Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Sophiabekele/Archive

02 September 2012

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A couple weeks ago Tkamanzi was involved in edit wars with multiple editors over a particular version of DotConnectAfrica. This version. Today Sophiabekele and a little later on Vndlprowl created accounts and both of them, with their very first edits, reverted back to Tkamanzi's version from a version that had been reached after a great deal of discussion and collaboration on the talk page. First Sophiabekele here, then Vndlprowl here, then Sophiabekele again here. Note that before Vndlprowl showed up I started a thread at COIN: Conflict_of_interest/Noticeboard. I'm not trying to forum-shop, I just didn't expect this to turn into a likely sock situation. &mdash; alf laylah wa laylah (talk) 18:20, 2 September 2012 (UTC)

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Previous COI thread is this one - I've been looking at this from the COI noticeboard and I would support that I certainly don't think that this is any type of forum shopping - simply that the COI nature was recognised and closed at the COI board and since that time concerns of socks have arisen that should be dealt with here. Fayedizard (talk) 16:17, 3 September 2012 (UTC)

The accusation that Alf.laylah.wa.laylah put forward on Sockpuppet is in bad faith and his claim is not relevant to sock puppetry. It is been nearly 2 weeks that we have requested for investigation on the DotConnectAfrica page for vandalism and hacking. The evidence of it is clearly there and we have requested investigation on the new IDs that surfaced after the hacking, including Elekebia and his ID. They have deleted an entire history of DotConnectAfrica and implanted history of a competitive company UNIFORUM and continually get in edit wars themselves so that I or anyone does not provide the public with correct information. They also refuse any addition of any other company contending for the .africa name, as they are clearly protecting the interest of UNIFORUM. Instead of working with me to provide them the fact, so they could write the articles, Alf.laylah.wa.laylah is abusing his power as editor and using different tactics of blocking or Sockpuppet-ing to stop anyone form editing the page. We have sent reports from various sources to investigate their IDS. Instead we believe the editor is making a fake case for an "attack" or to prevent their own editing being examined. I am in no way familiar with the "Vndlprowl" ID he mentioned. The larger issue here is DCA has been vandalized and we are defending ourselves from intruders. That is why we asked protection and we got one based on the evidence. Please find the vandalizers and their supporters and penalize them.Tkamanzi (talk) 21:29, 4 September 2012 (UTC)

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Sophiabekele and Vndlprowl are ✅ with each other. However, based on geographical evidence, it seems that Tkamanzi is their operator. Another individual is a more likely explanation. WilliamH (talk) 19:36, 2 September 2012 (UTC)
 * Changing master to Sophiabekele. Dennis Brown -  2&cent;    &copy;   Join WER 15:12, 5 September 2012 (UTC)
 * Blocked and tagged. Closing. Dennis Brown -  2&cent;    &copy;   Join WER 15:17, 5 September 2012 (UTC)