Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Nickst/Archive

18 January 2015

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 * This IP address follows all the usual patterns of Nickst's editing. It edits categories and templates related to Ukraine, and also cycling templates. These are Nickst's standard areas of editing. What made me catch on, however, was this edit, whereby he modified the redirect on a bold page, making it impossible to return to the original title. This was something Nickst was prone to doing, and something which I took issue with multiple times in the past. Of course, to fix these modifications of redirects, the pages had to be deleted, meaning that the actual modifications cannot be found in page history. He did it on multiple pages, including Federal State of New Russia, and Antimaidan. Notice the IP editing categories and articles that Nickst has edited. This seems obvious to me. Even a cursory glance at the contribution histories of these two accounts makes it clear. RGloucester  — ☎ 18:59, 18 January 2015 (UTC)


 * Note: I've added another IP, which made a note about the Buhas bus attack (the redirect previous edited) on a user's talk page, and then proceeded to follow me to an unrelated deletion discussion, speaking in a tone that matches Nickst's odd foreign-based speech patterns. Not only did he use the phrase "This is draft article only", dropping parts of speech as Nickst was wont to do, but he also made a personal attack on me that references our prior disputes.

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 * CheckUser per the privacy policy. We cannot publicly link IP addresses to named accounts except under extreme circumstances. This case will need to be decided on behavioral evidence alone.  Tiptoety  talk 18:20, 20 January 2015 (UTC)


 * There are many similarities in editing, making it likely that the IP editor and Nickst are one and the same. However, no evidence has been given of abuse, and there is no overlap in time between the account's editing and the IP's editing. Simply abandoning one's account and editing without logging in is not in itself an offence. (Incidentally, the language features, such as omitting definite and indefinite articles and parts of the verb "to be" are characteristic of anyone whose native language is an East Slavonic language, and for IP addresses from Ukraine, that is hardly surprising, and certainly not strong evidence of being the same person.) The editor who uses the pseudonym "JamesBWatson" (talk) 18:03, 21 January 2015 (UTC)