Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Trasel/Archive

15 August 2013

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A few examples of the "coincidences" I noticed after looking at this deleted list, linked at WP:BLPN: Trasel (first account from 2006; sets the stage by creating an article on James Wesley Rawles), BobbieCharlton (became active the day after the former account had retired), Expatter and GOODtoWyoming also fit the usual behavioral tells, but none of those have edited in a year. I may have missed some (active) accounts, so checkuser would be appreciated. Prolog (talk) 07:52, 15 August 2013 (UTC)
 * 10 Oct 2012: DiligenceDude !votes keep at an AFD for Founders: A Novel of the Coming Collapse. OnlySwissMiss and Chipenge quickly return to do the same after two months and two weeks of inactivity, respectively. SoTotallyAwesome is created four days after the closure.
 * 10 May 2013: SoTotallyAwesome reverts a removal of Chipenge's image at American Redoubt; TobyGreener is created and appears at the article within half an hour.
 * July - 1 Aug 2013: After months of inactivity, OnlySwissMiss, SoTotallyAwesome, Chipenge and DiligenceDude arrive at Gary North (economist), making rather interesting edits.
 * 14 Aug 2013: After a few weeks of inactivity, DiligenceDude, TobyGreener and OnlySwissMiss return to defend SoTotallyAwesome at Mayors Against Illegal Guns

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- Only the following accounts are ripe for checkuser: Someguy1221 (talk) 22:11, 29 August 2013 (UTC)
 * - Per the evidence above and the unnatural degree of edit intersection for accounts with so few edits. Someguy1221 (talk) 22:10, 29 August 2013 (UTC)


 * SemiFree is ❌ to users listed at Sockpuppet investigations/SemiFree/Archive.


 * While I did not find in my results, I did not check him directly either, as I feel that.
 * -- DQ   (ʞlɐʇ)  00:53, 30 August 2013 (UTC)
 * Thank you DQ. I included GOODtoWyoming by accident in my list. He is stale, in fact. Someguy1221 (talk) 02:52, 30 August 2013 (UTC)


 * With confirmed socks in hand, i have satisfied myself that all confirmed socks and the stale accounts, including Trasel, are behaviorally the same editor. Everyone is now blocked and tagged. Someguy1221 (talk) 01:47, 31 August 2013 (UTC)

28 January 2015

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As noted by Rezin here, Trasel has been keeping himself busy since his sock farm was discovered and blocked a year and a half ago. The accounts show the usual pattern: heavy editing about James Wesley Rawles, on and off the articles where such edits are appropriate. ArdentBravesFan was created on the same day the last SPI case was closed. BellicoseSouthernBelle was created the day after that. DunwoodyWoody appeared a month later to support ArdentBravesFan in a content dispute. BellicoseSouthernBelle and TheSwitzerdude (reactivated, stale during last CU) joined the edit war as the third and fourth socks, and SoBanal,SoBanal made the same edit later. ReformedBeliever's first edit was to restore a Rawles reference made by a blocked Trasel sock. OldCowpoke is an old, obvious sock I missed earlier. Checkuser is requested to catch the socks that aren't easily picked from the page histories of Rawles, American Redoubt and Patriots Novels Series. Prolog (talk) 11:09, 28 January 2015 (UTC)

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 * Following are ✅ to each other, and to accounts in the archive (given the staleness that's the best I can do):
 * ArdentBravesFan & OldCowpoke are for the purposes of CU. Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 11:45, 2 February 2015 (UTC)
 * ArdentBravesFan & OldCowpoke are for the purposes of CU. Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 11:45, 2 February 2015 (UTC)
 * ArdentBravesFan & OldCowpoke are for the purposes of CU. Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 11:45, 2 February 2015 (UTC)
 * ArdentBravesFan & OldCowpoke are for the purposes of CU. Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 11:45, 2 February 2015 (UTC)
 * ArdentBravesFan & OldCowpoke are for the purposes of CU. Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 11:45, 2 February 2015 (UTC)
 * ArdentBravesFan & OldCowpoke are for the purposes of CU. Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 11:45, 2 February 2015 (UTC)
 * ArdentBravesFan & OldCowpoke are for the purposes of CU. Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 11:45, 2 February 2015 (UTC)


 * I think the behavioral evidence is there to connect the possilikely accounts to the archive. However, given that the other two accounts are stale and that the behavioral evidence isn't as strong, I'm going to leave them be for now. Mike V • Talk 20:45, 2 February 2015 (UTC)