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A funny thing happened on the way to the RfA
I noticed that, one of our new RfA clerks, properly struck 's vote because S wasn't an EC editor. Their account was created on May 4 (satisfying the 30 days requirement) but were a bit shy of 500 edits. Then in a conversation on the article Talk page about a related issue, Svampesky commented, at which point I took the opportunity to inform them that they are now EC, so they could reinstate their vote.

Meanwhile, I was suspicious of such a new account voting at RfA, and I reviewed their edits, which seem to involve a rather obscure agenda of de-orphaning articles. They added themself to the orphanage project on their 3rd live edit (their first was to create a Talk page). Other edits are unusual: (1) fairly early on they nominated an article for deletion (and it was deleted); (2) by May 13, they were Welcoming users; (3) warning users of COIs; (4) adding entries to Notable people who have edited Wikipedia with an edit summary in which they cite WP:SELFOUT (personally, I was unaware of article and unaware of the selfout link); and (5) that's enough for now.

They were renamed from User:BlueSharkLagoon, and it's quite interesting to look at early iterations of their userpage where they discuss other accounts and their shared IP addresses (VPNs).

IMO, there is enough oddness here to warrant a check. What do you think?--Bbb23 (talk) 15:25, 18 June 2024 (UTC)


 * Sounds odd, but I'd want to take a look through their contribs to be confident that a check was warranted. Anything suspicious that you noticed - are there any other recently blocked orphanage project (I didn't know that was a thing) members? Or overlap with any blocked accounts on the articles they're editing? I'd be hesitant to run a check if I don't have someone to compare against, and I can't put my finger on what it is I think they're up to. Girth Summit  (blether)  12:46, 19 June 2024 (UTC)
 * If I had another account to check against, I would have said so. I just took another look at the user's contributions, and the oddness, for me, sticks out even more, but I don't think further analysis of why would change your mind, so I'll let it go. Thanks.--Bbb23 (talk) 13:09, 19 June 2024 (UTC)
 * I'm not saying no, I'm just saying I'll need to do a review myself to satisfy myself that there's cause (and inviting any pointers as to which rocks to look under). Will try to get a chance shortly. Girth Summit  (blether)  14:24, 19 June 2024 (UTC)

I don't know how helpful it will be, but all I can do is highlight more areas of editing that are unusual for a new editor: --Bbb23 (talk) 14:46, 19 June 2024 (UTC)
 * Creates lots of user subpages, e.g., User:Svampesky/Toolbelt
 * Weird fixation the Signpost, e.g., Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2024-06-08/Deletion report, Kalloor, which is all somehow related to hoaxes, e.g., Wikipedia talk:List of hoaxes on Wikipedia
 * Trump-related pages, including Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Donald Trump
 * Changing archives, e.g., Neutral point of view/Noticeboard/Archive 65 with the edit summary ("changed link but preserved text, as I have changed the destination of the shortcut") - did this in MANY archives, including Trump stuff like Talk:Donald Trump/Archive 97

Help in this case
Have a look at Sockpuppet investigations/BantikumarWiki case. Thank you. Agent 007 (talk) 19:39, 22 June 2024 (UTC)

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