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02 April 2014

Suspected sockpuppets

• Restartmission ( talk ⁺ · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · spi block · block log · CA · CheckUser( log) · investigate · cuwiki)
• Scrapeme ( talk ⁺ · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · spi block · block log · CA · CheckUser( log) · investigate · cuwiki)
• Nadexman ( talk ⁺ · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · spi block · block log · CA · CheckUser( log) · investigate · cuwiki)
• JordanTime ( talk ⁺ · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · spi block · block log · CA · CheckUser( log) · investigate · cuwiki)
• Notsosoros ( talk ⁺ · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · spi block · block log · CA · CheckUser( log) · investigate · cuwiki)
• Ambernits ( talk ⁺ · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · spi block · block log · CA · CheckUser( log) · investigate · cuwiki)
• Webgrasp ( talk ⁺ · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · spi block · block log · CA · CheckUser( log) · investigate · cuwiki)

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Whitewashing of Banc de Binary (  | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views), a company with significant regulatory woes. Trivial edits to other pages until autoconfirmed, then suddenly adept at performing massive edits:

• Webgrasp - a few edits to other pages (oddly, I don't think enough to become autoconfirmed?) then nothing but Banc de Binary, massive edits marked minor, repeatedly, claims to be a lawyer.
• Restartmission - a few edits to other pages to get autoconfirmed (and they're all trivial rewording exercises), then Banc de Binary, unexplained text removal.
• Scrapeme - a few edits to other pages to get autoconfirmed (all trivial rewording exercises), then nothing but Banc de Binary. Cuts and pastes one of my edit summaries even though it makes no sense in this context. Claims to be a lawyer (and, if to be believed, was "asked" (by whom?) to look at the page). Also pushing the edge on legal threats policy.
• Nadexman - trivial edits, masiive edit marked minor, Cypriot financial services industry ( Banc de Binary is regulated in Cyprus).
• JordanTime - trivial edits, Banc de Binary, cutting and pasting one of my edit summaries even though it makes no sense in context. Cypriot financial services industry, all about binary options and how marvellously well done the regulation is.
• Notsosoros I'm not so sure about, which is mainly why I've requested checkuser. They have a bona-fide editing history with significant changes, but then they lock onto Banc de Binary, with massive changes marked minor. They're also the oldest account, but the one I'm least sure of, which makes picking who to mark as the alleged sockmaster difficult.

Besides Notsosoros, I've mainly requested checkuser because I hope it might provide a pretty unequivocal answer about some of the other personae. Pinkbeast ( talk) 11:03, 2 April 2014 (UTC) reply

Comments by other users

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There was edit warring by Webgrasp and Notsosoros in late March. Right after Webgrasp got blocked, Notsosoros was also suddenly inactive (auto-block?). Also, the other 4 suspected socks started editing some hours after the block, all within the same 2-hour time frame, all with at least 10 inconspicuous edits to other, unrelated articles. They then all start edit warring a few days later. I find this chain of events pretty suspicious.-- Atlan ( talk) 12:05, 3 April 2014 (UTC) reply

I've added User:Ambernits, who shows the exact same editing pattern.-- Atlan ( talk) 16:23, 3 April 2014 (UTC) reply

Not that I've read every trivial edit, but Ambernits seems to have the dubious distinction of being the first to make a page worse in the course of getting autoconfirmed.

A number of the edits appear coordinated. On 1 April, Nadexman removes 19k of text w/o a summary, Restartmission and JordanTime remove more. I revert all three. Then Scrapeme undoes my edit five minutes later. Nadexman's and Restartmission's edits are five minutes apart. Jim1138 ( talk) 17:32, 3 April 2014 (UTC) reply

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

•  Clerk endorsed - Thanks for the diffs. King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 23:11, 2 April 2014 (UTC) reply
• The following accounts are all  Confirmed socks of each other specifically related to the Bank De Binary and related financial articles:

• OrangeHogs ( talk · contribs)
• TruthFinderZero ( talk · contribs)
• EditMeNowPlease ( talk · contribs)
• Notsosoros ( talk · contribs)
• BinaryOptionFreak ( talk · contribs)
• BigEdit34 ( talk · contribs)
• Midexer ( talk · contribs)
• Nadexman ( talk · contribs)
• JordanTime ( talk · contribs)
• Readmeright ( talk · contribs)
• Ambernits ( talk · contribs)
• JeppsIsTheBest ( talk · contribs)

On the same range I found the following accounts, in addition to this above, that all appear to be the same user:

• Rybecs ( talk · contribs)
• Trainshoot ( talk · contribs)
• Mapworks ( talk · contribs)
• Articlestamp ( talk · contribs)
• Finderkeepers ( talk · contribs)
• Classifications ( talk · contribs)
• Bookhelper ( talk · contribs)
• Classicalnews ( talk · contribs)
• Readmeright ( talk · contribs)
• Workingharder ( talk · contribs)
• Morgabits ( talk · contribs)
• Hogatese ( talk · contribs)
• Undertax ( talk · contribs)
• Embatop ( talk · contribs)
• Applemix ( talk · contribs)
• Korpa ( talk · contribs)
• Warpa ( talk · contribs)
• Jubersity ( talk · contribs)
• Elseinters ( talk · contribs)
• Earlslush ( talk · contribs)
• Spoteinns ( talk · contribs)
• Synodcaras ( talk · contribs)
• Revelberles ( talk · contribs)
• Localsemer ( talk · contribs)
• Acedbody ( talk · contribs)
• Divottamis ( talk · contribs)

I notice that NawlinWiki has blocked a number of the accounts in the second list. Perhaps they have an idea who the master is? For the record, the proposed master, Webgrasp ( talk · contribs) appears to be  Unrelated.-- Jezebel'sPonyo ^{bons mots} 18:28, 3 April 2014 (UTC) reply

• No idea who the sockmaster is - I guess the oldest one of the related accounts, which would be User:Notsosoros. NawlinWiki ( talk) 19:26, 3 April 2014 (UTC) reply
• Moved from Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Webgrasp to Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Notsosoros. All blocked and tagged. Closing. King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 20:12, 3 April 2014 (UTC) reply