Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/TruthfulPerson/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets




Evidence submitted by Xenophrenic
Technical Evidence: Behavioral evidence:
 * The Wikigirl33 account is both stale, dormant and probably a throw-away account. It was added only for record-keeping purposes.
 * 207.29.40.2 and 24.193.146.146 appear to be relatively static IP addresses. The 166.137.xxx range of mobile smartphone IPs are dynamic.
 * All edits originate from a geolocation of New York (near the PA border).
 * 207.29.40.2 - Self-confirmed as TruthfulPerson with this edit and this edit.
 * 24.193.146.146 - Self-confirmed as TruthfulPerson with this edit.
 * Many of the above accounts can be seen creating and making edits to the Gerald Schweighart article: 207.xxx; 166.137.xxx; TruthfulPerson
 * This editor likes to post personal attacks on talk pages about Xenophrenic and his alleged love of Coffee: (as 207.xxx); (as 24.xxx); (as TruthfulPerson); (as 166.137.xxx).
 * Most of the above accounts edit war on the Coffee Party USA article. Xenophrenic (talk) 21:38, 2 October 2010 (UTC)
 * The last two edits made by TruthfulPerson were made on the Coffee Party USA and Christine O'Donnell articles, and the next day they were being attacked by the above listed 166.137.xxx dynamic IPs., ,, ,
 * The Barack Obama citizenship conspiracy theories article was a popular haunt for not only TurthfulPerson and his static IPs, but his wireless dynamic 166.137.xxx ones as well. Just one of a dozen listed above.
 * UPDATE: After a couple of TruthfulPerson's IPs were blocked, a new account - NeutralityPersonified - was created, and it's very first edit was to continue TruthfulPerson's talk page discussion where he left off.

Comments by accused parties
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Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments

 * - We don't generally reveal IPs with CU for privacy reasons. As the account is stale, there is nothing CU could do. NativeForeigner Talk/Contribs 00:26, 3 October 2010 (UTC)
 * The account was last used September 17, 2010 -- less than 2 weeks ago. I do not understand how that could be stale.  Is it possible you are mistaken? Xenophrenic (talk) 01:14, 3 October 2010 (UTC)
 * The user listed as a sock is, as you stated, stale. This user hasn't been account socking, so I don't see a need for a sleeper check. It is generally against policy for CUs to connect IPs to accounts. NativeForeigner Talk/Contribs 01:18, 3 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Currently checking for duckiness NativeForeigner Talk/Contribs 02:46, 3 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Blocked self confirmed accounts. NativeForeigner Talk/Contribs 19:26, 3 October 2010 (UTC)
 * - Check NeutralityPersonified and see if you can find sleepers, and check for a connection with TruthfulPerson. Pay more attention to device used than IP, as I think he's using mobile devices. NativeForeigner Talk/Contribs 22:08, 7 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Check in progress. Hers fold  (t/a/c) 22:20, 7 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Data for TruthfulPerson and NeutralityPersonified is ; at best it's . They're editing from different devices in different geographic locations, although those locations aren't very far apart.
 * Sleeper check is also ; there are one or two that could possibly be sleepers, but they also share useragents with other unrelated, established users. This particular device doesn't have a whole lot of variance between useragents, so false positives are common. This is also a ridiculously large range (/9 was the narrowest WHOIS would give me) so there could be a horde of sleepers I'm not seeing. Sorry I couldn't be more help. Hers fold  (t/a/c) 22:29, 7 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Good lord. Behavior alone I guess. NativeForeigner Talk/Contribs 22:53, 7 October 2010 (UTC)
 * It is interesting, the similarities in the user's choice and style of naming for the "TruthfulPerson" and "NeutralityPersonified" accounts.--AzureCitizen (talk) 22:57, 7 October 2010 (UTC)
 * I haven't looked into weather the IPs need blocking, but per the above, we bowl 166.137.136.0/22 and hit most of the pins. -- DQ  (t)  (e)  12:23, 8 October 2010 (UTC)
 * This case has sat idle for ten days. Most of the IPs listed haven't really done any significant editing. And if we blocked 166.137.136.0/22, we'd be knocking out some decent edits. I'm going to close this case, as I'm not sure there's much else that can be done. —  Hello Annyong  (say whaaat?!) 02:38, 19 October 2010 (UTC)

27 May 2012

 * Suspected sockpuppets




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Combining to skirt WP:3RR on :
 * Three attempts by TruthfulPerson to add material about Native American ancestry controversy: 23:21, 26 May 2012; 23:32, 26 May 2012; 23:43, 26 May 2012
 * Once TruthfulPerson hits 3 reverts, NeutralityPersonified steps in with 3 more: 03:33, 27 May 2012; 04:03, 27 May 2012; 04:18, 27 May 2012
 * Accounts have overlapping interests/edits elsewhere, specifically in birtherism and Coffee Party USA

I believe the behavioral evidence is strong here; strong enough that I'll probably act on it one way or the other. I'm requesting a checkuser for two reasons; one is to help confirm a technical link if one exists, and the other is that I suspect there are likely other active or sleeper accounts linked to these, based on recent editing at Elizabeth Warren, and would like to look at that as well. MastCell Talk 04:58, 27 May 2012 (UTC)

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

 * NeutralityPersonified is a ✅ sock of TruthfulPerson. WilliamH (talk) 15:43, 27 May 2012 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the speedy response. Given the obvious bad faith in using these accounts to evade 3RR, and the tendentious and agenda-driven nature of their editing, I've blocked both accounts indefinitely. Thanks for reinforcing rule #3 :P MastCell Talk 16:57, 27 May 2012 (UTC)