, 26 August 2013 (UTC)
 * What about User:Haephrati who edited these articles. Are you claiming this account is not yours? Its signature was identical to yours.  Gaijin42 (talk) 19:50, 26 August 2013 (UTC)
 * Eriksiers also speculated that Harmonysoft (the Wikipedia account) was MH (the person). MH, here's a question for you: if User:Harmonysoft is not Michael Haephrati, who do you think it could be? To the best of my knowledge, MH (the person, not the Wikipedia account) effectively is Harmony Soft (the company, not the Wikipedia account) and the Wikipedia account Harmonysoft openly claimed to be the company Harmony Soft. Is Harmony Soft under new management? What happened? MH, can you specify to us (publicly) which of the following are the same: Michael.haephrati (the Wikipedia account); Michael Haephrati (the person); Harmonysoft (the Wikipedia account) and Harmony Soft (the company)?? Hijiri 88 ( 聖やや ) 12:25, 27 August 2013 (UTC)

Regarding the claim that and are linked to me, that is not correct. They link to articles at Code Project web site], and the fact that I wrote the articles which are cited doesn't disqualify them or automatically mark any other Code Project web site] member as a 'puppet'. This is not a personal blog. I am only one of many writers and editors there. Michael Haephrati (talk) 20:40, 27 August 2013 (UTC)
 * I note that you do not deny being Haephrati, Photopinka, or Harmonysoft. Gaijin42 (talk) 20:46, 27 August 2013 (UTC)
 * Please don't assume anything unless specifically told so. I use only one user name. Not any of the other users mentioned in this page. Michael Haephrati (talk) 21:27, 27 August 2013 (UTC)
 * Michael Haephrati Ah. So if you are not User:Haephrati Then all of the files that user uploaded as "their own work" such as File:Rashumon_-_Print_Sample.jpg are in fact copyright violations. I will nominate them for deletion immediately! Gaijin42 (talk) 16:02, 29 August 2013 (UTC)

I didn't notice until just now, but if MH isn't the same person as Yuvalg (and I don't think he is) then either (1) Yuvalg is MH's meatpuppet and they were communicating off-wiki either right before or right after Yuvalg got involved here (read: very likely), or (2) MH outed Yuvalg without the latter's permission. Now, in my interactions with a lot of users I've become 99% certain of these users' real-world identities. And I'm pretty sure they're cool with that, otherwise they wouldn't have picked the usernames they did and constantly inserted references to themselves in unrelated Wikipedia articles. But if I blurted their real names out on-site, and posted links to their personal profiles on external websites? They'd get angry as hell at me for that. Note that Yuvalg, despite having never publicly given permission to MH to out him on-wiki, has continued to take MH's side regardless of MH directly attempting to out him? This means there has almost certainly been off-site collusion between the two, in which Yuvalg made it clear to MH that it was okay to post his personal information. I think this is further evidence that they are not the same person, but have been colluding with each other in private. Note also how quickly MH went from calling Yuvalg a vandal to being buddy-buddy? This not long before he went from asking me for help to calling me a sockmaster in the space of about an hour. I would also be willing to guess this collusion began between 2013-08-22, 14:48 and 2013-08-24, 19:45. Given my own, admittedly non-verifiable, experience of MH's e-mails I'd lean for the earliest likely date. Hijiri 88 ( 聖やや ) 12:08, 28 August 2013 (UTC)

=Seriously a DUCK
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User:Haephrati obtains selfie photos, creates an account called Haephrati. Uploads those pics, saying he is the author, and that he is Michael Haephrati (see copyright notice on those two files). User is then blocked as a sock. User Michael Haephrati comes along years later, finds an image of himself on commons, and uploads it as his image on his user page, then proceeds to edit the same articles COI articles that Haephrati edited. Gaijin42 (talk) 17:30, 29 August 2013 (UTC)


 * Which account was blocked? The wikimedia one of the us.wikipedia one?MH (talk) 17:35, 29 August 2013 (UTC)
 * Per unified login, there is only one account, which is universal. The block is only effective on en.wikipedia though. Gaijin42 (talk) 17:46, 29 August 2013 (UTC)
 * No. See Unified Login Finalization. The photos seems to have been uploaded before that. MH (talk) 20:08, 29 August 2013 (UTC)

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * Endorsed for CU assistance to get this all resolved/straightened out. For reference the two pictures noted above are 1 and 2. --Errant (chat!) 17:57, 29 August 2013 (UTC)
 * Should be merged into Sockpuppet investigations/Photopinka, though I haven't been around to know how that's done when there's concurrent cases. Rschen7754 20:19, 29 August 2013 (UTC)