Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/WorldCreaterFighter
WorldCreaterFighter
WorldCreaterFighter (talk+ · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · spi block · block log · CA · CheckUser(log) · investigate · cuwiki)
For archived investigations, see Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/WorldCreaterFighter/Archive.
A long-term abuse case exists at Wikipedia:Long-term abuse/WorldCreaterFighter.
03 December 2024
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– A user has requested CheckUser. An SPI clerk will shortly look at the case and endorse or decline the request.
Suspected sockpuppets
[edit]- Wikiuser1314 (talk+ · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · spi block · block log · CA · CheckUser(log) · investigate · cuwiki)
- Tools: Editor interaction utility · Interaction Timeline · SPI Tools
The following evidence was sent to me by email. They wish to remain anonymous but I can confirm they are an editor in good standing on en.wiki. Wikiuser1314 was unblocked as per the consensus of the community at Special:Diff/1259749006. Note that I took Wikiuser1314's request to the community in the first place. At the time, I noted, "As a WP:CHECKUSER, I see no evidence of recent block evasion. I solicited feedback from other checkusers on the cu mailing list but did not get a response." As I'm involved here, I'm leaving the SPI to another checkuser and not looking myself. I'm happy to collaborate if that would be helpful, though. Formatting mistakes are mine alone. Begin copy and paste from email: --Yamla (talk) 19:20, 3 December 2024 (UTC)
- Wikiuser1314 was blocked due to technical & behavioral evidence for being a sockpuppet of globally banned LTA WorldCreaterFighter and then requested SO after 6 months. However, they were actively socking via open-proxies even *WHILE* requesting SO.
- Abusing VPN servers/open proxies to avoid technical detection is a classic sock trick by WCF as mentioned on the LTA page and on numerous SPI cases against them. See this comment by Berean Hunter, this comment by Ponyo and other now blocked open proxies (including non-static ones) [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] ...
- The current sockpuppetry *while* requesting SO:
- The IP sock 103.84.173.134 (an open proxy) that was reverted by Florian Blaschke here.
- Evidences:
- The same topic area / pet topics as WCF or Wikiuser1314 (ancient hunter-gatherer populations, their genetics, etc)
- Identical edits/updates on sandbox by Wikiuser just after a few days. Compare this edit by Wikiuser1314 with this edit by the open proxy (adding/removing exactly the same contents, such as changing the wording "Basal Eurasian" to "Basal Eurasian-like", exact same changes on content by Vallini et al (2024), adding same info re haplotypes highlighting the same Y-DNAs even almost in the same order etc.)
- Using the same "Haplotree Information Project" source for Y-DNA of Iranian hunter gatherers which was reverted here and which was used on Wikiuser1314's sandbox for the Y-DNA of "Iranian hunter-gatherers" long before, see
- Open proxy abuse, just like the LTA
- Looks like WP:DUCK.
- Most probably, they were socking via open-proxies to bypass their latest block long before. See these suspected socks:
End copy-and-paste from email. Yamla (talk) 19:20, 3 December 2024 (UTC)
Additional information from email:
- "These open-proxies edited the pet topics of the same LTA (ANE, Jomon people, etc.) with similar edit summaries. Compare, for example, this edit summary with this one on pet topics of the LTA."
End copy-and-paste. --Yamla (talk) 20:10, 3 December 2024 (UTC)
Comments by other users
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Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments
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Checkuser note:: This was checked back in /Archive#24_March_2024. Is there a particular benefit to rerunning this check that is being sought? -- Amanda (she/her) 20:33, 3 December 2024 (UTC)
