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This is an old revision of this page, as edited by Hippeus (talk | contribs) at 07:24, 16 October 2021 (→Comments by other users: Retaliatory harassment, sanction Nableezy. Nableezy threatened Inf-in MD on the 28th of August). The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this revision, which may differ significantly from the current revision.

NoCal100

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Populated account categories: confirmed · suspected

Older archives were moved to an archive of the archive because of the page size and are listed below:

For archived investigations, see Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/NoCal100/Archive.

A long-term abuse case exists at Wikipedia:Long-term abuse/NoCal100.


14 October 2021

  – This SPI case is open.

Suspected sockpuppets


To begin with, there is no doubt that the timezones do not match here. The editor says on his user page he is located in Maryland, and the editing times are definitely two hours displaced from past NoCal100 socks (NoCal100) However, there is off-wiki evidence that the person operating the accounts starting with User:Isarig (vanished to User:Former user 2) through NoCal100 and the rest has since found reason to be located in Maryland, and if it helps a checkuser I'd be happy to send that evidence along in email, but it most certainly would violate the privacy policy to post it here and as such this report will be focused on the commonalities between the editors while acknowledging that they are very much located across the country from each other.

The tone is NoCal100 to a tee. As one example, how he repeatedly across socks says to read WP:ONUS as a directive:

Also telling others to get consensus first in their edit-summaries:

Common articles with past socks show a wide range of common interests, not simply ARBPIA.

There are common interests going across topic areas, from Fox News, to articles with a handful of views a day such as Hot Mobile or obscure books like Battleground: Fact and Fantasy in Palestine. If a functionary would like me to send on the evidence connecting the person operating the past accounts such as Isarig and NoCal100 with Maryland please let me know. Would also bet dollars to donuts that User:AgEng is the same, but not enough in the diffs to go on for that. Nableezy 17:20, 14 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Comments by other users

Accused parties may also comment/discuss in this section below. See Defending yourself against claims.

  • Is this the new thing, filing an SPI against User:Inf-in MD once a month? Last month it was Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Free1Soul/Archive. Despair not Inf-in MD, I too was dragged through the mud here in this case with false baseless accusations based on little more than a long tirade and interest in the same topic area. The evidence above is entirely unconvincing, not meriting even a check, and the whole "Maryland angle" is actually exculpatory evidence. Inf-in MD's username openly gives MD (Maryland) and this was also declared on their user page from September 1st. NoCal100 is known to be from Mountain View, California, not Maryland. That Nableezy, after seeing Inf-in MD's Maryland declaration, found some online indication that a random Jewish-American possibly moved is no evidence at all. If the location of Inf-in MD were an unknown secret, this revelation would mean something. As it is, all there is here is an extremely weak attempt to tie someone to a case 2,450 miles distanced from them. 11Fox11 (talk) 21:16, 14 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
I'm not the user that filed that, and this page is for discussing sockpuppetry, not the incredibly offensive and imaginative found some online indication that a random Jewish-American possibly moved. Kindly do not disrupt the purpose of this page, thank you in advance for cooperating. nableezy - 21:44, 14 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
The evidence presented above is beyond weak, all you show is that Inf-in MD edits Israeli topics and that you dislike them. 11Fox11 (talk) 22:03, 14 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Fortunately your view on the merits of the evidence is not all that important here. And oh by the way, the commonalities stretch across topics. As noted in the report. It shows common interests in right wing media, in Trump's Covid response, in a random movie, in an al-Qaeda in Iraq leader. Some of those articles are so little viewed that it boggles the mind that there is that many intersections. Battleground: Fact and Fantasy in Palestine, besides averaging 1 view a day, has had two edits in the last two years. Hot Mobile has 10 edits in the last two years. But this user just happens to share those articles with other NoCal socks. Huh. There is also the common tone, and Ill be adding about the general pettiness in the editing and hounding. nableezy - 22:08, 14 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Also, your claim on NoCal100's location is a pretty clear violation of WP:OUTING. Maybe dont do that either. nableezy - 21:50, 14 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Outing? Another specious claim. Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/NoCal100/Archive/1, which I read after being falsely accused here myself, is filled with NoCal being in Mountain View, California. 11Fox11 (talk) 22:03, 14 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
No, it says one IP address that is thought to be NoCal maps there. But one more time, this page is meant to investigate sockpuppetry. Not for the defense of an ally. Sockpuppetry is wrong and we should all be against it. If you have anything to add about the topic, besides your misguided belief that it is based on me finding that some Jewish American moved, great. If not, kindly stop disrupting the purpose of this page. This might be shocking to you, but people do indeed move, and the person who operated User:Israrig, NoCal100, and the rest is banned from editing Wikipedia. Not just when he is in California. nableezy - 22:08, 14 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Comment NoCal and his socks edited so many articles so anyone that edited the topic area and interested in Jewish topics there will be some intersection. I too frequently cite WP:ONUS.Maybe I am nocal sock too? And lets not forget we already had false positive[3] --Shrike (talk) 05:50, 15 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

No, your English proficiency is considerably worse, and you dont have the same tone, and you dont have common interests outside the topic area. Not really sure why the need to obfuscate here, but whatever floats your boat I guess. I do wish a clerk would stop such things, but the archives are filled with the defence of socks by allied editors so I guess it is not surprising it continues here. nableezy - 12:46, 15 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Comment This is yet another of those accounts that swiftly climbs to 500 edits promptly takes an interest in the IP area and suddenly is an expert in all things WP. Of course this need not mean a NC100 sock. Idk myself how much importance to place on it but JMCA was given to starting talk page comments with a small letter (several examples here) rather than a capital letter and I notice that IiMD also does this (several examples here).Selfstudier (talk) 16:14, 15 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

  • Retaliatory harassment, sanction Nableezy. On 28th August Nableezy threatened Inf-in MD with harassing behaviour. This meritless report of little substance (the evidence consisting of Inf-in MD editing Israel related topics) is merely an enactment of that threat. Would the closing admin here please sanction Nableezy for this retaliatory behaviour?--Hippeus (talk) 07:24, 16 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

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