Wikipedia:Requests for checkuser/Case/Ethionet

{{rfcu box|case=Ethionet|filed=13:56, 2 July 2008 (UTC)}}

• {{checkuser|Ethionet}}
• {{checkuser|Habeshawoman}}
• {{checkuser|Somali24}}
• {{checkuser|Gadaa}}

• Code letter: C

• Supporting evidence:

Causteau has copied the evidence below from Wikipedia:Suspected sock puppets/Ethionet. (Based on my own review of contribution logs, I think it is very likely that these are sockpuppets.) Yechiel (Shalom) Editor review 22:53, 2 July 2008 (UTC)

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:
[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ethiopian-Adal_War&diff=215162062&oldid=215033944 1)] no sources at all
[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Press_TV&diff=220937672&oldid=220932719 2)] primary sources such as direct links to the very articles he is criticizing

[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Press_TV&diff=220944221&oldid=220942929 3)] self-published sources like [http://www.africanpath.com/p_blogEntry.cfm?blogEntryID=4103 blog articles]

[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ethiopian-Adal_War&diff=215162062&oldid=214949748 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 [http://jimmatimes.com/AboutUs.cfm 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. [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Press_TV&action=history 1], [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ethiopian-Adal_War&action=history 2], [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Somalia&action=history 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 [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Somalia&diff=221700524&oldid=221632842 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: ([http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Press_TV&diff=prev&oldid=208553348 1]

[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Press_TV&diff=211044818&oldid=210311172 2], [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Press_TV&diff=213030892&oldid=212367463 3], [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Press_TV&diff=prev&oldid=220663395 4], [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Press_TV&diff=220937672&oldid=220932719 5], [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Press_TV&diff=222074689&oldid=222070515 6], [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Press_TV&diff=222933905&oldid=222896266 7])

The Gadaa handle has also just attempted to [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Gadaa&diff=prev&oldid=222895204 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?

Causteau (talk) 13:56, 2 July 2008 (UTC)

• {{confirmed}} Thatcher 02:06, 3 July 2008 (UTC)
• :I've blocked the socks, left the main account User:Ethionet unblocked for now. Kevin (talk) 05:43, 3 July 2008 (UTC)
• ::After a discussion with Kevin, I have blocked Ethionet indefinitely and Habeshawoman for one month (the latter actually appears to be the main account, it was created in 2006). Khoikhoi 03:20, 4 July 2008 (UTC)