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MegaCyanide666

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For archived investigations, see Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/MegaCyanide666/Archive.

31 July 2018

– This SPI case is closed and will be archived shortly by an SPI clerk or checkuser.

Suspected sockpuppets

• KahnJohn27 (talk⁺ · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · spi block · block log · CA · CheckUser(log) · investigate · cuwiki)
• DraculatheDragon (talk⁺ · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · spi block · block log · CA · CheckUser(log) · investigate · cuwiki)

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Today after seeing this SPI, I looked into the contributions of MegaCyanide666 - the account claimed to be main account of DraculatheDragon by himself. Edits of MegaCyanide666 are similar to KahnJohn27 (Wikipedia:Sockpuppet_investigations/KahnJohn27) and the last sock of this SPI was blocked on 5 September 2012,[1] and KahnJohn27 was created next day on 6 September 2012.[2]

DraculatheDragon admits to be MegaCyanide666,[3] so that's not a problem. Issue is with his claim that he has not been editing for months and his failure to mention KahnJohn27 as his sock.

@Boing! said Zebedee and Dennis Brown: have a look.

Both KJ27 and MC666 have removed *''[[Castlevania: Lords of Shadow#Sequel|Lords of Shadow 2]]'' from Template:Castlevania series. [4][5]

On Template:Castlevania series, just like MC666[6] KJ27 has ascribed[7] "|group4" to [[List of Castlevania characters|Characters]].

Supported argument of MC666[8] on the same section of Template talk:Castlevania series, by pointing out "I am talking aout users who were earlier involved in the consensus"[9].

Both added content about "PC version" on Gears of War (video game).[10][11]

Prefers adding "| media =" parameter on related articles by adding "[[DVD]]" and "[[Download]]"[12][13]

MC666 (with his sock) wrote about the potential of PlayStation 3 on Zen Pinball 2[14] and KJ27 wrote about PlayStation 4.[15]

Same edits on 2012 in video gaming concerning the rowspan.[16][17]

MC666 created Age of Conan: Rise of the Godslayer[18], the only person to make significant contributions there is KJ27.[19][20]

MC666 added a list of reviews on that article.[21] KJ27 would later expand and add sources to that same content.[22][23]

On Castlevania/Chronology, MC666 added "* 1072 - Lords of Shadow - Mirror of Fate"[24] and Kahnjohn27 modified that sentence,[25]

Both lectured SNAAAAKE!! over a revert.[26][27]

Both added positive reviews on Afterfall: Insanity.[28][29]

Both write their unblock requests in italics.[30][31]

• "Please unblock me. I promise I'll follow every rule of Wikipedia"[32]

• "Please unblock me, I promise I won't get into an edit-war"[33]

etc.

MC666 (with his sock) added "Pathenia" on Hyborian Age[34] and KJ27 expanded it.[35] Recently, Draculathedragon has removed that whole entry.[36]

Both DraculatheDragon and KJ27 have/had a "about me" section on their user page.[37][38] Capitals00 (talk) 16:35, 31 July 2018 (UTC)

• My only comment at this moment is in reply to "Issue is with his claim that he has not been editing for months and his failure to mention KahnJohn27 as his sock." If you look at User talk:Boing! said Zebedee/Archive 31#Want to be unblocked, you'll see they said "I'm User:MegaCyanide666 was blocked for abusing socks long ago" with "socks" plural. Nobody pressed them to reveal all of their socks or to enquire when the last sock was blocked, but it does appear to have at least been economical with the truth to not mention any post-MegaCyanide666 socking (if that is indeed what happened). Boing! said Zebedee (talk) 17:14, 31 July 2018 (UTC)

• @Boing! said Zebedee: I can make this easier for you. KahnJohn27 created many socks as per this category. There would be no return possible for him without some restrictions like multiple topic bans but he has been evading his block all the time. He told you that "But I haven't been editing for the past many months."[39] But that's completely wrong, because he was evading his block even in May this year. Compare this IP of KahnJohn27 with this IP of MegaCyanide666.

That IP 117.241.116.29 belongs to KahnJohn27 since it worked to restore the edits of KahnJohn27 on that article.[40][41]

Fact is that he never stopped evading his block. Capitals00 (talk) 17:34, 31 July 2018 (UTC)

• @Ivanvector: Not a violation because Adam's Bridge is unrelated to any topic ban. DraculaTheDragon admits to be MegaCyanide66 but the point so far is that DraculaTheDragon is a sock of KahnJohn27 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log), the sockmaster who has his own history of mass socking per Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/KahnJohn27/Archive. Also see the socks discovered by Bbb23 during his unblock request. This editor avoids requesting unblock from KahnJohn27 because Bbb23 always finds his block evasion. No admins have disagreed so far. DraculaTheDragon showed up like he wasn't socking for 6 years when he is a sock of KahnJohn27 and still evades his block. DraculatheDragon didn't ever mentioned KahnJohn27 even after socking as IP as recently as 14 May on Animal sacrifice in Hinduism per diffs in my above comment. And Sir Sputnik has no where commented on this SPI or ever commented on these two sock masters (MegaCyanide666, KahnJohn27) anywhere thus his comments on other SPI cannot be taken as precedent in this SPI.

Boing! said Zebedee: I think Ivanvector has also missed that DraculaTheDragon admitted to be a sock of an editor who is not editing for 6 years and claimed to have forgotten the password and that's why he got another chance, but if he admitted to be a sock of KahnJohn27, then he would be asked to log in with that account and request unblock from there. But because CU shows his sockpuppetry, he avoids asking unblock from KahnJohn27. Capitals00 (talk) 14:19, 21 August 2018 (UTC)

Comments by other users

Accused parties may also comment/discuss in this section below. See Defending yourself against claims.

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

See Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/DraculatheDragon.--Bbb23 (talk) 16:54, 31 July 2018 (UTC)

•  Clerk note: the edit wherein MegaCyanide666 supposedly admits to using DraculatheDragon was made by an IP and doesn't mention DraculatheDragon at all, so I don't know what the filer is getting at. But I will note that Capitals00 is topic-banned from the India-Pakistan conflicts, and as such harassing an editor who has participated in the discussion at Talk:Adam's Bridge is likely to be considered a violation. The rest is highly circumstantial "editing quirk" behavioural analysis and as such I'm closing per Sir Sputnik's comment in the other investigation. Ivanvector (^Talk/_Edits) 13:05, 21 August 2018 (UTC)

  DraculatheDragon does actually admit to having previously used User:MegaCyanide666, at User:DraculatheDragon, and has been unblocked per standard offer/clean start based on User talk:Boing! said Zebedee/Archive 31#Want to be unblocked. I also unblocked and reblocked User:MegaCyanide666 with the reason "User has lost password, so block for security reasons" in order to validate the clean start. Boing! said Zebedee (talk) 13:20, 21 August 2018 (UTC)

  Yes, I saw that after posting my comment above. So this request is not just circumstantial, it is also frivolous and likely retaliatory. Please see WP:ARE#Capitals00 - July 2018. Ivanvector (^Talk/_Edits) 14:12, 21 August 2018 (UTC)

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