Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/197something/Archive

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A possible case of UPE. Both users were registered in January 2018, editing in the same area and the master now recreating Frank Hooke's deleted articles e.g. DJ Sly(Ghana) under Dj Sly (Ghana) and Y Pee under YPee. GSS (talk |c|em ) 15:43, 16 May 2018 (UTC)


 * Adding 41.66.202.251 who removed speedy deletion notice from DJ Mynor‎. GSS (talk |c|em ) 17:24, 16 May 2018 (UTC)

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The suspected puppet is. CU declined.--Bbb23 (talk) 17:08, 16 May 2018 (UTC)
 * - Could I get an admin to compare DJ Sly(Ghana) to Dj Sly (Ghana) and Y Pee to YPee? Sir Sputnik (talk) 17:52, 6 June 2018 (UTC)
 * The infoboxes are almost identical. The rest of the two articles are slightly different. The surviving YPee article is much better referenced than the deleted Y Pee. Unsure how you are planning to deduce the socking from this info; let me know if I can answer more questions. Or I could just mail you the deleted articles. If the purpose is to find out if User:Frank Hooke is a sock it doesn't seem worth the effort since he hasn't edited since 1 February. It would be a reasonable guess that 41.66.202.251 is the same person as User:197something, but the latter seems cooperative and is not much of a menace just now. See this conversation with Seraphimblade. It is still possible that 197something might eventually need to be blocked as a paid editor if he doesn't take the advice on board. EdJohnston (talk) 04:04, 7 June 2018 (UTC)
 * If you could email me the deleted articles that'd be great. Sir Sputnik (talk) 04:25, 11 June 2018 (UTC)
 * I've restored the first article temporarily as User:EdJohnston/DJ Sly(Ghana) for your review. I will delete again when done. To judge the editing you probably need to see the history as well as the article text. Let me know if you need the other two as well. EdJohnston (talk) 16:07, 11 June 2018 (UTC)


 * Thank you. I actually got a lot more from that than I was expecting. You can go ahead and delete the page again. Based on that history and other editing the IP pretty clearly is 197something, while Frank Hooke is probably unrelated. Most of this editor's actions while logged out appear to be honest mistakes, with the exception of their edit to DJ Mynor. Since it's been almost a month since that edit, and the disruptive behaviour has not been repeated, I see no need for further action here. Sir Sputnik (talk) 17:03, 11 June 2018 (UTC)