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Wikipedia:Suspected sock puppets/Korea4one

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=[[User:Korea4one]]=

;Suspected sockpuppeteer

{{user5|1=Korea4one}}

;Suspected sockpuppets

{{user5|1=Bostonasia}}

{{user5|1=Bostonjj}}

{{user5|1=Bostonliberal}}

;Report submission by

cab (talk) 03:35, 7 April 2008 (UTC) (forgot to sign earlier, report created at 08:52, 6 April 2008 (UTC) [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Suspected_sock_puppets/Korea4one&oldid=203709933])

;Evidence

  1. Similar usernames
  2. Similarities among talk page contributions (Korea4one: [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Koreans&diff=prev&oldid=161283468]; Bostonasia: [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:List_of_territorial_disputes&diff=prev&oldid=189415991]; Bostonjj: [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Koreans&diff=prev&oldid=195539681]; Bostonliberal: [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Koreans&diff=prev&oldid=203382445])
  3. *Never signs posts
  4. *Always adds comments to the top of the page instead of the bottom
  5. Similarities in areas of interest
  6. *Trying to update the count of the population of Korean ethnic group or related articles without sources or with misinterpreted sources (Korea4one: [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Koreans&diff=prev&oldid=172465550][http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Koreans&diff=prev&oldid=172266492]; Bostonasia: [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Koreans_in_China&diff=prev&oldid=189933250]; Bostonjj: [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Koreans&diff=prev&oldid=195527236][http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Koreans&diff=prev&oldid=195527776][http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Koreans&diff=prev&oldid=195538781]; Bostonliberal: [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Koreans&diff=prev&oldid=203382691])
  7. *Promotes Koreans and inflates Korean-related numbers while denigrating or attempting to downplay the importance of Chinese and Japanese (Korea4one [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Northeast_China&diff=prev&oldid=182493234]; Bostonasia: [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Ethnic_Chinese_in_Korea&diff=prev&oldid=202015152][http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:List_of_territorial_disputes&diff=prev&oldid=189415991][http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Yayoi_period&diff=prev&oldid=201785027]; Bostonjj: [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Manchu&diff=prev&oldid=189234034]; Bostonliberal: [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Koreans&diff=prev&oldid=203382445])
  8. Attempts to use alternate accounts to avoid scrutiny: Bostonjj tried editing only once in mainspace after his temporary ban [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Koreans&diff=prev&oldid=201527123]. I asked an uninvolved user (User:Angelo De La Paz) who does a lot of updating of ethnic group articles to have a look, and he concluded that the edit was vandalism and reverted it. But then Bostonliberal came along (account created March 28 [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ALog&type=&user=Bostonliberal&page=], just a few hours after Bostonjj's last mainspace contribution was reverted) and started making the same kind of edits [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Koreans&diff=prev&oldid=203382691], and the Bostonasia account, which hadn't been previously used since February, also made a comeback [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Koreans&diff=prev&oldid=202013833]
  9. Off-wiki evidence
  10. Users by the same names have made hundreds of similar nationalist-flavoured comments on the website of the The Korea Times, an English-language newspaper in Korea (Korea4One [http://www.google.com/search?hl=ko&client=firefox&rls=org.mozilla%3Azh-TW%3Aofficial&hs=LiD&q=site%3Akoreatimes.co.kr+korea4one&btnG=%EA%B2%80%EC%83%89&lr=], Bostonasia [http://www.google.com/search?hl=ko&client=firefox&rls=org.mozilla%3Azh-TW%3Aofficial&hs=62s&q=site%3Akoreatimes.co.kr+bostonasia&btnG=%EA%B2%80%EC%83%89&lr=], a few for Bostonliberal [http://www.google.com/search?hl=ko&client=firefox&rls=org.mozilla%3Azh-TW%3Aofficial&hs=l4s&q=site%3Akoreatimes.co.kr+bostonliberal&btnG=%EA%B2%80%EC%83%89&lr=], none for Bostonjj [http://www.google.com/search?hl=ko&client=firefox&rls=org.mozilla%3Azh-TW%3Aofficial&hs=EkD&q=site%3Akoreatimes.co.kr+bostonjj&btnG=%EA%B2%80%EC%83%89&lr=]).
  11. Those usernames often comment at briefly separated times from the same IP, e.g. [http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/comment/comment_list.asp?categoryCode=117&newsIdx=18706] where they even commented on the same thread. That IP has also made similar kinds of contributions as all the above usernames (unsigned posts at the tops of talk page sections, like [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Koreans_in_Japan&diff=prev&oldid=189247072]).
  12. The Bostonliberal username over at The Korea Times started showing up over there only at the beginning of April, briefly after it was created over here.

;Comments

Looking over these accounts edits, it appears very likely to me, that they are all the same user, being used to make the appearance that a controversial claim has much wider support on-wiki, than it actually does. Also, they all seem to be used to further a long, slow edit war, and some sort of misinformation campaign. However, I don't often work SSP, and, I'm not 100% sure on this one, so I'm going to wait for further comment for a bit, just to be sure. SQLQuery me! 19:32, 8 April 2008 (UTC)

;Conclusions

Agree with SQL, blocked and tagged all of them. — Rlevse • Talk • 23:59, 11 April 2008 (UTC)

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