Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/OnlineGamesExpert/Archive

14 April 2015

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I'm opening this SPI to officially check to see if FanOfNaruto and OnlineGamesExpert are the same editor. Long story short, I recently signed back on to find that OnlineGamesExpert had posted on my talk page about the article MonsterMMORPG, arguing that the article should be kept. Apparently he did this to many other admins and he was subsequently blocked as a promotional editor and for spamming admins. The article, which had been speedied as WP:G4, was restored and sent to AfD. I quickly noted that FanOfNaruto was harassing any editor making a delete argument on the AfD page and made several ad hominem attacks. His style of writing is very similar to OnlineGamesExpert, so this seems to be a WP:DUCK scenario. OGE has been blocked but he is looking to get unblocked and whether or not he officially created a sockpuppet account would be good to know.

I'm somewhat reluctantly listing Knost05 and Markaresmark since they are both SPAs that signed up to either make an argument at AfD or edit the article. I don't offhand think that they are sockspuppets, rather I think that they're likely people that were asked to come in to edit the article or make an argument at AfD. Mostly I just want them checked so that if they're clear, then we can have that out of the way. I've left an extremely long message on Knost05's page about this. I feel somewhat bad about nominating them, but like I said- I'd rather have this cleared up.

A check for sleepers might not be a bad idea, although if a checkuser wants to decline this I have no true issue with that. I get the impression that if there were other accounts, they would have edited by now but it doesn't hurt to ask. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡)  09:44, 14 April 2015 (UTC)

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Reply - Hi  (｡◕‿◕｡)  I hope I'm responding i the correct place :) My relation to the game is that I'm a Chat Master for it's chat function and I play the game. I wasn't asked to create an account to argue this point I was asked to go and fix it up as the person that created it did a pretty poor job. When I went to the page to edit it I saw the Delete Nomination at which point I weighed in. I didn't think I needed to state my direct relation to the game, but after reading your explanation I understand why this might have been of importance.

I would like to apologize for my role in the back and forth of it all, but I do stand by my opinion. I believe that this game is getting railroaded when it has a legitimate reason to be added to English Wikipedia. When looking at some other games, as the much more aggressive/unprofessional user added under me, it seems your editors aren't as strict.

Either way, I understand that as it is the page is lacking, but I hope the page gets a weak keep at the very least so that I have an opportunity to edit it and get it up to snuff.

Thanks for your time,

Knost05 (talk) 21:36, 14 April 2015 (UTC)

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 * - created MonsterMMORPG article and was blocked for aggressively trying to save the article. Now, three new accounts appear, two of them go straight to the deletion discussion to vote "keep", while the third continues editing MonsterMMORPG. Signs of sockpuppetry are strong enough to endorse a CU.  Vanjagenije   (talk)  10:06, 14 April 2015 (UTC)
 * Behavioural evidence suggests a link (meat puppetry?) but CU evidence is leaning ❌. -- Euryalus (talk) 12:50, 14 April 2015 (UTC)


 * It's impossible to prove sock puppetry in this case through behavior alone. I'm closing this case.  Vanjagenije  (talk)  15:41, 14 April 2015 (UTC)

21 April 2015

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I suspect that 176.233.41.152 is a sock puppet of User:OnlineGamesExpert because 1: both users keep harassing other editors on their talk pages and 2: 176.233.41.152 copied and pasted OnlineGamesExpert's comments on a talk page. Both users are known for their canvassing and harrasing edits and they both have harassed other editors. 176.233.41.152 has edited 20 talk pages and his edits were full of nonsense and User:Zeke Essiestudy deleted the messages and warned 176.233.41.152 on his talk page. Both editors have the same behavior. Please decide admins! Thank you. Gameroffun (talk) 11:52, 22 April 2015 (UTC)

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 * Please note that checkuser won't be used to connect an account to an IP. Behaviorally, it does look like the user. However, I'm hesitant to blocking an IP that's been idle for 10 days now. If it resumes, we can re-examine the situation. Mike V • Talk 05:04, 24 April 2015 (UTC)