Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Morbenmoshe/Archive

27 May 2015

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Very clear sock, making almost identical edits on Herut, arguing with multiple editors about the nature of Herut. The content of the edits, on this and other articles; the style of the edit summaries; and the poor grasp of English, are all very similar to the puppeteer and several of the IP socks, which led to a rangeblock. RolandR (talk) 12:27, 27 May 2015 (UTC)

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 * A CU was already run, and Orcohen45 was found to be a sock of a different master. Closing.--Bbb23 (talk) 18:09, 28 May 2015 (UTC)

31 May 2015

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Similar edits on Menachem Begin: 109, Mb. Similar edits on Political views of Albert Einstein to Mbm sock 80.246.130.247: 109, 80.

There have been many socks of this editor; request CU to identify others. Also request CU compared with Itaykaufman12, since it looks as though this user is classified under two different accounts. RolandR (talk) 18:09, 31 May 2015 (UTC)

The editor has made several more edits since I submitted this report, which are even more similar to those made by socks of Morbenmoshe and Itaykaufman, in terms of both style and content. It will take me some time to put this together, and it's late now, so I will submit more evidence tomorrow. RolandR (talk) 01:46, 1 June 2015 (UTC)


 * OK, here is more evidence. There are many characteristics common to this IP and socks of Morbenmoshe/Itaykaufman, leading to the very strong inference that these are all operated by the same person.


 * Insistence that Menachem Begin and his political parties became more moderate over the years:, eg: 109, Mbm, Mbm sock, Ik sock. It is worth noting that, in many of these edits or edit summaries, the phrase used is that Begin/Herut “got moderated”.


 * an interest in Albert Einstein’s political views on Israel and Zionism: 109, Mbm sock, Ik sock.


 * placing sources in edit summaries rather than in the article itself: 109, Mbm,  Mbm sock, Ik, IK sock.


 * repeated references in edit summaries to sources “left in talk box”: Mbm sock, Ik, Ik sock


 * failure to capitalise proper nouns (except when cutting and pasting): 109, Mbm Mbm sock, Ik sock


 * reporting opposing editors, accusing them of “deleting every thing that is not fit to his opinion”: 109, Mbm sock, Ik sock


 * This is already a long list of evidence, but it is only a small selection of the many similarities between the IP reported and the two identified puppeteers and their socks. The overlapping interests, the content and the style of these editors leave little room for doubt that they are one and the same.          RolandR (talk) 11:27, 1 June 2015 (UTC)
 * This editor is continuing to edit-war and to repeat edits by blocked socks: cf 109, Ik sock Ronkaufman RolandR (talk) 22:11, 1 June 2015 (UTC)

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 * I've declined the CU request. As I've already explained to you, there will be no CU compare with the other master. And please do not leave a wall of text as you did on my Talk page arguing otherwise.--Bbb23 (talk) 18:27, 31 May 2015 (UTC)
 * Those edits that you cited are not very similar. Is there any stronger evidence?  Vanjagenije  (talk)  22:28, 31 May 2015 (UTC)
 * After reading all those evidence cited by, . Identical wordings, identical edit summaries, etc. This IP is active as of today, so I'm asking an admin to block it for 72 hours.  Vanjagenije  (talk)  16:00, 1 June 2015 (UTC)
 * ✅. Closing.--Bbb23 (talk) 22:34, 1 June 2015 (UTC)

15 June 2015

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Same obsession with Menachem Begin and Political views of Albert Einstein, alleging changes in their views; same poor English and failure to capitalise proper nouns; same pattern of leaving sources on the talk page rather than in the article, with an edit summary note to this effect. Given the past behaviour of this puppeteer, there may be sleepers, and a range block may become necessary. RolandR (talk) 21:54, 15 June 2015 (UTC)

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— Berean Hunter   (talk)  00:14, 16 June 2015 (UTC)
 * as checkuser will not directly link IPs to specific accounts. -- Jezebel's Ponyo bons mots 23:15, 15 June 2015 (UTC)
 * Blocking one week and closing.

18 June 2015

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The first IP has already been blocked once as a puppet of this serial puppeteer, and is returning to the same article with a similar edit. The second is clearly another sock, intent on the same sort of edits. RolandR (talk) 10:08, 18 June 2015 (UTC)
 * Another two IPs today started making the same sort of edits to this pippeteer's other favoured article, Political views of Albert Einstein, with the same focus on perceived changes over time, the same failure to capitalise proper nouns, the same dumping of sources in the talk page, and trhe same abusive edit summaries. One of these,, has already been blocked for block evasion; the other, , has not, and should be added to this investigation. RolandR (talk) 23:32, 21 June 2015 (UTC)

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 * The Einstein article has been semi-protected. The IPs haven't edited for a few days. Closing. Bbb23 (talk) 16:00, 23 June 2015 (UTC)