Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Amy. Firehoof./Archive

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Amy. Firehoof. appeared last night and walked straight into a triple 4RR edit-war over removing descriptions of anything Welsh as Welsh. This morning, a 31 hour block.

Tonight, a very obvious sock or meatpuppet appears. Repeats a couple of the edits and wikilove the original's talk: page. Either sock (during a block) or meat, and CU might answer that. Andy Dingley (talk) 17:29, 17 October 2017 (UTC)


 * See also WP:ANI Andy Dingley (talk) 18:12, 17 October 2017 (UTC)

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 * Merge in of overlapping SPI report by Andy Dingley (talk) 18:14, 17 October 2017 (UTC)

Both are/were edit warring on Wales related articles-- a sort of pov preference that involves removing Wales from articles.

By Amy:
 * example 1
 * example 2
 * example 3
 * blocked for edit warring

By silver
 * SilvermountainhorsepineappleUK created
 * gives Amy a kitten
 * makes a more circumspect edit
 * removes Welsh
 * removed Welsh language with edit summary "added clarity and reinstated nessesaerry details which had been removed to fit a personal/ political agenda (restored neutrality) " though clearly the reverse is true--
 * which bears a striking resemblance to edit by Amy Dlohcierekim (talk) 18:04, 17 October 2017 (UTC)

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 * Sock confirmed and blocked by Drmies; master upgraded to indef by me. Closing. Favonian (talk) 18:17, 17 October 2017 (UTC)

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Another new account, stripping "Welsh" from Welsh BLPs Andy Dingley (talk) 14:15, 19 October 2017 (UTC)

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 * Already CU-blocked. Tagged and closing. GABgab 15:08, 19 October 2017 (UTC)

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Back in October, User:Amy. Firehoof. was blocked as disruptive, and User:SilvermountainhorsepineappleUK was blocked a sockpuppet account. The person operating these accounts was prone to removing references to Wales and the Welsh language from articles that were clearly related to Wales. The ANI discussion is in this archive. I believe that this user has now re-appeared as User:Hi. I'm a lesbian.. The pattern of editing is almost identical, see this edit which is basically the same as this Amy.Firehoof. edit. This edit of an article seems particularly unproductive. The new account's contribution history has several similar examples. Railfan23 (talk) 04:36, 29 January 2018 (UTC)

Update: this edit by User:86.188.106.91 is identical to the User:Hi. I'm a lesbian. edit from 2 days ago, with the same edit summary. Railfan23 (talk) 19:13, 29 January 2018 (UTC)

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 * - . Please block the new sock indefinitely. Sir Sputnik (talk) 17:05, 29 January 2018 (UTC)
 * ✅. Could you also please evaluate if we ought to merge User:Amy wamey + co. into this case? Thanks, GABgab 22:59, 29 January 2018 (UTC)
 * A connection seems entirely likely given the usernames. What gives me pause here is that I can't figure out what connects those three accounts. As the blocking administrator, could you elaborate this a little please? Sir Sputnik (talk) 00:18, 30 January 2018 (UTC)
 * After some disruptive editing of Amy wamey and some behavioral evidence she had used a couple accounts (and edited logged out while blocked), I asked if he could run a quick checkuser for her and Yesmis. That turned up the confirmed accounts and showed Yesmis as possilikey. Naming pattern of "Amy" and names related to being gay/lesbian, along with a user page pattern of statements like "I'm Amy, a british lesbian" fit the pattern. Amy Wamey at the time was editing EDM/clubbing articles and making edits against MOS to overlink locations and nationalities. -- ferret (talk) 00:43, 30 January 2018 (UTC)
 * All re-tagged, case closed.  Vanjagenije  (talk)  02:58, 30 January 2018 (UTC)

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Identical editing pattern, username is similar to a recent sock. Hayman30 (talk) 21:37, 14 February 2018 (UTC)

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 * - . Please block the new sock indefinitely. Sir Sputnik (talk) 21:51, 14 February 2018 (UTC)
 * , closing. TonyBallioni (talk) 23:03, 14 February 2018 (UTC)