| Wikilifespan | 2009 - present |
|---|---|
| Sockpuppet investigations | Karmaisking |
| Instructions | Suspected socks should be tagged and reported to sockpuppet investigations for confirmation. When reporting, please link to this long-term abuse report. When the active abuse has been taken care of, please update this report with the latest information. |
| Status | Active |
Basic information[edit]
Karmaisking (talk · contribs · block log · arb · rfcu · ssp · SPI confirmed suspected)
Comprehensive edits analysis
Karmaisking has been indefinitely blocked for vandalism, personal attacks, soapboxing, and sockpuppeteering (confirmed through multiple checkuser cases). Some openly admit to being other versions of the sockpuppet numbering. Has admitted to having more active sockpuppets here.
More ongoing use of sockpuppets (documented at Checkuser case history, as well as clear history of use of IPs without logging in to evade block (primarily edits history of own contributions to talkpages, as well as editing). IPs usually geolocate to south-eastern Australia, see IP contribution history1, IP contribution history2. Yet more confirmed sockpuppets, abusive actions, etc, mostly documented under checkuser. Self-promotion of (presumed) real name (same as one of earliest registered names): Timothy Mak.
Targeted areas, pages, themes[edit]
Edits primarily on pages related to finance, economics and libertarian issues. These include:
- Criticism of fractional-reserve banking, Credit crunch, Austrian school of economics, and other articles related to financial and economical matters.
- Has also edited articles on Keynesian economics and Keynesian economists in order to attack them.
- Has also been active on Libertarianism, especially the talk page.
Habitual behavior[edit]
- Often chooses usernames related to finance, Austrian economics or libertarian issues.
- Extensive use of multiple sockpuppets at the same time. (See Sockpuppets of Karmaisking and Suspected sockpuppets of Karmaisking.)
- Uses throwaway accounts or anon IPs that geolocate to Australia.
- Often claims to be a new user, starting off with innocuous edits, sometimes even attacking or reverting a previous known sock. User:Lagrandebanquesucre was a particularly egregious devious approach, which began by attacking User:Karmaisking.
- Uses misleading edit summaries, sometimes claims to revert the edit of another sock in order to hide the edits.
- Often devolves to vulgar insults and personal attacks when challenged.
Cases[edit]
Deferred to abuse response for contact. The report may be found here.
Other notes[edit]
Confirmed and suspected accounts[edit]
- Sockpuppet category (if any): Category:Wikipedia sockpuppets of Karmaisking
- Suspected sockpuppet category (if any): Category:Suspected Wikipedia sockpuppets of Karmaisking