Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Muscovite99~enwiki/Archive

Report date March 4 2009, 02:57 (UTC)

 * Suspected sockpuppets

Hours after was blocked for two weeks a new  appeared. Both share the interest in Putinism and both have similar points of view. Despite being a new user MastM seems to have good knowledge on templates inluding lang-ru and DEFAULTSORT. According to his block log Muscovite99 already had abused multiple accounts. On the other hand, I am not comfortable on blocking by the contribution history alone as it is not 100% convincing. Please check Alex Bakharev (talk) 02:57, 4 March 2009 (UTC)


 * Evidence submitted by Alex Bakharev (talk)


 * Comments by accused parties    See Defending yourself against claims.


 * Comments by other users

Requested by Alex Bakharev (talk) 02:57, 4 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments


 * Conclusions
 * based on technical + behavioral data. Nishkid64 (Make articles, not wikidrama) 05:23, 4 March 2009 (UTC)

Both accounts have been blocked, main for one month and sock indef. Foxy Loxy Pounce! 22:42, 4 March 2009 (UTC)

Foxy Loxy Pounce! 22:42, 4 March 2009 (UTC)

Report date June 29 2009, 00:42 (UTC)

 * Suspected sockpuppets


 * Evidence submitted by Offliner

is indefinitely blocked for sockpuppeting and disruptive editing. He has been evading blocks through IPs and sockpuppets such as, and , and , among others. The connection between Muscovite99 and the IPs mentioned was established by CheckUser by User:Dominic in this WP:AN thread:.


 * The Phanar account was created only a few days after Muscovite99 got his last block. Phanar was created on 31 March; please compare with events on 28 March in Muscovite99's block log.
 * Phanar has edited similar articles as Muscovite99, such as Vladimir Putin, Putinism, Russian orthodox church, Hermann Simm, Bulgarian Exarchate and articles related to the orthodox christianity.
 * Phanar removed a sentence from Vladimir Putin: . The exact same sentence was earlier removed from Putinism by Muscovite99:.
 * Phanar also inserted this text: ("Putin was reported to have publicly said in December 2005...") to Putinism. The exact same text was earlier inserted by one of Muscovite99's block evasion IPs:.
 * Just one day after Muscovite99's previous IP stopped editing Bulgarian Exarchate, Phanar continued from where it had left.
 * This edit summary strongly implies that Phanar is Russian: (Muscovite99 was from Moscow per the geolocation of his IPs.)
 * Phanar starts his edit summaries with a capital letter, something which Muscovite99 also always did. Offliner (talk) 00:42, 29 June 2009 (UTC)
 * There are other similarities in edit summary usage as well. For example:
 * Both accounts are interested in replacing present tense with past tense: . Offliner (talk) 05:20, 29 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Phanar edits as 62.118.179.114, one of Muscovite99's IPs. See this edit by the IP: . The edit is later signed by Phanar: . Offliner (talk) 06:43, 29 June 2009 (UTC)


 * Comments by accused parties    See Defending yourself against claims.

Some of this evidence looks unconvincing. Lots of Russians are critical of Putin, so I think we should be careful not to characterise users who make critical edits of articles like Vladimir Putin and Putinism as being socks of Muscovite99. As far as I know most Russians are of the orthodox christian denomination, so I wouldn't think it that unusual to edit articles related to their own religion. Also the geo-locate information is unconvincing, Moscow is one of the largest cities in the world. The IPs Offliner associates with Phanar looks like an ISP, hence the addresses are probably dynamically allocated to different users, so I don't know why Alex Bakharev perma-blocked them. --Martintg (talk) 01:26, 29 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Comments by other users
 * Surprisingly, that was something inserted by me a couple of years ago, but someone still struggles to place it back... I do not know who that user is, but Muscovite99 should ask at his talk page to contact his blocking admin and promise him to behave better if he wants to come back.Biophys (talk) 16:52, 29 June 2009 (UTC)

Please also check for any other open socks or block evasion IPs. There is no sign that this user is going to stop evading his block, and the current account was created almost immediately after his last block evasion IP was closed down. I suspect that he has created a new account already. Offliner (talk) 06:25, 1 July 2009 (UTC)


 * Request for CheckUser
 * Requested by Offliner (talk)
 * - Tiptoety  talk 19:54, 1 July 2009 (UTC)


 * Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments
 * The evidence presented does raise some concerns, but I am not sure it is enough yet to justify a block or CheckUser. I would be interested to hear from the accused on this matter. Tiptoety  talk 06:28, 29 June 2009 (UTC)


 * Conclusions
 * ✅ and  are Muscovite99. Nishkid64 (Make articles, not wikidrama) 14:46, 3 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Blocked and tagged. Tiptoety  talk 15:01, 3 July 2009 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets

 * ( original case name)

I changed the link for Interaction Timeline, because the case name is old and its using incorrect name. Please see this - https://interaction-timeline.toolforge.org/?wiki=enwiki&user=Muscovite99~enwiki&user=Axxxion The main (home) Wikipedia for ( before the SUL finalisation) and its sockpuppets (Axxxion and Axxion) is the Russian Wikipedia. There is a sockpuppet investigation there - ru:Википедия:Проверка участников/Axxion. It was proven by a checkuser that Muscovite99 is evading their indef block, abusing multiple accounts, including Axxxion and Axxion. And these accounts are blocked indefinitely in the Russian Wikipedia for the same reason Muscovite99 blocked here (block evasion, sockpuppetry). I think you can see it in the global log for these accounts (or global accounts information?). Axxxion was registered shortly after Axxion was blocked for block evasion. And Axxion was registered shortly after Muscovite99 was blocked. Axxxion is editing the same articles: Eastern Europe related articles: Russian military intelligence related articles, religion in Russia, Vladimir Putin related articles. And Axxxion is continuing to behave like Muscovite99. They are currently blocked from the page Timeline of the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine for disruptive editing. Renat 15:29, 23 March 2022 (UTC)

I am asking to indefinitely block Axxxion, because Axxxion is a confirmed sockpuppet of Muscovite99. Muscovite99 was blocked indefinitely in the English Wikipedia. Muscovite99 created Axxxion to evade their ban. This is an abuse of multiple accounts. -- Renat 03:00, 30 March 2022 (UTC)

Comments by other users
''Accused parties may also comment/discuss in this section below. See Defending yourself against claims.''

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * Muscovite99 doesn't exist; it was renamed to Muscovite99~enwiki and it's last edit was 13 years ago. Axxion~enwiki's last edit was 16 years ago.  So what is this SPI supposed to be doing? -- RoySmith (talk) 20:32, 29 March 2022 (UTC)
 * The socking connection on ruwiki is a good clue, but not enough by itself to block here. However, the extensive editing overlap plus some behavioral clues I found are enough for me to block Axxxion as suspected.  I've also moved this case to Muscovite99~enwiki, since that's the account name that actually exists on enwiki. -- RoySmith (talk) 00:36, 31 March 2022 (UTC)