Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Poetlister/Archive

08 June 2012

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Posing as a female, focused on poetry, has a lot of knowledge that is probably not true, likes to put up info boxes to try and create a personality, etc. The person appears to not really know what they are talking about and doesn't speak like an 89 year old retiree. This also doesn't look like anyone's first edit. Appears to be very like Quillercouch, another Poetlister sock. Poetlister also likes to obsess over 19th Century poetry. Kevin Rutherford (talk) 21:56, 8 June 2012 (UTC)
 * Per the request below, Poetlister was active on Wikisource, and often linked there. Here is one example of that happening with Daft. Kevin Rutherford (talk) 22:13, 8 June 2012 (UTC)


 * This info was provided offsite and may be helpful. I can't vouch for it, delete if it doesn't apply:
 * and for more info
 * Poetlister/Quillercouch - notice the external links at the beginning of a citation
 * Same thing in number 4 as an example, which is by "DaftOldBat"
 * Adding wikiquotes after this person started from no where
 * That set off the bells as it is the user's first edit
 * Their edits to Commons show a lot of technical knowledge
 * Even the use of "!" in edit summaries is quite common among Poetlister accounts -  etc match up with the DaftOldBat89 account.

Dennis Brown -  2&cent;   &copy;  23:50, 8 June 2012 (UTC)

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I don't see any common articles edited by Poetlister and DaftOldBat89, and actually NO edits for Poetlister, deleted or not, so not sure the connection you are making. I also don't see where Quillercouch has been connected to Poetlister. Can you provide a diff that shows that connection? Dennis Brown -  2&cent;   &copy;  22:04, 8 June 2012 (UTC)
 * Someone else was kind enough to provide this link:  Dennis Brown  -  2&cent;   &copy;  22:13, 8 June 2012 (UTC)

. AGK  [•] 00:11, 9 June 2012 (UTC)
 * Very to be User:Rinpoche.  AGK  [•] 00:23, 9 June 2012 (UTC)
 * Agree with AGK's analysis. DaftOldBat89 posted an unblock request, which I declined. WilliamH (talk) 01:03, 9 June 2012 (UTC)

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Created an attack page here which seems to portray Poetlister as the innocent victim and the blocking admins the bullys. WP:QUACK? Skamecrazy123 (talk) 16:05, 26 April 2017 (UTC)

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Eh, Poetlister is smarter than to throw away a sock like that. Call him whatever you like but he's not THAT stupid. Most likely someone else's sock. Heck, he's been made admin on other accounts (counting his accounts on other wikis) 4 times, checkuser once, bureaucrat once. And his most recent account pretty much had bureaucrat status (on Wikiversity, mind you) in the bag before CheckUser smoked him out. In any case, he's the sort to make a sock of his admin -- not the sort to use a throwaway sock. I'll bet my hat it's a garden variety troll who happened to read Wikipedia Review today or something. 79.66.7.33 (talk) 20:01, 26 April 2017 (UTC)
 * We'll see. --Skamecrazy123 (talk) 20:09, 26 April 2017 (UTC)

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 * Just noting that as Poetlister is globally banned by the WMF, I have notified WMF Community Advocacy about this SPI via email. Ks0stm  (T•C•G•E) 20:17, 26 April 2017 (UTC)