Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Mugshots/Archive

16 October 2015

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August 10: User Mugshots, who has been editing Mug shot publishing industry for two years, starts contentiously editing the article (showing a distinct lack of understanding of reliable sourcing) and requests page protection: [] The contentious editing has been ongoing and has involved several other editors, including and.

September 30: SirYoureWrong registers an account and starts editing Mug shot publishing industry contentiously, showing a distinct lack of understanding of reliable sourcing: []

October 11: SirYoureWrong follows me to Cincinnati chili and starts removing sourced content and dropping citation needed tags into the lead section for assertions that are fully sourced in sections: []

October 11: Kafka Liz reverts an edit by SirYoureWrong on Cincinnati Chili: []

October 13: Mugshots starts following me around making small edits, including citation needed tags, on various articles I’ve edited recently or heavily: [] [] [] [] [] []

October 13: User Mugshots starts following to pages she’s edited recently or heavily, even though she’s never edited Mug shot publishing industry and he's never edited Cincinnati chili and in fact had never had any interaction anywhere: interaction tool

Here are some of the edits Mugshots made on the pages they followed Kafka Liz to (often dropping citation needed tags into the lead, when the assertions summarized are fully sourced in appropriate sections): [] []

In addition, there's the editing pattern.

Sept 30: Mugshots edits between 19:20 and 19:52. SirYoureWrong edits between 21:29 and 21:39. Oct 1-8: neither edits. Oct 9: Mugshots edits between 4:12 and 6:03 and at 21:28. SirYoureWrong edits between 21:29 and 21:39. Oct 10: SirYoureWrong edits at 12:36. Mugshots does not edit. Oct 11 -15: both edit, often one after the other, often very early, very late, or right around wikipedia 'noon.'

I feel the behavioral similarities -- editing almost exclusively Mug shot publishing industry vs. creating an SPA to edit it; editing contentiously; misunderstanding the same types of policy (reliable sourcing, when it's okay not to cite in lead); objecting to the same kinds of things (journalists as reliable sources, not wanting the term "extortion" to be used); and following editors they'd had a conflict with around making small edits are evidence of sockpuppetry. Add the fact that Mugshots never had ANY interaction with Kafka Liz while SirYoureWrong did interact with her, yet Mugshots was the one who started following her and add in the editing pattern similarities and I think it makes it very strong evidence.

valereee (talk) 14:34, 16 October 2015 (UTC)

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— Berean Hunter   (talk)  00:33, 7 November 2015 (UTC)
 * The two accounts are ❌.--Bbb23 (talk) 21:34, 16 October 2015 (UTC)
 * Closing.