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[edit] Osaboramirez

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Osaboramirez's edit patterns are very similar to those of sock puppets of Copperchair, and the account creation time links up well. Please compare this latest account with the most recent sock puppets and IP addresses of Copperchair. I can provide more evidence if necessary, but it's extremely time consuming and somewhat stressful to do all of the comparisons, and I get the impression that I've provided way more than needed in past Copperchair checkusers. TomTheHand 20:34, 15 December 2006 (UTC)


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[edit] Warrior on Terrorism

The accounts below are too old for technical check. Thatcher131 15:30, 21 November 2006 (UTC)

Warrior on Terrorism looks like a sockpuppet of Copperchair, who was blocked for an extended period for violating his ArbCom ruling. He appears to be IP address 190.10.0.71. The things that makes me suspect this are:

  1. 190.10.0.71 clears his talk page three times [1] [2] [3] with the edit summary "Blanked the page", and Warrior does the same thing, on the same page, with the same edit summary, once [4].
  2. Warrior adds himself to Wikipedia:WikiProject Terrorism and counter-terrorism here: [5], then 192.10.0.71 removes him two minutes later [6].

I believe that they are sockpuppets of Copperchair because:

  1. 190.10.0.71's only edits, other than the ones above, are blanking pages which Esaborio (a Copperchair sock) created here and here, and one of Copperchair's favorite edits, removing the Cold War template from World War III here.
  2. Warrior's account was created four days after the previous two socks, Bad Night and Ossara, were blocked, and launched right into some pretty advanced stuff, including launching a Wikipedia:Requests for investigation. This does not appear to be new user behavior.
  3. Warrior shares Copperchair's interest in War on Terrorism articles and keeping casualty counts up to date.

I've listed all of Copperchair's past sockpuppets so that Warrior and 190.10.0.71 can be compared to them. They are all definite socks, but I am a little unsure about Warrior. He's getting better at evading detection and it bothers me a lot that there appears to be no way to keep him away permanently. TomTheHand 15:12, 21 November 2006 (UTC)

Clerk note: Merged with two previous reports on Copperchair that were filed under different names. Thatcher131 15:37, 21 November 2006 (UTC)

Confirmed The Uninvited Co., Inc. 21:52, 21 November 2006 (UTC)

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[edit] Esaborio

The first 3 have actually already been banned as sockpuppets of User:Copperchair and are just being provided as more sources for evidence. Larry Lawrence isn't very active, but removes entries related to tying the War on Terrorism to Iraq similar to Copperchair/Esaborio/Varese Sarabande/etc, but has made a few edits to articles they did not make edits to. Larry's recent return has corresponded with the banning of Varese Sarabande (talk • contribs • logs • block user • block log) as a sockpuppet. Bobblehead 20:53, 7 August 2006 (UTC)

Clerk note: A declined checkuser case involving Copperchair and Esaborio can be found at Wikipedia:Requests for checkuser/Case/Copperchair. --PinchasC | £€åV€ m€ å m€§§åg€ 13:31, 8 August 2006 (UTC)
Which is why I didn't include Copperchair as the puppetmaster. Esaborio, Varese Sarabande, and SPECTRE have all been active recently. I was hoping you could check Larry's activities against those accounts, if at all possible? --Bobblehead 16:26, 8 August 2006 (UTC)

I've added three more. I don't actually think Larry Lawrence is a Copperchair/Esaborio sock, just someone who has made similar edits on one article, but I'm pretty sure about the others being the same guy. TomTheHand 12:45, 9 August 2006 (UTC)

Strikethrough on Larry Lawrence, but still need an RFCU on the others to hopefully find an IP range to block. --Bobblehead 15:39, 10 August 2006 (UTC)

Confirmed that Varese Sarabande, SPECTRE, and Tony Camonte are all sockpuppets of Esaborio. Furthermore, 201.199.77.202 is an open proxy, so I've blocked it indefinitely. No comment on the other IP address. Mackensen (talk) 12:59, 12 August 2006 (UTC)

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[edit] Copperchair

User:Copperchair was blocked for 366 days as of 13:23, March 12, 2006 for editing articles which he was banned from as a result of Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Copperchair (articles on Star Wars and War on Terrorism). User:Esaborio made his first edit on 15:31, March 16, 2006 to Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi and over the following weeks made many edits to Star Wars and War on Terrorism articles. The edits are very similar. Shortly before Copperchair was banned he was updating IMDB rankings of Star Wars movies ([7] [8] [9]), and when Esaborio was created he immediately started doing the same thing ([10] [11] [12]).

They have made very similar edits to War on Terrorism related subjects. Specifically, they both seek to remove references to the Iraq War as being part of the War on Terrorism and they have both shown interest in updating casualty count pages.

Esaborio's user page is also strikingly similar to Copperchair's. Compare Esaborio's page as of today here to Copperchair's user page before he was blocked here.

IP 201.199.77.202 may be Copperchair/Esaborio as well. The anon jumped into editing World War III here and here as soon as Esaborio was warned about violating 3RR, and has been making many similar edits to many articles concurrently with Esaborio. See also:

  1. Template:World War II, where the two made edits within three minutes of each other between 14:21, July 27, 2006 and 14:24, July 27, 2006
  2. War on Terrorism, where the anon removed Iraq from the list of WoT theaters here, was reverted, and had the change put back in by Esaborio here.
  3. World War III again, here, where the IP makes one of Esaborio's favorite edits as seen here and here.

TomTheHand 18:19, 27 July 2006 (UTC)

Declined Checkuser can't help with this; his most recent edit is too old. You might have better luck taking this to the Administrators' Noticeboard. Mackensen (talk) 20:27, 28 July 2006 (UTC)

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