Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Micky02car/Archive

10 September 2012

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There is no doubt that these accounts are all sockpuppets, and I have blocked them all except for Делије са Севера, which is already globally locked on all Wikimedia projects. I am, however, filing this report to ask for a checkuser in case of sleepers or other accounts. This user has used at least 27 accounts on Serbian Wikipedia, listed here. As far as I know, they are all indef-blocked there. All of the accounts I have listed have user names which are either the same as, or very similar to, names of some of those Serbian sockpuppets. (Micky02car and Mickyczv02 are the same name respectively in Cyrillic and Roman alphabets, and others must be obvious even to anyone without a knowledge of Cyrillic.) The accounts have very similar interests and editing behaviour, all editing exclusively articles about footballers. Several accounts have edited about an apparently fictitious footballer called "Milos Bozovic" (perhaps fantasies about the editor himself: nine of the Serbian sockpuppets and two of the English ones have names containing "Milos"). For example, ДЕЛИЈЕ СЕВЕР 1989 created the hoax article Milos Bozovic, Milosczv2222 created the hoax article Milos Bozovic (footballer born 1990), Делије са Севера added bogus information about Milos Bozovic to an article here, and Micky02car did so here. There are other similarities in editing too, such as removing mentions of players "on loan" from one club to another:, , , , etc. JamesBWatson (talk) 14:41, 10 September 2012 (UTC)
 * I have now found that many more of the Serbian socks have also edited on English WP, several of them are already blocked, and some are globally locked. Other hoax articles include Milos Bozovic (goalkeeper), Miloš Božović (goalkeeper), and Nikola Božović. One of the accounts says "my name is Miloš Božović" on his user page, so that removes any doubt about the hoaxes being vanity pages about himself. I also found that Sockpuppet investigations/Kimiczv02 deals with the same sockpuppeteer, and should now be moved to here, but I don't have time to do it. I have blocked all the accounts that have edited English WP, except those that I know are globally locked. It would still be worth a CU in case of yet more accounts. The Serbian sockpuppets, apart from those already listed above, are:


 * JamesBWatson (talk) 15:43, 10 September 2012 (UTC)

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 * Master believed to be GiantSnowman 15:00, 10 September 2012 (UTC)

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments
— Berean Hunter   (talk)  15:35, 10 September 2012 (UTC)
 * - to check for sleepers.


 * I am going to start by reminding everyone that, and that before taking any administrative actions based upon these results I encourage a review of the contributions. This is a lot of accounts for me to go through, on a rather busy range, with accounts who share very generic useragents. Also,  is  so no connection can be made there. With that said, the following appear to be related to the above group:
 * (please closely review prior to taking administrative action)
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 * appears technically ❌. Tiptoety  talk 05:32, 11 September 2012 (UTC)
 * Thanks, Tiptoety. This is a good illustration of the fact that Checkuser is not magic pixie dust, because Milosczv2222's contributions, as well as the username, leave no room for doubt at all, while nothing about Marko Pekic's contributions look related at all. I have blocked and tagged Milosczv22, but I don't see any good reason for blocking Marko Pekic, unless and until his edits start to look problematic. JamesBWatson (talk) 08:39, 11 September 2012 (UTC)