Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Yaakov Wa./Archive

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User:Yaakov Wa. was community banned following this ANI discussion. Prior to their ban their main interest was Haredi Judaism topics and in particular they became disruptive pushing the Haredi Chabad POV at Messiah in Judaism. In that article, they had a particular interest in misusing Maimonides, the medieval Jewish rabbi, as a primary source. Since 27 July 2021 (but currently blocked), has been editing Judaism-related articles with a similar POV, including a number of edits to the Maimonides article.. Other connections:
 * On 1 August the IP added a post in support of a Yaakov Wa. post on a low traffic talk page.
 * Both the IP and Yaakov Wa. opened spurious ANI threads against ,
 * Both Yaakov Wa. and 155.246.151.38 appear to be linked to the Stevens Institute of Technology: 155.246.151.38’s IP address is registered to the Institute according to WHOIS . Previously Yaakov Wa. on their talk page invited users to a zoom meeting . The zoom address they gave was stevens.zoom.us. According to the Institute’s website that is a Stevens Institute zoom address for the Institute’s students.. There is an even clearer connection in this regard but I don’t want to be explicit about it because of WP:OUTING. (It involves googling information Yaakov Wa. disclosed here and in several other similar edits. I can email if necessary.) DeCausa (talk) 21:02, 11 August 2021 (UTC)

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Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * The IP is now blocked. Closing. Bbb23 (talk) 22:42, 11 August 2021 (UTC)

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See and  and.

Please note that the IPs do not geolocate very far from each other.

These being said, I could be wrong about the sockmaster, in this case the sockmaster is
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 * They have all haunted that article and got indeffed.
 * They have all haunted that article and got indeffed.

At least, the other options seemed to have an alt-right and Christian background, while Yaakov Wa. doesn't.

What makes me think they are Yaakov Wa.? https://sigma.toolforge.org/editorinteract.py?users=155.246.151.38&users=96.245.77.253&users=&startdate=&enddate=&ns=&server=enwiki : 13 days difference at my own talk page, arguing pretty much a similar POV. What these edits have in common? They accuse me of being a Nazi. tgeorgescu (talk) 18:10, 16 January 2022 (UTC)


 * @Tgeorgescu I'm not following this. How does the 2 IPs editing your talk page show that Shandor Newman is a Yaakov sock? -- RoySmith (talk) 04:02, 17 January 2022 (UTC)
 * One of the IPs has been previously reported for Yaakov Wa., see the archive. tgeorgescu (talk) 09:04, 17 January 2022 (UTC)
 * OK, but that's the IP. How does that say anything about Shandor Newman? -- RoySmith (talk) 14:12, 17 January 2022 (UTC)
 * The link is: 155.246.151.38 is probably Yaakov Wa. 96.245.77.253 and 155.246.151.38 performed WP:DUCK edits at my talk page (namely and ).  and  and  show WP:DUCK for Shandor Newman and 96.245.77.253. tgeorgescu (talk)  17:21, 17 January 2022 (UTC)

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''Accused parties may also comment/discuss in this section below. See Defending yourself against claims.'' I'm not convinced, but it might be worth doing a CU. I'm too involved, see User talk:Doug Weller where he's accusing me of all sorts of stuff including anti-Semitism, and Talk:Yahweh where he's being, well, OTT is putting it mildly. Doug Weller talk 16:44, 19 January 2022 (UTC)
 * He took me to ANI - WP:ANI and has been blocked indefinitely. Doug Weller  talk 16:53, 19 January 2022 (UTC)
 * I wasn’t sure of the Shandor/Yaakov Wa. connection. But, if this gets brought out of the archive in future, I noticed one particular similarity between IP155 (who is definitely Yaakov Wa.) and Shandor Newman towards their ‘final’ moments: a call to arms to have Wikipedia ‘exposed’ in the media e.g. this and here DeCausa (talk) 17:48, 19 January 2022 (UTC)

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * There's not really anything to do here. Shandor Newman has already been blocked.  The 2 IPs haven't edited in 6 weeks and 5 months, respectively.  There's a laundry list of possible masters, but it doesn't seem worth the effort to figure out which of those Shandor might be.  Closing with no action. -- RoySmith (talk) 02:59, 17 January 2022 (UTC)
 * Shandor Newman's block will expire tomorrow, just in case you didn't see it. Sro23 (talk) 03:38, 17 January 2022 (UTC)
 * @Sro23 Oh, no, I hadn't noticed that, thanks. I'll reopen this. -- RoySmith (talk) 03:52, 17 January 2022 (UTC)
 * Here's what I think: 155.246.151.38 is (was) Yaakov Wa. evading his block (see evidence in archive). That IP hasn't edited since last month (and it's a shared IP belonging to a university so I think it's safe to just leave it alone). I think Shandor Newman and the other IP - 96.245.77.253 - are one and the same, they both are making the same arguments and accusations. 96.245.77.253 did receive a 2 week block for personal attacks several months ago. But I'm not seeing the connection between Yaakov Wa. and Shandor Newman. Shandor Newman has been blocked indef for trolling, so this SPI can just be closed. Sro23 (talk) 16:52, 19 January 2022 (UTC)