Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/1Sire/Archive

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Kind of interesting as this master for this is a account that is over 8 years old! Anyway I was looking over RTJ fan who seems to have a long history of making non notable articles as well as making them redirects and then editing them, and some of them are originally made by 1Sire as well who has edited many of the same articles and has a rather similar style of editing. If these 2 are indeed the same-I have to wonder if there are more of this then. If you check both of there histories you will see on there creation logs they have made redirects and then edited them later or made articles then change to redirects (not uncommon), but the style and the articles are nearly the same. Wgolf (talk) 00:32, 30 October 2016 (UTC)

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 * Not sure about differences-but they do seem similar to me for some reason. Might need to look into it more. Well one page for example is Key!, made by one of them and more from the other one. RTJ fan does seem to have a thing about changing redirects like that also which happened there. Wgolf (talk) 04:12, 30 October 2016 (UTC)
 * I just did the edit comparison thing and they both have edited tons of the same pages-not sure if this is coincidence or not though at the moment. (I wonder if there are any more users that might be part of this) Wgolf (talk) 04:21, 30 October 2016 (UTC)

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. Can you please supply several specific "diffs" showing exactly where you believe the similarities are? Simply saying that the M.O.'s of these two editors seem similar isn't really enough to justify a finding of sockpuppetry in any case — much less being enough to justify a CU check. See Help:Diff if you need more detailed info about how to do "diffs". Thanks. — Rich wales (no relation to Jimbo) 04:08, 30 October 2016 (UTC)
 * what we have here are two accounts with 5,000 and 30,000 edits which edit in the same topic area and have a number of article intersects; it's entirely plausible that two frequently-editing users with similar interests would intersect numerous times, and that's what I think this is. There is no evidence that they have violated the sockpuppetry policy by, for example, tag-teaming a content discussion, or acting as good-hand-bad-hand accounts, or anything really. Closed with no action. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 16:23, 8 November 2016 (UTC)