Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Worldchampion2014/Archive

17 January 2015

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COI sock/meat puppets with same goals , arguments, language patterns, and editing history engaged in trying to delete and/or modify the article Samira Samii. See the AFD discussion and article talk page. Vrac (talk) 15:49, 17 January 2015 (UTC)

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 * I've added 2 more IPs and, who may actually be the sockmaster. He/she had previously disrupted the article and was indefinitely blocked for making legal threats at 12:13, 8 January 2015. The next day 91.39.92.182, took up where Worldchampion2014 had left off, followed by 91.39.68.13. On 10:18, 11 January 2015 the Jasmin-Shams account was created and finds to his/her dismay that the article had been semi-protected and starts complaining on various user talk pages. On 18:45, 12 January 2015 MaxXXX-max registers an account and posts almost identical messages on the user talk pages and then at the AfD. I suspect this group may be a mix of sock and meat puppets, and suggest a checkuser be run, particularly since block evasion appears to be involved. Voceditenore (talk) 16:41, 17 January 2015 (UTC)
 * While all of the registered users listed have significant difficulty in writing and comprehending English, they make often identical mistakes, e.g. spelling "message" as "massage". MaxXXX-max, Jasmin-Shams and "deletion" as "delectation" MaxXXX-max, Jasmin-Shams.
 * See also the infelicitous use of "wanna":
 * "She doesn't wanna have this page" (Worldchampion2014)
 * "The fact is someone wanna damage her reputation" (MaxXXX-max)
 * "... Samira Samii wanna have a control on her page" (Jasmin-Shams).
 * Voceditenore (talk) 16:58, 17 January 2015 (UTC) Updated by Voceditenore (talk) 17:30, 17 January 2015 (UTC)
 * And finally, all three of the users registered after Worldchampion2014's block use fake time stamps rather than ~ at the AfD. Note that Jasmin-Shams tried to sign by copy-pasting the signature of another non-related participant in the AfD (NickCT) and then amending it, but left the "CT" . MaxXXX-max does the same thing . Ditto MarcoR 1 Silar . Voceditenore (talk) 18:05, 17 January 2015 (UTC)

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This looks to me very much like sockpuppetry, and I am close to blocking on behavioural evidence alone, but I would be grateful for a CheckUser to be sure, so I am requesting one. The editor who uses the pseudonym "JamesBWatson" (talk) 17:03, 17 January 2015 (UTC)
 * ,, and   are ✅ as belonging to one single editor.  - Mailer Diablo 04:33, 18 January 2015 (UTC)
 * I've blocked and tagged the accounts. The IPs seem to be a bit stale, so I'll leave them be for now. As a precaution I've also semi-protected the AfD for a week. Mike V • Talk 02:37, 20 January 2015 (UTC)