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Sarandioti

Sarandioti (talk · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · spi block · block log · CA · CheckUser(log) · investigate · cuwiki)

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For archived investigations, see Misplaced Pages:Sockpuppet investigations/Sarandioti/Archive.

Report date September 13 2009, 04:52 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets

• Alarichus (talk · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · spi block · block log · CA · CheckUser(log) · investigate · cuwiki)

Evidence submitted by User:Athenean

• User:Alarichus begins editing at 03:36 on 20 July 2009 , immediately prior to Sarandioti receiving a month-long block from User:Nishkid64 for disruptive behavior at 03:20 on 21 July 2009 . His very first edits show that Alarichus is highly knowledgeable about Misplaced Pages editing, including how to add references in proper format. This alone indicates that Alarichus has almost certainly edited before, although it does not prove he is Sarandioti.
• Even stranger, when Sarandioti was blocked in the past, he protested loudly , issuing multiple unblock requests every time , as further evidenced on his talkpage. Yet after his last block, nothing. Complete radio silence, not even a peep. Sarandioti has not edited even after his block expired except for 2-3 edits on Aug. 25..
• Sarandioti has stated that he lives in Greece , and the time-signature of his edits is consistent with someone editing in Greece's time zone. It is also remarkably similar to the time signature of Alarichus' edits .
• Alarichus claims he is not from the Balkans, but his passionate subscription to and defense of the Albanian POV in a recent TfD debate is suspicious (namely, that the term "Northern Epirus" is irredentist and should be avoided at all costs) . He is also strangely intent on pursuing vendettas against the same users (Factuarius, Alexikoua) that Sarandioti was . This is very perplexing.
• Alarichus' style of writing is highly reminiscent of that Sarandioti (accusatory, aggressive, somewhat condescending). Examples below.

• Short, successive, accusatory questions: S A .
• A perplexing inability to capitalize the word "Greek" under any circumstances, even though other words in the same passage are duly capitalized: S A .
• Ending with posts with statements to the effect of "This is sad" or "This is disappointing": S A .
• Telling other users to "wait until this process is over": S A .
• Admonishing users not to write until process X is over: S A .
• Statements to the effect "Sure, if anything comes up I'll...": S A.
• Statements to the effect of: "And please stop commenting on me": S A .
• Telling people to go to his talkpage instead of "here": S A .
• Telling other users "you do not understand what I said": S A .
• Sarandioti is a stickler for spelling, always going back and fixing the spelling of his posts, as does Alarichus: S A .

Alarichus' tone and style particularly in the ANI and TfD discussions sounds very much like Sarandioti to me. --Athenean (talk) 04:52, 13 September 2009 (UTC)

Comments by accused parties    See Defending yourself against claims.

Comments by other users

CheckUser requests

{{RFCU}} is deprecated. Please change the case status parameter in {{SPI case status}} to "CURequest" instead.

Checkuser request – code letter: F  + Unknown (Other reason and unknown code)

Current status – Awaiting initial clerk review.

Although based on the above, I am fairly certain that this case passes WP:DUCK, a checkuser would be useful in proving this beyond any doubt. While Alarichus has not broken any rules per se, and Sarandioti is not evading a block and entitled to multiple accounts, I believe this is an attempt by Sarandioti to deceive the community about his checquered past and is as such unacceptable. --Athenean (talk) 04:52, 13 September 2009 (UTC)

Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments

Conclusions

• Open SPI cases
• SPI requests for pre-CheckUser review