Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Nyannrunning/Archive

Evidence submitted by Wildhartlivie
This basically falls under WP:DUCK. Nyannrunning is a prolific sockmaster who has been blocked for his editing. See Suspected sock puppets/Nyannrunning, Suspected sock puppets/Nyannrunning (2nd) and Suspected sock puppets/Nyannrunning (3rd). This editor showed up at Richard Colvin Cox to once again add content. Note that this article is rarely edited, and the use of the very obscure book by Harry Maihafer, Oblivion: The Mystery of West Point Cadet Richard Colvin Cox was first added by the sock master, Nyannrunning during this series of edits. He returned to once again add content based on that book here, with a confirmed sockpuppet. His addition this time around used the same book as well as a 1952 Life magazine article. Nyannrunning often drags out sources from nearly 60 year old magazines, just as he did here. The person behind Nyannrunning and the other socks has a tendency to move around the greater Los Angeles area to use public access internet, such as the Los Angeles County Public Library, internet cafes, and airport located internet kiosks. He also has a tendency to revert posts and parrot the rationale used to remove his posts, such as he did here and as noted on the other sock cases above. There is copious information on the earlier sock cases that support the actions and conduct of this editor. He also proceeded to accuse other editors of being socks such as here. This editor obviously has a much greater knowledge of how things work around for an editor who just signed up yesterday. The last sock showed up was User:Earththings in February 2010, also editing old Nyannrunning's obscure favorites such as Dorothy Kilgallen and tried to drag User:Lar into it. This person is persistent. Wildhartlivie (talk) 01:23, 5 June 2010 (UTC)
 * Another indication of "duck" is that in responding to another editor on his talk page regarding User:My account now's insinuation that an editor is a sock puppet, My account now indicated familiarity with me, which would not be true if he were indeed a new editor. Note here where he says about me "I won't add anything to Wildhartlivie's page even though she might want me to. Sometimes she wants me to keep talking, other times she doesn't." A new editor wouldn't have a history with me to know whether I want him to keep talking or not. A clear indication that he's dealt with me before. Wildhartlivie (talk) 05:33, 6 June 2010 (UTC)

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Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments
Requested by Wildhartlivie (talk) 01:23, 5 June 2010 (UTC) . Kevin Rutherford (talk) 04:45, 6 June 2010 (UTC)

Evidence submitted by Pinkadelica
User:130.166.33.108 appeared on the Karyn Kupcinet article (a fave of Nyannrunning socks User:Debbiesvoucher and User:Dooyar who sort of participated in the almost go-nowhere dispute resolution on it some time ago) yesterday adding various unsourced content to the article. Their somewhat rambling edit summaries, tendency restore similar wording from previous versions they edited, and focus on the rather obscure article leads me to believe the IP and User:Sourcingit are in fact User:Nyannrunning. Dooyar attempted to add content to the article regarding The Los Angeles Times coverage of Kupinet's death and how it only ran "less than a week". User:130.166.33.108 also added similarly worded content to the article multiple times as did Souringit. Another of Nyan's socks, Debbiesvoucher, attempted to refer to a researcher, Penn Jones, Jr. as a "conspiracy theorist" as did Sourcingit and 130.166.33.108. All three also restored the lede with the wording "Kupcinet's death, which the coroner ruled a homicide," which was Debbiesvoucher's original preferred wording.

Nyannrunning frequently edits from California university and public library computers (130.166.33.108, 130.166.30.157, and 130.166.33.132 all geolocate to California State University, Northridge) and has a tendency to focus on the same articles (Karyn Kupcinet, Dorothy Kilgallen, etc.). She also has a tendency to include rather long edit summaries that do not fully explain all the edits she performs and leaves comments on talk pages that do not actually address the issue(s) other editors have with her edits as seen here. She routinely attempts to sneak in unsourced content with a POV slant and also routinely refers to sources such as The Los Angeles Times which are conveniently not available online.

The Los Angeles Times going back more than a century is conveniently available online here.

Los Angeles Times database

It charges a fee, but it lets you see headlines, dates and page numbers for free. If you really want the entire text of an old article at your fingertips for free, you can get it at many public libraries throughout California. I can't do anything here (except correct this misinformation about a source that can enhance many thousands of Wikipedia articles) because I don't understand anything else Pinkadelica said. If you want to ignore my suggestions about the Karyn Kupcinet article, that's cool. You can ignore an actual Wikipedia article about Penn Jones, Jr. that does not support the Kupcinet article's generous, positive description of him. The Jones article says first and foremost that he was a hobo during the Great Depression. If a Wikipedia article is a bad source for another Wikipedia article, then there must be something about Wikipedia editing that I don't get. I'll leave it at that.Sourcingit (talk) 03:26, 29 October 2010 (UTC)

For further evidence and additional tagged socks, see:


 * Requests for checkuser/Case/Nyannrunning
 * Suspected sock puppets/Nyannrunning (2nd)
 * Suspected sock puppets/Nyannrunning (3rd)  Pinkadelica ♣  04:11, 22 October 2010 (UTC)

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Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments

 * This case is almost a month old and all of the accounts have gone rather quiet, so I'm going to close this for now. Relist if you see anything strange and we can take another look at it. —  Hello Annyong  (say whaaat?!) 22:38, 18 November 2010 (UTC)