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• Sockpuppet investigations/NoCal100/Archive/1

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A long-term abuse case exists at Misplaced Pages:Long-term abuse/NoCal100.

17 May 2011

Suspected sockpuppets

• Red Stone Arsenal (talk · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · spi block · block log · CA · CheckUser(log) · investigate · cuwiki)
• Rym torch (talk · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · spi block · block log · CA · CheckUser(log) · investigate · cuwiki)
• AFolkSingersBeard (talk · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · spi block · block log · CA · CheckUser(log) · investigate · cuwiki)

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Rym torch was blocked as a sock of NoCal 100. New editor Red Stone Arsenal was set up on April 26 and shares Rym torch's obsessive focus on POV issues in articles about Israel. After a flurry of edits on April 26 and 27, Red Stone Arsenal disappeared until May 16, two days after the sock-block of two different NoCal 100 socks, Rym torch and Tzu Zha Men.

The "duck evidence" here is Red Stone Arsenal's familiarity with and following up on a discussion of Start-up Nation at RSN, archived here. This discussion occurred between May 2 and May 5. Rym torch took part but Red Stone Arsenal had made zero edits anywhere between April 27 and May 16, so it is hard to guess how he even knew of the discussion. But he is able to find it in the archive and quote it to support his own view of the discussion.

One early edit was to revert a change by Nableezy, somebody Rym Torch has strikingly feuded with, see Nableezy's complaint at Rym Torch's talk page.

I notice that Roland R suggested Red Stone Arsenal is a sock of User:AFolkSingersBeard, who was banned on April 19 for abusing multiple accounts. I am not familiar enough with that case to make a comparison of the edits involved. What all these editors have in common is that their edits show little interest in building an encyclopedia but much focus on pushing POV into articles about Israel. betsythedevine (talk) 16:52, 17 May 2011 (UTC)

The original investigation ended with a block of the puppeteer, but this suspected sock had by then stopped editing, and was not blocked. It was suggested at the time that AFolkSingersBeard was itself another sock of serial sockpuppeteer Ledenierhomme, though this was not investigated. Unfortunately, Nableezy, who made the suggestion, is currently barred from further discussing this. As has been noted at WP:AE, this restriction on a successful puppet identifier clears the way for more socks to emerge. Over the past couple of days, we have seen a big surge in sockpuppetry on related articles, and it is patently obvious that RSA is a disruptive POV sockpuppet, though whether of NoCal, of AFSB or of LDH is as yet not clear. RolandR (talk) 18:37, 17 May 2011 (UTC)

And Red Stone Arsenal seems to have stopped editing on May 17 as well, so perhaps indirectly this SPI accomplished something. But I do not see why Nableezy should be blocked from sockpuppetry investigations. I have never seen evidence of any disruption in that area, only of general benefit to the project. betsythedevine (talk) 20:54, 23 May 2011 (UTC)

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Sighhh, this was already checked: http://en.wikipedia.org/Wikipedia:Sockpuppet_investigations/AFolkSingersBeard/Archive. Seems betsy ain't here to build an encyclopedia , but to harass those with a different POV. My familairity with the discussion about Start-up Nation stems from the fact that I edited that article before it was even on WP:RSN, and long before betsy ever heard of it. Red Stone Arsenal (talk) 17:41, 17 May 2011 (UTC)

I don't have much expertise at finding old SPI cases, I guess. betsythedevine (talk) 17:45, 17 May 2011 (UTC)

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 Clerk declined This checkuser report have shown that they're unrelated per technical and behaviour evidence. User:betsythedevine, I am having a really tough time believing that you can't find previous cases because it is listed right on the main page with a big search bar and a large button that says "search all cases and archives". All you need to do is paste User:Red Stone Arsenal's name into the search bar and the result pops out. Since betsythedevine and Red Stone Arsenal have opposing POV at Start-up Nation, this case appears to be frivolous.  Clerk note: betsythedevine is hereby cautioned not to abuse the SPI process and treat it as a venue to eliminate others editors with different POV. OhanaUnited 06:23, 25 May 2011 (UTC)

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