Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/VonWoland/Archive

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VonWoland made this edit numerous times, which was just regular edit-warring, including accusing multiple editors with tens of thousands of edits of all being SPs themselves, until they got blocked for EWing at which point, a brand new account with the same initials, VW96, made this edit, which made the SP case so obvious I don't believe an SPI was even opened and both accounts were permanently blocked. Now this Orcolive account makes the exact same edit as their first ever contribution to the encyclopedia. JesseRafe (talk) 19:19, 21 February 2019 (UTC)
 * adding 198.17.251.200. Still on the same "everyone who disagrees with me is just a troll" brand of trolling as the VW accounts. JesseRafe (talk) 21:24, 21 February 2019 (UTC)

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 * to - Orcolive and the IP are likely an LTA pulling a joe job on VanWoland, and VW96 might be as well. . —DoRD (talk)​ 23:05, 21 February 2019 (UTC)
 * Do you think that this case could be marked as 'close' since all the accounts/IP are blocked or do you think that more needs to be done with this case? -- The SandDoctor Talk 07:08, 23 February 2019 (UTC)


 * Closing. Sir Sputnik (talk) 17:37, 24 February 2019 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets



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A year ago, VonWoland was steadfast about removing the innocuous detail about the specific sword used in the assassination of Inejiro Asanuma. He edit-warred to remove it 6 times over a week, 5 in one day that led to a block, with inflammatory and accusatory edit summaries: 

Two more accounts, VW96 and Orcolive, made the same edits, removing the specific name of the sword used, but the original SPI found them to be a likely joe job, nevertheless VonWoland is permanently blocked for abusing multiple accounts.

The Asanuma page remained as it was before VonWoland started deleting information for over a year, until a brand new account, Colin Gerhard came along last week, and made a very similar edit to remove the information about the weapon.

Colin is also seemingly pretty well versed in wiki protocol, finding his way onto talk pages almost instantly, with solid formatting mechanics and dropping WP:__ s with aplomb, so doubt very much they're a new editor even if not VonWoland (just the removal of the name of the type of sword struck me, not other evidence between CG and VW). JesseRafe (talk) 15:08, 5 February 2020 (UTC)

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Thanks, Bbb23. The page in question is currently suffering an outbreak of WP:GODWIN with accusations of "fascism" being thrown hither and yon. It also seems that I am not the only person who thinks the article should be written in English rather than in Japanese. The name calling and vitriol you can see on the talk page is about an article that I have not yet made any edits to as it is protected. Colin Gerhard (talk) 04:46, 6 February 2020 (UTC)

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Based on the CU log for VonWoland and a brief check of Colin Gerhard, the two users are ❌ (different continents).--Bbb23 (talk) 15:38, 5 February 2020 (UTC)