Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/WikiVPN888/Archive

07 July 2015

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DUCK 3 redlinked SPAs. the two socks only edits are to comment on the proposed deletion of the article on the talk page.

Sockmaster has an obvious name issue too. Not sure if they are some how promoting a product (bvpn.com?), or truly trying to write a guide as a help. Either way the socking is an issue. Gaijin42 (talk) 16:30, 7 July 2015 (UTC)

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 * The three accounts are ✅. Blocked master for one week, and blocked and tagged puppets indefinitely. Closing.--Bbb23 (talk) 18:03, 7 July 2015 (UTC)

08 July 2015

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Duck, see Sockpuppet_investigations/WikiVPN888/Archive  Gaijin42 (talk) 14:00, 8 July 2015 (UTC) Gaijin42 (talk) 14:00, 8 July 2015 (UTC)

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Looks like a duck to me. Same behaviour as past confirmed socks at Talk:OpenVPN_Over_SSH opposing deletion of article created by master. TDL (talk) 23:45, 8 July 2015 (UTC)
 * Not saying you're wrong, but you're doing this based on one edit. Would you prefer that I run a CU? Also, if we're blocking another puppet, something needs to be done to the master who was blocked only for one week.--Bbb23 (talk) 00:23, 9 July 2015 (UTC)
 * It never hurts to examine more evidence if there's some doubt about the connection.  check of  versus the past CU-confirmed socks,  and.
 * The sock's lone edit came after the master's unblock request was declined, so if WP:EVASION is confirmed the block should at the very least be restarted. TDL (talk) 04:11, 10 July 2015 (UTC)


 * Technically, is, and I used the master's July 7 edit as it was much closer in time to Asmaa.ispire's July 8 edit. Given Asmaa.ispire's location, it wouldn't surprise me if it were meat.--Bbb23 (talk) 04:29, 10 July 2015 (UTC)
 * Well, I was convinced without technical evidence that it was at least WP:MEAT based on the fact that it was the continuation of CU-confirmed behaviour from less than 24h earlier, as well as the very similar message to past socks. If you parse the message it's just a repetition of the points made by past socks (see below).  But it would be good to get a second opinion on that.  TDL (talk) 17:31, 12 July 2015 (UTC)

message

"I don't see violations" vs "I don't see any rules violation" vs "I even don't see it violates the copyrights"

"I've been searching for an article" vs "I was searching for this topic on Wikipedia" vs "I have searching for information"

"The article is very informative" vs "I see this topic informative"

"I'm not saying it's the best. It would be great if someone could edit and add more info" vs "it might be a little dodgy ... feel free to edit it as well."


 * I'm willing to indef the new account based on meat. The question still remains what to do about the master. I suggest we increase the block on the master but not indef the account yet. What are your thoughts?--Bbb23 (talk) 18:36, 12 July 2015 (UTC)
 * Yeah that's probably the course of action that I'd take as well. Given the possibility that it was meat rather than a sock, it well could have been coordinated prior to WikiVPN888's block, and hence wouldn't really be a new violation deserving of an escalation to indef.
 * (Also, just for the record I've corrected a typo in the username of your CU results above.) TDL (talk) 23:14, 12 July 2015 (UTC)


 * I've indeffed the puppet and tagged the account as suspected. I've blocked the master for two weeks starting today and warned them that the next time the block would probably be indefinite. Closing.--Bbb23 (talk) 23:42, 12 July 2015 (UTC)