Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Soulflytribe/Archive

14 June 2013

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User:MarcosPassos was acting with extraordinary aggressiveness for an apparently relatively new and inexperienced editor. When I commented on this in relation to a dispute, he admitted that he had changed his username. This lead me to investigate, and I find that MarcosPassos first posted on 27 Feb 2012, and in his first posting on a usertalk page, 23 March 2012, he self-identifies as User:Soulflytribe, an account that made no posting until 13 September 2012, nearly six months later. Soulflytribe was still posting as recently as 5 June 2013, thus both accounts overlapped for more than 8 months. I see no evidence that any of the requirements for running multiple accounts have been met. There is evident common interest in Brazilian matters in general, and in particular international football tournaments hosted there. If this is not a case of sockpuppetry, then MarcosPassos is clearly guilty of trying to disguise his user identity in the March 2012 diff posted above. Kevin McE (talk) 23:33, 14 June 2013 (UTC)

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 * Observation: A two-week first-time block seems slightly excessive. There doesn't appear to be any block evasion or use of one account to support the other account's arguments. This all appears to have started as a result of the username change request: Wikipedia:Changing username/Simple/Archive121 which was approved 16:57, 12 September 2012 (UTC). The first edit we see from the resurrected Soulflytribe is 2012-09-13T06:38:10. 67 edits in all. The only way I can see this happening is if he was doing so from two different computers or browsers, but the account creation process on the other computer browser should have alerted the editor to the change.
 * I would suggest keeping Soulflytribe blocked indefinitely and reducing the block on the editor's real-name account to 67 hours: one hour for every edit made using the other account. A symbolic block for "forgetting" that he was using two different accounts, including one he requested to have closed. Walter Görlitz (talk) 01:11, 15 June 2013 (UTC)
 * There is a football tournament starting shortly that the editor may be able to contribute to. Walter Görlitz (talk) 01:13, 15 June 2013 (UTC)
 * That's amusing. I don't believe in "symbolic" blocks. At best, the user is clueless, and article overlap in the two accounts in 2013 is disturbing, as is the the user's attitude on their talk page.--Bbb23 (talk) 01:16, 15 June 2013 (UTC)

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 * I've blocked the master for two weeks and the puppet indefinitely. I haven't tagged. The pupppet's talk page has to be fixed due to a redirect and a move from 2012. The evidence the accounts belong to the same person is not in doubt, so the only issue was whether the use of two accounts was impermissible. The overlap in May 2013 between the two accounts and the recent June 5 edit by the puppet was sufficient for me to conclude that blocks were warranted.--Bbb23 (talk) 00:12, 15 June 2013 (UTC)
 * The master is MarcosPassos (based of date of account creation) .--Bbb23 (talk) 00:17, 15 June 2013 (UTC)
 * I've struck my comment because it's more complicated than I originally thought. Around Septemeber 12, 2012, Soulflytribe was renamed to MarcosPassos here. I'm assuming the user recreated Souflytribe the next day. So, in that sense, Souflytribe predated MarcosPassos. However, the contribution history from before that date is hidden from me.--Bbb23 (talk) 14:12, 15 June 2013 (UTC)
 * Per this extended discussion, I have unblocked Marcos but will leave Soulflytribe indeffed.--Bbb23 (talk) 16:41, 15 June 2013 (UTC)


 * Yet another victim claimed by the mess that is WP:SUL. Hopefully we will never have to deal with this again when SUL finalization happens in a few months. Soulflytribe reblocked with a more neutral reason, closing. King of &hearts;   &diams;   &clubs;  &spades; 05:08, 16 June 2013 (UTC)