Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Wiki Historian N OH/Archive

Evidence submitted by Georgewilliamherbert
Tonight User:98.82.3.81 started editing and as their first edit added this header to Marysville, Ohio:  That header had previously only been added by User:Wiki Historian N OH, who had done various minor disruption and edit warring and who was blocked for doing so. There was a minor ANI discussion about it at the end of April:

After some unrelated content disputing on Hypersaline lake tonight, based on that edit User:Neutralhomer tentatively identified the IP as Wiki Historian N OH editing logged out, which given Wiki Historian N OH's somewhat disruptive history would be a problem. Based again primarily on the banner on the Marysville, Ohio article I blocked the IP AO as a sock of Wiki Historian N OH, with the admonishion to edit logged in from now on, which they have objected to and claimed that they're another person.

On further review, this IP geolocates to Florida and though they've been somewhat confrontational in edits and talk pages tonight, it's not completely clear that they do match Wiki Historian N OH's pattern. They are claiming that their connection with the town article was an old personal one, not that they were the same editor, and they re-added the banner because they thought it looked good.

I am not yet convinced that this was a mistaken duck test identification, however. I know that SPI / CU aren't fishing expeditions, but if we could get a CU to confirm if User:Wiki Historian N OH was or was not editing from that geolocation, it would disambiguate the situation and allow a clear conscience unblock (or reinforced warnings to Wiki Historian N OH if it is them). Georgewilliamherbert (talk) 06:18, 17 June 2010 (UTC)

Comments by accused parties
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Comments by Neutralhomer
Want to make a clarification, I marked the anon as a sock of User:Wiki Historian N OH because of this edit, the same that was brought to ANI about a couple months ago.

The edits about Hypersaline lakes were reverted because the edit the anon made was not backed up by the reference given. I asked the user, even after their first post on my talk page, to "provide a better reference", which was all that was needed. -  NeutralHomer •  Talk  • 06:30, 17 June 2010 (UTC)
 * Sorry, I confused the sequence a bit. My bad.  Georgewilliamherbert (talk) 06:36, 17 June 2010 (UTC)
 * No worries. :) -  NeutralHomer •  Talk  • 06:37, 17 June 2010 (UTC)

Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments
Requested by Georgewilliamherbert (talk) 06:18, 17 June 2010 (UTC)

Checkuser comments:  is ❌ to the identified IP. Please unblock the IP; I think some re-reading of WP:BITE would not be out of place here. I would make some additional comments here if I was wearing one of my other hats, but right now I will stick to just the checkuser. Risker (talk) 07:06, 17 June 2010 (UTC)

IP unblocked. I will echo Risker's concern that we need to be sure of our socks before blocking; if we WP:BITE newcomers because of subtle errors like this, we may not get them back. More caution needs to be exercised in the future to prevent such blocks from occurring. –MuZemike 07:13, 17 June 2010 (UTC)

Evidence submitted by KaySL
Consistent with previous edits by Wiki Historian N OH, who was blocked earlier today for persistently introducing controversial material to Bisexuality related articles, mainly on Bisexual Community. Another sock I believe belongs to Wiki Historian N OH is User:Creative handle, since that account also engaged in near-identical edits. He's created a page at Polyamory bisexuals, which I'm not sure what to do with, since it's essentially just info on regular bisexuals, which he's trying to put a polyamory spin on, as he/Wiki Historian N OH did in the main bisexuality article, prior to it being removed multiple times. KaySL talk 23:47, 20 September 2010 (UTC)

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Comments by other users

 * The edits by the suspected sockpuppet definitely look like the Wiki Historian N OH. If they are, with the history of sockpuppetry and disruptive editing, I recommend blocking their main account (already on a 2 week block) indef and blocking their range as well.  I would also recommend deleting the articles created as they are created by a sock of a blocked user.  There is no sense for this user's behavior and it has gone far enough. -  Neutralhomer  •  Talk  • 23:56, 20 September 2010 (UTC)
 * Probably want to go ahead and add this second suspected, already blocked sockpuppet account to the list and template it as a sock of the master account, just so we can start keeping things straight (slightly inappropriate pun intended, sorry). It's easier to do behavioral analysis when you have the various accounts on hand, and on what I sense as a good probability this user will try to bring this up in some form again in the future, it will be helpful to have everything easily available to facilitate later analysis. On the subject of socking probability itself, I have the DuckTales theme stuck in my head now. Thanks a lot. - Vianello (Talk) 01:07, 21 September 2010 (UTC)
 * I added User:Creative handle to the list. -  Neutralhomer •  Talk  • 01:13, 21 September 2010 (UTC)
 * Thanks. Oh, I do want to point out, as it's kind of a salient point, the user in question was not banned. See WP:BAN. A block is not the same thing. See this page. - Vianello (Talk) 01:18, 21 September 2010 (UTC)
 * Whoopsy, my bad. I've edited my section to reflect that! KaySL talk 01:22, 21 September 2010 (UTC)

Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments
✅ on all reported accounts. –MuZemike 01:35, 21 September 2010 (UTC)
 * All accounts blocked and tagged. Contended articles not (at least, yet) deleted. - Vianello (Talk) 01:46, 21 September 2010 (UTC)

Evidence submitted by KaySL
More of the same by persistent sockpuppeter. See the previous investigation archive entry for more. KaySL talk 04:20, 21 September 2010 (UTC)

Comments by accused parties
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Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments

 * Close case NativeForeigner Talk/Contribs 06:05, 21 September 2010 (UTC)

Moved Sockpuppet investigations/Sexual eugenics/Archive to Sockpuppet investigations/Wiki Historian N OH/Archive.  E lockid (Alternate)  ( Talk )  15:00, 21 September 2010 (UTC)