Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Xz1333/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets



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Both accounts have an almost exclusive fascination with the same pages - History of Kosovo and Yugoslav colonization of Kosovo. Their additions overlap in the following manner:

Content related to Vlachs and Albanians of Kosovo Xz1333: and 87.248.15.9.

They use the exact same poor format of wikitext coding for referencing - Xz1333: and 87.248.15.9

They leave incredibly long comments when making additions - Xz1333: and 87.248.15.9

They have a fascination with the Battle of Kosovo in 1448 - Xz1333:   and 87.248.15.9

Both accounts have less than 100 edits, the fact that they are both fixated on the same few articles and content highlights that the accounts are most likely linked. The reason I raised this investigation is that both accounts are contributing to the same page with multiple accounts. Both accounts have not identified that they are related to each other and edit in a manner that gives the illusion they are separate accounts. Such tactics on pages related to the Balkans aids in undermining a collective consensus and circumnavigating the 3RR rule. For example, 87.248.15.9 added the following text to the page Yugoslav colonization of Kosovo:


 * The colonization had put the Serb population from less than 24% to 38% of the population

to which I removed. Xz1333 immediately reinstated the same content. In their comment left when reverting my action, Xz1333 stated the following


 * see Vaso Cubrilovic which I added as a source.

The link to the Vaso Cubrilovic page was not added by Xz1333 but in fact, 87.248.15.9

Xz1333 has a track record of contributing controversial material without reaching a consensus on talk pages, despite receiving warnings on their talk page. I am concerned that the use of both accounts in such a manner will create significant problems for the target pages, given that their content is regularly reverted. ElderZamzam (talk) 21:30, 7 February 2022 (UTC)

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

 * - checkusers do not link IP addresses and accounts. Dreamy Jazz talk to me &#124; my contributions 23:42, 7 February 2022 (UTC)
 * Acknowledging there's been some problematic editing, they're a very inexperienced editor whom may not have realised that editing logged in & out may be problematic. I’ve dropped a uw-login on their talkpage and I'm closing with no further action at this time. Please file a new report if problems persist. --Jack Frost (talk) 10:34, 8 February 2022 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets
The telltale sign for these socks is that Xz1333 has an almost exclusive fascination with the page History of Kosovo. 85.166.114.244 has made the following two edits that are identical with past edits made under another IP sock account 87.248.15.9 (please see the aforementioned sockpuppet investigation), centered around the exact same citations and content:
 * Current edits:
 * Former edits:

2001:4641:2ee:0:886d:3df7:f4a:788c has made the following edits that are are identical with past edits made by 87.248.15.9, in addition to 85.166.114.244:
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2001:4641:2EE:0:DC54:2CE0:7900:D04B has made the following edits that are are identical with past edits made by 87.248.15.9, in addition to 85.166.114.244:
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From a technical aspect, all of the IP addresses originate from the same country, Norway. In addition, behaviorally all of these socks are almost identical in that they write long sentences in their edit summary. The actions of these sock accounts have caused consistent disruptions on the page History of Kosovo. ElderZamzam (talk) 02:59, 24 July 2022 (UTC)

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

 * There is nothing wrong with editing anonymously from multiple IP addresses, as long as you're not trying to actively deceive people into thinking that you're different editors (e.g. voting multiple times at an AfD). The editor might simply have an internet connection with a dynamic IP address, or might be editing from different locations. This isn't sockpuppetry.  —&#8288;Scotty Wong &#8288;— 22:48, 25 July 2022 (UTC)