TEntEn4279 - HA! That's funny! The username came back as promotional to me because I did find a golf Hotel located in India when searching. That's why it has this exact block. Thanks for pinging me about this; I was unaware that the username was part of a sock puppet ring. Given what I've just read in this SPI, the NATO phonetic alphabet is clearly what this username was using :-)
~Oshwah~(talk)(contribs)12:17, 22 August 2017 (UTC)reply
Golfhotelindia and Juliettkilolima are already blocked as sockpuppets of another master. As for the others, as
Amanda alias DeltaQuad says, there is very little to compare here on enwiki. Nevertheless, combining what little behavioural evidence there is with the "possilikely" CU result, the user name similarity, and the Chinese Wikipedia results, I am convinced that they are all the same person. However, I am not sure whether it is justified to block them, because as far as I can see the editor has not used the multiple accounts abusively on English Wikipedia. I am leaving this investigation open, to see whether anyone else has any comment to make concerning that. It is possible that, even among such a small number of edits, there is something abusive there that I have missed. The editor who uses the pseudonym "
JamesBWatson" (
talk)
20:27, 18 September 2017 (UTC)reply
Blocking the remaining three accounts per
[1][2], the naming similarities, and the fact that
ZEdzEd3168 is blocked, so this is evading. Clerk assistance requested: Please merge the two cases. ~
Rob13Talk18:04, 11 October 2017 (UTC)reply
I'll be interested in this CU result. For the record, there is a
LTA page for Dragoon17cc at the Chinese Wikipedia, which doesn't seem to be mentioned in this SPI archive. It appears that the connection between Dragoon17cc and ZEdzEd3168 (previously TEntEn4279) were never directly linked; rather, they have been connected through accounts that are related to Dragoon17cc.
Alex Shih (
talk)
06:44, 20 February 2018 (UTC)reply
For such a short archive, the history of this case is remarkably confusing. Both of the accounts above have been blocked. Putting aside the Chinese wiki, which I have not and will not look at, I don't see any finding that these two accounts were confirmed to each other. We don't reopen SPIs to handle appeals by blocked editors. Although a CU was not requested here properly, it's obvious one is wanted. Such a request can be made at either or both of the users' Talk pages. Closing.--
Bbb23 (
talk)
14:13, 20 February 2018 (UTC)reply
TEntEn4279 - HA! That's funny! The username came back as promotional to me because I did find a golf Hotel located in India when searching. That's why it has this exact block. Thanks for pinging me about this; I was unaware that the username was part of a sock puppet ring. Given what I've just read in this SPI, the NATO phonetic alphabet is clearly what this username was using :-)
~Oshwah~(talk)(contribs)12:17, 22 August 2017 (UTC)reply
Golfhotelindia and Juliettkilolima are already blocked as sockpuppets of another master. As for the others, as
Amanda alias DeltaQuad says, there is very little to compare here on enwiki. Nevertheless, combining what little behavioural evidence there is with the "possilikely" CU result, the user name similarity, and the Chinese Wikipedia results, I am convinced that they are all the same person. However, I am not sure whether it is justified to block them, because as far as I can see the editor has not used the multiple accounts abusively on English Wikipedia. I am leaving this investigation open, to see whether anyone else has any comment to make concerning that. It is possible that, even among such a small number of edits, there is something abusive there that I have missed. The editor who uses the pseudonym "
JamesBWatson" (
talk)
20:27, 18 September 2017 (UTC)reply
Blocking the remaining three accounts per
[1][2], the naming similarities, and the fact that
ZEdzEd3168 is blocked, so this is evading. Clerk assistance requested: Please merge the two cases. ~
Rob13Talk18:04, 11 October 2017 (UTC)reply
I'll be interested in this CU result. For the record, there is a
LTA page for Dragoon17cc at the Chinese Wikipedia, which doesn't seem to be mentioned in this SPI archive. It appears that the connection between Dragoon17cc and ZEdzEd3168 (previously TEntEn4279) were never directly linked; rather, they have been connected through accounts that are related to Dragoon17cc.
Alex Shih (
talk)
06:44, 20 February 2018 (UTC)reply
For such a short archive, the history of this case is remarkably confusing. Both of the accounts above have been blocked. Putting aside the Chinese wiki, which I have not and will not look at, I don't see any finding that these two accounts were confirmed to each other. We don't reopen SPIs to handle appeals by blocked editors. Although a CU was not requested here properly, it's obvious one is wanted. Such a request can be made at either or both of the users' Talk pages. Closing.--
Bbb23 (
talk)
14:13, 20 February 2018 (UTC)reply