Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Whiskeymouth/Archive

22 April 2016

 * Suspected sockpuppets




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Overlap on article. Temporal overlap in editing interaction tool. Antagonistic pokes at user in dispute with user talk page, ,. Note first two links also reference BAN, a likely reference to ANI dispute NE Ent 21:02, 22 April 2016 (UTC)
 * Purple Showers confirmed by CU Mike V to be sock of different master "It doesn't appear to be related to Whiskeymouth, but the account is confirmed to BettyDavis1989, StudentAssignment1, Justaprilfols, Dishwater Red, and Ensign Hapuna of the Royal Hawaiian Navy. " NE Ent 14:14, 23 April 2016 (UTC)

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

 * The two accounts are.
 * Whiskeymouth is ✅ from, but .--Bbb23 (talk) 00:01, 23 April 2016 (UTC)
 * No behavioral evidence found. Case closed.  Vanjagenije  (talk)  17:13, 26 April 2016 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets



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Evidence is as follows:


 * Account was created two days following a sock block on User:Purple Showers, who had been reported in an SPI as a suspected sock of Whiskeymouth. Account creation; Purple Showers/Whiskeymouth SPI; Purple Showers sock block


 * Suspected sock's first edit since account creation was to WP:Articles for deletion/Death of Prince on April 24, 2016 just two hours after Whiskeymouth had faced opposition at both the AfD, the Prince article talk page and the Death of Prince article talk page. Strange first edit for someone First edit


 * For a(n allegedly) brand new user, suspected sock was using Wikipedia terminology right away ("personal attack") and started disruptively removing what they saw as personal attacks and what would harm their !vote at the AfD, along with disruptive attempts to dissaude other editors from considering the other delete !votes.


 * Editor Interaction Analyzer shows the two accounts have only five commonalities (see here), however, none of the commonalities are to articles, only talk pages and AfDs. On the talk pages and at the AfDs, the suspected sock's comments are basically a repeat of WM's comments in tone and position.


 * Suspected sock stopped editing altogether on May 8, 2016 after opening their account on April 24, 2016. Only three articles were edited, the majority of edits (starting from their first edit) were to two AfDs and editor talk pages.


 * After suspected sock started removing content from the AfD and said behavior was noted by other editors (along with noting he had made no edits prior to his comments at the AfD), Whiskeymouth started defending the suspected sock account here to explain and excuse the sudden presence of the account at the AfD.


 * Another editor,, had suspected this user as being a sock of Whiskeymouth in an AN/I here. Her evidence included:


 * Repeatedly vandalizing the SPA templates on Articles for deletion/Death of Prince, despite warnings and a final warning :, , , ,  , ,   ,


 * Vandalizing and trolling the talk page in other ways: ,


 * Whiskeymouth behaved in the same manner twice, before being warned:

Requesting CU and check for sleepers. -- WV ● ✉ ✓ 17:12, 30 June 2016 (UTC)

NOTE: The evidence in this case is a bit confusing to go over and compile. In order to get this report filed straightaway, I will be adding diffs and evidence over time and in the next few hours or so. I am asking clerks/admins looking in on this to be patient and not dismiss this report, allowing for all the evidence to be added. I will notify here as soon as the evidence posting is completed. -- WV ● ✉ ✓ 15:02, 30 June 2016 (UTC)
 * Adding both Evelyn Mann and Tim Bosnia based on the same behavior from each at a current AfD that Whiskeymouth attempted to prematurely shut down and rendered an incorrect close decision. Evelyn Mann ; Tim Bosnia, , , , , , , , ; Whiskeymouth: ,    Please note that this kind of action (reverting AfDs/protesting AfD decisions) is the same kind of disruptive behavior that both thank you very much wiki and Whiskeymouth were engaging in at the Death of Prince AfD and Death of Prince talk page (as listed and notated above).  -- WV ● ✉ ✓  13:52, 1 July 2016 (UTC)


 * Evidence gathering completed for now. If more needed, please ask and notify me.  Thank you,-- WV ● ✉ ✓  17:38, 30 June 2016 (UTC)

Comments by other users
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 * Winkelvi (WV) is an edit warrior and trying everything to cause trouble. He was already warned about disruption and attacks against Whiskeymouth at talk page of User talk:NeilN, an administrator. He is a proven meatpuppet [] and [] of Softlavender as they tag team AFD's such as Murder of Tim Bosma and Alina Tugend. Administrator NeilN notes that it is no coincidence that they did this on purpose. The use of checkuser complaints by edit warriors is an abuse of Wikipedia.

WV accuses others but look and see that he is guilty of doing what he says is bad (above). https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia%3AArticles_for_deletion%2FMurder_of_Tim_Bosma&type=revision&diff=727770491&oldid=727765279

Please discipline WV for such abuse. Whiskeymouth (talk) 05:47, 1 July 2016 (UTC)


 * Comment: Agree with all of the named users being sockpuppets. My evidence for TYVMW has been reproduced by Winkelvi above. was an obvious Whiskeymouth sockpuppet from the get-go; his ninth edit ever, after creating a three-sentence stub complete with stub tag (and obvious knowledge of Wikipedia procedures) was to post on a DRV Whiskeymouth had opened 13 hours previously re: Death of Prince, the article Whiskeymouth created . And then continued trolling there,  and then disruptive insistence on Talk:Prince (musician), identical to Whiskeymouth's, that the "Death of" article be recreated: . Continually uses the same rhetoric as Whiskeymouth, and the same blaming of the same editor(s). Whiskeymouth "closed" the AfD of 's stub article in a ridiculously obviously bad WP:BADNAC, and  then edit-warred himself into a block to restore Whiskeymouth's BADNAC, despite repeated user-talk warnings. Same rhetoric, same whining and constant fingerpointing/blame-casting, same articles.  is just the latest obvious sock in a two-month-long spree of Wikipedia disruption. Softlavender (talk) 15:10, 1 July 2016 (UTC)

AGREE that Softlavender and Winkelvi are meatpuppets based on administrator NeilN conclusion that they edited the same AfD within mines of each other. I was asked by Tim to look into this and make my own conclusions. I am not Tim but was alerted of misconduct by the complainant Winkelvi and Softlavender.

I believe that the resolution is discussion not trumping up stuff here. I freely disclose that Tim contacted me and asked for a second opinion, which I am giving. Evelyn Mann (talk) 15:39, 1 July 2016 (UTC)
 * I made no such conclusion. --Neil N  talk to me 15:42, 1 July 2016 (UTC)
 * Well... I was very interested whom Tyvmw was a sock of. I guess there's my answer. GABgab 03:00, 2 July 2016 (UTC)

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * Group 1 - the following accounts are ✅ to each other and ❌ to Whiskeymouth:
 * Group 2 – the following accounts are ✅:
 * I've blocked the Group 1 accounts without tags. I've blocked and tagged Maserati Turbo. I've blocked Whiskeymouth for three months. Maserati Turbo edited during the time when Whiskeymouth was already blocked for one month.--Bbb23 (talk) 21:18, 1 July 2016 (UTC)
 * I'll file Sockpuppet investigations/Thank you very much wiki to document and tag the three confirmed sock. ☺ ·  Salvidrim!   ·  &#9993;  21:16, 14 July 2016 (UTC)
 * Group 2 – the following accounts are ✅:
 * I've blocked the Group 1 accounts without tags. I've blocked and tagged Maserati Turbo. I've blocked Whiskeymouth for three months. Maserati Turbo edited during the time when Whiskeymouth was already blocked for one month.--Bbb23 (talk) 21:18, 1 July 2016 (UTC)
 * I'll file Sockpuppet investigations/Thank you very much wiki to document and tag the three confirmed sock. ☺ ·  Salvidrim!   ·  &#9993;  21:16, 14 July 2016 (UTC)
 * I've blocked the Group 1 accounts without tags. I've blocked and tagged Maserati Turbo. I've blocked Whiskeymouth for three months. Maserati Turbo edited during the time when Whiskeymouth was already blocked for one month.--Bbb23 (talk) 21:18, 1 July 2016 (UTC)
 * I'll file Sockpuppet investigations/Thank you very much wiki to document and tag the three confirmed sock. ☺ ·  Salvidrim!   ·  &#9993;  21:16, 14 July 2016 (UTC)