Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Tylershineon/Archive

04 December 2011

 * Suspected sockpuppets




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All of these are connected to the spammy article and have been overinflating its importance by putting several other articles up to show that it exists in some form. This all reeks of WP:COI, as well.— Ryulong ( 竜龙 ) 11:27, 4 December 2011 (UTC)

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 * Paid editing? Disturbing indeed.  AGK   [&bull; ]  13:49, 4 December 2011 (UTC)
 * ✅ that Tylershineon and Pureenterprise have the same operator. Galworld is technically ❌, but the reference at to hiring "a Wikipedia specialist" forms an obvious link between the former two accounts and Galworld. I've indeffed the first two for socking, and the last one for paid editing and serious COI violations.  on the IPs, as usual. Also, from my investigation, I don't think the Galword account has any history on Wikipedia.  AGK   [&bull; ]  14:08, 4 December 2011 (UTC)


 * Blocks have been handed out all around, so we're done. —  Hello Annyong  (say whaaat?!) 14:27, 4 December 2011 (UTC)

06 December 2011

 * Suspected sockpuppets




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This IP showed up on an AFD adding more malformed sources to the Tyler Foundation article, and it is based in Israel just like the other two IP addresses I found. This cannot be a coincidence. — Ryulong ( 竜龙 ) 00:01, 6 December 2011 (UTC)

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 * CU won't connect an IP to an account. Nevertheless I've blocked the IP for three days per WP:DUCK. —  Hello Annyong  (say whaaat?!) 00:57, 6 December 2011 (UTC)

06 December 2011

 * Suspected sockpuppets




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Another set of Israeli IP addresses. One reported me to AIV. — Ryulong ( 竜龙 ) 18:32, 6 December 2011 (UTC)

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 * Both IPs blocked 3 days; article protected for the same amount of time. —  Hello Annyong  (say whaaat?!) 01:14, 7 December 2011 (UTC)

08 December 2011

 * Suspected sockpuppets




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Another Israeli IP disrupting the deletion process. — Ryulong ( 竜龙 ) 20:32, 8 December 2011 (UTC)

Another Israeli IP editing pages related to the subject.— Ryulong ( 竜龙 ) 20:04, 9 December 2011 (UTC)

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 * IPs blocked 1 week each; article protected. —  Hello Annyong  (say whaaat?!) 14:42, 10 December 2011 (UTC)

18 December 2011

 * Suspected sockpuppets




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IP's only edits involve reporting me to ANI over the Tyler Foundation family of articles. Can we shut down this range yet? — Ryulong ( 竜龙 ) 10:40, 18 December 2011 (UTC)

The IP makes a good point that I should not be lumping together every single Tel Aviv IP that edits the pages on the Tyler Foundation to be socks or meatpuppets of the original accounts. Could it be at the very least possible to make a statement that any of the blocked accounts edited from an IP originating in Israel, thereby validating or repudiating my accusations that the individual or group who was hired by the Tyler Foundation to promote their "product" on the English Wikipedia is Israeli?— Ryulong ( 竜龙 ) 11:15, 18 December 2011 (UTC)

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 * Another IP (79.180.108.70) seems to be another possible sock, it seems that they are canvassing other Users to gain votes to keep the article Shine On! Songs Volume One. GrayFullbuster (talk) 10:45, 19 December 2011 (UTC)

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 * CU will not connect an account to an IP. Having said that, I've blocked the IP for a week and protected that article for a month. —  Hello Annyong  (say whaaat?!) 15:36, 18 December 2011 (UTC)
 * I am not looking for a CU to connect an account to an IP. I am looking for a CU to connect an account to a general geographic area.— Ryulong ( 竜龙 ) 20:29, 18 December 2011 (UTC)
 * CU won't do that either. —  Hello Annyong  (say whaaat?!) 22:39, 18 December 2011 (UTC)
 * Why can't I be told if any of the accounts are related to any of the 8 IPs on 4 different ranges that I've reported here?— Ryulong ( 竜龙 ) 23:14, 18 December 2011 (UTC)
 * Generally speaking, checkuser will not divulge any private information about an account - IP (and therefore location), user agent, and so on. Read the privacy policy. In some particularly extreme circumstances there may be exceptions, but this is most certainly not one. —  Hello Annyong  (say whaaat?!) 23:37, 18 December 2011 (UTC)
 * This guy has been spamming this organization on the project for a few months now. It'd be nice to know that I'm not falsely accusing people of being related, even though every single IP address that has edited these pages originates in Israel.— Ryulong ( 竜龙 ) 23:54, 18 December 2011 (UTC)
 * That's nice - but you're still not going to get the data you're looking for. Unless a checkuser really wants to give it up, but that's their discretion. —  Hello Annyong  (say whaaat?!) 23:58, 18 December 2011 (UTC)
 * Ryulong, the official checkuser answer is "No, and you should know better than to ask." This seems to come up often when you file SPI requests here. Checkuser will establish connections between accounts, no more.
 * Looking at the IP just added, behavioral is close enough I'm blocking it too. Hers fold  (t/a/c) 01:34, 20 December 2011 (UTC)

25 December 2011

 * Suspected sockpuppets




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Created article at ja.wiki. — Ryulong ( 竜龙 ) 05:33, 25 December 2011 (UTC)

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 * This account hasn't edited on en.wiki, so it's a bit premature. Relist if it becomes active here. You can try at the Japanese SPI page, or you can maybe list on meta.wiki to get it blocked on ja. —  Hello Annyong  (say whaaat?!) 06:22, 25 December 2011 (UTC)
 * I think they know that they're not wanted here, and I'd rather we be proactive in stopping this guy from being a pain in the ass on multiple projects.— Ryulong ( 竜龙 ) 07:02, 25 December 2011 (UTC)
 * Based on that person's edits on ja.wiki, I'd say their command of Japanese is pretty good - perhaps fluent. Based on this case's history, I'd say that that account is a paid editor and not Tylershineon themselves. Anyway, I don't see much reason to preemptively block here. —  Hello Annyong  (say whaaat?!) 17:50, 25 December 2011 (UTC)
 * They've admited to being a volunteer of the Tyler Foundation in their recent comments.— Ryulong ( 竜龙 ) 11:08, 26 December 2011 (UTC)