Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Wicketywak/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets



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Overview

I was doing some cleanup of the Wickety Wak page. Despite it being factually correct, it does not comply with Wikipedia's encyclopedic standards. Any attempts by myself and other editors to maintain, clean up or expand the article to compliance, or flag article for COI or quality standards, keep getting reverted by authors who have obvious close connection to subject material, including removal of User:Talk entries and tags.

The authors have expressed defensive behaviour (even borderline aggressive) over these edits on mine and other talk pages, and use various different IPs to revert our edits.

We had this article submitted for peer review a while back and they recommended we send it off for an WP:SPI. We also suspect COI. Could we get some assistance in resolving this issue please?

References

Here are a group of diff links from various editors who tried to clean the article (one of which is from my own unsigned IP):
 * https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wickety_Wak&diff=prev&oldid=934013658
 * https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wickety_Wak&diff=prev&oldid=891737649

Here are some of the reversion diffs from the suspected IPs:
 * https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wickety_Wak&diff=prev&oldid=891737649
 * https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wickety_Wak&diff=prev&oldid=945483097
 * https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wickety_Wak&diff=prev&oldid=943168604
 * https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wickety_Wak&diff=prev&oldid=943168576

One of which, the original poster confirmed their connection to original user... https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wickety_Wak&diff=prev&oldid=937150139 https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wickety_Wak&diff=950665308&oldid=937150625

Here are some diffs from the Article's Talk page that were reverted.
 * https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Wickety_Wak&diff=prev&oldid=937151906
 * https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Wickety_Wak&diff=prev&oldid=937151878
 * https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Wickety_Wak&diff=937117048&oldid=937095754

User has expressed defensive and borderline aggressive behaviour over mine and another talk page.
 * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:203.4.236.40 (comment was likely directed at User:ShahFahad191)
 * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:LoofNeZorf

Thanks, and we hope to hear back from you. LoofNeZorf (talk) 05:55, 23 April 2020 (UTC)

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

 * - We cannot link accounts to IPs per the privacy policy. – bradv  🍁  01:24, 24 April 2020 (UTC)
 * IPs are stale. Closing. Cabayi (talk) 06:28, 26 April 2020 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets



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This is following on from a previous investigation of Wicketywak. Wicketywak had created the Wickety Wak article with questionable WP:ROC and obvious WP:COI. Attempts to re-edit the article to comply with Wikipedia standards plus any Talk Page correspondence by myself and other editors would result in constant reversion by the original user. This was later resolved in a COI investigation resulting in the original user's blocking. Since then, we have cleaned up the article in good faith to comply with Wikipedia standards.

Over the past week, suspected sockpuppet IPs of the original Wicketywak user have returned to make untidy and trivial edits to the article (falling under WP:ROC and possibly WP:COAT). Re-attempts at cleanup or removal of these edits keep getting reverted by these IPs, with arguments of WP:BIT from their part.

Notes from one of the IP address' 203.4.236.40 contributions page evidences they are sockpuppets of Wicketywak.
 * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/203.4.236.40

The above IP's diff link here:
 * https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wickety_Wak&diff=prev&oldid=959280431

Additional diff links from the other two IPs:
 * https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wickety_Wak&diff=prev&oldid=959337019
 * https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wickety_Wak&diff=prev&oldid=957344033

Original user Wicketywak and IP 2001:8003:71A6:8E00:999:595B:9CA:56A6 have left messages on my talk page arguing WP:BIT, evidencing a connection between the two users:
 * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:LoofNeZorf

Evidence IP 203.4.236.40 is connected to original user:
 * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:203.4.236.40

Any assistance in maintaining the tone of this article and the relevance of its content would be appreciated. LoofNeZorf (talk) 00:40, 29 May 2020 (UTC)

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

 * Closing without action per my comments at User talk:Dreamy Jazz/Archive 4. Essentially, its because the account was soft blocked. Dreamy Jazz talk to me &#124; my contributions 23:18, 3 June 2020 (UTC)