Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Fatuouslemon/Archive


Fatuouslemon

16 December 2014
Suspected sockpuppets



Edit war at Vocativ. -- DQ (ʞlɐʇ) 17:31, 16 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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  •  Confirmed:
Elephanttransfusion (talk+ · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · spi block · block log · CA · CheckUser(log· investigate · cuwiki)
54the479 (talk+ · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · spi block · block log · CA · CheckUser(log· investigate · cuwiki)
Matthiaslockington (talk+ · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · spi block · block log · CA · CheckUser(log· investigate · cuwiki)
Ostrichofthegods (talk+ · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · spi block · block log · CA · CheckUser(log· investigate · cuwiki)
13f12fortnight (talk+ · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · spi block · block log · CA · CheckUser(log· investigate · cuwiki)
9304560bxc (talk+ · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · spi block · block log · CA · CheckUser(log· investigate · cuwiki)
Tempestinateacup (talk+ · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · spi block · block log · CA · CheckUser(log· investigate · cuwiki)
Fatuouslemon (talk+ · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · spi block · block log · CA · CheckUser(log· investigate · cuwiki)
-- DQ (ʞlɐʇ) 17:31, 16 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

19 March 2015
Suspected sockpuppets

On the page Vocativ, there is a very long history of disruptive editing. Initially, though this predates my time on the page, it appears that Fatuouslemon (see here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Sockpuppet_investigations/Fatuouslemon/Archive) was brought here for using sockpuppetry on the Vocativ page, with an effort to create an attack page about the company. This resulted in the blocking of User:54the479 and User:Ostrichofthegods, and several other accounts. The page was then put on page protection until January 16, 2015, during which there were no disruptive edits. Almost immediately following the 16th of January, when the page protection was lifted, IP 72.225.166.147 began pushing nearly identical edits, not about Vocativ itself, but about tangentially related companies in a highly negative manner: such as this. Following this an SPA appeared to delete some of the IP's efforts, and then Largeinthehipsroomy first appeared on the page (registering then and only editing Vocativ), having made no previous edits there. Largeinthehipsroomy's efforts consisted of returning material that had been placed on the page by previous socks, for example, see here: Ostritchofthegods placing material accusing Vocativ owner of theft and Largeinthehipsroomy returning identical language to the page. Some of this was removed by Tinywings in the following edit. A later edit by User:Kiopwatusyu here mirrored the behaviour of Largeinthehipsroomy. Other SPAs such as User:Tal shretyoial897 continued to revert to an attack version of the page as you can see in their edit history, specific only to 3 edits on Vocativ.

On March 2nd, User:Trixleworks was created, and has since only edited Vocativ, basically reverting any attempt to remove ill-sourced negative material from the page. Until March 9th this was largely just an edit war between SPAs, with people merely reverting each other using content that was originated by the socks of Fatuouslemon. Instead of reverting, I entered the page and edited down the content, removing incorrect sources and Original Research, going through every inch of the work the potential socks were reverting to instead of assuming it was merely an attack page. This led to Largeinthehipsroomy and Trixleworks taking turns reverting the content without discussion, which I tried to encourage on the Vocativ talk page. Usterday (talk) 15:01, 19 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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  • It seems that there are two different organizations or groups involved in editing the article. Nngalachjsdfiqer removed some of the content added by Largeinthehipsroomy. Also, these two comments show that one party is aware of the other. (1, 2) I've split off a second case for the other group here. It appears that Kiopwatusyu (3) and Tal shretyoial897 (4) are related to this case because of the insistence that Vocativ has relations with Israeli intelligence, as also seen with Largeinthehipsroomy (5) and Trixleworks (6). Mike VTalk 19:24, 20 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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