Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Sugablast/Archive

29 May 2011

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I suspect that the two accounts above are operated by the same individual, as they meet many of the signs of sockpuppetry. I also believe that the creation of these multiple accounts was not done in good faith but rather is being used abusively, since the Bot3skfjs account indicated that "whether you believe it or not, I AM new on here" in response to a comment I had made expressing surprise at his facility with Wikipedia's protocols and practices despite being a brand new account.

Lines of evidence:


 * The Bot3skfjs account joined English Wikipedia on the same day as/a few hours after the Sugablast account lasted posted on May 21st.
 * The Bot3skfjs account already new of the existence of and joined WikiProject Somalia within his first 24 hours as a registered Wikipedian . He also did this without having so much as received an orientational "Welcome" message from any established editor, let alone having been informed of and/or invited to join the Project.
 * The Bot3skfjs account used edit summaries from the start, including during his very first edit.
 * The Bot3skfjs account was uploading images via well-formatted file description pages within 24 hours of having joined the website.
 * The Bot3skfjs account chronologically succeeded the Sugablast account and has adopted an aggressive attitude from the start, as if he has a chip on his shoulder/a score to settle. For example, calling out other users in edit summaries, making ill-considered accusations of impropriety , reverting various established editors without hesitation, etc. . I suspect that the Bot3skfjs account's general aggressiveness is tied to an earlier exchange I had with the Sugablast account on the latter's talk page , after which point the Sugablast account stopped posting and the Bot3skfjs account was created within hours.
 * Both the accounts often employ the same highly idiosyncratic posting technique of using the "br" line break code at the end of sentences to separate paragraphs (c.f., , ).
 * Both users appear to have an association of some sort with the Puntland region in northeastern Somalia. For example, the Sugablast account added some detailed but unreferenced information about an ongoing construction project in Beyra, a small township in Puntland . Similarly, the Bot3skfjs account uploaded a map directly from the Puntland government which shows Puntland's claimed borders, including the Sool, Sanaag and Cayn regions that are presently disputed with the neighboring Somaliland administration.
 * The Bot3skfjs account added an image to the Puntland article of Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed (the region's founder father and first President) that the infrequently used Sugablast account had uploaded to Wikipedia's servers.


 * It is very doubtful that the Bot3skfjs account would have been aware of the existence of such a file without some sort of pre-existing connection with the Sugablast account since:


 * (a) the Bot3skfjs account was brand new, and as such, would probably not have known his way around Wikipedia just yet;
 * (b) the file had been uploaded only a few hours earlier;
 * (c) it was uploaded by, for all intents and purposes, a single purpose account with nary a contribution history ;
 * (d) the file was unintelligibly titled "File:Somalian10ef5-1.jpg", which would also make it next to impossible to find using Wikipedia's or Google's search function.


 * The Bot3skfjs account added a political map to various articles that the Sugablast account had first introduced to the Somalia article only a day earlier (a map which the discussion above on the Sugablast account's talk page also concerned). In addition, both accounts suggested in their edit summaries that this new map is more accurate than the previous one; e.g. "accurate political map" ; "deleted misleading image that does not represent the political situation 2010".

Given the foregoing, I would appreciate if possible a Checkuser to confirm the relationship between the two accounts. Middayexpress (talk) 08:36, 29 May 2011 (UTC)

Comments by other users
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Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * - Something odd is going on here, so I'm endorsing to figure out what. —  Hello Annyong  (say whaaat?!) 12:59, 29 May 2011 (UTC)
 * ✅ the two accounts are the same. TN X Man  13:19, 29 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Blocked and tagged Bot3skfjs. —  Hello Annyong  (say whaaat?!) 13:43, 29 May 2011 (UTC)