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===20 June 2022=== |
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{{SPI case status|close}} |
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====Suspected sockpuppets==== |
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{{sock list|1=Seggallion|tools_link=yes}}<!-- Add more accounts or IPs to this template as needed --> |
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I'm still not totally convinced Free1Soul is Icewhiz, but I think the evidence shows that Seggalion is Free1Soul and Free1Soul is blocked as an Icewhiz sock so here goes: |
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*Both users had inexplicable varying levels of English, some times flawless (eg [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Aztec_(video_game)&diff=prev&oldid=1049162896 Seggalion] vs [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Arab_Jews&diff=prev&oldid=1045633170 Free1Soul] to seemingly on purpose bad English eg [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Enforcement&diff=prev&oldid=1092108251 Seggallion "is not a game"] vs Free1Soul [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Sockpuppet_investigations/Icewhiz&diff=prev&oldid=1058884304 Free1Soul I dont understand problem ... Over year ago I fixed] |
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*Seggallion was registered prior to Free1Soul, but the month edit counts show was [https://xtools.wmflabs.org/ec-monthcounts/en.wikipedia.org/Seggallion mostly quiet] when [https://xtools.wmflabs.org/ec-monthcounts/en.wikipedia.org/Free1Soul Free1Soul was active], with activity resuming after Free1Soul was reported to SPI first in October, then increasing dramatically after F1S was blocked in December |
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*Both gained extended confirmed through minor spelling fixes performed rapidly, see for example [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3AContributions&target=Seggallion&namespace=all&tagfilter=&start=2022-01-09&end=2022-01-12&limit=500 Seggallion] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3AContributions&target=Free1Soul&namespace=all&tagfilter=&start=2020-08-23&end=2020-08-24&limit=500 Free1Soul] |
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*The timecards dont exactly match, Free1Soul seems to have been just one in a number of accounts operating at different times, but they also dont mismatch |
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*The arguments used in defense of their actions likewise match, see [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Sockpuppet_investigations/Icewhiz&diff=prev&oldid=1058884304 Free1Soul] vs [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Enforcement&diff=prev&oldid=1092108251 Seggallion]. Also note the bare url posting. <small style="border: 1px solid;padding:1px 3px;white-space:nowrap">'''[[User talk:Nableezy|<span style="color:#C11B17">nableezy</span>]]''' - 04:32, 20 June 2022 (UTC)</small> |
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====<big>Comments by other users</big>==== |
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<small>''Accused parties may also comment/discuss in this section below. See [[Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/SPI/Guidance#Defending yourself against claims|Defending yourself against claims]].''</small> |
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Nableezy, please remember that Icewhiz and Yaniv collaborated in the past (Yaniv posting text written entirely by Icewhiz and vice versa), hence Free1Soul confusion. Both individuals (Yaniv and Icewhiz) are still laboriously engaged in editing. This particular account, <u>no doubts</u> a sock-puppet, is, for example, attempting to conceal competence of Wiki formatting by intentionally posting [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Enforcement&diff=prev&oldid=1092108251&diffmode=source raw, unformatted links] despite reveling know-how in [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Canada_convoy_protest&diff=prev&oldid=1069229513&diffmode=source previous comments]. Something Icewhiz’s sock puppets used to do. - <small><span style="border:1px solid black;padding:1px;">[[User:GizzyCatBella|<span style="color:#40">'''GizzyCatBella'''</span>]][[User talk:GizzyCatBella|<span style="color:transparent;text-shadow:0 0 0 red;font-size:80%">🍁</span>]]</span></small> 06:07, 20 June 2022 (UTC) |
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*..and by the way, a checkuser will reveal, '''as always''', a proxy use, no doubts either. - <small><span style="border:1px solid black;padding:1px;">[[User:GizzyCatBella|<span style="color:#40">'''GizzyCatBella'''</span>]][[User talk:GizzyCatBella|<span style="color:transparent;text-shadow:0 0 0 red;font-size:80%">🍁</span>]]</span></small> 06:17, 20 June 2022 (UTC) |
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..our sockmaster has a [[Pink Floyd|great taste]] in music, I must add [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?diff=prev&oldid=1087796239&diffmode=source] <--> [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?diff=prev&oldid=933489983&diffmode=source] - <small><span style="border:1px solid black;padding:1px;">[[User:GizzyCatBella|<span style="color:#40">'''GizzyCatBella'''</span>]][[User talk:GizzyCatBella|<span style="color:transparent;text-shadow:0 0 0 red;font-size:80%">🍁</span>]]</span></small> 06:35, 20 June 2022 (UTC) |
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:<u>Additional hint</u>: |
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:I'm not sure if it's even worth my time typing (or your reading), but perhaps I'll show it to you since things like that happen to me regularly. |
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:*Shortly after my comment here, a new account has been created -->[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/FuzzyMuzzly] |
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:<u>What the new account does</u>? |
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:*After making two edits, within 4 minutes, proceeds to this revert -->[https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Assassination_of_Qasem_Soleimani&diff=1094065895&oldid=1093836965&diffmode=source] |
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:<u>Why am I showing you this, you would ask</u>? |
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:*Well, take a look: |
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:- I removed Yaniv's sock puppet edit -->[https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Assassination_of_Qasem_Soleimani&diff=1093742490&oldid=1093039529&diffmode=source] |
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:- My removal has been reverted by a user who felt sockpuppet's edit is useful -->[https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Assassination_of_Qasem_Soleimani&diff=next&oldid=1093742490&diffmode=source] |
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:- The newly created account arrives and reverts to my version -->[https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Assassination_of_Qasem_Soleimani&diff=next&oldid=1093836965&diffmode=source] with an edit summary: ''Bad visual'' 🤔 |
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:<u>So? You would ask. What's so unusual</u>? |
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:*Well, notice the emotional face --> 🤔 |
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:<u>Who just used exactly the same emotional face in their edit summary</u>? -->[https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Stepan_Bandera&diff=prev&oldid=1091963056&diffmode=source]. Yes, it was me. |
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:Coincidence? '''No'''. The emotional face has been inserted by the new account intentionally to suggest socking. I bet you would have extremely challenging time locating any other user utilizing that '''identical''' emotional face in their edit summary, if at all. |
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:I faced such things in the past, and it was Icewhiz doing it, so it's likely them again. - <small><span style="border:1px solid black;padding:1px;">[[User:GizzyCatBella|<span style="color:#40">'''GizzyCatBella'''</span>]][[User talk:GizzyCatBella|<span style="color:transparent;text-shadow:0 0 0 red;font-size:80%">🍁</span>]]</span></small> 16:15, 20 June 2022 (UTC) |
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====<big>Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments</big>==== |
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* I've had similar suspicions. I think Nableezy's third bullet point is, in particular, a compelling enough similarity to justify a check. {{endorse}}. <span class="nowrap"> <span style="font-family:courier">-- [[User:Tamzin|<span style="color:#E6007A;">Tamzin</span>]]</span><sup>[''[[User talk:Tamzin|<span style="color:#E6007A;">cetacean needed</span>]]'']</sup> (she/they)</span> 05:09, 20 June 2022 (UTC) |
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*{{Inprogress}} - -- [[User:RoySmith|RoySmith]] [[User Talk:RoySmith|(talk)]] 14:22, 20 June 2022 (UTC) |
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*I ran some checks, which basically came back {{inconclusive}}, but that's not surprising for this case. I've recorded some data in cuwiki, but other than that I'm going to just leave this alone and let somebody who is better versed on the case history take a look. -- [[User:RoySmith|RoySmith]] [[User Talk:RoySmith|(talk)]] 15:04, 20 June 2022 (UTC) |
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* The similarities in manner of gaining extendedconfirmed (essentially as low-effort as you can get without getting XC pulled for gaming) and in responding to accusations of misconduct make me think it is significantly more likely than not that this is Icewhiz. I think that's the best we're going to get here; if this were a case of an editor otherwise not acting sock-like, I'd be a bit hesitant to block, but heightened scrutiny is warranted of those who make a beeline into PIA territory, as they are much more likely to be sox than your run-of-the-mill new editor. Blocked indefinitely as suspected. And while I'm in the neighborhood, blocked GCB's new admirer, {{checkuser|FuzzyMuzzly}}, for joe-jobbing; don't really care who the master is, and I doubt a check would elucidate. <span class="nowrap"> <span style="font-family:courier">-- [[User:Tamzin|<span style="color:#E6007A;">Tamzin</span>]]</span><sup>[''[[User talk:Tamzin|<span style="color:#E6007A;">cetacean needed</span>]]'']</sup> (she|they|xe)</span> 22:48, 20 June 2022 (UTC) |
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* As a note for future reviewers about this account, ArbCom had a 6-0 majority in support of an arbcom block for this account lined up before this filing was made. --[[User:Izno|Izno]] ([[User talk:Izno|talk]]) 23:06, 20 June 2022 (UTC) |
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