Wikipedia:Suspected sock puppets/Giovanni Giove (6th)

User:Giovanni Giove

 * Suspected sock puppeteer


 * Suspected sock puppets


 * Report submission by
 * AlasdairGreen27 (talk) 23:50, 5 September 2008 (UTC)


 * Evidence
 * User:Giovanni Giove is banned:
 * The three alleged socks (one of whom, Olitwist, is inactive) are all clustered around the articles Lady Nicholas Windsor, Giovanni Luppis and Marco Lupis.
 * GG and all of the three accounts are/were frequent contributors to Giovanni Luppis.
 * GG and all of the three accounts infrequently use edit summaries, but when they do, "fix" is used a disproportionate number of times:
 * GG - ; there are many others, see
 * Holytrully -
 * Nosferamus - ; there are many others, see
 * Olitwist -

and the IPs
 * Olitwist reverting "to the previous version of Giovanni Giove"
 * GG posting on Olitwist's talkpage, getting a quick affirmative reply
 * Holytrully and Nosferatus tag-teaming at Lady Nicholas Windsor
 * GG was in the habit of saying things were "better" a certain way
 * As is Holytrully

and the IPs
 * GG and the three accounts are strongly focussed on the Italian identity of people born in what is now Croatia. See and many others
 * New user Holytrully is not a "new" user, making his/her first ever user talk page post a vandalism warning
 * New user D'Agrò's first contribution was to reinsert an image, uploaded by GG , with the very blunt Giovesque edit summary Are you able to read?

Regarding the IP addresses:

and by the IPs
 * GG's last known IP address (a bit stale, I know) was Special:Contributions/84.220.68.146, which WHOIS locates to Cagliari.
 * All of the listed IPs also locate to Cagliari.
 * 78.13.167.236 also uses fix or fixed as an edit summary:
 * Some classic Gioveisms in talk page edits: Insults: ; using tx instead of 'thanks'
 * ops (meaning 'oops') as edit summary by GG
 * The IPs mainly contribute to History of Alto Adige-South Tyrol and Tyrol where GG was a contributor only once,, but GG contributed to the articles on Cultural assimilation and Italian irridentism  as do the IPs
 * Comments


 * Many thanks to have added me to this Happy brigade! I'm sorry, but I'm not "Giovani Giove", I'm not him. Ask for a CU. --D&#39;Agrò (talk) 15:25, 10 September 2008 (UTC)
 * What's a CU, D'Agrò? Please explain. AlasdairGreen27 (talk) 15:48, 10 September 2008 (UTC)
 * CU - Check User .. too difficult to understand? --D&#39;Agrò (talk) 21:51, 10 September 2008 (UTC)
 * No, GG, very easy to understand, for people like you and I who have been around Wikipedia for a while. But for purported newbies like your creation 'D'Agrò'... well such knowledge would be surprising. AlasdairGreen27 (talk) 05:53, 11 September 2008 (UTC)
 * But, Is this a Circus?: AlasdairGreen27 wrote: "New user D'Agrò's first contribution was to reinsert an image, uploaded by GG "... absurd!
 * The image I reiserted IS NOT the same uploaded by that "Giovani Giove" ! --D&#39;Agrò (talk) 23:02, 10 September 2008 (UTC)
 * BTW, from where are you got the idea that I'm a "newby" on Wikipedia? Im I stated that somewhere? Did you ever thought that I could be on Wikipedia from longtime on some others wikipedia-projects and/or languages? You, AlasdairGreen27 (talk), had included me in that "Happy brigade providing FAKE AND WRONG evidences, as I already proved and wrote to you in your talk page here. Until now, you weren't so honest to admit that your "evidences" to include me in that "suspected sockpuppetry" are wrong (in case you were in good faith) or fakes (if you were in bad faith...) and to  recognise that and remove them. IMHO you are only trying to intimidate me (without any results, thought) to be free to erase entire section on the Giovanni Luppis page and pushing to force your POV.--D&#39;Agrò (talk) 22:41, 11 September 2008 (UTC)

I am blocking the named accounts based on behavior. These are, or nearly are, single purpose accounts. They are indistinguishable from Giovanni Giove, and they are apparently controlled by him, or acting in tight coordination with him. Hopefully checkuser will help with the IPs and any other sleeper socks that may be hanging around. Jehochman Talk 18:29, 4 October 2008 (UTC)
 * This case should be considered a part of the currently open RFCU and not taken separately from it. AlasdairGreen27 (talk) 18:16, 13 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Conclusions