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In short: be it edit style, reference formatting (or rather lack thereof), edit summaries, insults and topics point to a single person, who abuses aforementioned accounts to manipulate sensitive topics with biased edits. I first filed a report at ] and after being informed about many similarities with indef banned ] I decided to request a check on the user here. In short: be it edit style, reference formatting (or rather lack thereof), edit summaries, insults and topics point to a single person, who abuses aforementioned accounts to manipulate sensitive topics with biased edits. I first filed a report at ] and after being informed about many similarities with indef banned ] I decided to request a check on the user here.


:: I made an error: this is not the 2nd but actually the 5th (!) case of Suspected sock puppets of Giovanni Giove! : I made an error: this is not the 2nd but actually the 5th (!) case of Suspected sock puppets of Giovanni Giove!
:: I added ]: just 100 edits but these are only in Italian WWII military topics (and at that: the usual ones: Tobruk, El Alamein,...) also he copies text that Generalmesse wrote directly

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Revision as of 12:22, 25 June 2008

User:Giovanni Giove 2nd

Suspected sockpuppeteer

Giovanni Giove (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log)

Suspected sockpuppets

Generalmesse (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log)
RadioBerlin (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log)
Captainantoniocorelli (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log)
Flylikeadodo (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log)
Steyr2007 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log)
MedagliaD'Oro (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log)
Drunkgeneral (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log)
Solarinoridge (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log)
User:Romaioi (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log)

an IP probably associated with the above
144.138.1.184 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log)

likely socks but to few edits to prove (yet):
Michaelsweatt (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log)
Rasputin65 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log)

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--noclador (talk) 08:43, 25 June 2008 (UTC)


Evidence
  • strong nationalist POV pushing of always the same (false) claim that "7th Bersaglieri Regiment took 6500 POWs at Mersa Matruth" 1st by Generalmesse, 2 by Steyr2007, 3 by Flylikeadodo
  • strong nationalist POV pushing in topics dealing with WWII battles with Italian participation or as he says: I have done much to rectify their image as "poor fighters"
  • this being the only topic that seems to be of interest to the users
  • all above are discussion resistant - if they head to a discussion page: insults, threats and lots of anger at "official allied historians" "that were embarrassed to admit defeat when Italians were involved" an example by Solarinoridge
  • none of the above signs comments
  • this: Generalmesse creates User Radio Berlin
  • all are experts at using google book search - i.e like Captainantoniocorelli whose third and last edit uses a google book by Tim Ripley as source Captainantoniocorelli and exactly the same book is used by RadioBerlin
  • insults - i.e. this one - also this is the 1. edit in six months and it exactly supports the opinion of the above and insults User:Kirrages and me - or this one insulting User:Nick Dowling and another insult
  • all have a very aggressive and threatening ton in their comments
  • his primary sources are: "Radio Berlin" (during WWII - go figure! what a neutral source!) "Radio Rome" or even worse: "The three Italian divisions have held their own through the rigours of winter, which was particularly bitter for them," Hitler told the German Reichstag" (in April 1942) - he uses that (!) as a source to prove that Italians fought bravely during WWII
  • if he is not pushing nationalist POV he is trying to justify the Dirty War in Argentina by quoting official (!) 1980 documents published by the perpetrating junta to describe the "danger" of the Argentine left... = same pattern of sourcing as he does with Radio Berlin and Radio Rome
  • If one begins a "discussion" another of the above socks continues it: Generalmesse & RadioBerlin (this edit also connects RadioBerlin to Drunkgeneral who both indulge in some obscure platoon positions ("R.3, R.4, R.5, R.6 and R.7") in the Battle of Tobruk Drunkgeneral and this would not be complete with Generalmese immediately chiping in with the same info as well here
  • always it is Australians, British and New Zealanders that lie about the "heroic Italians" this one comes from 144.138.1.184
  • a common love to add prisoner of war numbers (like trophies taken) - as well as inflating prisoner numbers by 500 on a whim 1 2

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Comments

In short: be it edit style, reference formatting (or rather lack thereof), edit summaries, insults and topics point to a single person, who abuses aforementioned accounts to manipulate sensitive topics with biased edits. I first filed a report at Misplaced Pages:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents#sock master User:Generalmesse and after being informed about many similarities with indef banned user:Giovanni Giove I decided to request a check on the user here.

I made an error: this is not the 2nd but actually the 5th (!) case of Suspected sock puppets of Giovanni Giove!
I added User:Romaioi: just 100 edits but these are only in Italian WWII military topics (and at that: the usual ones: Tobruk, El Alamein,...) also he copies text that Generalmesse wrote directly into other articles
Conclusions