Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/SamuelBurckhalter/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets



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I reverted Samuel Burckhalter (new account) at Multiple chemical sensitivity, AndersBirzulis (new account) added back the same thing. Natureium (talk) 18:35, 14 December 2018 (UTC)

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 * There are a lot of SPAs active there, so I ran a check. ✅ to SamuelBurckhalter:
 * All blocked. NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 22:31, 7 January 2019 (UTC)
 * All blocked. NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 22:31, 7 January 2019 (UTC)
 * All blocked. NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 22:31, 7 January 2019 (UTC)
 * All blocked. NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 22:31, 7 January 2019 (UTC)
 * All blocked. NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 22:31, 7 January 2019 (UTC)
 * All blocked. NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 22:31, 7 January 2019 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets



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The sock puppetry is all focused on one article: Multiple chemical sensitivity

Perhaps the best evidence is the results of the previous sockpuppet investigation where the sock accounts displayed the same behaviour: Sockpuppet investigations/SamuelBurckhalter/Archive. As soon as that sock investigation ended the above accounts began appearing with the same problem behaviour.-- Literaturegeek |  T@1k?  17:51, 14 December 2019 (UTC)

These accounts are being used to overcome consensus, advance a WP:FRINGE WP:POV and are draining the community’s energy both in the article and on the talk page. They are clearly coordinating, backing each other up. I strongly suspect they are sock puppets of one or perhaps two people but I cannot exclude them being meat puppets from a fringe POV community.

The following users use Wikipedia to form their signature but in this process they bizarrely manually type their username beside the four tildes meaning their username appears twice, once wiki formatted and once manually typed, appearing beside the ‘(UTC)’ part of the account signature.

User:Martin Kempf e.g. see this diff

User:KrisKelvin99 e.g. see this diff

User:Leobenite e.g. see this diff

User:QueerWordGirl e.g. see this diff

Leobenite’s fourth edit cites policies such as NPOV, MEDRS etc.. No newbie learns about these policies and how to cite them after 4 edits. This editor even knew after four edits to the account how to use ‘WP’ as abbreviation for Wikipedia when citing these policies. see this diff

Leobenite’s editing history is clearly one of a single purpose account.

Martin Kempf’s editing history is only to back Leobenite’s up on the talk page, again a single purpose.

User:QueerWordGirl (even the username is bizarre and sounds like a made up sock name) is another single purpose account if you check their history. Too random of a name. But anyway, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Leobenite&oldid=930571805 if you look here this editor copied my signature style of using ‘T@1k?’ just like my signature. User Leobenite made their signature the same way as Queerwordgirl, see this diff. This shows that these two editors are likely linked and because they copied my signature that I was in their mind when they created the alleged sockpuppet accounts. I have been active battling FRINGE POV pushing on the article, you see.

This Grenved account is suspicious because it appeared around the time that multiple sock accounts were created and because it was advancing the same FRINGE POV and like the other accounts seemed adept at locating fringe sources and misrepresenting them, etc.

Greenved,, ‘Kris’ (instead of Chris), Kempf_(surname), Leobenite, are all words/names that are associated with a specific area of Europe, e.g. Germany/Austria, Italy, Switzerland, etc. That kind of area.

User:Bzabrisk is another European name advancing a fringe POV, ,

It is unusual to have a bunch of usernames all using European specifics in their account names advancing the same POV.-- Literaturegeek |  T@1k?  17:25, 14 December 2019 (UTC)

User:Rachel Mulcahy is another single purpose account that edited the same POV as other socks, and even knowing how to structure references, despite only two edits.

User:StrillA7 appears to be a single purpose account to back up Leobenite: and to add the same type of POV material to the article.

User:Avicennawalking again shows the pattern of making a small number of edits outside the topic area and then moving to the multiple chemical sensitivity article where a similar POV as other suspected socks is advanced: advancing opinion from Germany/Austria, and again. This is a common argument that has gone on on the talk page, advanced by other suspected sock accounts, where medical sources from Germany/Austria are exaggerated, overemphasised, misinterpreted, etc. More fringe advocacy here and here as well where sources and medical opinion is twisted in the same way other suspected socks behave.

A check for sleeper accounts would be welcome; those with no edits or editing with a smallish number of edits in unrelated topics prior to starting socking on our MCS article.

I can gather a lot more evidence as this alleged sock puppetry has been going on this time for months undetected, with hundreds of highly suspicious edits. Hopefully the evidence I have given will suffice. Let me know if not before closing, please.-- Literaturegeek |  T@1k?  18:59, 14 December 2019 (UTC)

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 * Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents --Guy Macon (talk) 14:13, 15 December 2019 (UTC)

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 * I'd support a check on this, since this is a recurrence of behaviour functionally indistinguishable from the 2018 sock farm. Guy (help!) 23:36, 14 December 2019 (UTC)
 * Bzabrisk and Rachel Mulcahy are.
 * Group 1 – the following accounts are ✅ to each other and, based on CU logs, likely to the master:
 * QueerWordGirl
 * Leobenite
 * StrillA7
 * Avicennawalking
 * Group 2 – the following accounts are / (KrisKelvin99 is using a proxy) to each other and to Group 1:
 * KrisKelvin99
 * Greenved
 * Martin Kempf is ❌. Blocked and tagged the accounts in Groups 1-2.--Bbb23 (talk) 00:47, 15 December 2019 (UTC)
 * , thanks much. A tedious case but (IMO) just below DUCK level, sorry to have to bother you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by JzG (talk • contribs) 01:37, 15 December 2019 (UTC)


 * Closing. Bbb23 (talk) 12:58, 15 December 2019 (UTC)