Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Sai317/Archive

27 January 2013

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The new account & the IP along with Sai317 keep removing editor comments from the talk page of Potential superpowers. I have no idea why they would do this, but they seem quite set on removing comments which say Japan is not a potential superpower. This may just be a case of an editor who does not have a clue, so a warning if this is socking should suffice. Darkness Shines (talk) 15:55, 27 January 2013 (UTC)

Basalisk, diffs are not needed, apart from Sai317 few edits to the article all other edits have been removing talk page comments of other editors, just hit "contributions". Darkness Shines (talk) 20:09, 27 January 2013 (UTC)

Fine, Sai317 removing user comments. Zebusadams doing the same & the IP Darkness Shines (talk) 21:02, 27 January 2013 (UTC)

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 * Please add diffs to support the case. Basa lisk  inspect damage⁄berate 19:49, 27 January 2013 (UTC)
 * The expectation is that it is the poster who will sift through the contribution history and provide diffs. The clerking team don't always have time to do this. Basa lisk  inspect damage⁄berate 20:29, 27 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Thanks for providing the diffs. Master blocked indefinitely, considering the disruption. Sock indeffed and IP blocked for 1 month. Closing. Basa lisk  inspect damage⁄berate 21:38, 27 January 2013 (UTC)

18 January 2015

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Same edit summaries and editing style on Iraq War.
 * "Revert, on talk page, no consensus"
 * "Its numerously on the talk page"
 * Every time he has reverted the edits of.
 * On Chinese Century, he had first added a spurious claim, IP geolocates to same locations like the above IPs, and very soon he restored that edit. Hardly 9 days old registered account and already wikilawyering enough.  Occult Zone  (Talk • Contributions • Log) 19:38, 18 January 2015 (UTC)

Just found out some more. This guy has a long history of edit warring on Iraq War, he frequently removes the claim of "Victory" from this article and his apparent obsession is to copy others comments as an answer:  now his new sock:, , ...

Check WP:Sockpuppet investigations/Billbowler2/Archive for reference. Continued allegations of "POV Pushing",  Occult Zone  (Talk • Contributions • Log)


 * Xharm is now indefinitely blocked as a sock puppet of Supersaiyen312. Supersaiyen312 is indefinitely blocked too.  Occult Zone  (Talk • Contributions • Log)

Added Xinjiang guy. Has made no edits except the three pages, two of them are: (1) AfD of Indian Century, started by this blocked sock(Xharm), (2) Potential Superpower where Supersaiyen312 was socking.  Occult Zone  (Talk • Contributions • Log) 15:27, 19 January 2015 (UTC)


 * I am of the opinion that there was never a proper investigation. I am amazed that there are 3 different SPIs for this editor, and this was the 4th one, until you moved. Maybe a few more accounts are yet to be terminated.  Occult Zone  (Talk • Contributions • Log) 02:19, 20 January 2015 (UTC)

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 * - On hold, being discussed ☺ ·  Salvidrim!   ·  &#9993;  00:30, 20 January 2015 (UTC)

The IPs, Xharm, and Supersaiyen312 are all the same person. I doubt the two named accounts are the same person. Xharm was an attempt at a clean start by Supersaiyen312; a very bad attempt, but no malice was intended there. The IP socking is block evasion and needs to be dealt with. Exactly what is to be done with Supersaiyen312/Xharm is TBD. Email conversation is ongoing. Courtesy pings for. HJ Mitchell &#124;  Penny for your thoughts?  00:58, 20 January 2015 (UTC)
 * None of the IPs are currently active. As HJ Mitchell said, Billbowler2 and Xinjiang guy are not related to Supersaiyen312/Xharm. Both the original account and the mangled cleanstart one have been CU-blocked by Courcelles. I don't know if e-mail discussion is still ongoing, but even if it is, accepting to unblock either account doesn't have to go through this SPI, so I'm closing it. ☺ ·  Salvidrim!   ·  &#9993;  14:05, 21 January 2015 (UTC)
 * Actually, this probably needs to be filed under ; let me look into how to archive this all. ☺ ·  Salvidrim!   ·  &#9993;  14:09, 21 January 2015 (UTC)


 * For future reference, to make an eventual unblock request easier to analyze:
 * 1) was the first blocked account.  was blocked as a sock (without a CU check). Both indef'ed in Jan'2013.
 * 2) blocked as ✅ (both by CU and by the user) to  in Mars'2013, then unblocked in April'2014 as a second chance.
 * 3) indef-blocked as CU ✅ in Dec'2014.  was  to both this master and another one and no clear determination was made, but the account was blocked anyhow.  was blocked for one month in Dec'2014 for this socking, and unblocked in Jan'2015 for what was presumably a last chance.
 * 4) was, by the user's admission (according to ), a botched WP:CLEANSTART, and was CU-blocked (along with ) by  two days ago. ☺ ·   Salvidrim!   ·  &#9993;  14:26, 21 January 2015 (UTC)