Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Testosterone vs diabetes/Archive

Evidence submitted by Barek
User appears to be using IP addresses to attempt to avoid a 3RR issue.

On the article Diabetes mellitus, the user had been edit-warring over article content. After receiving a 3RR warning on his talk page, the IP addresses then began restoring the same content.

The edit history of the IPs is to the same set of articles edited by the user.

Direct evidence:
 * see this edit where the IP 158.194.199.13 replaces a UnsignedIP tag on a comment by IP 158.194.65.44 with the signature of user "Testosterone vs diabetes".
 * see this edit there user "Testosterone vs diabetes" replaces the signature of IP 158.194.199.13 with his own signature.

This case has also been submitted to Administrators' noticeboard/Edit warring

--- Barek (talk • contribs) - 18:10, 30 October 2009 (UTC)

Comments by accused parties
See Defending yourself against claims.

Conclusions
Testosterone vs diabetes warned not to do it again; the user is already blocked 31 hours by another admin for edit-warring. I will leave the IPs unblocked right now as they haven't edited since the block. MuZemike 02:08, 31 October 2009 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets

 * IPs to check against are listed at Category:Suspected Wikipedia sockpuppets of Testosterone vs diabetes
 * IPs to check against are listed at Category:Suspected Wikipedia sockpuppets of Testosterone vs diabetes
 * IPs to check against are listed at Category:Suspected Wikipedia sockpuppets of Testosterone vs diabetes

Evidence submitted by Edgar181
was indefinitely blocked late last year for disruptive behavior at various articles related to steroids, diabetes, and growth hormones. Since being blocked, he has returned using multiple IPs (see Category:Suspected Wikipedia sockpuppets of Testosterone vs diabetes) many of which were blocked by myself or other administrators as obvious IP socks. There are also at least two registered editors who have been involved lately in very similar disruptive behavior at the same articles. These editors are (already blocked) and the currently active user. If this editor wishes to return to Wikipedia, he should request unblock at User talk:Testosterone vs diabetes, addressing the reasons for being blocked, rather than persistently continuing to edit war and vandalize with multiple IPs and new usernames. Checkuser is necessary in this case because the edits of the users involved are close enough to raise serious suspicion, but are not quite so obvious to pass the "duck test", in my opinion. If the edits from User:Testosterone vs diabetes are too old to check against, the IPs listed at the sockpuppet category fall into two groups (IPs from Palacky University and from Vodafone Italy), which should be distinctive enough to provide an solid link. -- Ed (Edgar181) 18:25, 24 April 2010 (UTC)

Comments by accused parties
See Defending yourself against claims.

Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments
Requested by -- Ed (Edgar181) 18:25, 24 April 2010 (UTC)

, similar edit summaries here and here. Same agenda of removing mentions of treatments that are deemed to be ineffective. Also nearly identical editing times as compared to previous accounts. As noted above is indeed, but please check the two named socks against each other, and against the IPs mentioned here. Thanks, SpitfireTally-ho! 18:34, 24 April 2010 (UTC)

that the following users are the same: ❌ to the above (unless 250GP, who is in the Czech Republic, can edit using an Italian mobile phone network): --Deskana (talk) 13:50, 25 April 2010 (UTC)

250GP blocked and tagged. Maronna remained blocked for sockpuppetry for persistent block evasion with the 109.11x.xxx.xxx IPs.  E lockid  ( Talk ) 14:11, 25 April 2010 (UTC)