Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Tierraman/Archive

07 January 2014

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Both User:Tierraman and User:Wladeko are SPAs, recently added, which exist only to expunge the Portuguese from Hispanic_and_Latino_Americans. (That, I fear, is a bit of a bleeding ulcer, and the sockmaster may be further up the edit history). They also both engage in the habit of editing direct quotes from references; User:Cau7ion had a slightly wider edit history but also wanted to expunge the Portuguese from this article, and also liked to edit inconvenient quotes out from references.

Correcting self, sigh; got my users mixed up. User:Tierraman is not that new and edits slightly more widely, but is still _very_ keen that "Latino" means what they say it does.

Typical edits, always with a reference mangled: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Hispanic_and_Latino_Americans&action=historysubmit&diff=588708787&oldid=588220287 (User:Wladeko). https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Hispanic_and_Latino_Americans&diff=next&oldid=589403621 (User:Tierraman). https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Hispanic%E2%80%93Latino_naming_dispute&diff=next&oldid=587612959 (User:Tierraman). https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Hispanic%E2%80%93Latino_naming_dispute&diff=next&oldid=587614148 (User:Tierraman). https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Hispanic_and_Latino_Americans&action=historysubmit&diff=578280803&oldid=578278224 (User:Cau7ion).

I haven't requested checkuser because for all I know this is meatpuppetry. I also appreciate this is all a little vague, but it seems to strain coincidence that two people suddenly independently decided they wanted to edit this page and no other. Pinkbeast (talk) 20:52, 7 January 2014 (UTC)

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 * Endorsing a check on Tierraman and Wladeko per evidence presented above. Mark Arsten (talk) 21:22, 14 January 2014 (UTC)
 * Though a CU check cannot discount meatpuppetry, and  appear technically ❌.--Jezebel's Ponyo bons mots  23:05, 14 January 2014 (UTC)
 * Closing per CU results, further issues with edit warring can be addressed at WP:AN3 or WP:ANI. Mark Arsten (talk) 23:11, 14 January 2014 (UTC)