Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Xnacional/Archive

Evidence submitted by EEMIV
Focus on war-on-terror and Star Wars template overlaps with indefinitely blocked user Xnacional. IP has apparently been blocked at some non-English wikis, and "nacional" (rather than "national") hints that maybe this is the same person. Asking for checkuser to verify registered account also consistently active at this IP, and that anon. usage is therefore an attempt to evade block. --EEMIV (talk) 14:06, 4 September 2010 (UTC)

Comments by accused parties
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Comments by other users

 * from late July also. --Closeapple (talk) 15:42, 4 September 2010 (UTC)

Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments
. Checkusers do not typically comment on whether IPs are related to accounts. --(ʞɿɐʇ) ɐuɐʞsǝp 17:27, 4 September 2010 (UTC)
 * Yes they do. See right at the bottom of this one - breach of privacy or what? Quite disgusting actually. LevenBoy (talk) 17:19, 6 September 2010 (UTC)
 * Irrelevant. It is Deskana's choice, not yours, to make. -- Sh i r ik ( Questions or Comments? ) 17:35, 6 September 2010 (UTC)
 * I do not think so! If there's a policy not to link IPs to users in public then the case I've pointed out is obviously at odds with it. So pray tell me, what is the policy? Or maybe it was a case of "what the hell! MidnightBlueMan deserved to be outed anyway and sod the policy". LevenBoy (talk) 17:42, 6 September 2010 (UTC)
 * (1) This is not the place to have this discussion. (2) The policy doesn't say that IPs can't be linked, only that they typically won't be. Whether or not this information is disseminated is up to the checkuser. -- Sh i r ik ( Questions or Comments? ) 17:45, 6 September 2010 (UTC)

205.211.212.0/23 blocked 1 month per the editing patterns alone; note that this is not a CU block. –MuZemike 19:15, 6 September 2010 (UTC)

01 May 2011

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Xnacional answered on Solopiels talk page. Costa Rica-based IP:s, the names Xnacional and Solopiel suggest Spanish origin. Edits the same subjects, about war (especially Iraq and War on Terror) and films (especially James Bond). Xnacional and Solopiel removes the dablink in WWIV. Global contributions show the same pattern as all the IP:s have removed WWIV-related links e.g. in fr:Troisième Guerre mondiale. Sjö (talk) 13:12, 1 May 2011 (UTC)

Comments by other users
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Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * Diffs? I'm not seeing this clearly and there is a lot to go through. -- DQ  (t)   (e)  03:30, 4 May 2011 (UTC)
 * The diff where Xnacional answered on Solopiels talk page is IMO enough to show that Solopiel is a sock, but I will supply more diffs in a day or two.Sjö (talk) 04:56, 4 May 2011 (UTC)
 * I don't see how that's enough to convict as it was a reply to a post on their talk page. -- DQ  (t)   (e)  12:01, 4 May 2011 (UTC)
 * You're right, I didn't see that before. Iv'e gone through Solopiel's history and there's nothing specific that I can link to Xnacional. There's a general similarity in editing style, choice of articles, stubborn reverts and no replies or very short replies on talk pages, but I don't think it's enough to prove a link between the two.


 * As for the IPs, all of them have deleted links to World War IV on the French Wikipedia and the Swedish Wikipedia . The same edits have been made by, blocked as a Xnacional IP-sock. To me, it's clear that it's the same person editing through those IPs.


 * Xnacional has the same editing style and edits in the same subject areas as the IPs. One specific connection is that Xnacional removed the link about World War IV from WWIV, just like four of the five IPs . There are also almost identical edits in Template:Star Wars . I think there's a link between Xnacional and the IPs.Sjö (talk) 20:52, 5 May 2011 (UTC)


 * Here's a link, even if it's indirect, between Xnacional and Solopiel. On August 25, 2010 a Costa Rican IP made seven edits in the Swedish Wikipedia . Three of these removed links to the WWIV article, same as the other IPs.
 * One edit changed the Spanish interwiki link in 2010 (film) . Xnacional made the same edit in the English article three days before.
 * Three edits removed the Netherlands from the list of forces in Afganhistan . Solopiel made the same edits on August 2, and then reverted them .Sjö (talk) 04:19, 12 May 2011 (UTC)


 * I'm closing as there's no concrete evidence to link the accounts, I think. As to the IPs: they're all stale in some capacity, so blocking them now wouldn't help much. —  Hello Annyong  (say whaaat?!) 13:26, 14 May 2011 (UTC)