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Suspected sockpuppets



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There is a lot of suspicious intersecting and similar behaviors happening between the IP and the user. All but the first two of the IP's edits have been about the Kenosha unrest and Kenosha unrest shooting articles, while Reference321 has been thus far a blatant WP:SPA for both articles. Also, if you look at their contribution histories, you'll see their activity has been particularly strong in the past couple of days.

Furthermore, there's this small talk page discussion that both users have participated in and no one else. Both of them seem to think that the infobox being used in the Kenosha unrest shooting article is WP:POV but can be fixed by adding custom fields, which is impossible from where I'm standing. Neither of them seem to consider the options of using an alternate infobox or reaching out to an experienced user for help. Plus, their writing style (namely, their shared insistence of indenting a lot of sentences as their own paragraphs) looks extremely similar, which makes me think the entire discussion is just someone talking to themselves.


 * IP writing style:
 * Reference321 writing style:

Plus, both of them have implemented borderline-WP:POV beliefs that the Kenosha unrest shooting was an act of self-defense and not a crime:


 * IP edits:
 * Reference321 edit: (which immediately followed my removal of the IP's edit, BTW)

All in all, it seems rather odd that Reference321 would quickly jump in to defend these IP edits when I express my concerns about their WP:POV nature, and this might require looking into. Love of Corey (talk) 00:14, 31 October 2020 (UTC)

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Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * I've looked over both the IP and editor's contribs, and while they share a POV I don't think there's conclusive proof that they are the same person. Closing without action. GeneralNotability (talk) 17:44, 4 November 2020 (UTC)