Category talk:Suspected Wikipedia sockpuppets of Yorkshirian

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{{userblock|Daddy Kindsoul}} added some clubs to :Category:Yorkshire football clubs around 5 Dec 07, [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rotherham_Town_F.C.&action=history example]. Daddy Kindsoul was banned for sock abuse following an arbcom case, see Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Deathrocker (he changed his username). There is a certain similarity with {{userblock|Yorkshirian}} in that good work was mixed in with poor behaviour and they had a similar style of editing.

Yorkshrian admitted [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Suspected_sock_puppets/Yorkshirian here] and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Requests_for_comment/Yorkshirian here] to two previous accounts, {{user|CalcioSalvo}} and {{user|SalvoCalcio}}.

Daddy Kindsoul was blocked on 22 June 2007 for a month ([http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log&type=block&page=User:Daddy_Kindsoul here]). {{user|SalvoCalcio}} started editing on 23 June 2007, and edited for a month until 22 July 2007 when he "lost his password". He created {{user|CalcioSalvo}} on 25 July 2007. Daddy Kindsoul was unblocked around 23 July and started editing; compare CalcioSalvo's edit rate (with Daddy Kindsoul unblocked) to SalvoCalcio's edit rate (with Daddy Kindsoul blocked). For the next week or so it tends to be either Daddy Kindsoul or CalcioSalvo editing, never both. There are a few occasions where one edited shortly before the other. On 2 September 2007 Daddy Kindsoul was blocked for a week. There was a bit of activity from CalcioSalvo, then it stopped forever on 9 September 2007. On 18 September 20 Daddy Kindsoul was blocked for a year. We know that Daddy Kindsoul was creating abusive socks. On 22 October 2007 Daddy Kindsoul was banned for multiple sock abuse. On 14:34, 24 October 2007, Yorkshirian made his first edit. Yorkshirian's early work demonstrates acute awareness of how Wikipedia functions.

One of User:Yorkshirian's socks, User:Cradashj, is mentioned as the sole remaining opposer at Wikipedia:Mediation Cabal/Cases/2008-08-02 Sicani. Also mentioned on that page are User:Soprani who is User:Daddy Kindsoul, and User: Kyarichy who is User:Fone4My.

As mentioned, User:Daddy Kindsoul editted Yorkshire football clubs. One of Yorkshirian's confirmed socks - User:ForeverWhiteRose mainly worked on Football in Yorkshire. User:Fone4My and User:The Cavendish both edit warred on Scotland. Daddy Kindsoul editted Italian football topics ([http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=F.C._Internazionale_Milano&diff=prev&oldid=158613137 example]), whilst many of Yorkshirian's and Fone4My's sockpuppets have Italian names (eg. User:MagdelenaDiArco) or edit Italian footaball topics.

Compare the style of language and editting on User_talk:Soprani#Blocked (read onwards), with Wikipedia:Requests_for_arbitration/Yorkshirian#Statement_by_Yorkshirian. Soprani (Italian ID editting Italian football) was proven to be an abusive puppetmaster/sockpuppet linked with Daddy Kindsoul here.

This completes a compelling link at several levels.

--Jza84 |  Talk  14:28, 7 August 2008 (UTC)

:It should be noted that User:Tigris the Majestic, a confirmed sockpuppet of Yorkshirian, was editting articles about facism in Italy, and Italian colonialism. A link to the ANI is here. --Jza84 |  Talk  22:27, 20 October 2008 (UTC)