Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/AloofAnteater45/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets
I suspect that Summerdays1 and AloofAnteater45 are operated by the same person.

First, on the University of Michigan article, AloofAnteater45 made this edit on the 15th Feb. That edit was reverted by another editor a day later. Then, several days later, Summerdays1 comes and straight-up redoes that edit using the undo tool.

Next, on The Michigan Daily article, AloofAnteater makes this edit on 12th Nov 2023 which adds "The largest independent student newspaper in the United States" to the top of the article. It also adds the sentence "it has consistently been ranked among the top college newspapers in the country". Some time down the line, it is revised by another editor (GuardianH) where they remove those sentences along a few other things. Well, a day after GuardianH makes those edits, the Summerdays1 account comes in and re-adds both sentences. On 15th Feb, AloofAnteater re-adds the sentence "largest independent student newspaper in the United States" to the top of the article once again.

Some small additional similarities I've noticed between the two accounts are that they both frequently use the VisualEditor, and both often use short edit summaries consisting of one to four words. No links or P/G shortcuts in the summaries. And they both seem highly interested in universities, schools, politicians and lawyers too, especially in the U.S.

The interaction timeline tool is very interesting. There is seemingly no overlap in editing between the accounts at all. It's either one or the other being used, at a time.

One more piece of evidence, albeit a weak one, is both accounts every now and then, make copyedits to articles, rearranging words around and/or changing punctuation, e.g. diff 1, diff 2, diff 3 by AloofAnteater45, diff 1, diff 2, diff 3 by Summerdays1. — AP 499D25  (talk)  12:20, 18 February 2024 (UTC)
 * Not sure if that last bit of evidence is so weak, at least in terms of adding support to the stronger evidence already provided; both accounts very noticeably make edits "rearranging words" and "changing punctuation" while simultaneously tinkering with the infoboxes and tables. That stood out to me when reviewing the diffs. Grandpallama (talk) 17:17, 18 February 2024 (UTC)

Comments by other users

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Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * created the sock account without declaring it as an alt.
 * It appears that Summerdays is the same editor as, however, please compare Summerdays to Sockpuppet investigations/Pictureperfect2/Archive as they are editing on the same range previously used by the Pictureperfect sockfarm.
 * Note that there is some connection between AloofAnteater and that needs to be determined. Could be a shared IP, but they need to declare it.--  Ponyo bons mots 17:08, 29 February 2024 (UTC)
 * Justinconn96 has made edits to La Costa Canyon High School. If you view our article on that school the name of the principal jumps out at you. I am leaving a COI notice for User:Justinconn96. EdJohnston (talk) 02:49, 1 March 2024 (UTC)


 * Already blocked for an unrelated reason, but tagged as a sockpuppet of Pictureperfect2 based on behavioral evidence. The Wordsmith Talk to me 18:44, 29 February 2024 (UTC)
 * Also  based on the technical evidence. Insufficient evidence to make a determination on . Clerk needed to move this request to the right sockmaster. The Wordsmith Talk to me 19:01, 29 February 2024 (UTC)

