Wikipedia:Suspected sock puppets/Gazh

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[edit] User:Gazh

Suspected sockpuppeteer

Gazh (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log)

Suspected sockpuppets

YESYESandmanygoals (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log)

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Lurker (said · done) 13:30, 10 October 2007 (UTC)

Evidence

YESYESandmanygoals seems to be mainly used for posting on talk pages, often trolling or just plain bizarre. User:YESYESandmanygoals contains anti-Scottish trolling. This could be a case of a good hand/bad hand account, as the Gazh account itself is often concerned with more serious discussion on issues such as Englishness etc.

These diffs show these accounts makign the same change to the Braveheart article- [1] and [2].

The following diff seems to show the user outing himself as a sockpuppet (in his own words- he dropped a clanger) and trying to correct the mistake- [3].

Comments

I control YESESandmanygoals through telepathy, his real name is Yegov and he is originally from Sofia, Bulgaria. *rolls eyes* Gazh 15:14, 10 October 2007 (UTC)

Comment. I've spent about ten minutes to investigate. It looks like there's a content dispute on the article where both users made the same revert; it doesn't mean they're the same person. (They did it three days apart, so there would have been no violation of 3RR.) My analysis of editing habits, writing style, edit summary usage is inconclusive: maybe they're the same person, and maybe not. It's really difficult to make a determination. The "clanger" which is the last piece of evidence, and which turned Lurker on to this case, is also inconclusive: maybe Gazh was just fooling around and not trying to hide anything. My advice: do a checkuser if you want, but otherwise assume that these folks are unrelated. Shalom (Hello • Peace) 04:07, 11 October 2007 (UTC)

Here an anonymous IP is admitting sockpuppetting. Meanwhile Yesyesetc. posted this message on his user page. Lurker (said · done) 11:39, 12 October 2007 (UTC)

Intresting enough the two accounts both are editing celtic related subjects and are both editing North east england related topics however, same accounts or not there is no violation of WP:SOCK going on here and certainly no participation in the same dicussions whatsoever or to sway the opinions of other users. The sunder king 20:02, 16 October 2007 (UTC)

Conclusions

I think it is possible these are the same people, but maybe not. I feel there is insufficient evidence. Furthermore, as "the sunder king" points out, there's no real violation of WP:SOCK here, not vote stacking, no serious edit warring, etc. Hence, I'm closing this case. Rlevse 01:43, 20 October 2007 (UTC)