Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Mikon/Archive

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Many of these (especially User:Copointless, User:Magedsaud53, User:Elfin hamper, User:Sonineties, User:89.213.26.67) are WP:DUCK cases from over at Articles for deletion/PureScript (programming language), where they were attempting to sway the discussion in favor of keeping the articfle. The IP address even tried to forge a signature of one of the users, as if they had accidentally logged out by mistake.

The master (User:Mikon), User:Simgard, and User:Eed3si9n are not DUCKs, but there is sufficient evidence to CU them since they both happened to converge on the AfD page within hours of each other advocating for the same position and both shared a years-long interest in similar topics (WP:SLEEPERs). &mdash; cnzx  19:14, 21 December 2017 (UTC)

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Am I accused of a sleeper account?

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Hopefully the above is enough evidence to prove that I am https://keybase.io/eed3si9n.

--Eed3si9n (talk) 19:44, 21 December 2017 (UTC)


 * How does that refute any of the allegations concerning your sockpuppetry? &mdash; cnzx  22:09, 21 December 2017 (UTC)

I started the PureScript article just to help in sharing the knowldge. I don't use the language and I don't know anyone from the language team I use only this account!. Magedsaud53 (talk) 01:41, 22 December 2017 (UTC)

I created my Wikipedia account yesterday, because I think the PureScript page is worth defending! My username is a (crappy) pun on category theory and so called pointfree style (also known as pointless style). For the record, I might have another Wikipedia account created many years ago, but it has been lost in time; I cannot remember the user name nor the password, but one thing is certain, that user identity has never contributed anything. -- Copointless (talk) 09:05, 22 December 2017 (CET)

Hi there. I have never ever used any other account than this one. Dear admins, I appreciate your service to Wikipedia, but I'd admire it even more if you focused on astroturfing by companies or politicians, especially the big ones, not by (perhaps overenthusiastic) communities of volunteer techies and users of free, open projects. The same goes for using criteria for deletion designed for articles about commercial products of companies, when you debate articles about innovations driven by communities. Best regards. Mikon (talk) 15:13, 25 December 2017 (UTC)

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments
copointless and Elfin hamper are single-edit accounts who had their accounts created on the same day. If my suspicions are correct, this is a mix of sockpuppetry/meatpuppetry. CU necessary.  QEDK ( 愛  ☃️  海 ) 07:37, 25 December 2017 (UTC)
 * - Analysing onwiki evidence.  QEDK ( 愛  ☃️  海 ) 07:24, 25 December 2017 (UTC)
 * - Let's go stepwise. First addressing the IP address, they are probably Simgard but have forgotten their login credentials or just chose to make the vote logged-out, evident because Simgard made an edit on the same date as all of them. All of these accounts have certain facts in common:
 * They all had a certain period of inactivity.
 * They all returned on the same day to collude on the AfD for PureScript.
 * They all voted or argued for keep.
 * The following accounts are ❌ to each other:
 * Mikon
 * Eed3si9n
 * Simgard
 * Sonineties
 * Magedsaud53
 * Elfin hamper
 * Mikon and Ob71 are.
 * Magedsaud53 and are ✅. Blocked these two accounts without tags.--Bbb23 (talk) 14:22, 25 December 2017 (UTC)
 * Closing. Nothing else actionable. If you feel the editors are colluding and there's been a definite conflict of interest, please take this to WP:COIN/WP:ANI. With thanks.  QEDK  ( 愛  ☃️  海 ) 17:53, 25 December 2017 (UTC)