Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Wikigabriel11/Archive

11 November 2013

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At Commons:User talk:Russavia/Archive 16, Commons admin User:Russavia associates Mike with the IP address. I don't know what he is basing this on, but the behaviour is very similar. I asked the Commons administrator about this because I had noticed that the account had been blocked on Commons for sockpuppetry. At Commons:Special:PermanentLink/107313352, the IP requested administrators to block various users (mostly IPs) with which the IP was in conflict. Mike, in turn, added m:Template:Indefblocked to user talk pages on meta belonging to users with which Mike or the IP had been in conflict. Again mostly Commons admins, and also me because I had added copyright-related deletion tags to his file uploads on this project. The Commons administrator also wrote that he believes that checkuser data shows that Mike is the same user as the two Wikigabriels.

Bangter's account has been blocked indefinitely on Italian Wikipedia by User:Pil56 with the block summary "Evasione del blocco: wikigabriel ed accoliti", meaning blocked for block evasion.

All accounts show the same behaviour: creations of articles about local train stations (such as trams), often in Germany, on the English and Italian Wikipedias, and uploads of photos (mainly copyright violations) to both Wikipedias and to Commons on the same subject.

Copyright violations are bad and need to be deleted. I am not convinced that all of the individual tram stops are notable, but that is better investigated by people in the respective cities. Looks like a duck to me especially considering blocks elsewhere, but it could be useful to know if there are other accounts involved so that copyright violations can be deleted. Several of the accounts are already blocked and/or globally locked; the only active account is the Bangter account.

Some pages were nominated for deletion per WP:CSD by User:Retartist, but no explanation was given, so the nominations were declined. Maybe has some more information about this.

Examples of copyright violations on this project:
 * All of Mike's uploads. Pick any you'd like, for example File:Bonn Limperich Nord.jpg.
 * Most or all of Bangter's uploads, for example File:KVB Frechen station.jpg.

Examples of articles about tram stops:
 * Limperich Nord (SWB), Limperich (SWB) (by Mike)
 * Frechen (KVB), Haus Vorst (KVB) (by Bangter) Stefan2 (talk) 15:36, 11 November 2013 (UTC)

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 * My G5 nominations were only due to the fact that under Special:NewPagesFeed I filtered pages by blocked users and assumed that Mike created the pages after they were blocked. I do not have any other information other than Mike created the pages shortly before he/she was blocked. Retartist (talk) 22:15, 11 November 2013 (UTC)

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 * and are, unsurprisingly, ✅ as each other. They're also globally locked.
 * and are ✅ as each other. They were using a webhost, which is now . The relationship between these and the other two users is thus completely.
 * The IP listed here is also a webhost, so it is rangeblocked. No comment on whether the IP is in any way related to the named users. Reaper Eternal (talk) 19:14, 12 November 2013 (UTC)
 * Master and suspected socks all locked or blocked. Closing now. Mark Arsten (talk) 19:18, 12 November 2013 (UTC)

12 December 2013

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Uploads the same copyright violations as previously blocked User:Mike78040, see Commons:Commons:Deletion requests/Files uploaded by Mensham49. Like Mike and Bangter, the user is only interested in stations, requests blocks for various admins and other people he doesn't like (see Commons:Special:PermanentLink/111150491 for this account, Special:PermanentLink/581925134 for one of the other accounts). Also note that the account is blocked indefinitely on Commons for sockpuppetry. Looks like a WP:DUCK.

I'm not sure how to best report this. The previous request was inconclusive whether Wikigabriel was the same as Mike and Bangter, and this request is about whether Mensham is the same as Mike and Bangter. I'm not sure if I should make a new Sockpuppet investigations/Mike78040 instead. The user has currently asked to have his IP block lifted, so it seems that he wants to continue editing under this account. Stefan2 (talk) 23:59, 12 December 2013 (UTC)

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 * Blocked and tagged. Closing. Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 10:57, 13 December 2013 (UTC)