Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/19disneyland55/Archive

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Report 1: 19disneyland55 repeatedly removed some well-sourced text from Walt Disney, and their edits were reverted by several different editors. When they were asked to discuss their edits on the talk page and get consensus in favour of the removal, the two other accounts turned up within 20 minutes and agreed with the change using remarkably similar wording, - and one minute after the second posting, the sockmaster decided that they had consensus in favour of their change. There is also this sequence of edits where Tom Reddinger adds their signature to barnstars posted by 19disneyland55 to their own user talk page. All in all a fairly obvious case of socking, but I would like to request a CU all the same. bonadea contributions talk 16:14, 6 November 2016 (UTC)

Report 2:The suspected socks were obviously created to support the master in this discussion on Talk:Walt Disney, to create a fake consensus supporting an edit the master had been edit-warring over that article (see page history of Walt Disney). With the connection between the master and Tom Reddinger made obvious by a series of edits on 19disneyland55's talk page, where the master had awarded themself a couple of barnstars with the false claim that they hade been "Voted on by Wikipedia Administrators". Barnstars that were removed by me because of the false claim, only to be added back again by 19disneyland55, and then almost immediately signed by Tom Reddinger (a brand new editor whose only edits are the ones on the master's talk page and the support for the master on Talk:Walt Disney), to make it look as if they had been awarded by another user. - Tom &#124; Thomas.W talk 16:16, 6 November 2016 (UTC)

Note: I have merged 's and my own report, which were filed within two minutes of each other, without either of us knowing that the other one was also also writing a report... - Tom &#124; Thomas.W talk 16:21, 6 November 2016 (UTC)
 * Two minds with but a single thought! :) --bonadea contributions talk 16:25, 6 November 2016 (UTC)

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 * - Three SPAs with a clear connection; please compare these three accounts. Thanks, GABgab 17:14, 6 November 2016 (UTC)
 * The accounts are ✅ matches to one another. Socks blocked and tagged. ​—DoRD (talk)​ 19:46, 6 November 2016 (UTC)
 * After examining the behavior, I've blocked the master for 2 weeks as well. ​—DoRD (talk)​ 19:56, 6 November 2016 (UTC)
 * Closing. GABgab 02:41, 10 November 2016 (UTC)