Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/SingingZombie/Archive

Evidence submitted by Schrandit
Pretty duckish. The same strange combination of German classical music and edit warring/pov-pushing on abortion related topics. The sockmaster user is using their ip to evade a block. - Schrandit (talk) 17:45, 17 May 2010 (UTC)

Comments by accused parties
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Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments
It looks like they've been on that IP for quite some time. Blocked 1 month.  E lockid  ( Talk ) 01:03, 18 May 2010 (UTC)

20 October 2014

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GS always seemed strange, he always seemed purpose-driven. He seemed like he came here with an agenda in mind and he has caused a lot of friction in a very short period of time. GS mostly edits abortion-related articles, but puzzlingly his most frequently edited article remains List of Friday the 13th: The Series episodes, which he has edited 118 times.

Who previously edited edited the exact same article 130 times with the same editing patterns?

Who is 207.237.243.185? A sockpuppet of a user named, a user who was banned from the project for "Advocating murder".

SZ/207-GS all:


 * edit abortion-related articles, particularly with regard to violence
 * are devoted to the Friday the 13th TV series (116/130-118 edits, and the most edited 1 article for all 3)
 * know a lot of chemistry
 * seem to have some interest in representing Theodore Shulman, a lesser-known pro-choice activist, on Wikipedia and seem to know things about him that are not on google (see this edit by SZ)
 * seem to have some interest in representing Gábor A. Somorjai, a lesser-known chemist, on Wikipedia and seem to know things about him that are not on google (5/10-24 edits)
 * seem to have some interest in representing Roger Y. Tsien, a lesser-known chemist, on Wikipedia (0/13-4 edits)
 * seem to have some interest in representing Peter G. Schultz, a lesser-known chemist, on Wikipedia (11/25-18 edits)
 * love opera, particularly Don Giovani (58/42-24 edits)
 * have remarkably redundant top-20 edit lists

This is either the same person or a group of related people, we should run a CheckUser to see if there are any other accounts hiding out there. Juno (talk) 23:33, 20 October 2014 (UTC)

Comments by other users
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I have seen that name ("SingingZombie") on TALK pages of articles I have edited, but I am not "SingingZombie". I believe that USER:Juno has initiated this request (possibly using a sockpuppet named USER:Haymaker) to pressure me into agreeing with his/her edits, with which I often disagree. He/She has also initiated a COI investigation against me on flimsy grounds. Goblinshark17 (talk) 00:00, 21 October 2014 (UTC)
 * I don't care what your POV is, I care that you're trying to evade a ban for "Advocating murder". And if you do have a COI with Theodore Shulman, I care that you have been editing the pages of the people that he threatened to murder. Juno (talk) 02:15, 21 October 2014 (UTC)


 * Looking at contribs and types of edits and comments for both accounts, and SingingZombie's history of block evasions, this SPI seems appropriate (despite some of Juno's comments being inappropriate, to me at least). Am pinging editors/admins who were involved in SingingZombie's cases before, so they are aware of this SPI: ;, , , and  Jytdog (talk) 15:06, 21 October 2014 (UTC)
 * My "involvement" here seems to have consisted of denying one unblock request four and a half years ago. I don't really have anything to add to the discussion. Beeblebrox (talk) 19:26, 21 October 2014 (UTC)

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments
— Berean Hunter   (talk)  17:47, 25 October 2014 (UTC)
 * Although the technical evidence is mostly, the geolocation matches. I reviewed the behavioural evidence provided by and found it compelling. I did a more through review of my own that left me with no doubt that Goblinshark17 is indeed a sock of SingingZombie and as such I have blocked the account.-- Jezebel's Ponyo bons mots  18:58, 23 October 2014 (UTC)
 * Tagging and closing.

Suspected sockpuppets
A lot of overlapping edit patterns with known sock Goblinshark17, usually focused on opera, anti-abortion, Friday the 13th, Oz etc. - Hard to list all the edits, but here's the pages that stuck out the most:
 * List of Friday the 13th: The Series episodes (HandsomeMrToad, Goblinshark17)
 * The Marriage of Figaro (HandsomeMrToad Goblinshark17)
 * Pirates in Oz (HandsomeMrToad GoblinShark17)
 * Gábor A. Somorjai (HandsomeMrToad Goblinshark17)
 * Theodore Shulman (HandsomeMrToad Goblinshark17) Harryhenry1 (talk) 03:27, 25 December 2023 (UTC)

Comments by other users

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Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * I don't believe technical data is going to get us anywhere here; if there's usable stuff in the logs its 12+ years old. That said, this is pretty ducky on the behavior. There's enormous overlap in the articles edited with both previous accounts, and considerable similarity in other behavioral indicators too. I'm comfortable indeffing. I recommend anyone reviewing an unblock look at the article overlap. Vanamonde (Talk) 17:32, 26 December 2023 (UTC)