Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Omnipum/Archive

30 March 2016

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 * 1) Account creation dates. Omnipum 1st edit October 27, 2015, Maruru~enwiki the same day
 * 2) Maruru remains inactive for some time, returning to revert to Omnipum's December 14 edit trying to strike the word "pseudoscience" from the article on December 15, 2015
 * 3) Maruru attempts content removal twice  and Omnipum comes in to remove it after  March 30th, 2016.
 * 4) They sound almost identical on the talk page too. Compare  and.

In short, it appears that "Maruru" mainly edits the Vani Hari article when Omnipum feels their argument would be bolstered by the illusion of a second identify on his/her side, and that both accounts are present only for the purpose of editing that article. Prostetnic Vogon Jeltz (talk) 21:48, 30 March 2016 (UTC)


 * Based on the note by Drmies I have added an IP user that seems to have similar edits in the past week and that curiously created and then removed their own comment on the talk page at Vani Hari, a comment re-added immediately by Omnipum. diff


 * I don't know if that makes a difference when you do the check user thing but it seems it might be relevant. Prostetnic Vogon Jeltz (talk) 02:46, 31 March 2016 (UTC)

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This case was convincing enough for me to run CU, and I found that the Maruru account also runs ; they collude on one article and I have blocked both. The Omnipum account seems unrelated though there are technical aspects that maybe a better, smarter CU can consider, because I agree that the similarities in interest, not to mention certain behavioral aspects, are strong, between Maruru and Omnipum. Drmies (talk) 23:15, 30 March 2016 (UTC)
 * - better, smarter CU is needed.  Vanjagenije  (talk)  09:11, 31 March 2016 (UTC)
 * Though I don't consider myself either better or smarter, I ran a check and my results are the same as . Maruru and Jobbaddan are confirmed to each other, but is an outlier that appears technically  to be related. This is where  comes in; checkuser is a blunt tool that shouldn't trump strong behavioural evidence and common sense.-- Jezebel's Ponyo bons mots  17:34, 1 April 2016 (UTC)
 * Admin action needed - The evidence is strong enough that I would call it a WP:DUCK; the filing editor summarizes it very well. The specific edits that completely convinced me were the repeated content removals:, , . The IP has an even stronger connection with Omnipum; the string of edits , , seal the deal. Thanks for filing, / Kevin ( aka L235 ·&#32; t ·&#32; c) 02:59, 10 April 2016 (UTC)
 * Kevin, what do you need admin assistance to do? The socks are blocked and the IP is stale, so I'm not sure how I can help. Katietalk 17:14, 27 April 2016 (UTC)
 * Omnipum seems as yet unblocked, despite it appearing to be a confirmed case? Prostetnic Vogon Jeltz (talk) 05:28, 29 April 2016 (UTC)
 * Omnipum appears not to have been blocked. (I'm also happy to simply issue a warning, if you feel the socking is minor enough not to warrant a block this time.) Thanks, Kevin ( aka L235 ·&#32; t ·&#32; c) 13:38, 29 April 2016 (UTC)
 * Blocked and tagged. Katietalk 14:07, 29 April 2016 (UTC)


 * Closing. Kevin ( aka L235 ·&#32; t ·&#32; c) 19:51, 29 April 2016 (UTC)