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User:Ethionet[edit]

Suspected sockpuppeteer

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

Suspected sockpuppets

Habeshawoman (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log)
Somali24 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log)
Gadaa (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log)

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Causteau (talk) 11:19, 27 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Evidence

This user has regularly been making disruptive, POV edits to pages relating in some way to Ethiopia. His editing pattern essentially involves portraying groups involved in conflicts with Ethiopians in a negative light, and/or giving Ethiopia credit for feats, cultures or events it has little to do with.

He likes to back up these assertions with either:
1) no sources at all
2) primary sources such as direct links to the very articles he is criticizing
3) self-published sources like blog articles
4) articles written by and hosted on websites administered by partisan groups. For example, on the Ethiopian-Adal War page, Ethionet asserted that the Ethiopian-Adal war was a civil war, an assertion which runs counter to all the available data on the subject. To support this assertion, he linked to a website which is, according to its own description, a "news media outlet run by reporters both in Ethiopia and the Ethiopian Diaspora" -- hardly unbiased.

There is more on this user's problematic edits on the Press TV article's talk page.

The users Ethionet, Habeshawoman, Somali24 and Gadaa like to edit the same pages (e.g. 1, 2, 3). They tend to revert changes other editors make to any one of their own edits i.e. they back each other up. They are all also in some way connected to Ethiopia:

• Habesha refers to the Amhara and Tigray Semitic-speaking ethnic groups of Ethiopia and Eritrea
• Somali24, despite his handle, only ever makes edits (most unsourced) that are complimentary to Ethiopian interests, and on Somali-themed pages to boot
• Gadaa refers to a system of social stratification developed and historically observed by the Oromo ethnic group also in Ethiopia.

The above usernames have together repeatedly attempted to insert the same original research, POV material, and self-published sources on the same page: (1 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7)

The Gadaa handle has also just attempted to remove all traces of this pending sockpuppet case from his talk page under the pretext that the warning message was unsigned.

Given all the above, I strongly suspect Ethionet, Somali24, Habeshawoman and Gadaa are one and the same person. Can someone please run a Checkuser on these accounts?

Comments

Conclusions

RFCU filed: Wikipedia:Requests for checkuser/Case/Ethionet. Yechiel (Shalom) Editor review 22:55, 2 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The checkuser has confirmed the accounts are all the same person. I have blocked the last 3 indefinitely, and am open to opinion as to blocking the main account. Kevin (talk) 05:48, 3 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

User:Habeshawoman has been tagged as the puppeteer, being the oldest account, and has been blocked for a month. All the others are tagged as proven sockpuppets and are blocked indef. Kevin (talk) 03:48, 11 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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