Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Skipetari/Archive

05 February 2013

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The IP 88.77.202.177 reverts here to a version of the article preferred by Skipetari. The IPS 88.72.209.65 and 77.186.106.236 both revert to the same version of Greeks in Albania as 88.77.202.177. The 88.72.225.156 IP pushes the same hard-nationalist Albanian POV as the others. All IPs are based in Berlin, same ISP, same extremely poor level of English. Today alone he has racked up 3 quick reverts at Greeks in Albania. Athenean (talk) 18:18, 5 February 2013 (UTC)

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The specific user is following the same distruptive approach in German wiki too (vandalisms, edit warring nature, personal attacks), but what's interresting about this spi, is that he accidentally editted unlogged revealing his 88.72.225.156 ip address which is mentioned above (during a series of personal attacks against me in de:wiki). It's no wonder he did socking as a last resort to promote a personal pov.Alexikoua (talk) 18:56, 5 February 2013 (UTC)

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 * - The Privacy policy generally doesn't allow CheckUsers to publicly connect named users to IP addresses. ​—DoRD (talk)​ 19:37, 5 February 2013 (UTC)
 * I've placed the case on hold pending some investigation that needs doing, since it appears that Skipetari might be a sock of someone else. Reaper Eternal (talk) 03:08, 13 February 2013 (UTC)
 * It appears that Skipetari was ❌ to the other indefinitely blocked user. However, I have blocked him for a week for using IP socks to edit war. Closing. Reaper Eternal (talk) 03:16, 13 February 2013 (UTC)

23 February 2013

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Recently Skipetari was blocked for socking via IPs. Basically, he uses them to get around 3RR. All IPs are from Berlin. Today, a Berlin IP was edit-warring at Albanians   (reverts of this edit ). Then Skipetari reverts another edit, breaking 3RR. The 92.225 IP uses the same hostile edit summaries as Skipetari. It also speaks very poor English, translating directly from German:, "Look by" is a google translation of the German "seh aus", meaning stop. This is exactly what Skipetari is doing and was criticized for it by User:Future Perfect at Sunrise (Brief translation:  FP is telling Skipetari (formerly "Albanianp" ) that his English is too poor to contribute here, for example, that his literal translation of the German "Hör auf mit es", meaning "stop it", as "hears on with this" is utterly incomprehensible to English speakers). This is exactly the same kind of literal translation that the IP does. Considering he was just blocked for socking with IPs, and moreover pushing nationalist POV, I recommend a longer block this time, and that all his IPs be blocked. This really needs to stop. Athenean (talk) 05:11, 23 February 2013 (UTC)

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 * - CU will not connect IPs to accounts except for cases of extreme abuse. However, looking at behavior is still possible. Rschen7754 06:57, 23 February 2013 (UTC)
 * I think this is behaviorally spot on. Which means that Skipetari went back to logged-out editing warring pretty much right after his block lifted. Blocked for a month this time. I suspect if he doesn't get it after that, the block will rise to indefinite. Someguy1221 (talk) 07:09, 23 February 2013 (UTC)

13 September 2013

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User:Skipetari was an extreme wp:spa account who got soon permanently blocked in en:wiki after a couple of weeks activity. The evidence of sockpuppetry is striking since he is still active as Skipetari in the German wiki, where he is trying to create a similar mess, as a desperate attempt. Thus, he edit wars and performs identical edits in de:wiki (as Skipetari) and en:wiki (using alternative accounts due to his perma block), by pushing in that way his pov agenda, but at the same time revealing his real identity here:
 * en:wiki: (combined attempt of pov pushing in Epirus by launching a sockfarm invasion) 1man2you:[][], JohanBaten:[], JackMarrison: [][]
 * de:wiki: [].Alexikoua (talk) 15:30, 13 September 2013 (UTC) Alexikoua (talk) 15:30, 13 September 2013 (UTC)

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 * The master is stale, but those five socks all are ✅ along with and . Courcelles 21:50, 13 September 2013 (UTC)
 * I feel comfortable they are the same, so tagged and closing. Rschen7754 10:20, 16 September 2013 (UTC)