Wikipedia:Suspected sock puppets/Evidence-based
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<eleland/talkedits> 19:46, 12 August 2008 (UTC)
- Evidence
E-B's massive sock farm was used, in part, to create "biographies" of anti-Zionist political activists which consisted of a short biographical sketch followed by an info-dump of vicious criticism from unreliable or questionable sources, such as Front Page Magazine. I noticed the article Hedy Epstein, which was in precisely this state, thanks largely to the contributions of the three-day-old account BatYisrael, and done my part to repair it. BatYisrael is now working to restore this material. She makes similar edits elsewhere. [1]
BatYisrael is clearly not a newbie account; in the first hours after her initial edit she shows familiarity with Wikipedia jargon, templates, categories, deletion procedures, reference tags, article formatting and structure, and policies. (Pick almost any contribution at random or try [2] [3] [4], etc.) Like the E-B farm, BatYisrael edits more or less exclusively on pages related to Israel, Zionism, Jews, and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict - usually all four.
Most of E-B's socks had user pages comprising a single sentence derived from their usernames; [5] [6] [7] [8] [9], etc. BatYisrael's user page is the same (Bat Yisrael means "daughter of Israel.")
Both BatYisrael and the E-B socks very often use the edit summary "adding sourced material," and tend to use "adding" or "added" as the first word of many of their edit summaries. Both BatYisrael and the E-B socks frequently describe an article's subject as previously unknown, but now suddenly noteworthy owing to a controversy. (Usually this means it's a WP:COATRACK.) Both BatYisrael and the E-B socks make an extremely high volume of typographical errors caused by striking adjacent letters on the keyboard.
E-B's proudest creation was A land without a people for a people without a land. It was also the article that exposed E-B's sockfarm due to overextension. While BatYisrael has not edited this article, she has edited the articles of both Diana Muir (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Diana_Muir&diff=prev&oldid=230411906 diff], one of the main sources for its text, and Israel Zangwill which the article discusses significantly. BatYisrael, indeed, has made minor corrections to the paragraph of Zangwill's article that deals with the "without a people" quote. E-B sock Morningside Clio had edited this same paragraph, and created the Diana Muir article.
Checkuser has recently verified that BatYisrael was using two sockpuppet accounts User:Objectiva and User:Elan26, both now indef blocked; as far as I'm concerned, it's entirely obvious that BatYisrael and Evidence-based / Morningside Clio are one and the same.
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