Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Mozambicano/Archive

Report date April 22 2009, 00:31 (UTC)

 * Suspected sockpuppets


 * Evidence submitted by cab (talk)

Repeated inflation of population figures on Mozambique, Indians in Mozambique, and Ethnic Chinese in Mozambique to claim there's 80,000 Indians and 7,000 Chinese. The IP has been blocked for this behaviour (account creation also blocked, but Mozambicana1 account was created after the block, so it's probably a dynamic IP). Some examples: Thanks, cab (talk) 00:31, 22 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Puppetmaster:
 * IP: (no edit to Ethnic Chinese in Mozambique yet)
 * Mozambicana1: (no edit to Ethnic Chinese in Mozambique yet)
 * Cano2222: (no edit to Ethnic Chinese in Mozambique yet)
 * Creol33

Added more accounts. cab (talk) 23:14, 22 April 2009 (UTC)


 * Comments by accused parties    See Defending yourself against claims.


 * Comments by other users


 * Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments


 * Pretty clear connection here. Ripe for a duck block by a patrolling admin. Nathan  T (formerly Avruch) 18:38, 22 April 2009 (UTC)


 * Conclusions
 * Blocked and tagged. Tiptoety  talk 17:28, 23 April 2009 (UTC)

Report date May 3 2009, 13:27 (UTC)

 * Suspected sockpuppets




 * Evidence submitted by cab (talk)

Luano123 is again modifying the population statistics on Mozambique (e.g. to claim that indigenous groups form only 91.66% instead of 99.66% as stated by the CIA World Factbook, and that European and Asian groups form the other 8.34%. This is the same kind of vandalism (down to the decimal point) that Mozambicano also performed , and doesn't reflect the source.

Chenning01 is again modifying the Indians in Mozambique, Demographics of Mozambique, and similar articles with inflated population statistics. This time he gave a source, but given that he's also using another sock puppet at the same time, I don't really consider this to be much of an indication of good faith. (Also, the consensus is generally that the source in question, the Joshua Project, is not reliable; see here for an extended discussion of their flaws). I found a higher population estimate for Ethnic Chinese in Mozambique and added that in the relevant articles, but his only response is to say "I'm from Mozambique so I know better" and "Wikipedia is full of lies, our numbers are increasing".

cab (talk) 13:27, 3 May 2009 (UTC)


 * Anyway he is finally discussing at User talk:Chenning01, it's not exactly a friendly conversation but he finally said he has a source for Indians in Mozambique, though he won't tell me who wrote it, where it was published, etc. (still no explanation for the 99.66% to 91.66% change for the proportion of Bantus, though). So it might only necessary to block Luano123. I guess the admin who closes this should decide ... cab (talk) 15:50, 3 May 2009 (UTC)


 * Comments by accused parties    See Defending yourself against claims.


 * Comments by other users

-- Luk  talk (lucasbfr) 10:06, 11 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments
 * Releasing the IPs used since the user edited on the affected articles while being logged out:
 * ✅ that
 * are a single person. Note that while they seem to be the only user on these IPs, both IPs are from an educational institution. Please be careful if issuing blocks. -- Luk  talk (lucasbfr) 10:18, 11 May 2009 (UTC)
 * are a single person. Note that while they seem to be the only user on these IPs, both IPs are from an educational institution. Please be careful if issuing blocks. -- Luk  talk (lucasbfr) 10:18, 11 May 2009 (UTC)
 * are a single person. Note that while they seem to be the only user on these IPs, both IPs are from an educational institution. Please be careful if issuing blocks. -- Luk  talk (lucasbfr) 10:18, 11 May 2009 (UTC)
 * are a single person. Note that while they seem to be the only user on these IPs, both IPs are from an educational institution. Please be careful if issuing blocks. -- Luk  talk (lucasbfr) 10:18, 11 May 2009 (UTC)
 * are a single person. Note that while they seem to be the only user on these IPs, both IPs are from an educational institution. Please be careful if issuing blocks. -- Luk  talk (lucasbfr) 10:18, 11 May 2009 (UTC)
 * are a single person. Note that while they seem to be the only user on these IPs, both IPs are from an educational institution. Please be careful if issuing blocks. -- Luk  talk (lucasbfr) 10:18, 11 May 2009 (UTC)
 * are a single person. Note that while they seem to be the only user on these IPs, both IPs are from an educational institution. Please be careful if issuing blocks. -- Luk  talk (lucasbfr) 10:18, 11 May 2009 (UTC)
 * are a single person. Note that while they seem to be the only user on these IPs, both IPs are from an educational institution. Please be careful if issuing blocks. -- Luk  talk (lucasbfr) 10:18, 11 May 2009 (UTC)


 * Conclusions


 * Accounts blocked and tagged.
 * IPs blocked (AO, ACB) for a month with schoolblock added to the talk pages. Peter Symonds ( talk ) 10:29, 11 May 2009 (UTC)