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::{{clerk-note}} Has the evidence been sent to the functionaries? Yes or no will do here. ''']'''] 16:26, 27 May 2009 (UTC) | ::{{clerk-note}} Has the evidence been sent to the functionaries? Yes or no will do here. ''']'''] 16:26, 27 May 2009 (UTC) | ||
:It has been sent to me, and I have forwarded it to the functionaries with permission. -- ] (]) 16:39, 27 May 2009 (UTC) | :It has been sent to me, and I have forwarded it to the functionaries with permission. -- ] (]) 16:39, 27 May 2009 (UTC) | ||
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Based on behavioral evidence provided above and to the functionaries list including both topical and chronological editing patterns, confirmed by the geolocation of the IPs used, I have blocked Gwinndeith indefinitely as a sock of Molobo, and have blocked Molobo for a year for abusing sockpuppets. Should this be felt by the project to be worthy of the reinstatement of Molobo's indef block, I suggest it be taken to ] or the like. -- ] (]) 23:50, 31 May 2009 (UTC) | |||
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Molobo
Molobo (talk · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · spi block · block log · CA · CheckUser(log) · investigate · cuwiki)
Populated account categories: confirmed
For archived investigations, see Misplaced Pages:Sockpuppet investigations/Molobo/Archive.
Prior SSP or RFCU cases may exist for this user:
Report date May 5 2009, 09:28 (UTC)
- Suspected sockpuppets
- Gwinndeith (talk · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · spi block · block log · CA · CheckUser(log) · investigate · cuwiki)
- Peterlewis (talk · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · spi block · block log · CA · CheckUser(log) · investigate · cuwiki)
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The account user:Gwinndeith was created on 6 Feb 2009. From the account, a few edits were made throughout February and early March devoted primarily to removing German names from Poland-related articles (e.g. , , ) before engaging in disruptive editing at Center Against Expulsions. The editing pattern in this "dispute", in which I was the "opposing" party indicated that the user is not as new to wiki as the account, see e.g. his/her wikilawyering. While the respective AN/I thread did not result in admin action, user:Sciurinae suggested the account being a sockpuppet of user:Molobo, an account dedicated to "the Polish cause" primarily in respect to Germany that a while ago was put under editing restriction to avoid a permaban. After the disruption at Center Against Expulsions had come to an end, the account was quiet for about a month, with the exception of two edits. When massive editing from the account continued on 28 April, it focussed on prominently mentioning German air force atrocities in Poland in the lead of Strategic bombing during World War II , showing some analogy to a dispute user:Molobo had with user:Dapi89 . In the latter dispute, Molobo reported Dapi89 at the AE board; Gwinndeith joined reports of his foremost opponent in the "Strategic..." article, user:Npovshark, on the 3RR board . In between these edits, Gwinndeith, joined an edit war at the Pszenno article, removing historical German names . This edit war combined with some related disputes made it to the AE board , and although Gwinndeith has not (yet?) joined in, the account is already mentioned there by user:Radeksz, who after a Gwinndeith diff says "and honestly I have no idea who Gwinndeith is". Neither do I, that's why I post my concerns here for investigation:
Skäpperöd (talk) 09:28, 5 May 2009 (UTC) I have had similar problems with his dubious use of sources and unsourced edits. Please cheack the History of the Luftwaffe (1933–1945) page. I thought the user Peterlewis, who appeared not long afterwards, and put this unsourced information into the article might be the said user. Also here, using the newspaper (a notorious one) known as the Daily Mail to support information added to the Wehrmacht article. In the next edit the user Peterlewis once again turns up. Although no reversal was made. The complaint made about me in relation to this was erroneous and was just revenge to get back at me for calling him on this. By far the most interesting relationship between two editors is the one Molobo has with user:Piotrus who seems to jump to his defence, "come what may". Dapi89 (talk) 14:39, 6 May 2009 (UTC) |
- Evidence submitted by Sciurinæ
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I have already asked via email to Jpgordon for CU in late March, who replied that CU data was "useless" and recommended a content-analysis although he said he had no time for that. I suggest not to forget that "CheckUser is not magic wiki pixie dust. Almost all queries about IPs will be because two editors were behaving the same way or an editor was behaving in a way that appears suggestive of possible disruption. An editing pattern match is the important thing; the IP match is really just extra evidence (or not)." That's also what the SPI template suggest. It took Molobo a brushed-away case of sockpuppetry () to figure out about IP matches anyway. But that chance was missed because it was too late. For more evidence, also of former sockpuppets, please contact me. Here is the article-related evidence I can submit publicly (for the rest, please contact me):
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- Evidence by User:nixeagle
See http://toolserver.org/~eagle/molobo1.txt for a comparison of edits and timestamps between molobo and Gwinndeith. One should note that at no time do the two accounts ever edit any closer then about 1 hour and 10 minutes apart and frequently edit on different days. Take what you will from it but most users have edits closer then that, especially if they edit the same topics. (And these are from the same country as established by CU). —— nixeagle 03:20, 28 May 2009 (UTC)
- Comments by accused parties See Defending yourself against claims.
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I am confident that the people involved will be able to clearly discern that I and Gwinndeith are two different users. For starters I am engaged in expanding articles using sourced and referenced material with new information. I have yet see Gwinndeith doing the same. Using non-verifable "evidence" that can't be shown to the person accused is of course hardly acceptable. How am I to defend myself in such situtation ? Based on the fact that throghout the years I have been subject to various forms of stalking and abuse(including but not limited to death threat(I am no drama queen, and I am not making big deal about it-it happened thankfully only once) and attempts to gain personal information about my location) based on my dedication to write about Nazi and Soviet atrocities I would certainly oppose anything not based on Misplaced Pages(thus not verifiable) and anything that I can't defend myself with. SPI rules are clear that the accuser should show wiki diff link, and verifable information: http://en.wikipedia.org/Wikipedia:Sockpuppet_investigations/SPI/Guidance
You do not have to defend yourself against other claims, however bad, or engage in discussion about them, other than to note the claim is not relevant to sock puppetry. Claims and issues that are not relevant to account and IP abuse will almost always be ignored by the clerks and checkusers, and will often be removed. I would like also to point that I would prefer to avoid engaging in wastefull discussion as I prefer to engage in editing and expanding articles. User Scinurea has time and time attacked me with several conspiracy theories and personal attacks, which in my view are bordering on personal obsession about my person, and I do not wish to be engaged in that kind of debate. My only experience with Scinurea in articles was his attempts to delete sourced information about atrocities and repressive measures of German state throughout the history( after which he became increasingly agressive to my person. I would caution against his judgment about my person. In conclusion:I remain confident that both analysis(if needed) of the other user edits and any check will show that we are not the same, and the accusations will be cleared. Thank you and kind regards. --Molobo (talk) 16:11, 10 May 2009 (UTC)
The above emotional outbursts by Nightbeast/Scinurea should raise clear concern about neutrality of material produced by the user. He has a long history of conflict with Polish editors, which mainly focused on trying to remove information about genocide, war crimes, discrimination in German history(example:Removal of information and links to Herero Genocide made by German Empire in article calling it irrelevant to history). As evidence here and if needed on other pages this is combined with emotional attitude. Is any "secret evidence" reliable if produced by such user ? The last time Scinurea/Nightbeast(his former nickname) presented "evidence" it consisted of conspiracy theory that I belong to transhumanist/far right/plot to smear Germans by writing alternate history As you may guess it wasn't taken seriously. I certainly would be dissapointed if anybody from clerks would take Scinurea claims as 'evidence' if they will amount to the same conspiracy theories. Afterwards he claimed several times that I use sockpuppets and should be punished. At the same time he now claims "IP check won't show anything". Of course it won't since I don't use sockpuppets at all. However I wouldn't be surprised if this isn't a coordinated effort to block me by users who have for long time debated among themselfs how to "Stop" me. It isn't a big secret both Scinurea and Skapperod worked together and Skapperod has offline personal contact with Scinurea. Of course it doesn't mean they should be blamed for that -there were several cases where other German people had complained that my work should be stopped. However note how quickly Scinurea came up with detailed analysis how I am suppposedly connected to Gwinndeit based on edits I made five years ago based on couple of edits-and I made thousands of such edits. Essentially you could find similiar edits with many more users. This is what makes me hightly sceptical of his "secret" evidence. What guarentee we have it is not manufactered by him or some other person-who for long time have been thinking of "Stopping" me. Here are some valid points I am worried about: 1. I do not believe Scinurea/Nightbeast can be considered a reliable source of information-his past accusations bordered on strange conspiracy charges and presenting any internet user labeled by him as having my views to be me, basing on non-verifable non-Wiki websites, combined with personal attacks and insults: Just a sample showing how emotional and personal Scinurae takes his attempts to block and insult me : After I reported Nazi propaganda book used as source for Polish history by Skapperod, Scinurea posted this long text on my page with such sentences such as "your..trying to stick a proverbial knife gently into another user's body is not new to me" "Simply dismissing a smear attack as a smear attack will not remove the stench" "only accusations of a tag team under Piotrus are frequent and substantial" "Critics of your conduct who represent a danger to your agenda are to be character-assassinated as anti-Polish" Can "secret evidence" by fully trusthworthy in view of the personal and emotional attitude that in my view is agressive of the user pushing it's use ? Please note that all edits of Scinurea contain claims of sockpuppets of mine, that he will later try to use against me. The standard procedure is that a account is created, makes a few edits. Scinurea comes in, claiming it is my sockpuppet and I should get finally blocked.
3. My IP is not a very big secret, Scinurea knows it very well and reveals this in the long conspiracy thread posted here As I am not a programmer-is there anything that can be done to a person once his IP is known that manipulate the checkuser or investigation ? I do know that basic ability is required to gain whereabouts of my location. 4. The level of stalking I get from German-users is very big-I have received death threats before due to my activity, and my name is posted as well as insulted on several forums by German users(if needed I can post this publicly-it was from a member of German minority in Poland) It could be that somebody's worked really hard to create 'secret evidence' that would help to "stop me". 5.Sciunrea already knows that the IP check won't show anything. Why is he certain the checkuser won't show my IP but somebody's else? 6. Please note that both Scinurea and Skapperod are in personal contact and Skapperod did inform Scinurea to inform admin about "secret evidence". What is interesting is that it happened just after Skapperod traveled back from a short trip from somewhere. 7. What is especially worrying is that Scinurea and Skapperod-both very POV editors in conflict with others can now ban anybody opposing their POV in articles-simply declare the other user is my sockpuppet. Checkuser doesn' show anything ? That won't be a problem. Scinurea can provide "secret evidence" in order to ban the user. Nobody needs to imagine how abusive such procedure would be. I could just as well claim several German editors are sockpuppets-since they too make similiar edits on Polish articles like Polish users make among themselves.
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I can only repeat myself: Gwinndeith is clearly yet another sockpuppet of User:Molobo, who always gets away with it. If you or a neutral admin wants convincing evidence, I can email it. Sciurinæ (talk) 13:30, 5 May 2009 (UTC)
@Radeksz:"As Skapperod mentions above, I really don't know who this user is and only seen her/him in a few places (I haven't had that much interaction with Molobo either" - yes, this shows and may explain why you are defending him... --Thorsten1 (talk) 15:04, 19 May 2009 (UTC)
Four comments:
While I'm at it, here's some more finds: Both Molobo and Gwinndeith like to change "Cracow" into "Kraków": . Not that there's anything wrong with it in itself ("Cracow" is indeed dated), but in this context it may be an instructive piece of circumstantial evidence. (Interestingly, the Gwinndeith diff also shows the removal of the words "German" in any even remotely positive sense, another habit of Molobo's.) Incidentally, also the misspelling "irrelevent", another Moloboism (, crops up here... --Thorsten1 (talk) 15:04, 19 May 2009 (UTC)
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Having seen Sciurinæ's non-publicized evidence, which I'm sure he will share with any CU or Arb that takes an interest, there can be little doubt that Gwinndeith (as well as banned Koretek) are sockpuppets of Molobo. The chances of it being otherwise are very slim. As a result, Molobo should be banned from wikipedia for at least a year if not permanently. If it is necessary for it to stick, an ArbCom motion amending Eastern European disputes/Piotrus 2 to that effect should be sought. I know of few other users with a history as bad as Molobo's; he's already served a year ban for previous offences and has escaped permanent bans several times since. The records of other users in the area, such as Boodlesthecat, Gregoryparkavenue and Kuban kazak, all currently serving one year bans, are almost exemplary in comparison to Molobo's. That he is still continuing to edit with no respect for our rules and for our principles of collaboration is the final straw. Enough should really be enough here. Deacon of Pndapetzim (Talk) 10:48, 21 May 2009 (UTC)
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- Principled objection by Digwuren
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As somebody who has been on the receiving end of a bogus checkuser request before, I object to the unprecedented use of secret, unchallengeable evidence in these proceedings in the strongest terms possible. Everybody can make mistakes, and checkusers are not immune to this (and I do speak from experience here). ΔιγουρενΕμπρος! 20:10, 23 May 2009 (UTC)
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- Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments
- I'm analyzing this case. AdjustShift (talk) 06:55, 13 May 2009 (UTC)
- Clerk note: I have generated a report to assist in analysis. Synergy 12:03, 13 May 2009 (UTC)
- I've asked AdjustShift for an update on his analysis. Nathan 00:27, 19 May 2009 (UTC)
- I'm analyzing the Sciurinæ's evidence. The evidence is strong. AdjustShift (talk) 00:44, 19 May 2009 (UTC)
- Note:
I'll be closing this case on 24 May 2009. I'm analyzing this case very carefully. I've analyzed Molobo's edits carefully. I've also analyzed past disputes such as Misplaced Pages:Requests for arbitration/Eastern European disputes. The evidence provided by Sciurinæ is strong, and I would like to thank him for his work.Other editors can give their input on the talk page. AdjustShift (talk) 14:57, 19 May 2009 (UTC)I'll be closing this case on 29 May 2009.AdjustShift (talk) 01:56, 23 May 2009 (UTC)- Clerk note: This case will be closed by a clerk, after the CUs have reviewed all the evidence. Mayalld (talk) 14:43, 27 May 2009 (UTC)
- Clerk note: As I've already noted on the case talk page, this case has turned into an unmitigated trainwreck, and a shining example of how badly things can go wrong in SPI if we try to mess around with the system.
- The evidence (or in some cases opinion masquerading as evidence) has been voluminous in the extreme, as have the extensive rebutals, and counter-rebutals (and so on ad-infinitum). If ever there was a case of quantity over quality!!
- Attempts to drag the case off into a tit-for-tat mudslinging contest were met with take it to the case talk page instead of this isn't remotely relevant, please feel free to vent to your cat/dog/gerbil instead of on-wiki
- Having filled the talk page full of utter dross, we then started hiving off some of the evidence there as well, fragmenting the case, and making it into a positive nightmare to deal with.
- Then we have various people alluding to some "sooper sekrit" evidence that may have been seen by a CU or somebody on arbcom, but "anyway, the details aren't important, it's secret, and very convincing, so that's that". Well, no, sorry that isn't that. If a case contains secret evidence, then frankly it will not do to have various people "in the know" commenting about the quality of the unseen evidence (I haven't seen the supposed evidence, and I don't wish to). If there is evidence that must remain secret, then that evidence can be presented to arbcom/CU and we go with their view of the evidence, not the assurance of some arbitrary subset of "in-the know" editors. Unless and until somebody points to a CU/arbcom member who will give a definitive view of what the secret evidence says, it isn't evidence at all.
- I have collapsed huge amounts of stuff from the talk page as irrelevant. If I have collapsed anything that is actually evidence, any user is welcome to bring it to this page as evidence. Be warned, however, that any user who continues the mudslinging either here or on the talk page will be asked to cease contributing to this case per SPI procedures. Mayalld (talk) 15:30, 26 May 2009 (UTC)
{{RFCU}} is deprecated. Please change the case status parameter in {{SPI case status}} to "CURequest" instead.
- Checkuser request – code letter: F (Other reason )
- Pasting up a checkuser request and endorsing to see if we can't get this case moving along. It's not clear if a CU wasn't requested because there is reason to believe it wouldn't be effective, but given how this case has progressed (please see the talkpage also for additional argumentation and discussion of evidence) a CU result should attach to the outcome either way. Nathan 15:51, 25 May 2009 (UTC)
- This would be useful to establish if puppetry is not implausible. The unpublished evidence makes it highly likely that Molobo and the now unCUable Koretek were the same user, and I'm assuming someone did a CU check during the Piotrus 2 ArbCom hearing. As no action was taken on Molobo then, the CU evidence must have fallen short of proof. Because of the problems publishing this evidence, I think Adjustshift or Sciurinae should forward the evidence to the CU that takes this and the latter can use his own judgment based upon both. Deacon of Pndapetzim (Talk) 16:03, 25 May 2009 (UTC)
- Conclusions
Based strictly on technical evidence:
- Unrelated - Peterlewis is in a different country than the other two users.
- Unlikely - Molobo & Gwinndeith are in the same country but consistently access from different ISP pools, thus I would say it's unlikely they are socks. --Versageek 03:04, 27 May 2009 (UTC)
- I was asked to look into this, and I confirm Versageek's technical findings regarding Peterlewis. Regarding the other two, I would slightly upgrade the findings to Possible as although they different IP pools, they geolocate to the same region in the country and one provider seems to be exclusively a mobile provider and the other seems to be a regular provider (I don't know Polish), which may be exploited by the same person. However, there is no technical evidence indicating that it is likely; any connection would have to be determined based on a behavioral analysis. -- Avi (talk) 03:47, 27 May 2009 (UTC)
- AdjustShift asked me took at GW and MO and technically they are not related. But of course it's easy to stitch up the system YellowMonkey (cricket calendar poll!) 04:13, 28 May 2009 (UTC)
- Deferred Versageek/Avraham. Based on the technical evidence, and the behavioural evidence made public, there is no case at present, but waiting on CU review of other evidence. Mayalld (talk) 14:41, 27 May 2009 (UTC)
- Mayalld, have you seen the off-wiki evidences? If not you are not in a position to make the above comment. AdjustShift (talk) 14:58, 27 May 2009 (UTC)
- I have not seen the evidence, and have no wish to do so. I stand by my comment that based on the technical evidence from CU, and the behavioural evidence made public there is no case. That is a perfectly valid comment, and explicitly allows for the fact that the secret evidence may affect that view. The case has been deferred to the CUs to reach a determination on whether the "secret" evidence makes a case. Their decision on that matter will be what matters. Mayalld (talk) 15:08, 27 May 2009 (UTC)
- Agree with mayalld, based on what is here and the cu results, there is not much of a case here. Of course the other evidence can change that, but that is best forwarded to functionaries-l or somewhere where the CUs can handle. This is the first case in the history of WP:SPI that depends on secret behavior evidence, and I think that is partly why this case has gone off track so much. SPI functions in a way that everything is reviewable by every other interested party (with exception of actual CU evidnece, for privacy reasons), the secret behavior evidence hinders that and is partly why this case has gone off the rails. —— nixeagle 15:14, 27 May 2009 (UTC)
- Mayalld, have you seen the off-wiki evidences? If not you are not in a position to make the above comment. AdjustShift (talk) 14:58, 27 May 2009 (UTC)
- I think at this stage bureaucratic niceties are not too important. The unpublished evidence is very strong, so the best thing now is to allow Avraham or another admin who can see both the CU results AND the unpublished evidence to deal with the case and finish it off. Deacon of Pndapetzim (Talk) 15:20, 27 May 2009 (UTC)
- You are correct, at this point, the evidence simply needs to be sent to functionaries-l and a cu/admin should deal with the case. Re-reading the public evidence above does give some plausibility the two are related, especially the bit about the two accounts having a tendency to double post. Double posting is very rare on wikipedia, only time I have seen it is when a bot goes in a loop somewhere ;). —— nixeagle 15:30, 27 May 2009 (UTC)
- I should also point out that behavior evidence being reviewable by anyone who wishes to is not a bureaucratic nicety, but something that is fundamental to accountability. We do strive to remain as open as possible on wikipedia. —— nixeagle 15:32, 27 May 2009 (UTC)
- Clerk note: Has the evidence been sent to the functionaries? Yes or no will do here. Syn 16:26, 27 May 2009 (UTC)
- It has been sent to me, and I have forwarded it to the functionaries with permission. -- Avi (talk) 16:39, 27 May 2009 (UTC)
- Conclusions part II
Based on behavioral evidence provided above and to the functionaries list including both topical and chronological editing patterns, confirmed by the geolocation of the IPs used, I have blocked Gwinndeith indefinitely as a sock of Molobo, and have blocked Molobo for a year for abusing sockpuppets. Should this be felt by the project to be worthy of the reinstatement of Molobo's indef block, I suggest it be taken to WP:ANI or the like. -- Avi (talk) 23:50, 31 May 2009 (UTC)
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