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07 October 2012

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I want to report possible sockpuppetry of User:Spiridon Ion Cepleanu. I suspect that User:Bakunina is a sockpuppet of User:Spiridon Ion Cepleanu. I suspect that account User:Bakunina was created with a sole purpose to replace map of West Ukraine made by myself with one made by User: Spiridon Ion Cepleanu. Replacement of that map is the sole history of editing of User:Bakunina: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Bakunina Here are diffs of map replacement in en Wikipedia: Here are diffs that showing same behavior in Wikipedias in other languages: So, this looks like an global cross-wiki sockpuppet. Here you can see original behavior of User: Spiridon Ion Cepleanu where he first tried to overwrite my sourced map with his unsourced POV version: File:West_ukraine.png And then he uploaded another map instead: File:West-Ukraine_1918.jpg Now, this account User:Bakunina appeared and trying to remove map made by me from all Wikipedias and to replace it with map made by User:Spiridon Ion Cepleanu and replacement of this map is the only thing that new account do in any Wikipedia: http://toolserver.org/~luxo/contributions/contributions.php?user=Bakunina&blocks=true This is obviously bad faith behavior: it is one thing if someone replace map in some article in his home Wikipedia because he thinks that another map is better, but it is completely different thing if someone create new account with only purpose to replace map in all Wikipedias. Therefore, I think that IP of these two accounts should be checked because it looks like obvious case of sockpuppetry. PANONIAN 07:12, 7 October 2012 (UTC)
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 * There's not enough editing history to connect these two users. Perhaps a CU would yield more light, but at this stage I don't believe any action is warranted.  It's a content dispute, and no policies have been breached, even taking into account the possibility that the accounts might be run by the same person.  Note that User:Spiridon 83.113.250.71 Manoliu became User:Spiridon MANOLIU before editing as User:Spiridon Ion Cepleanu.  These other accounts should be noted on the current account's User page.  --HighKing (talk) 13:04, 18 October 2012 (UTC)
 * If I recall Wikipedia rules correctly, alternative accounts can be used for unrelated topics. In this case, account Bakunina is used for same topic as account Spiridon Ion Cepleanu. Yes, it is a content dispute, but if somebody creates another account to help him in this dispute then it would be a sockpuppetry, right? And perhaps there is not enough editing history in English Wikipedia, but there is enough history in Wikimedia Commons and in other Wikipedias. I opened this thread here because both accounts are registered in English Wikipedia and I think that confirmed relation between these two accounts will prevent general cross-Wiki disruption. PANONIAN  05:25, 19 October 2012 (UTC)

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 * Closing. Neither of these editors has edited since 9 September - one has four edits prior to that, the other has seven. --Elen of the Roads (talk) 19:37, 28 October 2012 (UTC)