Wikipedia:Suspected sock puppets/Youngjoon Shin

User:Youngjoon Shin

 * Suspected sockpuppeteer


 * Suspected sockpuppets


 * Report submission by

JeremyMcCracken (talk) (contribs) 21:16, 3 May 2008 (UTC)

All three are editing Yjzone.net; there's a COI as well, as Youngjoon Shin is (according to the article) the founder of the website. In particular, the IP has been disruptive following the article's AfD, note this edit as well as the history at the AfD. JeremyMcCracken (talk) (contribs) 21:16, 3 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Evidence

While the IP was certainly guilty of removing the AfD from the log, I should point out that the discussion itself hasn't been disrupted; in fact, the only contentious edit I can see there is this revert by User:AVand, where the IP had only been editing his or her own comments.
 * Comments

Having said that, I do think there is sufficient reason for concern here. I recently raised concerns about User:Youngjoon Shin at the Administrator's noticeboard (here) regarding talk page comments that were blanked. I was also concerned by this edit the IP made to South Korea, restoring changes made by Youngjoon Shin that were reverted for POV and poor grammer.

Also note that the IP admits to being associated with Youngjoon Shin here. PC78 (talk) 16:05, 4 May 2008 (UTC)


 * Well, I have another opinion here. Aside from the matter related to the AFD, Youngjoon has been a generally good contributor to Korean related articles. Well, the conflicts with PC78 are not disruptive enough to accuse him being blocked or blamed for the further charge and that is a conflict of interest, I think. Also, I believe User;Avand gave a wrong or belated warning because the anon already got my warning for his removal of the AFD listing and the anon did only give his opinion and Avand falsely reverted. I don't think that this SSP file is fully warranted here.--Appletrees (talk) 18:27, 4 May 2008 (UTC)

Sorry, but my good faith with Youngjoon Shin is all used up. And now he's been reported here by another user for vandalism.

There also appears to be a new sockpuppet, which I have added above. I twice restored sourced information to Korea under Japanese rule (here and here) which was removed by Youngjoon Shin. This coincided with the creation of a new account, User:Chelseafanandlover, who has been editing the same article since and has twice removed the exact same content (here and here). PC78 (talk) 19:40, 4 May 2008 (UTC)

Clearly not a sock puppet just like I'm not. Sgt. bender (talk) 01:34, 7 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Thanks for your dazzling insight. Perhaps you should be more concerned with your own sockpuppeting case. PC78 (talk) 01:48, 8 May 2008 (UTC)

I'm going to close this one as stale. The alleged puppetmaster appears to have retired. The IP is shared, and the other two accounts haven't edited for at least a week. GBT/C 08:23, 11 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Conclusions