Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Uarrin/Archive

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Report date May 28 2009, 18:50 (UTC)

 * Suspected sockpuppets
 * (only edits to Carlo Tamagnone, up for deletion, not sure if you can track anything if that's deleted -- also a whole lot of other IPs of similar range)
 * (only edits to Carlo Tamagnone, up for deletion, not sure if you can track anything if that's deleted -- also a whole lot of other IPs of similar range)
 * (only edits to Carlo Tamagnone, up for deletion, not sure if you can track anything if that's deleted -- also a whole lot of other IPs of similar range)
 * (only edits to Carlo Tamagnone, up for deletion, not sure if you can track anything if that's deleted -- also a whole lot of other IPs of similar range)
 * (only edits to Carlo Tamagnone, up for deletion, not sure if you can track anything if that's deleted -- also a whole lot of other IPs of similar range)
 * (only edits to Carlo Tamagnone, up for deletion, not sure if you can track anything if that's deleted -- also a whole lot of other IPs of similar range)
 * (only edits to Carlo Tamagnone, up for deletion, not sure if you can track anything if that's deleted -- also a whole lot of other IPs of similar range)
 * (only edits to Carlo Tamagnone, up for deletion, not sure if you can track anything if that's deleted -- also a whole lot of other IPs of similar range)
 * (only edits to Carlo Tamagnone, up for deletion, not sure if you can track anything if that's deleted -- also a whole lot of other IPs of similar range)
 * (only edits to Carlo Tamagnone, up for deletion, not sure if you can track anything if that's deleted -- also a whole lot of other IPs of similar range)


 * Evidence submitted by DreamGuy

(*User:Skepsiserpirron only has one edit ever, and based upon [[User:Skeppyrron being created and editing same place I took that to be a switched user name and redirected the former's user pages to the latter. I won't discuss that account in this report.)

This one came to my attention after some oddly worded Keep votes cast in Articles for deletion/Carlo Tamagnone. Investigating all the edits of the users shows almost exact behavior with no overlap in edit times. The first three users came into view because of this AFD. While preparing this I ran across a number of other accounts demonstrating the same eccentirc behavior on articles of the same topic areas that the previously identified ones edit to (they will be discussed later).

User:Uarrin created the Carlo Tamagnone article, about an atheist in Italy. User:Gioj50 added a book by that author as recommended reading to the Atheism article. All three accounts vote to "Keep" the article at its AFD with foreign-sounding wording and the same eccentric arguments (currently the only "Keep" votes there).

User:Gioj50 [G] and User:Skeppyron [S] have limited number of edits, but more than half of those edits (I looked at every edit by those two and counted) have been to merely add a blank line to articles.

Via carriage returns: [G], [G] ,  [G] , [S], [S] , [S], [S]

And with  tags:

[G], [G] , [S] , [S].

User:Uarrin also tends to add blank lines as well: ,, ,

The only other edits User:Gioj50 [G] and User:Skeppyron [S] and (for the most part) User:Uarrin [U] have made other than adding blank lines and promoting Carlo Tamagnone has been adding wikilinks to See also sections (or correcting spelling there/changing wikilinks already added) one at a time:

[G], [G] ,  [G] ,   [G] ,  [G] ,   [S] , [S], [S] ,  [S] ,  [U] ,  [U] ,  [U] ,  [U] ,  [U] ,  [U]

I ran across User:Dreampsy [Dr], User:Noproblem60 [No] , User:A157247 [A1] , User:Athex50 [Ath] , User:Isosping [Iso] and User:Skeptikman [Skeptikman] (as well as a scattering of IPs, mostly on the Carlo Tamagnon article) while investigating the above mentioned users to file this report. (I think Dreampsy might have been created after I said somewhere that Carlo Tamagnon was not notable for mention in some article, but that was a while back so I haven't turned up a diff for it, but it's probably not relevant to these proceeding anyway.) Here is a partial list of edits that have remarkable similarities to the above users:

Adding blank lines via carriage returns:

[Dr],   [Dr] ,  [Dr] ,  [Dr] ,  [Dr] , [No], [No] ,  [No] ,   [A1] ,  [A1] ,  [A1] ,  [A1] ,  [A1] ,   [A1] ,   [Ath] ,  [Ath] ,  [Ath] ,  [Ath] , [Iso], [Iso] ,  [Iso] ,   [Iso] ,  [Iso] ,  [Iso] ,  [Iso] ,  [Iso] ,  [Iso] , [Skeptikman]

Adding  tags:

[Dr], [Dr] ,  [Dr] ,  [No] ,  [No] ,  [No] ,   [No] ,   [No] ,  [Ath] ,   [Ath] ,

See also additions (meeting similarities of above):

[Dr],  [Dr] ,    [No] ,  [No] ,  [A1] ,  [A1] ,  [A1] ,  [A1] ,    [A1] ,   [Ath] ,   [Ath] ,   [Ath] ,  [Ath] ,   [Ath] ,  [Ath] ,  [Ath] , [Iso], [Iso] ,  [Iso] ,   [Iso] , [Skeptikman] , [Skeptikman], [Skeptikman]

Editing/promoting Carlo Tamagnone specifically:

[No], [No] ,    [No] ,  [A1] ,  [A1] ,  [Ath] , [Iso], [Iso] ,  [Iso] , [Skeptikman] , [151.59.100.53]

Promoting/editing Atheist existentialism article created by User:Uarrin:

[Skeppyron], [Skeppyron] , [Dr], [Ath] ,  [Ath] , [Iso] , [Iso], [Skeptikman]

Some of these later identified accounts, unlike the first batch, have some edits to the actual bodies of other articles, but overall the similarities seem convincing to me. The topics of the articles of interest to all of these accounts (as seen when popping open diffs above) are primarily logic/math/atheism/philosophy with only a few edits by any of them outside that area (and nothing like pop culture or anything) and the accounts were all created somewhat recently, many in close approximation to each other. You can even see sometimes where they pick up the edits left off by a previous username. DreamGuy (talk) 18:51, 28 May 2009 (UTC)


 * Update This comment admits a connection between some or all of the editors. A series of IP addresses with no edit history showed up at the AFD to place Keep votes agreeing with each other and acting as if they were separate. Those addresses have been added to the list above. DreamGuy (talk) 13:34, 29 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Other claims by various accounts arguing that they are merely friends working together:, [ [[User:DreamGuy|DreamGuy]] (talk) 17:41, 30 May 2009 (UTC)


 * Comments by accused parties    See Defending yourself against claims.


 * Comments by other users


 * Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments
 * For the benefit of the good folk at Articles for deletion/Carlo Tamagnone, it might be helpful to avoid archiving this case until the AfD is closed. Cheers, Peter Symonds ( talk ) 19:42, 31 May 2009 (UTC)
 * — Jake   Wartenberg  23:01, 6 June 2009 (UTC)


 * This user is blocked user Brunirob on the Italian Wikipedia. Many of these socks were created there. -- Versa geek  13:08, 8 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Conclusions
 * - Noproblem60 = Dreampsy, and it's likely they and Skeptikman are all socks of Uarrin.
 * ✅ - Athex50, A157247, Isosping, Skeppyrron, Skepsiserpirron, Gioj50, also, , , - I have blocked & tagged these. -- Versa  geek  04:24, 7 June 2009 (UTC)


 * Kanonkas blocked the socks and master, I've tagged the remainder and this case is good to go. Nathan  T 12:48, 7 June 2009 (UTC)