Wikipedia:Suspected sock puppets/Gooddays

User:Gooddays

 * Suspected sockpuppeteer


 * Suspected sockpuppets


 * Report submission by

AlasdairGreen27 (talk) 07:47, 31 March 2008 (UTC)


 * Evidence

Edits by all three are only to systematically add tags to Slovenia-related articles.

Gooddays came to general attention last week for systematically tagging Slovenia-related articles as Refimprove and so on, activities for which, together with related incivility at AN/I he/she was temporarily blocked. Since then, the baton seems to have been passed first to User:Star Rising and now to User:Yellowlax. Contributions by both make the case self evident, I believe.

Using a time comparer, appears that Yellowlax and Star Rising both edited during the same time of day on different days of the week. Also, both their edit periods overlapped with Gooddays timeperiod, although not with the same degree of correlation. I should note that I was limited by the few number of edits Yellowlax and Star Rising made over their single day lifespans, so they would not be expected to correlate as well to the longer Gooddays edit history.
 * Comments

AWB crosstab indicates:
 * One article overlap between Yellowlax and Star Rising out of 78 comparable pages.
 * Two articles overlap between Yellowlax/Star Rising and Gooddays out of 295 comparable pages.

Seems like they might be working off a common list or cat and these are all snapshots of the puppetmaster working his way through the list on different accounts.  MBisanz  talk 08:12, 31 March 2008 (UTC)


 * Many thanks for that. Reading your remarks, I'm slightly puzzled though, and I'd ask you to clarify if possible. Looking at the respective lists of contributions, it seems that there's no time overlap. Until 28 March there was Gooddays, then Star Rising on 29 March and lastly Yellowlax on 30/31 March . Are these contribution lists not necessarily reliable?  AlasdairGreen27 (talk) 08:35, 31 March 2008 (UTC)


 * I've corrected my wording. They edited at the same times of the day, on different days of the week, so they can't plead that they were both editing at the same time.
 * Contribution lists are almost always reliable, except for deleted or oversighted issues, but in this case there are no deleted contribs for Yellowlax or Star Rising and only 2 for Gooddays, can't speak to oversighting, but I suspect none there either.  MBisanz  talk 08:52, 31 March 2008 (UTC)


 * Now I see. All is clear now. Probably I was being a bit slow (as usual) before; thanks for the clarification. AlasdairGreen27 (talk) 08:57, 31 March 2008 (UTC)

I am convinced beyond doubt that Star Rising=Yellowlax. I a 80% certain that Gooddays=Yellowlax/Star Rising. But I'll give him the chance to respond once he comes off his current block.  MBisanz  talk 03:32, 1 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Conclusions
 * The two socks have both been indefinitely blocked. Gooddays has been off his block for a few days, but has declined to comment (indeed, hasn't edited). I can't see that resetting the block would be a particularly pointful thing to do at this stage, so will mark the case closed for the moment - I'll liaise with MBisanz on their talk page about what warning to give Gooddays, and for confirmation that they have no objection to my actions. GBT/C 11:47, 4 April 2008 (UTC)