The Italian PhD: From Modulato back to Gmacar
Posted: Sat May 08, 2021 5:44 pm
Modulato appeared in November 2020.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:C ... t=Modulato
He started making edits to the University of the People page. UoPeople is a young, but legit US university. He was particular set on ensuring that mentions of Israel and the "po box" office were included in the article. On the talk page, he was particularly aggressive declaring various sources other editors pulled up to be "fake news." It reached the point where one long-term contributor stopped watching the article altogether. This activity upset a student who posted to Reddit about the "hostile editors" on Wikipedia, and that's where my adventure began.
I started digging into the history of the page. I noticed that Modulato's edits were building on the edits of Italian-based IPs going back to April 2020. That's curious because Modulato proudly displays that he's a native Italian speaker on his user page. With further digging, I discovered another past account, no longer active, with a similar bent to Modulato. This account was Adrin10.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:C ... et=Adrin10
I started digging through their comparative history. Both were active on en-wiki and it-wiki. Both make complaints about the "po box" for UoPeople. Both, on en-wiki, shared an interest in University of the People, Supdi, Yorker International University, Università Popolare degli Studi di Milano, The League (app), Ripoff Report, Turnitin, Rogeting (really?), unaccredited universities, and a handful of other pages. Surely, this can't be coincidence. These two accounts have to be the same person.
This idea is bolstered by the fact Yorker International University consists of 26 edits. Adrin10 had 5 of those edits, and Modulato had 12 edits. If we exclude the category, bot, and minor edit traffic, we see one more curious IP edit. Italian perhaps? Yep. Given that, it seems reasonable to conclude that Mr. IP is the same as Modulato and Adrin10.
The content of that edit? Very interesting, a source.
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?di ... =855712735
The evidence-based.review source also appeared in the UoPeople article at one time. It was discussed a couple of times on the talk page as well.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Univ ... ed.review)
One of the comments mentions that the person who runs this website has previously been block. Who was that blocked account? Bianbum.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:C ... et=Bianbum
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia ... um/Archive
This opens up a whole new world of evidence.
https://sigma.toolforge.org/editorinter ... ver=enwiki
https://sigma.toolforge.org/editorinter ... ver=itwiki
Well, that's an interesting record of shared interests there, Mr. Modulato.
To be continued...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:C ... t=Modulato
He started making edits to the University of the People page. UoPeople is a young, but legit US university. He was particular set on ensuring that mentions of Israel and the "po box" office were included in the article. On the talk page, he was particularly aggressive declaring various sources other editors pulled up to be "fake news." It reached the point where one long-term contributor stopped watching the article altogether. This activity upset a student who posted to Reddit about the "hostile editors" on Wikipedia, and that's where my adventure began.
I started digging into the history of the page. I noticed that Modulato's edits were building on the edits of Italian-based IPs going back to April 2020. That's curious because Modulato proudly displays that he's a native Italian speaker on his user page. With further digging, I discovered another past account, no longer active, with a similar bent to Modulato. This account was Adrin10.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:C ... et=Adrin10
I started digging through their comparative history. Both were active on en-wiki and it-wiki. Both make complaints about the "po box" for UoPeople. Both, on en-wiki, shared an interest in University of the People, Supdi, Yorker International University, Università Popolare degli Studi di Milano, The League (app), Ripoff Report, Turnitin, Rogeting (really?), unaccredited universities, and a handful of other pages. Surely, this can't be coincidence. These two accounts have to be the same person.
This idea is bolstered by the fact Yorker International University consists of 26 edits. Adrin10 had 5 of those edits, and Modulato had 12 edits. If we exclude the category, bot, and minor edit traffic, we see one more curious IP edit. Italian perhaps? Yep. Given that, it seems reasonable to conclude that Mr. IP is the same as Modulato and Adrin10.
The content of that edit? Very interesting, a source.
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?di ... =855712735
The evidence-based.review source also appeared in the UoPeople article at one time. It was discussed a couple of times on the talk page as well.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Univ ... ed.review)
One of the comments mentions that the person who runs this website has previously been block. Who was that blocked account? Bianbum.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:C ... et=Bianbum
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia ... um/Archive
This opens up a whole new world of evidence.
https://sigma.toolforge.org/editorinter ... ver=enwiki
https://sigma.toolforge.org/editorinter ... ver=itwiki
Well, that's an interesting record of shared interests there, Mr. Modulato.
To be continued...