Wikipedia:Suspected sock puppets/Jing13

The following discussion is an archived debate of the case of suspected sockpuppetry. Please do not modify it. No further edits should be made to this page. All edits should go to the talk page of this case. If you are seeing this page as a result of an attempt to open a new case of sockpuppetry of the same user, read this for detailed instructions.

User:Jing13[edit]

Suspected sockpuppeteer

Jing13 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log)

Suspected sockpuppets

Tripartite007 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log), account created on 5 June 2007,
77mark (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log), account created on 6 June 2007,
Oceanicwave (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log), account created on 6 June 2007,

Report submission by

Vsion 05:27, 11 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Evidence

Accounts are created for edit warring and apparently to circumvent 3RR, in the article Ho Yeow Sun
The 3 suspected sockpuppet accounts were created at about the same time: 5-6 June 2007.
The suspected sockpuppets have only edited in Ho Yeow Sun, and the related article City Harvest Church (the church to which Ho was associated).
The most common edits by these account were for the purpose of removing a section about a controversy in Ho Yeow Sun. This is despite the fact that the incident is widely reported by the media and the material is well-sourced and other editors have supported its inclusion in the article.
- The diffs of the similar edits by the suspected sockpuppets are:
  - by Tripartite007, [1], [2],
  - by Oceanicwave, [3],
  - by 77mark, [4], [5],
  - by Jing13, [6], [7], [8]
  - by IP anons, [9], [10],
They had used a similar argument in the article's talk page, specifically using WP:BLP to justify the removal of the concerned text. This is despite being pointed out early by two editors that WP:BLP does not apply as the material is properly-sourced.
- By Jing13, [11] , [12], [13]
- By 77 mark, [14]
- By Tripartite007, [15]
Other similarities in editing history or style
- The 4 accounts made very few edit summaries or none at all.
- The 4 accounts had not edited their user pages.

Comments

211.22.177.173 made only two edits. Both edits were to the controversy section of the Ho Yeow Sun article. A while after that Tripartite007 logged in and posted a comment on the article's talk page. A while later 203.127.74.49 tried to remove the controversy section. Most of his edits were to the same article. After that, 203.81.35.6 (only 3 edits and to the same article) tried to do the same. - 202.156.13.3 17:32, 11 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Add 203.211.151.43 to the list. Jpatokal 07:22, 12 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

And 203.120.87.34, 203.120.87.30 and 203.120.87.1 - 202.156.13.3 11:57, 12 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Conclusions: Fairly obvious socks, based on account creation times and editing history. Tripartite007 (talk · contribs), 77mark (talk · contribs), and Oceanicwave (talk · contribs) are indefinitely blocked as abusive socks. The sockmaster account, Jing13 (talk · contribs), is blocked for 72 hours. The IP's are also likely socks, but as they appear to be somewhat dynamic and have not edited in the last few days (as the article is protected), I'm not going to block them now. If IP's pop up with a similar editing pattern when the article is unprotected, they can be blocked at that point. MastCell ^Talk 20:15, 14 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]