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26 March 2012

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This name was used on IRC by Zalgo (to evade bans), kind of hard to AGF with this. Frood! Ohai What did I break now? 22:47, 26 March 2012 (UTC)

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 * fairly obvious duck, although the lack of significant on-wiki evidence is damaging to the case. See also diff from he.wikipedia.org, and please note the user's immediate familiarity with ProveIt and HotCat (both of which Zalgo used). SpitfireTally-ho! 22:55, 26 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Comwave is to be Zalgo,  definitely is.  TN X Man  14:34, 27 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Per some offwiki evidence that i've seen unrelated to this report and the checkuser result below, i'm gonna nuke this one. -- DQ  (ʞlɐʇ)  07:24, 30 March 2012 (UTC)

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User2083146168 changed their username from Sridc, and was shortly blocked after checkuser.

Aaa098 is a precocious account which restored info to The Coddling of the American Mind within minutes of account creation, going past 3RR despite warning. Aaa098 cites User talk:Oceanflynn as where consensus was formed. That discussion was started by User2083146168/Sridc months ago. There is no reason to think this brand new account would've found this discussion by accident, but Sridic also goes into tedious detail defending this content on the article's talk page.

This specific version was rapidly added by User:Tokiere a few hours earlier. It is a reorganized and expanded version of User2083146168's preferred version. That account is also brand new. Both new accounts created minimal user pages to avoid the red link effect.

Aaa098 also cast a vote in favor of specific issue on Talk:Quillette, similar to edits made by User2083146168. Grayfell (talk) 00:20, 20 January 2020 (UTC)

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 * Aaa098 is ✅ to Tokiere, and are to User2083146168. ST47 (talk) 00:28, 20 January 2020 (UTC)
 * CUs can find some additional notes on cuwiki. . Accounts . ST47 (talk) 00:38, 20 January 2020 (UTC)

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Blocked yesterday as User:BecomeFree, both that sock and this IP are editing the thinly edited Fruitarianism and Monotrophic diet. Both are interested heavily in whether or not diets are monotrophic and/or fad diets. Sum mer PhD v2.0 01:37, 6 February 2020 (UTC)

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Off-wiki canvassing: --Guy Macon (talk) 21:43, 6 February 2020 (UTC)
 * https://www.reddit.com/r/carnivorediet/comments/ezishg/vegans_have_deleted_the_carnivore_diet_wikipedia/
 * https://www.reddit.com/r/keto/comments/ezdrrw/carnivore_diet_deleted_by_vegans_on_wikipedia/
 * https://www.reddit.com/r/WikiInAction/comments/ezlxxf/vegans_attacked_and_deleted_the_carnivore_diet/
 * https://www.reddit.com/r/zerocarb/comments/ezeeub/wikipedia_article_creation_for_carnivore_diet/

In your 4th link the user says he wants to restore the carnivore diet article, and the content there on that thread is the same content that appears in this sandbox. It's possible Amencher is a sock-puppet of User2083146168 because User2083146168 was using another account BecomeFree which has the same editing interest in moving the carnivore diet away from monotrophic diet article. At the very minimum that is a meat-puppet account (you can take that literally), up to no good. Psychologist Guy (talk) 23:57, 6 February 2020 (UTC)


 * The deeper you look, the more you find. Another blocked account was MeatRx, and he tried to create the carnivore diet in his sandbox which was deleted. It's possible MeatRx and Amencher are the same person or closely connected because in his sandbox, Amencher does refer to the MeatRx website. Psychologist Guy (talk) 00:03, 7 February 2020 (UTC)

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 * The IP is likely stale. Closing. Sir Sputnik (talk) 19:15, 9 February 2020 (UTC)

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The evidence is fairly clear, a bunch of socks were blocked today. This just seems like more evasion. jps (talk) 02:35, 8 February 2020 (UTC)

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 * I also noticed Whonoswho's User talk:Whonoswho — Paleo Neonate  – 21:22, 9 February 2020 (UTC)

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 * Given the offsite canvasing, meatpuppetry seems far more likely. . Sir Sputnik (talk) 20:15, 9 February 2020 (UTC)

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Iikigaii precociously restored edits from a previous sock. As with previous socks, this account is interested in introductory level psych terms, such as Gaslighting, Theory of constructed emotion and some others which have been edited by various socks.

Overlapping topics include the "Intellectual Dark Web" with many edits from past socks to related articles. IIkigaii has edited Maps of Meaning, which is part of that relatively small group. The sock farm also focused on monotrophic diets, and specifically the all-meat diet, and this account shares that interest with this edit to pork belly and this edit to veganism related to a philosophy that's trendy with IDW types.

Oh, and both show an interest in the programming language Haskell: Haskell (programming language) and Talk:Concurrent Haskell This, combined with restoring another sock's preferred version, seems very unlikely to be a coincidence. Grayfell (talk) 23:56, 10 April 2020 (UTC)

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 * - I'm mostly convinced by the evidence presented here (and that the account isn't new) but it could be a coincidence. Could a CU please check against what's in the log from previous accounts and what ST47 put on the CU wiki. Thanks, Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 03:38, 13 April 2020 (UTC)
 * - Please, compare this account to previous socks.  Vanjagenije  (talk)  08:25, 13 April 2020 (UTC)
 * - It's definitely ✅ without touching CU wiki, but I have a feeling this case goes deeper than the alleged master. Need some time to consult. -- Amanda  (aka DQ) 09:31, 13 April 2020 (UTC)
 * Ok, so this is Derp/Cream/Zaglo (Sockpuppet investigations/Zalgo) by both technical history & behavior connections. I blocked a while ago for being them. Could we please get the case moved over and retags? --  Amanda  (aka DQ) 06:27, 14 April 2020 (UTC)
 * Case merged from User2083146168 to Zalgo —&thinsp;JJMC89&thinsp; (T·C) 07:20, 14 April 2020 (UTC)

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Literally every single mainspace edit overlaps with a sock from this master, mostly Iikigaii but a few others, restoring edits etc... Praxidicae (talk) 17:33, 5 May 2020 (UTC)

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 * Already blocked. Closing. Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 09:44, 7 May 2020 (UTC)

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-- Amanda  (aka DQ) 03:08, 15 May 2020 (UTC)

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 * ✅ to archive. -- Amanda  (aka DQ) 03:09, 15 May 2020 (UTC)

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This user is a blatant sock-puppet of Zalgo. He creates new socks every few months to insert the carnivore diet onto Wikipedia, i.e.Amencher and BecomeFree which were his old accounts.

He is currently promoting the carnivore diet on his new account Skyisdeep. This same user has been on multiple Reddit boards complaining about bias against the carnivore diet and claiming Wikipedia is run by vegans (I will not link to these as they are off-site) but he has been harassing multiple Wikipedia editors such as myself off-site by spamming nonsense onto carnivore diet Reddit boards. He's now shifted gears and is pretending to be a vegetarian to stir up trouble. His plan is to try to start a flame war between vegetarians and carnivore dieters on Reddit, he did this before. In the past he has advertised his edits over there and is trying to stir up trouble on the Monotrophic diet article which has a section on the carnivore diet.

This user also has an interest in the gaslighting article. Many of his socks take an interest in that article.

On his account BecomeFree, he added a section on the carnivore diet last year which is still on the article at Joe Rogan. This user is now editing that section again. The source he has used is men's health on his account BecomeFree, he's inserted the same sources recently onto the monotropic diet article. Psychologist Guy (talk) 19:52, 28 May 2020 (UTC)


 * Here is another specific edit demonstrating these accounts are likely the same person. On the Jordan Peterson article on the carnivore diet, compare this edit by BecomeFree to this recent edit by Skyisdeep. He joined the same sentences together. He's been reverted for doing that but is the only user interested in making that sort of edit. Psychologist Guy (talk) 21:40, 28 May 2020 (UTC)

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 * This seems very likely based on heavy overlap with other narrow topics, if not necessarily the exact same articles. This account is precocious, as well. The first two edits were userpage and talk page. As mentioned, one area of focus for socks is gaslighting. This account made its fourth edit ever to that article, with the summary ...We preserve quotes verbatim.. This all strongly implies prior familiarity with Wikipedia.
 * Behaviorally, these socks love to add wikilinks for common terms to the lead, (one example is emotion, and specifically with a capitalized and pipped wikilink: emotional ). This account is continuing that pattern: (again with 'Emotions'),, etc.
 * Grayfell (talk) 00:21, 29 May 2020 (UTC)

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 * -- Amanda  (aka DQ) 01:17, 29 May 2020 (UTC)

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Filing for a record of checkuser activity. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 14:16, 22 June 2020 (UTC)

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 * The following accounts are ✅ to confirmed socks in the archive:
 * . Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 14:16, 22 June 2020 (UTC)
 * . Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 14:16, 22 June 2020 (UTC)
 * . Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 14:16, 22 June 2020 (UTC)
 * . Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 14:16, 22 June 2020 (UTC)

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Olgaz appeared around the time the previous wave of Zalgo sockpuppets were being blocked, editing similar topic areas related to gaslighting and similar psychological concepts, plus the "intellectual dark web" and related publications or concepts. More importantly, one of their first edits was to restore a paragraph that multiple Zalgo socks have added. -- Aquillion (talk) 02:24, 30 July 2020 (UTC)

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 * , --  Amanda  (aka DQ) 02:38, 30 July 2020 (UTC)

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All edits so far involve re-adding the same material to Online shaming that the last sock, Oglaz, added to Cancel culture. Crossroads -talk- 21:38, 3 August 2020 (UTC)

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 * ✅., lock requested, closing. Mz7 (talk) 22:43, 3 August 2020 (UTC)

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This user usually sock-puppets on animal diet related articles including the carnivore diet. He's edited the Animal source foods on a previous blocked account OneFortyTwo with very similar edits and edit summaries to the recently created account Moresdevin. Psychologist Guy (talk) 17:18, 18 September 2020 (UTC)

I also suspect this user may be Mariolovr. Mariolovr has been blocked but he was reported at the admin board. His original edits were on meat or slaughter based articles and he appeared to be supporting an animal rights viewpoint. Then he reversed this viewpoint and claimed to be a meat lover and a worker in a slaughterhouse, this in in opposition to his early edits that opposed the idea of slaughter and characterized it as murder. This 180degree turn around in views is something that Zalgo does on the topics of veganism or anything involving meat. On his account Skyisdeep he promoted the carnivore diet yet later pretended to be a vegetarian. This user does not really have a stable position on these topics, his agenda is to cause confusion and troll other users.

Several users pointed out on the admin board that Mariolovr is not a new account, and the account's first edit was to create his user-page which is suspicious. Zalgo often does this on many of his socks including Moresdevin, Skyisdeep and more recently Pietyemit. The edit summaries on these accounts also seem to match writing style.

If a check-user is to be used both accounts should be checked to Pietyemit because he was blocked on that account only a month ago. Psychologist Guy (talk) 22:10, 18 September 2020 (UTC)


 * I agree that Moresdevin is very likely to be Zalgo. The other is hard to demonstrate with behavioral diffs. I have seen Zalgo's accounts on and off this wiki so perhaps I know this person's behavior more than others here, he does have an interest in editing articles related to meat. He did that on his BecomeFree account and others. He claims to be an anti-vegan and carnivore diet advocate but at the same time he creates accounts claiming to be vegetarian and against the meat or slaughter industry. On his account BecomeFree he joined Wikipedia to promote the carnivore diet. A few days later he criticized it on his account skyisdeep. This bizarre behavior and inconsistency is rare to find amongst people on this topic which leads me to believe he is out to troll people. I have researched this field for about 20 years and I have never come across anyone else like this. The first edits on Mariolovr were to criticize animal slaughter as murder and unethical, a few days later and he is suddenly a big meat eater and a self described slaughter house worker. Obviously this is only my suspicion and I can't back it up with solid behavioral diffs. There is a small over-lap in articles edited by Mariolovr and Becomefree but not enough to convince others. Mariolovr has been blocked already, but due to lack of evidence I will have to withdraw mentioning this account from this investigation. I do apologise for that but I do believe Moresdevin should be investigated. Psychologist Guy (talk) 04:34, 19 September 2020 (UTC)

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 * I was alerted to this page by a fellow Wikipedia editor who shall remain anonymous, and I must say that this is the strangest accusation I've ever seen towards a new member. As you say,, could it just be that your guesswork here is, umm, way way off? I did look at the history of the page edited by this sock and even though they shared the same goal of addressing the POV template my edits don't share anything with their edits. For one example, they removed the plant-based content whereas mine did not. - Moresdevin (talk) 19:30, 20 September 2020 (UTC)


 * There is clear evidence this sock-puppet is you. Your first edit was to link to the carnivore diet. This is an obsession of yours and you are the only editor on Wikipedia to do it.
 * Sometimes you pretend to be a carnivore diet advocate opposed to vegetarianism at other times you claim to be a vegetarian or plant-based. I am not really interested in your trolling but the obsession of promoting the carnivore diet in see also sections on Wikipedia is a trademark of yours. The articles you edit are easy to spot. No main edits were done to the Animal source foods article since your sock OneFortyTwo. This is a low-traffic article. You can compare your edit summaries to OneFortyTwo, they are exactly the same, a similar edit summary in every single edit. It's foolish to deny you are sock-puppeting here. Moresdevin and OneFortyTwo are both the same, there is strong behavioural evidence this account is yours. If a cu check is done, I suspect it will reveal more accounts you have been using. Psychologist Guy (talk) 20:01, 20 September 2020 (UTC)


 * Toklie an obvious sock with little edits outside of this SPI makes similar edit summaries and uses the same 2017 wikitext editor as other socks in this SPI Skyisdeep, Moresdevin, BecomeFree etc. I think that account should also be checked. Psychologist Guy (talk) 00:51, 21 September 2020 (UTC)

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 * - Given the history I know about Derp, for Moresdevin. For Mariolvr, I'd like to see diffs supporting the evidence with an example from the previous sock, and how it matches the current sock. Just need 1 or 2 sets of those. --  Amanda  (aka DQ) 22:26, 18 September 2020 (UTC)
 * a discussion at User talk:Bishonen gives an account of 14 threads and several images uploaded by Mariolvr which appear to demonstrate problematical behaviour similar to that described above. --RexxS (talk) 15:18, 19 September 2020 (UTC)


 * I found a different angle to check Mariolovr on as the presented evidence was not convincing to potentially be a singular person, and I'm convinced it's ❌. Given that, I'll block Moresdevin and close this out. -- Amanda  (aka DQ) 18:40, 24 September 2020 (UTC)

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While there is some overlap that both have reverted on same pages, Helper202 is a very new account (created 15 September) and use the same word "evidently" on vandalism noticeboard like this sockmaster. Srijanx22 (talk) 15:25, 30 September 2020 (UTC)

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 * ❌ - See Sockpuppet investigations/Notfrompedro -- Amanda  (aka DQ) 16:25, 30 September 2020 (UTC)

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Quacking edits to Lacolle, Quebec. Compare these edits from SkaryKlown to this edit from one sock. Specifically, compare edit summaries: "Moved quotes to the appropriate page and fixed grammar" to "Moving citation to its proper article"

Both have also edited Saint-Bernard-de-Lacolle, Quebec, although since the previous sock's edit wasn't reverted, SkaryKlown did not bother to "move" the disputed content there. Grayfell (talk) 05:51, 7 October 2020 (UTC)

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 * Beyond ✅ plus . -- Amanda  (aka DQ) 09:40, 7 October 2020 (UTC)

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Special:Diff/985044669, recreating an article at Cancel culture similarly to other Zalgo sock. signed,Rosguill talk 20:55, 23 October 2020 (UTC)

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 * - previous check found an account which only made an edit to its userpage in September, so was sleeping. Therefore a check on this account and a check for sleepers seems useful. Dreamy Jazz talk to me &#124; my contributions 21:07, 23 October 2020 (UTC)
 * ✅.  Maxim (talk)  21:56, 23 October 2020 (UTC)
 * Dreamy Jazz talk to me &#124; my contributions 22:00, 23 October 2020 (UTC)

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Heatxiddy is a new account that edits topics related to animal source foods (ASF), pescetarianism and vegetarianism and sometimes the alt-right. This user usually edits these topics every few months on a different account. The give away is this users linking to the article animal source foods, for example here. That is a very low-traffic article and over the years nobody links to that article. He edited the animal source foods article on his previous socks OneFortyTwo and Moresdevin. This user knows the article is now being watched so he won't directly edit it but he is linking to it on his account Heatxiddy. Heatxiddy has exactly the same writing style and edit summaries as the blocked accounts skyisdeep, moresdevin, BecomeFree and OneFortyTwo. Heatxiddy also mentions the animal source foods article on a talk-page. Heatxiddy's account is only a few days old, it's a low-traffic article with very little other editors other than his own socks. It's very unlikely this is a new user who just happens to come across this article. The ASF article is an obsession of his.

Skyisdeep says he was a pescetarian. Heatxiddy is now promoting pescetarianism on his account ,

Heatxiddy is definitely all these accounts:


 * skyisdeep
 * Moresdevin
 * BecomeFree
 * OneFortyTwo

A common editing pattern that skyisdeep, moresdevin, BecomeFree and OneFortyTwo etc make is linking articles in the "see also" section related to specific diet. Before he would add the "carnivore diet" to articles, now he is adding the plant-based diet.

A few months ago Zalgo has privately emailed me abuse on two accounts, telling me that he is not the above accounts and he has never edited content related to carnivore or vegetarian diets or the alt-right. Zalgo is a confirmed sock-puppet but I am inclined to believe that BecomeFree/skyisdeep/Moredevin/OneFortyTwo and some of the other accounts listed in this SPI editing on diet or the alt-right are a different person editing in the same geographical area or town as Zalgo. CU data seems to link them together so maybe it is a different family member. If you look at Zalgo's other sock-puppets they don't edit these topics. Indeed, one of BecomeFree's editing interests was gaslighting and other psycholocal topics which matches the recently blocked Jonahloci. Of course it could be a clever deceptive tactic but I think there are two sock-puppeteers here, the editing interests are completely different. They both sock-puppet on many disruptive accounts and they both could be related so it's probably not worth separating their accounts into a different SPI.

It's quite clear to me that Heatxiddy is the same person as BecomeFree, skyisdeep etc, so based on behavioural grounds that account should be blocked. A CU check might also be worth-wile. I don't know what it would show but it looks to me like Jonahloci is the same person (this account was blocked on 23 October 2020). Psychologist Guy (talk) 15:49, 30 October 2020 (UTC)

Update - Heatxiddy is editing the Cancel culture article. He edited this article heavily on his blocked sock Oglaz in June 2020. There is really no doubt now that Heatxiddy is a returning blocked editor. Psychologist Guy (talk) 16:23, 30 October 2020 (UTC)

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 * , You are clearly a disruptive troll but please do not edit other users comments that is vandalism. Psychologist Guy (talk) 16:34, 30 October 2020 (UTC)


 * Well, you aren't entirely truthful are you? My emails were quite polite, and here you paint them as "abuse". Heatxiddy (talk) 16:51, 30 October 2020 (UTC)


 * No, the emails contained abusive messages (swear words). In those emails you said there was two of you and you don't edit diets. You clearly lied. I see, you are all about deception. Your recent edits show a case of WP:NOTHERE. It won't be long until you are blocked. Psychologist Guy (talk) 16:55, 30 October 2020 (UTC)


 * Policy abusers like you are what is causing actual abuse in Wikipedia. All my recent accounts engaged in productive edits. Many of my edits got reverted by abusing socket-puppet policy. But look at Cancel culture, the bulk of the work was done by me, and it survived despite policy abusers like you! Ha! Heatxiddy (talk) 17:04, 30 October 2020 (UTC)


 * "All my recent accounts …". Do we need anything else here?? 86.140.67.152 (talk) 17:26, 30 October 2020 (UTC)


 * He's confessed on this SPI page and on this noticeboard for owning accounts. So he has basically admitted to being Zalgo. An admin should block his account and maybe a CU check because he might have others. Psychologist Guy (talk) 17:35, 30 October 2020 (UTC)

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 * Blocked per self-admission and requested lock on SRG. Closing.  qedk ( t  愛  c ) 17:36, 30 October 2020 (UTC)

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The account WaderRoars suspiciously created blank user and user talk pages within half an hour of account creation, and has edited exclusively on the topic of cancel culture, a past favorite of Zalgo socks. If it's him, please block the IP for a good long while, because he just makes another account not long after the last one is blocked. Crossroads -talk- 03:08, 7 November 2020 (UTC)

Added Harxa per below. Crossroads -talk- 04:38, 7 November 2020 (UTC)

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I want to point out that I know the original Zalgo and this doesn’t even apply to the current Zalgo. I propose that a different page be created. --Harxa (talk) 04:32, 7 November 2020 (UTC)
 * And some random new account with zero other edits somehow finds this SPI. Uh-huh. Adding this one to the check request above. Crossroads -talk- 04:36, 7 November 2020 (UTC)

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 * Dealt with. -- Amanda  (aka DQ) 05:25, 7 November 2020 (UTC)

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Similar topic as previous socks. RandomCanadian (talk / contribs) 04:41, 8 May 2021 (UTC)

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It's difficult to tell because few edits were made, but I also suspected this editor of potentially being Zalgo. Previous editing pushed fad diets, Quebec separatism/nationalism (yet this is not rare in the region) and "cancel culture" narratives. The first point is met but the rest remains ambiguous to me at current time. — Paleo Neonate  – 05:41, 8 May 2021 (UTC)


 * There are two sock-puppets obsessed with trying to get the carnivore diet onto Wikipedia. Both of them tend to call anyone who objects to this a "vegan activist". They usually edit the monotrophic diet article every few months to add references about the carnivore diet which are undue weight or unreliable. One of them is Zalgo the other is the banned user JustANameInUse . JustANameInUse does not make Wikipedia accounts anymore because he knows he will get blocked easily in an SPI so he just uses different IPs every few weeks for example a few hours ago on LizardMeat's talk page. He seems to work alongside Zalgo.


 * The LizardMeat account is very likely to be Zalgo. I have extensively studied this users editing interests and writing style. If you compare Lizardmeat to Skyisdeep and  it is likely to be the same user. Psychologist Guy (talk) 10:03, 8 May 2021 (UTC)

93.141.96.10 needs adding to this.Slatersteven (talk) 11:47, 8 May 2021 (UTC)


 * Based on behavioral evidence this account is very likely to be Zalgo due to edits on the monotrophic diet article which match 4 of his other blocked accounts such as removing fad diet from the carnivore diet section. Zalgo's three main interests are the carnivore diet and other fad diets, alt-right or "alt-centrist" magazines (blogs like Quillette which are anti-social justice or "anti-woke"), as well as web browsers or developing. You can see he was blocked on the account Tokiere which edited the The Coddling of the American Mind article. This article was edited by LizardMeat which matches to Tokiere . He wanted a positive review by Conor Friedersdorf added. It is obviously the same person. Psychologist Guy (talk) 18:54, 9 May 2021 (UTC)
 * Because I have been reporting this users sock for nearly a year now I have also picked up on some of his other behavior. He often adds one link to "see also" sections of articles. But those links will only be specific interest of his such as cancel culture as seen here . If you check the history of the cancel culture article he has had at least 4 blocked socks going back a year. Examples include Heatxiddy and Oglaz. Psychologist Guy (talk) 19:05, 9 May 2021 (UTC)

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 * – the combination of fad diet and "cancel culture"/"social justice" topics (cf. overlap with at ) is enough for a check. CU, please compare to the archive and look for others.  --Blablubbs&#124;talk 11:41, 8 May 2021 (UTC)
 * . Close geolocation, different ranges.  ~Oshwah~  (talk) (contribs)   16:12, 9 May 2021 (UTC)
 * - per private request by CU. --Blablubbs&#124;talk 13:13, 16 May 2021 (UTC)
 * ✅ to :
 * These accounts (and ) are to .  ~Oshwah~  (talk)  (contribs)   09:18, 19 May 2021 (UTC)
 * These accounts (and ) are to .  ~Oshwah~  (talk)  (contribs)   09:18, 19 May 2021 (UTC)
 * These accounts (and ) are to .  ~Oshwah~  (talk)  (contribs)   09:18, 19 May 2021 (UTC)
 * These accounts (and ) are to .  ~Oshwah~  (talk)  (contribs)   09:18, 19 May 2021 (UTC)
 * These accounts (and ) are to .  ~Oshwah~  (talk)  (contribs)   09:18, 19 May 2021 (UTC)
 * These accounts (and ) are to .  ~Oshwah~  (talk)  (contribs)   09:18, 19 May 2021 (UTC)
 * These accounts (and ) are to .  ~Oshwah~  (talk)  (contribs)   09:18, 19 May 2021 (UTC)


 * All tagged as confirmed to the oldest account,, and proven to Zalgo based on CU result and behaviour. Closing. --Blablubbs&#124;talk 10:17, 19 May 2021 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets
Moniony is a new account that is editing the carnivore diet and various talk-pages related to controversial right-wing figures Matt Walsh (political commentator). As established in previous SPI's Zalgo's editing interests are the carnivore diet, gender identity and content related to the alt-right or right-wing public figures and magazines. Usually Zalgo ends up editing the carnivore diet every year on a new account. The article was previously locked and redirected but since it has been re-created I believe this user is back to edit his usual target.

Zalgo's blocked account skyisdeep and BecomeFree  made similar edits with the same writing style in edit summaries to Moniony on the carnivore diet.

Moniony is fond of citing the menshealth magazine on the carnivore diet which includes a line about Joe Rogan having diarrhoea and Jordan Syatt. On his account skyisdeep and BecomeFree he added similar content on the carnivore diet article about diarrhoea using the same menshealth articles on Rogan and Jordan Syatt. Elsewhere he included a line about diarrhoea Joe Rogan's article.

BecomeFree wanted to add individual case studies and proponents to the carnivore diet article such as Rogan  citing the same sourcing as Moniony. This matches Moniony's re-adding of the same sources mentioning Rogan and Syatt. Zalgo is also fond of calling the carnivore diet "zero carb"  which matches Moniony. I believe this new Moniony account is Zalgo. Psychologist Guy (talk) 14:28, 23 April 2023 (UTC)


 * I believe this was just a throwaway account of his to edit the carnivore diet (he has done this many times before), but the article is now protected. I believe the other account listed below FrostiFlakes was also him based on behavioural evidence. Update Moniony logged in today and is still editing the carnivore diet and related articles. Psychologist Guy (talk) 20:34, 12 May 2023 (UTC)

Comments by other users

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Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * To me, this is an open and shut case. The geolocation is about as good as we are going to get with a few years difference, it's still the same IP range as before, the behaviour lines up exactly. Also, ✅ to FrostiFlakes. Don't base a block off anything I say though; please review it independently, and ask for a second CU to be involved if you need to rely on any CU info. -- Amanda (she/her)  21:27, 23 April 2023 (UTC)
 * I've blocked Moniony indefinitely. Courcelles (talk) 17:00, 16 May 2023 (UTC)
 * Add that is ✅ and I've blocked them for BLP manipulation. Courcelles (talk) 17:03, 16 May 2023 (UTC)
 * Tagged, closing. Thanks, Spicy (talk) 15:52, 27 May 2023 (UTC)