Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/VivaNorthCyprus/Archive

Report date February 7 2009, 20:27 (UTC)

 * Suspected sockpuppets


 * Evidence submitted by Blowdart
 * The edit history, obviously. Same pages, same changes. Different edit history though. Which is nice. Blowdart | talk 20:27, 7 February 2009 (UTC)
 * account has been banned via ARV. I've also reverted his edits, and tagged all the new pages. --Blowdart | talk 21:49, 7 February 2009 (UTC)


 * And now an SPA, IntensityOfTheLight is reverting the flagging of the new pages and reverting my revert. --Blowdart | talk 21:55, 7 February 2009 (UTC)
 * And another. Literal64words --Blowdart | talk 23:02, 7 February 2009 (UTC)
 * And another. TitanicLordIceberged leaving this on my talk page --Blowdart | talk 23:31, 7 February 2009 (UTC)


 * Comments by accused parties    See Defending yourself against claims.


 * Sockpuppetry is not true. There are some wiki-admins that they are misusing their administrative rights and say that there are some GC Wiki-admins in 1600 Wiki-admins and they can do whatever they want. We complained this situaiton to the Wikipedia Board. Also, notice that the wiki-admins that block the North Cyprus Wiki-users are all the same Wiki-admins. We submitted their list to the Wikipedia Board as well. Not only VivaNorthCyprus is given as an example of sockpuppetry but also some other Wiki-names are given as well like ForeverTruth etc.


 * Comments by other users


 * The most compelling evidence to me was the creation of Category:Airlines of North Cyprus. The page was created with the same edit summary as a prior version created by . Tillar34000 was blocked as a sockpuppet of VivaNorthCyprus. The use of an identical edit summary, with a one-day gap between the category creations, tells me it's the same human at the keyboard. —C.Fred (talk) 21:16, 7 February 2009 (UTC)


 * Dear C.Fred, there are numerous people in North Cyprus and they are following the Wikipedia. Notice that this country is under embargo, and internet is the way of making their voice out. The classical copy-paste issues can be performed by any NC Wiki-user. Please do NOT underestimate the capabilities of NC people. World fastest 40th computer was located in NC by IBM! IntensityOfTheLight (talk) 22:04, 7 February 2009 (UTC)


 * Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments
 * As a patrolling admin, I've been following and fighting this puppeteer for some time, and have amassed a large body of fairly detailed evidence. Including the above names, there are (so far) 42 socks that I've been able to find, plus a number of IPs that have been edited under as well. Admins are welcome to email me if they want to discuss it further.  AK Radecki Speaketh  00:57, 8 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Additional to my comment above, it is my suggestion that in light of the now 43 socks, the multiple indef blocks by numerous admins, the multiple ignored attempts to actually talk to this person about their politically-motivated edits, the blatant disregard for our policies on editing under multiple accounts, that User:VivaNorthCyprus be considered under community ban in accordance with WP:BAN.  AK Radecki Speaketh  01:40, 9 February 2009 (UTC)
 * I agree that this should be a community ban situation. This user has been generating socks and using dynamic IPs for disruptive purposes for a long time:  revert wars, abusive edit summaries, hate lists, etc.  By the way, it's quite clearly one person, contrary to certain claims he has made (not that it matters, as meatpuppetry is equivalent in terms of policy to sockpuppetry).  This person has never attempted a reasonable approach; it's been War with Wikipedia from the outset, and RBI looks like the most likely future here. Antandrus  (talk) 02:07, 9 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Is that even in need of a formal decision at this point? But of course he's banned. Fut.Perf. ☼ 14:05, 9 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Conclusions
 * I've implemented two long-term rangeblocks and blocked these other socks:

Further note the additional nine confirmed socks below: (originally noted here).

Hope that helps. Nishkid64 (Make articles, not wikidrama) 23:21, 9 February 2009 (UTC) Mayalld (talk) 08:07, 10 February 2009 (UTC)
 * All tagged. Tiptoety  talk 23:56, 9 February 2009 (UTC)

Report date June 18 2009, 21:23 (UTC)

 * Suspected sockpuppets


 * Evidence submitted by Passportguy

Introducing blatant POV on North Cyprus related pages such as here : http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Morphou&oldid=297211934 Also reving templates, categories and large blocks of text for the same reason. Passportguy (talk) 21:23, 18 June 2009 (UTC)


 * Comments by accused parties    See Defending yourself against claims.


 * Comments by other users


 * Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments


 * Conclusions

Blocked and tagged. Peter Symonds ( talk ) 22:24, 18 June 2009 (UTC)

Report date June 21 2009, 12:37 (UTC)

 * Suspected sockpuppets


 * Evidence submitted by Passportguy

Another one of the dozons of sockpuppets of User:VivaNorthCyprus at it again. Passportguy (talk) 12:37, 21 June 2009 (UTC)


 * Comments by accused parties    See Defending yourself against claims.


 * Comments by other users


 * Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments


 * Conclusions
 * Already blocked. Tiptoety  talk 02:43, 22 June 2009 (UTC)

Report date June 23 2009, 15:54 (UTC)

 * Suspected sockpuppets

was recently blocked as a sockpuppet of. A new account, created Sockpuppet investigations/Peripitus (now deleted) referring to reverts of edits by VivaNorthCyprus sockpuppets, and making claims similar to this edit (and its edit summary) by Honorary People. snigbrook (talk) 15:54, 23 June 2009 (UTC) snigbrook (talk) 15:54, 23 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Evidence submitted by Snigbrook


 * Comments by accused parties    See Defending yourself against claims.


 * Comments by other users

A similar checkuser case was filed earlier on under Sockpuppet investigations/DeductiveServices. That case has been moved over here and placed in the archive. Peter Symonds ( talk ) 19:22, 23 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments


 * Conclusions