Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Propaganda328/Archive

20 December 2010

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The following series of nearly identical edits can hardly be assumed to be in good faith in particular due to use of deceptive or no edit summaries:        I suspect we're dealing with someone astute enough to use open proxies here, or it's a case of WP:MEAT recruitment on an external forum, but a check-user would not hurt just in case some of them were dumb enough. There are few more similar edits in that series, but they involve the same actors, so I've skipped them here. Tijfo098 (talk) 19:15, 20 December 2010 (UTC)

Checking their block logs, I see Lanternix has been blocked for IP and account sock-puppetry once before in 2009. The Propaganda328 account was started in 2010, so perhaps I listed a sockpuppet as the "sockmaster", although it's not essential, I assume. Tijfo098 (talk) 19:23, 20 December 2010 (UTC)

Those two users (Lanternix and Propaganda) have been having fun with that article for a looong time. I only bothered to look back till this summer: A couple more diffs, dating a little further back, but still in check-user window, I think: . Tijfo098 (talk) 19:55, 20 December 2010 (UTC)

I also see that the renowned sockpupetteer User:Dajudem also took interest in that sentence way back in 2007, although he did not change the figures (using that account), although the kind of trolling in this (reverted) edit by a User:MarthaFiles sock is reminiscent of the recent stuff on WP:ANI that got Propaganda328 blocked. So, it's not outlandish we're dealing with "reincarnations" of more than one banned user. Tijfo098 (talk) 20:11, 20 December 2010 (UTC)

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Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * - Endorsing, there might be other accounts? Keep in mind that the Checkuser will only check Lanternix, not the IPs, which will have to go off behavioral evidence. NativeForeigner Talk/Contribs 23:44, 20 December 2010 (UTC)

❌ –MuZemike 23:54, 20 December 2010 (UTC)
 * The IPs haven't edited in almost three weeks (or longer) so I'm going to leave them be for now. The account is unrelated, so there's not much else to do. —  Hello Annyong  (say whaaat?!) 16:34, 21 December 2010 (UTC)