Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Wonderfool/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets





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See the page history of Sockpuppet investigations/Djkm314 for their behaviour. Wonderfool, Cyckleletya, ChubbEdtres, Brusher21a, Mookar21a, and Lifer616 are all blocked as LTAs. The SandDoctor Talk 16:15, 18 August 2019 (UTC) -- The SandDoctor Talk 16:47, 18 August 2019 (UTC)
 * Just found 25 more. All the below are contribs page links. All contribs are evidence, generally speaking.

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Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments
-- The SandDoctor Talk 16:20, 18 August 2019 (UTC) — Berean Hunter   (talk)  15:37, 25 August 2019 (UTC)
 * by other admins and the majority locked by stewards. This was a procedural open. Closing. -- The SandDoctor Talk 16:15, 18 August 2019 (UTC)
 * Locks requested on meta for the 3 which were missed previously:
 * Wonderfool does exist, there was just never an enwiki account created. The SandDoctor  Talk 16:22, 18 August 2019 (UTC)
 * Latest batch already blocked/locked. -- The SandDoctor Talk 16:47, 18 August 2019 (UTC)
 * All of the non-stale accounts above appear ❌ to Wonderfool. Different LTA, see below.

Suspected sockpuppets



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See wikt:User:AryamanA/Wonderfool and Wikimedia_Forum. In brief: There're someone claims to be Wonderfool in English Wiktionary, who has registered more than 100 account, most of which are neither blocked in English Wikipedia nor locked. Some of them have edited English Wikipedia. This is the only non-stale account in the group, but there may be others. I does not know how this is connected to the LTA in English Wikipedia above, and I request a CheckUser to find any sleepers of this account and the LTA above. GZWDer (talk) 13:00, 19 August 2019 (UTC)
 * as he is who attribute the similar trolls to Wonderfool.--GZWDer (talk) 07:32, 26 August 2019 (UTC)
 * You can see the list of account (claimed to be) related to the enwiktionary entry here: wikt:User:AryamanA/Wonderfool.--GZWDer (talk) 07:39, 26 August 2019 (UTC)

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Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * None of the non-stale entries in the 18 August 2019 section above appear to be Wonderfool. They are not even on the same continent and do not match anything...❌. Those are attributed to what calls the "SPI troll" and another name in the cu log that has an ISP associated with it. It's an LTA but not Wonderfool. I'm not sure if we have an SPI case or cu wiki page for him. NRP, do you know?

— Berean Hunter   (talk)  15:37, 25 August 2019 (UTC)
 * The checkuser wiki has an entry for Wonderfool. Using that, is ✅ to Wonderfool and needs to be locked by the stewards. I've blocked the account here on en.wiki and it is already blocked on Wiktionary. I added information to that entry that should help them., would you please lock that account and any others that you happen to find. I didn't see any others but I may have missed them. Also, the 18 August 2019 section accounts have many that were locked incorrectly as Wonderfool and those should be corrected along with any documentation that the stewards may maintain. They should remain locked but leaving them labeled as Wonderfool may mislead others. Thank you, Trijnstel.
 * I don't think there's any documentation on the SPI troll. A couple people said he's been around for a while, but I forget what username they identified him with.  Zzuuzz would probably know, if you're curious. NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 22:38, 25 August 2019 (UTC)
 * There are several SPI trolls. Nsmutte is one, I don't know (or care really) the names of the others. Closing. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 15:35, 30 August 2019 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets

 * User has been outted as a Wonderfool-connected account on another project  pbp 22:09, 4 June 2024 (UTC)

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 * please see here  pbp 23:02, 4 June 2024 (UTC)
 * Bump. It's been a month...are you going to do the check?  Are you going to close the investigation?  What's happening here?  pbp  00:18, 11 July 2024 (UTC)


 * @Izno @Spicy For reference, Wonderfool's socking is tolerated on Wiktionary, as they're not using it to evade a block, which means it's not viewed as a problem in and of itself. We're aware that they do this, but they make no effort to hide their identity or deceive anyone. Since the vote to unblock them, nothing has warranted another indef block, and if that were to change then any block evasion would be seen as a problem. Theknightwho (talk) 01:01, 11 July 2024 (UTC)
 * Conversely, though, there's not been a vote on Wikipedia to unblock Wonderfool. And even his Wiktionary behavior is suspect: a disturbing percentage of his edits are unserious/satirical/trolling.  As I see it, either a) start a vote to unblock him here if you think his behavior is acceptable here, or b) his socks need to be blocked.  pbp  21:29, 11 July 2024 (UTC)

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 * - where? The account is not blocked on any wiki. I note that the OP currently seems to be involved in a dispute with this user on Wiktionary. Spicy (talk) 22:19, 4 June 2024 (UTC)
 * OK, well, considering that the primary project that they edit on does not see it fit to block them, that their handful of edits to this project seem entirely inoffensive, and that this report appears to be retaliatory in nature, I am not inclined to do anything, but I'll leave this open for someone else to review. Spicy (talk) 16:26, 8 June 2024 (UTC)
 * @Spicy I'm personally not encouraged when it's a user who continues to create socks despite having been unblocked after having been blocked for socking... on what is their home wiki.... In addition, a now-17 year history of socking here which earned them a ban from English Wikipedia at the beginning of that time is not inspiring.
 * I do agree about the retaliation appearance. I don't think that means we do nothing, I think that means we ameliorate both, at most a warning for one and a block for the other.
 * Several of the socks identified on that page from the past year of creation have wandered their way onto en.wp, besides the above-identified, with overlap by time present:
 * Izno (talk) 22:21, 8 June 2024 (UTC)
 * Wonderfool...now that's a name I haven't heard in a very long time. I appreciate the blast from the past, but Wonderfool is a banned user so the ban-evading socks need to go.  The Wordsmith Talk to me 21:52, 12 July 2024 (UTC)