Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Xenophrenic/Archive

25 April 2011

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The user Xenophrenic has a long history of editing Astroturfing and rebuffing accusations of bias. When I added a POV-section tag he started an edit-war. I reported this on the edit war administrators noticeboard. The user BelloWello was created on 19 April but violently attacked me on that page, and then raised the same accusation back at me. He isn't a new user, as he certainly knows the wikilawyer tricks. Why would anyone but Xenophrenic want to pick a fight with me? User Mojoworker is more difficult to be certain of, and seems far less violent, but he only appeared on Astroturfing once Xenophrenic decided to fight. Not sure about this one. Box2112 (talk) 22:05, 25 April 2011 (UTC)

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If the BelloWello account shows signs of not being a new editor, so does the account that filed this SPI -- it was created on April 21 and immediately began to edit like a seasoned pov-warrior. Looie496 (talk) 00:50, 26 April 2011 (UTC)


 * Yes. And BelloWello has explained the legitimate reason for creating a new account to User:Will Beback and another admin. Mojoworker (talk) 17:21, 30 April 2011 (UTC)

This appears to be a bad faith accusation as a result of edit warring on Astroturfing for which, User:Box2112 has been blocked. Also, Box2112 didn't notify any of us of this investigation on our talkpages -- but perhaps that's because he was blocked shortly after this filing. Contrary to his accusation, I initially edited Astroturfing back in February -- ironically adding material that supported Box2112's side of the edit war. Out of almost 7000 edits, there is overlap of us accused parties of one article. Mojoworker (talk) 01:11, 26 April 2011 (UTC)
 * I guess he did warn the other two, but not with the uw-socksuspect template. In any case, I received no warning. Mojoworker (talk) 02:32, 26 April 2011 (UTC)

Hi all. My only response: Absolutely not. It won't be necessary for me to respond further. Regards, Xenophrenic (talk) 02:25, 26 April 2011 (UTC)

Thanks for the message Mojoworker, I did receive a note from Box2112, it made me chuckle as I have never interacted with Mojoworker or Xenophrenice previously, neither had I ever edited the astroturfing article until I saw Box2112's frivolous report against Xenophrenic which brought my attention to the article. I have made a total of two edits in articles that the other two have edited. I will not be commenting further. BelloWello (talk) 03:01, 26 April 2011 (UTC)

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments
I really don't see any evidence here of sockpuppetry. Unless there anything else, I'll mark this for close soon. TN X Man 03:31, 30 April 2011 (UTC)
 * Marking for close. TN X Man  13:16, 3 May 2011 (UTC)