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NoCal100

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Populated account categories: confirmed · suspected

Older archives were moved to an archive of the archive because of the page size and are listed below:

• Sockpuppet investigations/NoCal100/Archive/1

For archived investigations, see Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/NoCal100/Archive.

A long-term abuse case exists at Wikipedia:Long-term abuse/NoCal100.

12 January 2021

– A checkuser has completed a check on relevant users in this case, and it is now awaiting administration and close.

Suspected sockpuppets

• 11Fox11 (talk⁺ · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · spi block · block log · CA · CheckUser(log) · investigate · cuwiki)

• Tools: Editor interaction utility • Interaction Timeline • User compare report Auto-generated every hour.

The account was created three weeks after the blocking of User:JungerMan_Chips_Ahoy! ([1], carried out on further CU evidence). The editor edits on the same time zone as the NoCal100 socks.

Most edited pages of all known NoCal100 socks

The edit history has been built via mostly (83%) semi-automated edits. The editor’s career started on 27 May with 106 normal-looking edits in 10 days to edits related to Switzerland (a neutral country for a neutral topic). The editing then pivoted to patrolling recent changes for vandalism, with 572 semi-automated reverts in c.12 different bursts over the course of a month, mostly using redwarn. Having crossed 500/30, on 7 July the editor made their first ever article talk page comments and first ever wikipedia noticeboard comments, with 1 edit each to 6 voting surveys all in the space of 30 minutes, in which the two largest comments related to ARBPIA topics at RSN: [2][3] RSN happens to be the single-most frequented page of the NoCal100 socks when added together. See here [4][5] which compares all identified NoCal100 socks (two lists because the tool has a max limit; see image to right which has been sorted to show the most edited pages).

More broadly, despite having made just 186 mainspace edits, the editor is an expert with four particular noticeboards, all four being the statistical favorites of the NoCal100 socks per the links and table above:

• AE (against me; see this discussion[6] re the connection) (frequented by 17 NoCal socks: Canadian_Monkey, Firkin_Flying_Fox, Two_for_the_show, All_Rows4, Powder_Hound_3000, Bad_Dryer, Here_come_the_Suns, Epson_Salts, Tzu_Zha_Men, Itch_Eye_Bear, I_invented_it's_not_you,_it's_me, Mr._Hicks_The_III, Sisoo_vesimhu, Iric2012, Rym_torch, JungerMan_Chips_Ahoy!, I_am_Dr._Drakken)
• ANI (frequented by 14 NoCal socks: When_Other_Legends_Are_Forgotten, Canadian_Monkey, Attack_Ramon, Powder_Hound_3000, Bad_Dryer, Momma's_Little_Helper, Here_come_the_Suns, Tzu_Zha_Men, Mr._Hicks_The_III, HupHollandHup, Sisoo_vesimhu, JBlackCoffee52, They_think_it's_all_over, JungerMan_Chips_Ahoy!)
• ANEW (frequented by 18 NoCal socks: Jeff_Song, When_Other_Legends_Are_Forgotten, Canadian_Monkey, Firkin_Flying_Fox, All_Rows4, Attack_Ramon, Bad_Dryer, Momma's_Little_Helper, Here_come_the_Suns, Epson_Salts, Tzu_Zha_Men, Itch_Eye_Bear, I_invented_it's_not_you,_it's_me, Mr._Hicks_The_III, They_think_it's_all_over, Lovely_day350, LoverOfTheRussianQueen, JungerMan_Chips_Ahoy!)
• RSN (frequented by 20 NoCal socks: Jeff_Song, When_Other_Legends_Are_Forgotten, Canadian_Monkey, Firkin_Flying_Fox, Two_for_the_show, Dixy_flyer, All_Rows4, Bad_Dryer, Momma's_Little_Helper, Here_come_the_Suns, Epson_Salts, Tzu_Zha_Men, Millmoss, I_invented_it's_not_you,_it's_me, HupHollandHup, Iric2012, LoverOfTheRussianQueen, GoGoTob2, Rym_torch, JungerMan_Chips_Ahoy!)

Other than the above (ARBPIA-related noticeboard comments, and continued occasional streams of semi-automated edits), in the mainspace post-500/30 their manual edits were to almost exclusively ARBPIA topics. The editor turned up at some of NoCal’s favorites:

• Talk:Israeli_settlement (also edited by Mr._Hicks_The_III, Canadian_Monkey, Two_for_the_show, All_Rows4 and Epson_Salts)
• Israeli_settlement (also edited by Mr._Hicks_The_III, I_am_Dr._Drakken, Jeff_Song, When_Other_Legends_Are_Forgotten, Canadian_Monkey, and All_Rows4)
• Israel (also edited by HupHollandHup, LoveFerguson, Canadian_Monkey, Firkin_Flying_Fox, All_Rows4, Bad_Dryer and Here_come_the_Suns)
• Talk:Israel (also edited by HupHollandHup, Trying_to_reconnect, When_Other_Legends_Are_Forgotten, Bad_Dryer, Here_come_the_Suns, Epson_Salts)

And a few random pages which NoCal seems to like (this is a selection, I have a longer list):

• Oliver_Stone (also edited by HupHollandHup and JBlackCoffee52)
• Gush_Etzion (also edited by Jennifer_Worth and Canadian_Monkey)
• UN_Watch (also edited by When_Other_Legends_Are_Forgotten and Bad_Dryer)
• Quora (also edited by Jeff_Song and When_Other_Legends_Are_Forgotten)

There are also similarities of tone/style that I can bring out if helpful. Onceinawhile (talk) 09:14, 12 January 2021 (UTC)

Comments by other users

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

Comments by Shrike

Its a retaliatory filing because of WP:AE. Those articles are frequently edited by users that interested in the topic including the filer himself. Some of evidence is anti-Vandalism reverts [7] [8], like was noted the user use semi automated wiki soft to fight vandalism. Also Nocal socks edited many articles so you can take any random user especially if they interested in I/P conflict and say he is a sock because article intersections --Shrike (talk) 14:16, 12 January 2021 (UTC)

• The filer first[9] edit was elaborate wiki graph without any intermediary version first edit with no drafts. By using the same logic we could suspect the filer to being sock of someone but that would a a fishing expedition and not appropriate. --Shrike (talk) 16:39, 12 January 2021 (UTC)

Comments by Selfstudier

I do not know enough about process to say whether the editor is a sock of NoCal100. Having had several interactions with this editor, while in theory possible, I find it quite unusual that a relatively new editor be so well acquainted with WP procedures, diffs new to old (there are other examples): 1) an AE filing 2) re WP ABOUTSELF 3) Alert (twice!) 4) Citation style Selfstudier (talk) 15:45, 12 January 2021 (UTC)

Comments by 11Fox11

This is a continuation of Onceinawhile's appalling behaviour, and a retaliatory filing to the AE. The retaliation is evident by Onceinawhile notifying me in mirror form to my notification. Onceinawhile made offensive Holocaust comparisons and personally attacked over 5 editors and is facing sanctions.

The report is false, and contains a blatant falsehood ("186 mainspace edits"). I do not have 186 mainspace edits, I have over a 1,000 edits and reported many disruptive users to AIV and UAA. I also recently reported a couple instances of disruption to ANEW and AE.

As for the "evidence", if Onceinawhile has even a minimal level of integrity they would immediately file a report saying he is a NoCal100 sockpuppet. As Shrike says Onceinawhile's first edit is very advanced markup, which I don't understand. Onceinawhile has hundreds of articles in common with NoCal100 sockpuppets (NoCal100, Bad Dryer, Canadian Monkey). Onceinawhile haunts Wikipedia boards frequented by NoCal100 socks, in particular:

AE: Onceinawhile made 98 edits and this is his top posted Wikipedia page. Onceinawhile says this page is frequented by 17 NoCal100 sockpuppets.

ANI: Onceinawhile made 79 edits and this is the third-most Wikipedia page he edits. Onceinawhile says this page is frequented by 14 NoCal100 sockpuppets.

ANEW: Onceinawhile made 5 edits to this Wikipedia page. Onceinawhile says this page is frequented by 18 NoCal100 sockpuppets.

RSN: Onceinawhile made 45 edits to this Wikipedia page and this is 8th most Wikipedia page he edits. Onceinawhile says this page is frequented by 20 NoCal100 sockpuppets.

I am not myself saying Onceinawhile is a NoCal100 sockpuppet, the above is to point out the quality of the evidence. Probably most Wikipedia editors edit AE, ANI, ANEW, and RSN. Probably most editors who edited Israel/Palestine a bit have articles in common with NoCal100 sockpuppets, Onceinawhile has hundreds in common. Several of my common articles are from anti-vandalism reverts from recent changes, for example my single edit to Oliver Stone is reverting an IP edit (one minute prior) without sources. I do not have Oliver Stone on my watchlist. I am not interested in the Oliver Stone article. I got there because the IP's edit was in recent changes. 11Fox11 (talk) 04:56, 13 January 2021 (UTC)

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

•  Unrelated as far as technical evidence goes. This will need behavioral analysis in order to determine... ~Oshwah~^{(talk) (contribs)} 02:14, 13 January 2021 (UTC)

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