Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Wiki Facts fixer/Archive

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See also: relevant ANI discussion on WFF's behavior (permalink to discussion at time of filing this).

All seem to have an unusual fixation on saying that a sports player is Turkish xor American/Dutch/German/etc. None have been blocked, but I'm filing this because the ANI discussion is currently discussing a topic ban.

ErrorFixor and WFF look like WP:DUCKs to me - similar name and edits.

The IP seems similar again because of the similar edits, and this is strengthened by the fact that the IP is assigned to a mobile operator in the UK, and WFF's userpage history says that they're English. A vast majority, if not all, of the edits are tagged as a mobile edit in all three cases.

Some interesting edits: Special:Diff/911314174, Special:Diff/908911695 and Special:Diff/890976815 - all remove the US flag for the same player.

The IP range has been globally rangeblocked, but that's presumably because it's a mobile provider. Frood 05:20, 18 August 2019 (UTC)

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 * The overlaps between ErrorFixor (note spelling) and Wiki Fact fixer are not extensive: . Beyond My Ken (talk) 06:56, 18 August 2019 (UTC)
 * The overlaps are pretty significant imo. Like I said, there are several factors here. They may be a few little things, but it seems like too much to all be coincidental. Frood 19:37, 18 August 2019 (UTC)
 * , - You folks are correct, I had somehow missed that ErrorFixor only had 8 edits, which indeed makes the overlaps significant.  My apologies. Beyond My Ken (talk) 21:12, 18 August 2019 (UTC)


 * , is there a particular reason you did not request CU on this SPI? Softlavender (talk) 09:31, 18 August 2019 (UTC)
 * As said, they're stale. Additionally, I thought it'd probably go against the privacy/CU policy to link the IP to users publicly. Frood 19:37, 18 August 2019 (UTC)
 * You're absolutely correct about the IP, but in this instance the point is moot because the IP is also stale.--Bbb23 (talk) 19:49, 18 August 2019 (UTC)


 * yes ErrorFixor was me, didn’t I say this somewhere? The reason I made that account was because I lost my password to this account but the IP address isn’t me. Wiki Facts fixer (talk) 10:36, 21 August 2019 (UTC)
 * You literally denied having a different account at your talk page when informed about this investigation. --MrClog (talk) 10:42, 21 August 2019 (UTC)
 * yes I did because I had completely forgot about this account because look how old it is, but then I came across this and I recognise the account. My understanding originally was I am using multiple accounts now but I’m not. Wiki Facts fixer (talk) 10:46, 21 August 2019 (UTC)
 * , you claim you have disclosed your previous account (at AN/I). Can you point me where you did that? --MrClog (talk) 10:47, 21 August 2019 (UTC)
 * I thought I did but when looking it seems it didn’t go through or I just have a false memory of it. Wiki Facts fixer (talk) 10:49, 21 August 2019 (UTC)

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The overlaps are extensive considering that ErrorFixor has only 8 edits. Frood didn't request a CU because it would be declined; ErrorFixor is .--Bbb23 (talk) 15:11, 18 August 2019 (UTC)
 * I indeffed the sock account and issued a final warning to the master. Closing.  Vanjagenije  (talk)  18:33, 22 August 2019 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets



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20 minutes after Wiki Facts fixer was indef blocked this account was created and started making the same edits as WFF, on the same article, with the same sources. Railfan23 (talk) 00:27, 25 August 2019 (UTC)

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 * ST47 (talk) 00:36, 25 August 2019 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets



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Editing the same articles as Wiki Facts fixer, restoring WFF's content. See in particular Tarik Biberovic, which WFF had edit-warred over concerning unsourced assertions of Turkish nationality, leading to the initial ANI discussion (WFF's community ban was ultimately due to an earlier edit - now oversighted as a WP:BLP issue I believe - as well as the ANI discussion), and note that the edits restore this claim, with no attempt to address the issues raised during the discussion, which largely revolved initially around WFF's insistence on adding unsourced assertions regarding nationality, though there were broader concerns regarding competence and/or trolling. Note also the edit summary here where the 'new' contributor makes the same complaint about not being able to save edits that Wff frequently did (e.g. ). The similarity of usernames also obvious (see also User:ErrorFixor, another of WFF's accounts). And note that WFF has socked before on the Biberovic article, as User:Cold Mustard. 86.134.77.93 (talk) 01:35, 16 September 2019 (UTC)

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 * Unsurprisingly, SomeWikiGuy24 and Cold Mustard are ✅. NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 00:40, 17 September 2019 (UTC)