Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Mziboy/Archive

04 October 2011

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Same posting style (including use of "---" on deletion discussion for The_Return_To_Gibraltar_(science_fiction_novel) for the first IP. Both Mziboy and 68.54.159.179 voted the same way. The evidence for 209.212.28.62 is not as strong, however it is from a public library in the NJ area, coincidentally where Proteus is based. The same proteus that is linked to Mziboy's email address on his account. See here: http://www.proteusfilm.com/Proteus_Film/About_Us.html Heywoodg   talk  17:04, 4 October 2011 (UTC)

One further note is that both the second IP, and Mziboy use "footnote" in the same unusual manner. Heywoodg  talk  17:57, 4 October 2011 (UTC)

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 * Blocked the 209 IP for a week. This guy seems to be jumping around, so I'm going to let the 68 IP go for now. —  Hello Annyong  (say whaaat?!) 03:17, 5 October 2011 (UTC)

24 March 2012

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All socks attended the AfD discussion for Kissinger N. Sibanda. All of them made suspicious keep votes and ALL CAPS screaming. The socks also made accusations of racism and conspiracy theories about the AfD of the previous (quite similar) article. The 209 sock geolocates to a New Jersey library, and the sockmaster geolocates to New Jersey. Here are diffs of their votes:   Thekillerpenguin (talk) 00:03, 24 March 2012 (UTC)

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Susan matheson and 68.54.159.179 ( are ✅ as User:Mziboy. Susan matheson has been indefinitely blocked and tagged, Mziboy and the IP have been hardblocked 1 month, and the article has been speedy deleted per G4 and AfD appropriately closed. --MuZemike 20:57, 25 March 2012 (UTC)

27 March 2012

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Both accounts came directly to WP:REFUND after AFD and previous SPI being very familiar with them and issuing more conspiracy theories. IP traces back (again) to New Jersey. Tikiwont (talk) 18:31, 27 March 2012 (UTC)

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User:Intoheaven is the same as User:Susan matheson. No comment on the (unchecked) IP, which of course y'all can see for yourselves geolocates to NJ, with its millions of residents... Frank &#124;  talk  22:37, 27 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Intoheaven blocked and tagged per WP:DUCK. I'm not sure the IP is worth bothering with, though its only previous edits, last November, were also relevant. JohnCD (talk) 11:19, 28 March 2012 (UTC)
 * I'll go ahead and mark for close. TN X Man  14:00, 28 March 2012 (UTC)

29 August 2012

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See Articles for deletion/Ken Sibanda (2nd nomination). (Mziboy has a history of socking in an attempt to distort consensus at AfD.) Both argue that the article should be kept, that others have their facts wrong, etc. Mziboy has previously used the word "footnote" in the same incorrect way as the IP, and the IP Geolocates to New Jersey, where Proteus Books, the company that Mziboy is believed to work for, is based. (Proteus publishes Sibanda's work, explaining why Mziboy is doing this.) CtP  (t • c) 18:52, 29 August 2012 (UTC)

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30 August 2012

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See comment at Sibanda AfD; supported keeping article, claimed that there was racism present in the deletion debate, admitted to interaction with editors Mziboy had interacted with, and the IP Geolocates to New Jersey, where Mziboy is believed to reside. CtP (t • c) 00:44, 30 August 2012 (UTC)

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Quite obvious. I've blocked both IPs. Elockid  ( Talk ) 19:44, 30 August 2012 (UTC)
 * Late remark, but somehow I seem to be the only one who noticed that he did not even seem to  be aware he was logged out as he discussed being the creator of the article quite openly. This particular instance might be less about deliberate socking and more about the general pattern of cluelessness and hostility that led to Mziboy's banning. Beeblebrox (talk) 20:10, 30 August 2012 (UTC)
 * See the first sentence. Elockid  ( Talk ) 00:10, 31 August 2012 (UTC)

31 August 2012

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After Mziboy's ban, this account appears and immediately shows up at the Ken Sibanda AfD to !vote keep. . The Bushranger One ping only 00:30, 31 August 2012 (UTC)

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 * Just before he was site banned and indef blocked, Mziboy was edit warring with a number of editors to restore Ken Sibanda's name to Black science fiction - now KingArthur2012 has tried to restore it as well. Please note that both editors incorrectly use "gramma" for "grammar" in their edit summaries. Beyond My Ken (talk) 00:53, 31 August 2012 (UTC)
 * Per the above I've gone ahead and blocked as a WP:GIANTDUCK. - The Bushranger One ping only 00:56, 31 August 2012 (UTC)

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 * Closing per the block. -- DQ  (ʞlɐʇ)  00:58, 31 August 2012 (UTC)

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I realize this is a rather old and somewhat stale SPI but alas.... recreated salted article Ken sibanda just days after started adding more Sibanda spam to other articles and was  to unsalt the title. Additionally Casablancathe also created a KS film article, 1948 (film). Both articles also have edits from IPs in the  the  location as the previously blocked IP(s) from this SPI. Chrissymad ❯❯❯  ¯\_(ツ)_/¯  18:02, 19 February 2017 (UTC)

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Samantha rabin is already blocked, but I blocked Casablancathe. NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 17:37, 23 February 2017 (UTC)

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This follows on from previous discussions Sockpuppet_investigations/Mziboy/Archive and undermined deletion discussions for Articles_for_deletion/Ken_Sibanda_(2nd_nomination) or Articles_for_deletion/The_Return_To_Gibraltar_(science_fiction_novel). Latest installment is 1948 (film) which has been proposed for deletion a few times, but untagged again by one of the IPs. The film is about the same author/director as before. I tried to google hard, but found no independent sources for either the book or the movie. If it quacks... Jake Brockman (talk) 15:04, 27 February 2017 (UTC) Jake Brockman (talk) 15:04, 27 February 2017 (UTC)
 * Additional comment referencing Articles_for_deletion/1948_(film) - user account created within minutes of last edit on article by IP 64.132.223.3, to then contest the deletion See Special:CentralAuth/Mutombofromcongo and [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=1948_(film)&action=history Revision history 1948 (film)]. Falls in line with experience in Sockpuppet_investigations/Mziboy/Archive Jake Brockman (talk) 12:17, 1 March 2017 (UTC)

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 * - Please, compare this account to and .  Vanjagenije   (talk)  21:49, 19 March 2017 (UTC)
 * - different operating systems and ISPs than both the listed proven socks. I'll leave this open if someone wants to dig deeper into the behavior, but the technical data doesn't line up well. Katietalk 15:27, 20 March 2017 (UTC)
 * Obviously no one wants to dig deeper. Case closed.  Vanjagenije  (talk)  18:23, 8 April 2017 (UTC)