Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Yiwentang/Archive

Report date August 3 2009, 16:48 (UTC)

 * Suspected sockpuppets


 * Evidence submitted by TFOWR

Cheers, TFOWRThis flag once was red 16:48, 3 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Similar edits to previous Yiwentang socks, specifically an obsession with The Hamsters (tagging each and every sentence with - the article is already tagged  ).
 * Both Yiwentang and the two IPs have removed the article's subject's "official web site" from the article's "External links" section, all citing "spam" (and in some cases "malware") as the reason.
 * IP address resolves to an ISP used by previous Yiwentang socks.

Really clueless as to why. Who or what this is about other than this is made in bad faith because I dared to submit his article for deletion. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Yiwentang (talk • contribs) 18:08, 3 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Comments by accused parties    See Defending yourself against claims.
 * This was submitted by me. You haven't, so far as I'm aware, submitted any of my article for deletion. The reasons for this report are noted above, but in summary are due to similar edits to the same articles, and because the IPs were similar to the IPs listed in your previous request for checkuser. Cheers, TFOWRThis flag once was red 18:12, 3 August 2009 (UTC)

she/he/they probably use the same internet cafe as i do. If it makes life easier i will henceforth use a different cafe/connection. I did not use my normal sign in name through fear of abuse and attacks from another editor (webhamster). There is no way i want any possibilty of that person obtaining my e-mail address (he has made out on several occassions that he is an admin). This is why i have used an anonymous login. i have no connection with yiwentong.217.44.219.116 (talk) 17:09, 3 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Just to clarify, are you saying that you (217.44.219.116) are Yiwentang, but aren't the other IP? (Apologies if I'm misrepresenting you; I'm basing this assumption on "I did not use my normal sign in name"). Cheers, TFOWRThis flag once was red 17:14, 3 August 2009 (UTC)
 * I think he/she's trying to say that they're not Yiwentang, and that Yiwentang uses the same IP address as this IP user. -- 科学高爾夫迷(讨论|投稿) 17:56, 3 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Hmmm, not convinced that's right - "she/he/they probably use the same internet cafe as i do". It's moot, anyway - I seriously doubt the internet cafe puts drugs in the beverages making their patrons edit the same articles in the same way ;-) Cheers, TFOWRThis flag once was red 18:03, 3 August 2009 (UTC)


 * Comments by other users


 * Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments
 * From this exchange it seems highly likely that they are the same person (in addition to having made similar edits to the articles). So, taking into account additional incivility and the fact that Yiwentang was already blocked for a year for socketpuppetry, I will block him indefinitely. Ruslik_ Zero  18:59, 3 August 2009 (UTC)
 * I am too late. Laser brain already blocked him. Ruslik_ Zero 19:01, 3 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Yes, sorry. I was muddling through all the confusing instructions about updating this page. Clerks this, admins that, trainee clerks? It's a wonder anything gets done around here. :) -- Andy Walsh  (talk)  19:02, 3 August 2009 (UTC)

Yiwentang indef blocked. -- Andy Walsh  (talk)  19:04, 3 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Conclusions

Report date August 24 2009, 17:23 (UTC)

 * Suspected sockpuppets




 * Evidence submitted by WebHamster


 * All of these above users exhibit traits that include harassment of myself, disrupting articles I've either started or have done major work on.
 * Frequently asserts that the music-oriented articles I'm involved with are "merely promos" and have no other redeeming features.
 * Seems obsessive, particularly about The Hamsters, one of the above accounts being the real name of one of the band members.
 * Continually attempts to out me contrary to WP:OUTING.
 * Usually attempts to start AfDs on articles I've worked on, yet surprisingly mucks up the procedure in the same way, see and the recent one  by.
 * Frequently creates user account names with a hyphen followed by a lower-case letter.

Please also see Sockpuppet investigations/Free Hans/Archive. -- Web H amster  17:23, 24 August 2009 (UTC)


 * Evidence submitted by User:LessHeard vanU
 * Evidence submitted by User:LessHeard vanU


 * Has recently voted delete on two WebHamster related AfD's - and then re-ignited the debate on Jimbo's talkpage regarding WH's userpage. LessHeard vanU (talk) 16:23, 26 August 2009 (UTC)


 * Comments by accused parties    See Defending yourself against claims.


 * Comments by other users
 * You can add to the list of suspected sock puppets. Less than six hours after the account was started (12:44), they commented on an AfD opened by . Nev1 (talk) 17:44, 24 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Addendum, the account was created on 14th August which I misread as 24th. That said, it seems a bit suspicious that an account with so few edits would turn up to the AfD. Nev1 (talk) 17:56, 24 August 2009 (UTC)


 * Ref ; this account has been found to be a sockpuppet of Prester John (RfCU). Some of the accounts above may also relate to this sockmaster. LessHeard vanU (talk) 13:55, 27 August 2009 (UTC)


 * Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments

That's quite a sockfarm. Let's see if there are any more and about a rangeblock, etc. —  Jake   Wartenberg  14:38, 27 August 2009 (UTC)

✅ =

is most likely ❌.

Unfortunately, the ranges are far too busy to be able to find any sleepers, and they are too numerous and too large to be rangeblocked.

N.B. Many of these users have (presumably) had some or all of their edits oversighted, so for the most of them, I am relying solely on technical information to form my conclusions. J.delanoy gabs adds 16:49, 27 August 2009 (UTC)


 * Conclusions
 * Blocked and tagged appropriately. NW ( Talk ) 20:34, 27 August 2009 (UTC)

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Evidence submitted by User:Nev1
Per this denial by User:WebHamster I believe that someone is impersonating him. It seems likely to be User:Yiwentang who has a history of harassing WebHamster and disrupting articles he has worked on. To my knowledge, WebHamster has not been impersonated before and it looks like someone took the opportunity since it appeared that WebHamster had left Wikipedia. The Yiwentang is probably stale, but I think a check user is warranted to flush out any other socks used by Hamster of doom. Nev1 (talk) 19:24, 4 November 2009 (UTC)

Comments by accused parties
See Defending yourself against claims.

CheckUser request
Self-endorsing for CheckUser attention (though, next time, the filer him/her/itself needs to make that request by slapping an RFCU template, with appropriate code letters, somewhere on this page). There could be some other ones out there. We haven't done a check here in several months, so it's likely new sleepers have popped up. MuZemike 23:02, 5 November 2009 (UTC)

Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments

 * All ✅ as each other:
 * . Brandon (talk) 02:57, 6 November 2009 (UTC)
 * . Brandon (talk) 02:57, 6 November 2009 (UTC)
 * . Brandon (talk) 02:57, 6 November 2009 (UTC)
 * . Brandon (talk) 02:57, 6 November 2009 (UTC)

Conclusions

 * Blocked and tagged appropriately. NW ( Talk ) 02:59, 6 November 2009 (UTC)