Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Wikipéire/Archive

Report date July 14 2009, 03:34 (UTC)

 * Suspected sockpuppets




 * Evidence submitted by Casliber

Per an arbitration investigation of a banned user,, we are asking for a checkuser on MusicInTheHouse to verify whether the two accounts are the same user, as this would result in a resetting of the ban on Wikipéire.


 * Comments by accused parties    See Defending yourself against claims.


 * Comments by other users

Requested by Casliber (talk · contribs) 03:34, 14 July 2009 (UTC)
 * CheckUser requests

Editing patterns suggest they are the same user. Casliber (talk · contribs) 03:34, 14 July 2009 (UTC)
 * - Tiptoety  talk 16:53, 14 July 2009 (UTC)


 * Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments
 * Account blocked and tagged. Icestorm815  •  Talk  20:50, 14 July 2009 (UTC)


 * Conclusions
 * . Same ISP, general location and user agent. Nishkid64 (Make articles, not wikidrama) 19:35, 14 July 2009 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets


Both have almost identical edit histories. User:Rannpháirtí anaithnid was created just as user:MusicInTheHouse was banned for sock puppetry.

Comments by accused parties
See Defending yourself against claims.

I hold three other legitimate accounts.


 * 1) My former account (renamed from User:Sony-youth via User:Grahamzilch):
 * 2) An account I use for a bot that I'm working on:
 * 3) A doppelgänger account (alternative spelling in Irish):
 * 1) A doppelgänger account (alternative spelling in Irish):
 * 1) A doppelgänger account (alternative spelling in Irish):

As described on my user page, in between my former account and my current account, I edited (far less frequently) as an IP.

There will have been some edits on my former account earlier this year when I sought to have the two contribution histories merged. (And of course a handful of edits as an IP at other times when I was accidentally not signed in.)

Although I don't understand what motivates them, I believe the suspicions of 88.106.120.26 are in good faith. However, they have no basis in fact. -- RA (talk) 19:44, 2 March 2010 (UTC)

Comments by other users
This is laughably unlikely. RA is a supporter of using "Republic of Ireland" at the article title, Wikipeire never was. Ever. Actually, looking over the edits of WP and Sony Youth and RA, I don't see how anyone could even come close to mistaking the two. --HighKing (talk) 20:03, 2 March 2010 (UTC)
 * And the fact that no evidence was submitted by the anon IP should quickly invalidate this SPI. --HighKing (talk) 20:05, 2 March 2010 (UTC)
 * I concur that this case is very implausible. But by no means should it be invalidated simply by dint of having been submitted via an IP. Kind regards, SpitfireTally-ho! 20:06, 2 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Nobody said it should. The key point is that *no* evidence has been submitted.  So this SPI could be seen as an unwelcome form of disruption.  --HighKing (talk) 20:23, 2 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Ah, sorry, I misread your comment. Kind regards, SpitfireTally-ho! 20:24, 2 March 2010 (UTC)


 * Editors are often creatures of habit, returning to the same articles. I've checked the intersection of articles edited by Wikipéire and some of their socks and by RA or RA (old) using the Wikistalk tool, and there are 153 articles across all the namespaces edited by both RA and a Wikipéire sock. The full list of articles edited both by Rannpháirtí anaithnid or Rannpháirtí anaithnid (old) and by one of Rownon, Pureditor, Ovlem, Wikipéire, MusicInTheHouse or SitNGo is below. Of course, unrelated editors with similar interests may edit many of the same articles. Fences  &amp;  Windows  00:14, 3 March 2010 (UTC)


 * To clear this up I'm Wikipéire (yes the man himself) and RA has nothing to do with me. He's a good editor and I suggest you stop wasting your time annoying him. Sometimes the bureaucracy of Wikipedia is just ridiculous; let him edit on his merry way! 79.158.93.83 (talk) 21:29, 5 March 2010 (UTC)

Key: 1=Rannpháirtí anaithnid, 2=Rannpháirtí anaithnid (old), 3=Wikipéire, 4=MusicInTheHouse, 5=Ovlem, 6=Rownon, 7=Pureditor, 8=SitNGo, these are the numbers in square brackets. x/8 is how many of the accounts listed edited that article.


 * 1) 3e 	2/8 [4, 2]
 * 2) America's Cup 	2/8 [4, 2]
 * 3) British Isles 	7/8 [7, 8, 6, 3, 4, 	1, 2]
 * 4) British Isles naming dispute 	4/8 	[3, 4, 1, 2]
 * 5) Bulmers (C&C) 	2/8 [3, 2]
 * 6) Coat of arms of Ireland 	3/8 [4, 	1, 2]
 * 7) Constituent country 	2/8 [4, 1]
 * 8) Continental Europe 	2/8 [4, 2]
 * 9) Counties of Ireland 	4/8 [3, 4, 1, 	2]
 * 10) Countries of the United Kingdom 		3/8 [8, 4, 1]
 * 11) Defence Forces (Ireland) 	2/8 [6, 	1]
 * 12) Demographics of the Republic of Ireland 	3/8 [3, 4, 2]
 * 13) Derry 	3/8 [3, 1, 2]
 * 14) Doolin 	2/8 [7, 2]
 * 15) Dublin 	6/8 [7, 8, 3, 4, 2, 5]
 * 16) Dublin City University 	3/8 [3, 4, 	2]
 * 17) Easter 	2/8 [3, 1]
 * 18) Éire 	3/8 [3, 4, 2]
 * 19) England 	2/8 [7, 2]
 * 20) English language 	3/8 [3, 4, 1]
 * 21) European route E01 	2/8 [3, 2]
 * 22) Fingal 	2/8 [3, 1]
 * 23) Flag of Ireland 	3/8 [4, 1, 2]
 * 24) Gaelic Athletic Association 	2/8 	[7, 2]
 * 25) Great Britain 	3/8 [3, 4, 2]
 * 26) Great Britain and Ireland 	2/8 [3, 	2]
 * 27) Great Britain and Northern Ireland at the Olympics 	3/8 [4, 2, 5]
 * 28) H. P. Bulmer 	2/8 [3, 2]
 * 29) Hibernia 	2/8 [7, 1]
 * 30) History of Ireland 	3/8 [4, 2, 5]
 * 31) International E-road network 	2/8 	[3, 2]
 * 32) Ireland 	6/8 [7, 6, 3, 4, 1, 2]
 * 33) Ireland (disambiguation) 	4/8 [7, 	3, 4, 2]
 * 34) Ireland at the Olympics 	2/8 [4, 	2]
 * 35) Irish 	2/8 [3, 2]
 * 36) Irish American 	2/8 [4, 2]
 * 37) Irish Australian 	2/8 [4, 2]
 * 38) Irish general election, 2007 	2/8 	[4, 2]
 * 39) Irish language 	4/8 [3, 4, 1, 2]
 * 40) Irish nationality law 	2/8 [4, 2]
 * 41) Irish people 	3/8 [4, 1, 2]
 * 42) Irish Republic 	2/8 [4, 2]
 * 43) Irish Sea 	3/8 [3, 4, 2]
 * 44) Irish states since 1171 	2/8 [3, 	2]
 * 45) Island country 	2/8 [3, 2]
 * 46) Islands of the North Atlantic 	2/8 	[3, 2]
 * 47) Leinster 	2/8 [4, 2]
 * 48) Limerick 	2/8 [4, 2]
 * 49) List of British flags 	2/8 [7, 2]
 * 50) Mary McAleese 	2/8 [4, 2]
 * 51) Maundy Thursday 	2/8 [4, 2]
 * 52) McHale Park 	2/8 [4, 1]
 * 53) Meteor (mobile network) 	2/8 [4, 	2]
 * 54) Military history of Britain 	2/8 	[4, 1]
 * 55) Names of the Irish state 	4/8 [3, 	4, 1, 2]
 * 56) National Development Plan 	2/8 [4, 	2]
 * 57) Northern Ireland 	8/8 [7, 8, 6, 3, 	4, 1, 2, 5]
 * 58) Northern Ireland flags issue 	3/8 	[7, 4, 2]
 * 59) Outline of the Republic of Ireland 		4/8 [8, 4, 1, 5]
 * 60) Partition of Ireland 	3/8 [7, 4, 	1]
 * 61) Police Service of Northern Ireland 		2/8 [4, 2]
 * 62) Prize Bond 	2/8 [4, 1]
 * 63) Republic of Ireland 	6/8 [7, 6, 3, 	4, 1, 2]
 * 64) Republic of Ireland – United Kingdom border 	2/8 [4, 2]
 * 65) Republic of Ireland national football team 	4/8 [8, 3, 4, 2]
 * 66) Robert Boyle 	2/8 [4, 1]
 * 67) Rockall 	2/8 [4, 2]
 * 68) Saint Patrick's Day 	2/8 [6, 1]
 * 69) Saint Patrick's Flag 	2/8 [4, 2]
 * 70) Scotland 	4/8 [7, 3, 1, 2]
 * 71) Scottish independence 	2/8 [3, 2]
 * 72) Scouting Ireland 	2/8 [4, 1]
 * 73) Setanta Sports 	3/8 [8, 4, 2]
 * 74) Shamrock 	2/8 [4, 2]
 * 75) Southern Ireland 	3/8 [3, 4, 2]
 * 76) Statues in Dublin 	2/8 [4, 2]
 * 77) Terminology of the British Isles 		3/8 [4, 1, 2]
 * 78) The Troubles 	2/8 [4, 2]
 * 79) Unionism in Ireland 	3/8 [7, 4, 2]
 * 80) United Ireland 	2/8 [7, 2]
 * 81) United Kingdom 	5/8 [7, 3, 4, 2, 	5]
 * 82) Wales 	5/8 [7, 3, 4, 1, 2]
 * 83) File:VennofBritishIsles.png 	2/8 	[4, 1]
 * 84) Talk:British Isles 	6/8 [7, 8, 3, 	4, 1, 2]
 * 85) Talk:Constituent country 	3/8 [3, 	4, 1]
 * 86) Talk:Demographics of the Republic 	of Ireland 	2/8 [3, 2]
 * 87) Talk:England 	3/8 [7, 1, 2]
 * 88) Talk:English language 	3/8 [4, 1, 	2]
 * 89) Talk:Flag of Ireland 	2/8 [4, 1]
 * 90) Talk:Great Britain and Ireland 		2/8 [3, 2]
 * 91) Talk:History of the Republic of 	Ireland 	2/8 [3, 2]
 * 92) Talk:Ireland 	6/8 [7, 6, 3, 4, 1, 	2]
 * 93) Talk:Irish language 	3/8 [4, 1, 2]
 * 94) Talk:Irish Sea 	2/8 [4, 2]
 * 95) Talk:Limerick 	2/8 [4, 2]
 * 96) Talk:Military history of Britain 		2/8 [4, 1]
 * 97) Talk:Northern Ireland 	4/8 [7, 4, 	1, 2]
 * 98) Talk:Outline of the Republic of 	Ireland 	2/8 [4, 1]
 * 99) Talk:Raidió Teilifís Éireann 		2/8 [4, 1]
 * 100) Talk:Republic of Ireland 	6/8 [7, 	8, 3, 4, 1, 2]
 * 101) Talk:Republic of Ireland – 	United Kingdom border 	3/8 [4, 1, 2]
 * 102) Talk:Scotland 	4/8 [7, 3, 1, 2]
 * 103) Talk:Scouting Ireland 	2/8 [4, 1]
 * 104) Talk:Southern Ireland 	2/8 [3, 2]
 * 105) Talk:Terminology of the British 	Isles 	3/8 [4, 1, 2]
 * 106) Talk:United Kingdom 	6/8 [7, 6, 3, 	4, 1, 2]
 * 107) Talk:Wales 	4/8 [7, 3, 1, 2]
 * 108) Template:British Isles 	2/8 [4, 2]
 * 109) Template:Ireland newspapers 	2/8 	[4, 2]
 * 110) Template:Political parties in the 	Republic of Ireland 	2/8 [4, 2]
 * 111) User talk:ArmchairVexillologistDonLives! 	2/8 [4, 1]
 * 112) User talk:Barryob 	2/8 [3, 2]
 * 113) User talk:Blue-Haired Lawyer 	2/8 	[6, 1]
 * 114) User talk:Canterbury Tail 	3/8 [3, 	4, 2]
 * 115) User talk:Deacon of Pndapetzim 		2/8 [4, 2]
 * 116) User talk:Dylanmckane 	2/8 [4, 1]
 * 117) User talk:Evertype 	2/8 [4, 1]
 * 118) User talk:Fasach Nua 	2/8 [4, 2]
 * 119) User talk:Gnevin 	2/8 [4, 1]
 * 120) User talk:GoodDay 	4/8 [7, 3, 1, 	2]
 * 121) User talk:Guliolopez 	2/8 [3, 2]
 * 122) User talk:HighKing 	3/8 [4, 1, 2]
 * 123) User talk:Jack forbes 	2/8 [3, 1]
 * 124) User talk:Jza84 	5/8 [3, 4, 1, 2, 	5]
 * 125) User talk:LevenBoy 	2/8 [4, 1]
 * 126) User talk:Mais oui! 	2/8 [7, 2]
 * 127) User talk:Masem 	2/8 [4, 1]
 * 128) User talk:Matt Lewis 	3/8 [3, 1, 	2]
 * 129) User talk:Mooretwin 	4/8 [7, 4, 1, 	5]
 * 130) User talk:Sarah777 	3/8 [4, 1, 2]
 * 131) User talk:SarekOfVulcan 	2/8 [4, 	1]
 * 132) User talk:Scolaire 	2/8 [4, 1]
 * 133) User talk:Setanta747 	2/8 [4, 2]
 * 134) User talk:Snowded 	3/8 [7, 3, 1]
 * 135) User talk:TharkunColl 	2/8 [4, 2]
 * 136) Wikipedia talk:Irish Wikipedians' notice board 	2/8 [3, 2]
 * 137) Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style (Ireland-related articles) 	3/8 [7, 1, 2]
 * 138) Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Ireland Collaboration 	2/8 [4, 1]
 * 139) Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Ireland Collaboration/Poll on Ireland (xxx) 	2/8 [4, 1]
 * 140) Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Ireland Collaboration/Poll on Ireland article names/Ballot paper 	2/8 [4, 1]
 * 141) Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Rugby union 	2/8 [4, 1]
 * 142) Wikipedia:Administrator intervention against vandalism 	3/8 [4, 1, 2]
 * 143) Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents 	4/8 [7, 4, 1, 2]
 * 144) Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Military history of the peoples of the British Islands 	2/8 	[4, 1]
 * 145) Wikipedia:Good article nominations 		2/8 [3, 1]
 * 146) Wikipedia:Irish Wikipedians' notice board 	2/8 [3, 2]
 * 147) Wikipedia:Nationality of people from the United Kingdom 	2/8 [3, 2]
 * 148) Wikipedia:Requested moves 2/8 [4, 	2]
 * 149) Wikipedia:Requests for page protection 	3/8 [3, 4, 1]
 * 150) Wikipedia:WikiProject Ireland Collaboration 	2/8 [4, 1]
 * 151) Wikipedia:WikiProject Ireland Collaboration/Poll on Ireland (xxx) 	2/8 [4, 1]
 * 152) Wikipedia:WikiProject Ireland Collaboration/Poll on Ireland article names/Ballot paper 	2/8 [4, 1]
 * 153) Wikipedia:WikiProject Ireland/Members 	3/8 [3, 1, 2]

Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments
Moved over from Sockpuppet investigations/MusicInTheHouse per note on the report for MusicInTheHouse. Elockid ( Talk·Contribs ) 16:07, 5 March 2010 (UTC)

This case is based on questionable evidence, at best. No action taken. Peter Symonds ( talk ) 10:48, 6 March 2010 (UTC)