Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Acki90/Archive

25 November 2014

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All of these are single purpose accounts whose sole edits are to remove the band 5 Seconds of Summer from List of pop punk bands. They make no other edits and all use mobile web edits to do this. A lot of the edit summaries are similar

Eva120001: "Removed *5 Seconds of Summer from list do to the fact they're not pop punk"

Mrskrisletang: "5sos isn't pop punk"

Frankieierios: "5 seconds of summer is not pop punk"

Chloeqqq: "Took out a band that is clearly not pop punk" Valenciano (talk) 19:22, 25 November 2014 (UTC)

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 * I think the behavioral evidence is quite apparent, so a check doesn't seem necessary. Also, half of the accounts are stale so checkuser wouldn't be of assistance for those accounts. Mike V  •  Talk  01:33, 26 November 2014 (UTC)

17 April 2015

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Bobobbson and Taroteaa are single purpose accounts who, like the previous socks, are focused on the removal of 5 Seconds of Summer from List of pop punk bands. Xavengedgeorgiax has made a few more edits, but their first was to remove 5SofS on the basis that it was "wrong content", similar to what some of the other socks and ips who infest the article claim, despite it having 5 references. Valenciano (talk) 09:19, 17 April 2015 (UTC)


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 * Bobobson's only edit is to say "Got rid of 5sos because they aren't punk" compare that to the edit summary of confirmed Acki sock "5sos isn't pop punk", same focus, same abbreviations and again, like all the previous Acki socks, was a mobile edit, which I consider circumstantial.


 * Taroteaa's edit summary is "I took out 5 Seconds of Summer", compare to confirmed sock Chloeqqq's Took out a band that is clearly not pop punk. Again, circumstantially, a mobile edit.


 * With Xavengedgeorgiax, it's more down to behavioural evidence, a user finds their way straight to the List of pop punk bands with their first edit, a page which has long been the target of Acki socks, and takes out 5 seconds of summer, despite the multiple refs.


 * Acki has long used throwaway accounts and different ips on that page to try to remove the band.

Valenciano (talk) 16:07, 17 April 2015 (UTC)

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— Berean Hunter   (talk)  01:38, 18 April 2015 (UTC)
 * - Please, provide some WP:diffs to illustrate similarities in editing between those accounts.  Vanjagenije   (talk)  15:25, 17 April 2015 (UTC)
 * Based on provided evidence.  Vanjagenije  (talk)  16:48, 17 April 2015 (UTC)
 * Based on proved diffs, they seam like socks.  Vanjagenije  (talk)  16:50, 17 April 2015 (UTC)
 * The master is, so I've only looked at the accounts presented here. There's very weak evidence that could  be related to .  is ❌. Being familiar with 5 Seconds of Summer, I could see why multiple unrelated people could think that categorizing them as "pop punk" could be incorrect. If the disruption is ongoing it would be better (i.e. more efficient) to semi-protect the article than to try to link the accounts as socks.-- Jezebel's Ponyo bons mots  22:57, 17 April 2015 (UTC)
 * Closing as inconclusive. If there is further evidence, you may refile and if there is enough disruption at the page filing at WP:RFPP would be a good idea. In this case, it doesn't seem warranted as the activity is infrequent.