Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Highstakes00

Highstakes00

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20 January 2015

– This SPI case is closed and will be archived shortly by an SPI clerk or checkuser.

Suspected sockpuppets

• TheSawTooth (talk⁺ · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · spi block · block log · CA · CheckUser(log) · investigate · cuwiki)

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Very bad in English. Pointing that how he came "first"[1],[2] obsessed with edit warring over maintenance tags[3][4] [5][6] with WP:TWINKLE software. Often misspelled "don't" as "dn".[7] [8] Previous SPI and block of last sock was based on behavioral similarity. OccultZone (Talk • Contributions • Log) 14:53, 20 January 2015 (UTC)

Highstakes00 had abused an IP for edit warring, like we can view in the archive.[9] In those days he had abused an IP(39.47.46.80[10] [11]) and during the last month, he was alleged by other editor to have abused an IP(223.29.225.35[12][13]) on Battle of Chawinda, both of these IPs comes from Islamabad[14][15], even the latitude(33.69) is same. OccultZone (Talk • Contributions • Log) 16:06, 20 January 2015 (UTC)

Pinging RegentsPark, Floquenbeam, who dealt with him before. OccultZone (Talk • Contributions • Log) 16:06, 20 January 2015 (UTC)

@Mike V: If you agree that 39.47.46.80 (talk · contribs · WHOIS) was blocked because Highstakes00 was socking, you must know that from yesterday, same kind of dynamic IP[16] is now changing the results of 2001–02 India–Pakistan standoff and Battle of Chawinda(where TheSawTooth was mostly active).[17][18] Why it couldn't be done before? Why it was only yesterday when TheSawTooth actually got back after 18 days? Also if you read the conversations that are made by Highstakes00 and TheSawTooth, you would find them very sloppy, it looks like that same person is speaking. And the evidence above, that he always point out how he came "first", and misspells "don't" as "dn". OccultZone (Talk • Contributions • Log) 04:39, 21 January 2015 (UTC)

He has abused his IP also on Operation Zarb-e-Azb, for edit warring.[19][20][21][22][23] Just like Highstakes00 did.[24][25][26] [27] [28] His tendency is to edit war with an IP address, whenever he would find himself near violating WP:3RR. OccultZone (Talk • Contributions • Log) 04:50, 21 January 2015 (UTC)

With this account and mostly with IPs, he was edit warring with Saadkhan12345[29][30][31] and Krzyhorse22[32] on Operation Zarb-e-Azb, he wasn't reverting the edits of any other editor like Faizan,[33] maybe because Faizan had disagreements with SaadKhan and Kryzyhorse. OccultZone (Talk • Contributions • Log) 05:55, 21 January 2015 (UTC)

Needlessly capitalizing words[34],[35][36] he consider "removal" to be same as "delete".[37],[38][39] OccultZone (Talk • Contributions • Log)

Has made objectionable edits on a number of pages, where he's sure that his edit would be removed quickly[40][41][42], such as Operation Dwarka[43], [44], Gilgit–Baltistan[45][46] and others, even with an IP he misspells "don't" as "dn"..[47] OccultZone (Talk • Contributions • Log) 05:55, 21 January 2015 (UTC)

Comments by other users

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Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

• I got the ping above, but I'm afraid I'm of no use; I evidently blocked Highstakes00 indef back in 2012, but I don't recall any of the details. Sorry. --Floquenbeam (talk) 22:29, 20 January 2015 (UTC)
• The checkuser data is stale for the past accounts, so a check can't be performed. I don't think the evidence presented is strong enough to make a block based upon behavior. Mike V • Talk 04:32, 21 January 2015 (UTC)
  • Thanks for providing additional evidence. I'll take a further look tomorrow. Mike V • Talk 04:53, 21 January 2015 (UTC)
• I haven't much to contribute directly and, unfortunately, @Darkness Shines: is no longer with us though @Salvio giuliano: might have something to say. The Battle of Chawinda has been a battle zone so socks are definitely likely and OccultZones evidence, though circumstantial, does seem compelling on the face of it. The editing pattern, the language, all seem similar. --regentspark (comment) 13:36, 21 January 2015 (UTC)
• I've looked over the diffs provided and I now think it's likely that TheSawTooth is a sock of Highstakes00 and I've blocked the account. Mike V • Talk 18:14, 21 January 2015 (UTC)

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