Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Ziggymaster/Archive

Report date January 22 2009, 15:00 (UTC)

 * Suspected sockpuppets:

I shall try my best to make this as short as possible and to the point.

1. Times and dates.

from Dec 26th 2008 till January 14th 2009 both the Lakshmix and Wondergirls accounts were inactive apart from a single edit made on December 30th.

the last edit made by either account on December 26th was made by Wondergirls Dec 26th 18.32 http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Developed_country&diff=prev&oldid=260203241

The Ziggymaster account was created 18:33, 26 December 2008 - one minute after the above two accounts went quiet. The Ziggymaster account was then very active from then onwards.

2. Shared articles

There are many shared articles

http://toolserver.org/~betacommand/UserCompare/Wondergirls.html

Unfortunately someone did the usercompare for me, and they only did it for Wondergirls and Lakshmix and I don't have the first idea how to operate usercompare, so can someone run it for Ziggymaster please?

http://en.wikichecker.com/user/?t=Lakshmix&l=all

http://en.wikichecker.com/user/?t=Wondergirls&l=

http://en.wikichecker.com/user/?t=Ziggymaster&l=all

http://en.wikichecker.com/user/?t=92.233.108.66&l=

3. Indef Block

on 20th Jan, Wondergirls got indef blocked for a racism and profanity filled attack against me. http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=South_Korea&diff=prev&oldid=265317312

quote - '''Sennen goroshi FUCK OFF you stinking JAPANESE, u have broken the 3-revert rule TWICE already and VANDALIZING Korean related articles for NO REASON. You are the BIGGEST VANDALIST I HAVE EVER SEEN'''

4. UK link

92.233.108.66 an IP originating from the UK has been used to edit articles, this was of particular interest to me as it is from Surrey, which is on the outskirts of London - both the Lakshmix and the Wondergirls accounts have been used to edit the Kings College School article, an obscure school located in London that takes students from Surrey.

That IP also posted a message dedicated to me on the South Korea article's talk page

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:South_Korea&diff=prev&oldid=265594895

What I found strange in the IPs message is that they did not only complain about my edits, they demanded that I stop accusing anyone of using puppets.

5. Similar styles.

Using edit summaries to attack based on nationality/race

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=North_Korea&diff=prev&oldid=257403385 http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=South_Korea&diff=prev&oldid=256935812 http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Seoul&diff=prev&oldid=260171218

Summary

When I first voiced my suspicions regarding these accounts, things calmed down a little and I didn't think anything else was required - no one got blocked and only one account was being used - but now one account is being used to personally attack me, an IP is being used and the multiple accounts are being used to fake consensus, get around 3RR and more importantly to bypass the indef block on the Wondergirls account.

Additional suspect

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Pds0101

Pds0101 also shares articles and may be a possible sock.


 * Evidence submitted by ã«ã³ãã§ã¼Sennen Goroshi ! (talk)


 * Comments by accused parties    See Defending yourself against claims.


 * Comments by other users


 * I suspected Lakshmix and Wondergirls of being the same user back in December based on edits to Global City, specifically unsourced insertion of "Seoul" into city lists, and an identical pattern of edits to the article. I later noticed that Ziggymaster made similar or identical edits to the article. However, I went on Wikibreak for the year-end holidays and by the time I returned to editing in early January the pattern had apparently ceased, only to resume this week on Korea-related articles. I concur with Sennen goroshi's evidence and endorse the indef block of all three parties. --MCB (talk) 22:38, 22 January 2009 (UTC)


 * Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments


 * I indef blocked L, based on stuff above (esp. Global City) William M. Connolley (talk) 19:19, 22 January 2009 (UTC)

indef blocked socks Mayalld (talk) 21:00, 26 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Conclusions

Report date January 24 2009, 13:08 (UTC)

 * Suspected sockpuppets

1. Please see my previous sockpuppet report against ziggymaster that resulted in socks being indef blocked.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Sockpuppet_investigations/Ziggymaster

At 18:45, 20 January 2009 Wondergirls was indef blocked for personal attacks http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log/block&page=User%3AWondergirls

At 19:19, 22 January 2009 Lakshmix was indef blocked for multiple accounts http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log/block&page=User%3ALakshmix

Nine minutes later a new account was made http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log&user=Kingka625

This new account has edited 7 different articles - one of these articles was its own user page, one was a article talk page and the other five are all articles that have been previously edited by either Ziggymaster and/or one of his confirmed sock puppets. Oh and the article talk page that was edited was never edited by Ziggymaster or his sock puppets, however the article that the talk page refers to had been edited by Ziggymaster and/or his sock puppets.

I might concede that a new editor might share edited articles with an established editor due to the large amounts of articles that an established editor has edited, however Ziggymaster and his socks concentrate of specific articles relating to Korea and especially articles relating to the classification of developed nations/GDP ranking etc - which are exactly what this new account has been editing.

It seems the last indef block has only resulted in this user creating more sock puppets, is it possible to IP ban this user preventing him from creating more socks in the future and block this sock/main account? there has been a total lack of respect for wikipedia rules relating to multiple account and this pattern is likely to continue unless suitable steps are taken.
 * Evidence submitted by ã«ã³ãã§ã¼Sennen Goroshi ! (talk)


 * Comments by accused parties    See Defending yourself against claims.


 * Comments by other users


 * Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments


 * Seems likely; indef blocked as sock of Z William M. Connolley (talk) 21:15, 24 January 2009 (UTC)

indef blocked sock Mayalld (talk) 21:00, 26 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Conclusions

Report date February 6 2009, 15:49 (UTC)

 * Suspected sockpuppets

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Contributions&offset=20090203215402&limit=500&target=Manmohit2002

as per the other ziggymaster sockpuppets, this account is fresh, has obvious prior knowledge of wikipedia terminology and procedures and edits the same articles as the previous socks.

note the edit the refers to kings college school in London, the previous socks all had an interest in business/finance especially in relation to Korea, and also made edits with references to kings college school in London.

yet another blatant sock.

update - also a suspect IP from the same area as IP listed on the previous ziggymaster report update 2 - quite a few IPs


 * Evidence submitted by カンチョーSennen Goroshi ! (talk)


 * Comments by accused parties    See Defending yourself against claims.

This confession connects him to this. &bull; \ / (⁂) 03:30, 21 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Comments by other users

Accounts and some IPs blocked.  MBisanz  talk 03:51, 21 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments


 * Conclusions

Report date May 17 2009, 15:47 (UTC)

 * Suspected sockpuppets




 * Evidence submitted by User:Rjanag

Meandmylefthand registered just after I blocked the two above IPs for being alternate accounts used by the banned Ziggymaster/Wondergirls (not sure which of those was the "original" puppeteer account) and tried to give me a 3rr warning. They're all clearly connected to the same person, per WP:DUCK, but I wanted to bring it to something more "official" since I have already blocked them myself a couple times. r ʨ anaɢ talk/contribs 15:47, 17 May 2009 (UTC)
 * (Not sure if I should have posted this here or just started a new subsection of Sockpuppet investigations/Ziggymaster/Archive. Sorry if I did it wrong.) r ʨ anaɢ talk/contribs 15:56, 17 May 2009 (UTC)


 * Comments by accused parties    See Defending yourself against claims.

I add two more accounts. Talk:South Korea. The ISP, BT-CENTRAL-PLUS in London, UK differs from Ziggymaster's in London, but given similar comments and abusive usages of capital letters at edit summary and obsession with Rjanag, and same POV, I think the user in question is the long-term sockpuppet.--Caspian blue 16:06, 17 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Comments by other users
 * I'm not sure about Milkmooney, in the past I remember that user being more willing to discuss things than the usual Ziggymaster socks. And other than his edit this morning, he hasn't really been active in a month (although who knows, maybe that was because his IP was blocked)...I'll leave it up to you guys to decide whether to check him. r ʨ anaɢ talk/contribs 16:25, 17 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Ziggymaster had behaved generally polite as long as his edit was not contested, or disputers mildly offered him "a compromise" via talk. However, Ziggymaster got extremely uncivil when his edits did not get any consensus. Besides, Milkmooney suddenly appeared today from his one month break whose timing overlaps with the sock in question.--Caspian blue 16:40, 17 May 2009 (UTC)

I have notified Meandmylefthand, who would have to be unblocked to participate in this discussion. --Rrburke(talk) 16:35, 17 May 2009 (UTC)

Requested by r ʨ anaɢ talk/contribs 15:47, 17 May 2009 (UTC)
 * CheckUser requests

Additional information needed: Please provide a code letter. SPCUClerkbot (talk) 15:47, 17 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments


 * Redirected to Ziggymaster, since that is where prior archives are, but the Wondergirls account is actually older - and Ziggymaster has a tag pointing to Pickbothmanlol. Doesn't look like that link is confirmed, though, so I'm not merging archives at this point. Nathan  T 16:02, 17 May 2009 (UTC)


 * - Duck block on the Meandmy*hand accounts, and not a significant enough connection on the Milkmooney account to justify a CU. Nathan  T 15:23, 18 May 2009 (UTC)


 * blocked as a sock. -- Kanonkas : Talk  15:28, 18 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Conclusions
 * If Ziggymaster-style vandalism continues, come back to check for an anon only range block. Nathan  T 15:35, 18 May 2009 (UTC)