Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/YahwehSaves/Archive

24 February 2016

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that this IP was used by based on their shared editing of MILHIST topics like Republic of Korea Presidential Unit Citation. I thought nothing of it until with the edit summary "None of your business." It seems to me that any other editor wouldn't care about being correlated with another Wikipedian, but this deletion is indicative of sock puppetry.

YahwehSaves. The IP has "wikihounding". An exchange years ago occurred between this IP YahwehSaves and Bullmoosebell, where both YahwehSaves and the IP    "Is it your job to Stalk, delete, and dictate me article to article?". This IP for the same reasons.

YahwehSaves hasn't been blocked since 2014 so why they're editing logged-out and pretending otherwise seems odd to me and as I read the policy, this conduct is disallowed. Chris Troutman ( talk ) 00:51, 24 February 2016 (UTC)

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 * Interloper's comment: CU won't usually be conducted to link named accounts to IPs. GABHello! 01:27, 24 February 2016 (UTC)
 * The users have also been the subject of multiple administrative conversations at ANI and 3RR noticeboards, and have in addition been generally antisocial.  —  Jeff G. ツ  (talk)   04:05, 25 February 2016 (UTC)
 * Accusing user talk page posters of "negative comments ... being abusive to me right here or elsewhere on Wikipedia (agitators, group agitators, and alcoholics)" is not helping.  —  Jeff G. ツ  (talk)   04:24, 25 February 2016 (UTC)

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 * I've declined the CU request. We rarely publicly disclose the IP(s) of named accounts.--Bbb23 (talk) 05:13, 24 February 2016 (UTC)
 * I'm blocking the IP for 6 months and the master for 1 week. Closing.  Vanjagenije  (talk)  23:51, 8 March 2016 (UTC)

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Obvious overlapping interests in baseball players (Roger Maris, Hall of Fame committees, players who played two All-Star Games in a season) and the military (esp Medal of Honor recipients and the two flags raised at Iwo Jima). This is straight up block evasion and the IP use irregularities for YS go back to at least 2012 from what I can see. Larry Hockett (Talk) 19:12, 18 May 2019 (UTC)

One of the things that stands out about YS's editing is the introduction of unique grammatical issues. Here, here and here are examples where YS uses the odd construction "is an American and former professional baseball player." Here is the use of a very similar phrase ("is a Venezuelan and former Major League Baseball (MLB) player") by the IP. Larry Hockett (Talk) 06:43, 20 May 2019 (UTC)

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 * this is clearly the same user evading their block, and their IP appears to be static based on editing activity. Blocked for two years. I'm also preemptively blocking their other IP, 75.79.31.20: although it's only had one edit since its last one-year block expired and the edit was a few months ago, that edit was a clear violent threat (I don't care that it's quoting a Bible verse). Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 15:04, 23 May 2019 (UTC)

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Similar to the 2019 report, there are strikingly overlapping interests: military awards and awardees, Baseball Hall of Fame candidates (especially Roger Maris) and HOF committees like the Golden Era Committee.

The unusual grammatical construct in article leads is also there. In opening sentences, YS sometimes inexplicably separates the subject's nationality and occupation with an "and" ("American and former baseball player"). Examples of this from YS here, here and here; example from this IP here. Larry Hockett (Talk) 05:51, 26 July 2021 (UTC)

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 * 47.142.132.142 looks like it's stable on this user for about a year, so blocking for that long. Like 205.155.236.89 in the archives, geolocates to Santa Barbara, California.  And the timecard is a dead-ringer for Yahweh.  The "American and former baseball player" motif is interesting, but I'm not convinced it's so unusual.  There's lots of search results for that.  But, in conjunction with everything else I don't have any serious doubts. -- RoySmith (talk) 00:04, 28 July 2021 (UTC)