Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Yarivrock/Archive

22 March 2015

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Yaniv Rokach account created two articles: The first is about an Israeli director, the second, about the first movie by that director. As you can see, the user account matches the name of the director. I am not making definitive claims that the human Yaniv is operating the Yaniv account, as that user has not talked nor said anything self-revealing in edit notes.

Contribs of both accounts are all to these two articles; Yaniv has never used a talk page (Jurgrn account did once), and each has deleted various efforts to tag, and tag-teamed to include content deleted under COPYVIO (which is currently out of the article).

In Yaniv Rokah article, after the article was created by Yaniv Rokach, other editors came and tagged and made other edits. The tags deleted by these two accounts as follows
 * here by Jurgrn Van Deleur account
 * then here, here, and here by Yaniv account

In Queen Mimi,
 * Yaniv account added COPYVIO content in this dif, which was quickly deleted, and
 * Jurgrn Van Deleur account added it back (not revert, but new edit) within the hour in this dif. Content was removed again, and
 * Yaniv account restored it here
 * Yaniv account removed tags here, here, here, here,

These are either sock-puppets of one user, or are meatpuppets. Jytdog (talk) 21:15, 22 March 2015 (UTC) Jytdog (talk) 21:15, 22 March 2015 (UTC)
 * New one, Yarivrock, just joined. Added to the list above. Jytdog (talk) 22:39, 22 March 2015 (UTC)

Comments by other users
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 * As someone who happened by the Queen Mimi article as part of my new doc film patrolling, I'll just point out that the Yarivrock user account actually was the first, dating back to 2013. Those two are so similar I think he may have just gotten the username mixed up, and forgotten what his 2013 user ID was: they're too close to be an attempt to masquerade as someone else, imo. However, that other account, the Jurgrn user, is more opaque and does seem more like a possible attempt to mask, to me. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 01:53, 23 March 2015 (UTC)
 * I agree that Yarivrock is the oldest- I just came across that account after i filed this... after it re-appeared after being dormant and the articles are under speedy delete discussion etc.... which makes the lost login explanation a bit more dubious. Jytdog (talk) 02:05, 23 March 2015 (UTC)

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * -  Vanjagenije   (talk)  18:33, 23 March 2015 (UTC)
 * and are ✅ and  is very  to be the same user.-- Jezebel's Ponyo bons mots  22:27, 24 March 2015 (UTC)
 * Socks blocked and a 1 week block for the master. Mike V • Talk 22:41, 24 March 2015 (UTC)