Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/An Old Switchblade/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets



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due to the similarity of usernames and similarity of areas of editing. The usernames are all of the format (Day-M-D-Y-T, omitting the hyphens) matching the time the accounts were created, with the years being a mix of 2 and 4 digits, months and days without a leading zero. They all seem to be editing in the general area of films and actors. They seem to be created, used for a very short while, then discarded. It's large scale throw away accounts with the result of essentially avoiding proper community scrutiny of their long term editing (whether or not that's the intention behind it).

There may be exceptions to some of the above, as I was going a bit cross-eyed trying to cross match them all. I'm not certain, but I think their actual edits are constructive at least some of the time (possibly all of the time), and I didn't spot any blatant/outright vandalism.

Requesting CU, as it's likely that this needs a full check to properly empty the sock drawer, and I could easily have failed to spot some in the user list. Apologies for the amount of work I've just given you.

If there's no overt vandalism found, or previous/other misdeeds, this might be a worthy case of allowing some WP:ROPE with a strict one-account-only restriction going forwards. I'm not 100% confident in the quality of their editing, but at least a few of the edits seem like they might be ok. Murph 9000 (talk) 15:29, 19 April 2017 (UTC)

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 * The following accounts are ✅ to each other:
 * The following accounts are ✅ to each other and to the above group:
 * Blocked without tags. This case should be moved to the oldest account (I believe it is An Old Switchblade) and tagged.--Bbb23 (talk) 17:24, 19 April 2017 (UTC)
 * Done, tagged and closing. GABgab 21:09, 19 April 2017 (UTC)
 * The following accounts are ✅ to each other and to the above group:
 * Blocked without tags. This case should be moved to the oldest account (I believe it is An Old Switchblade) and tagged.--Bbb23 (talk) 17:24, 19 April 2017 (UTC)
 * Done, tagged and closing. GABgab 21:09, 19 April 2017 (UTC)
 * The following accounts are ✅ to each other and to the above group:
 * Blocked without tags. This case should be moved to the oldest account (I believe it is An Old Switchblade) and tagged.--Bbb23 (talk) 17:24, 19 April 2017 (UTC)
 * Done, tagged and closing. GABgab 21:09, 19 April 2017 (UTC)
 * The following accounts are ✅ to each other and to the above group:
 * Blocked without tags. This case should be moved to the oldest account (I believe it is An Old Switchblade) and tagged.--Bbb23 (talk) 17:24, 19 April 2017 (UTC)
 * Done, tagged and closing. GABgab 21:09, 19 April 2017 (UTC)
 * The following accounts are ✅ to each other and to the above group:
 * Blocked without tags. This case should be moved to the oldest account (I believe it is An Old Switchblade) and tagged.--Bbb23 (talk) 17:24, 19 April 2017 (UTC)
 * Done, tagged and closing. GABgab 21:09, 19 April 2017 (UTC)
 * The following accounts are ✅ to each other and to the above group:
 * Blocked without tags. This case should be moved to the oldest account (I believe it is An Old Switchblade) and tagged.--Bbb23 (talk) 17:24, 19 April 2017 (UTC)
 * Done, tagged and closing. GABgab 21:09, 19 April 2017 (UTC)
 * The following accounts are ✅ to each other and to the above group:
 * Blocked without tags. This case should be moved to the oldest account (I believe it is An Old Switchblade) and tagged.--Bbb23 (talk) 17:24, 19 April 2017 (UTC)
 * Done, tagged and closing. GABgab 21:09, 19 April 2017 (UTC)
 * The following accounts are ✅ to each other and to the above group:
 * Blocked without tags. This case should be moved to the oldest account (I believe it is An Old Switchblade) and tagged.--Bbb23 (talk) 17:24, 19 April 2017 (UTC)
 * Done, tagged and closing. GABgab 21:09, 19 April 2017 (UTC)
 * The following accounts are ✅ to each other and to the above group:
 * Blocked without tags. This case should be moved to the oldest account (I believe it is An Old Switchblade) and tagged.--Bbb23 (talk) 17:24, 19 April 2017 (UTC)
 * Done, tagged and closing. GABgab 21:09, 19 April 2017 (UTC)
 * The following accounts are ✅ to each other and to the above group:
 * Blocked without tags. This case should be moved to the oldest account (I believe it is An Old Switchblade) and tagged.--Bbb23 (talk) 17:24, 19 April 2017 (UTC)
 * Done, tagged and closing. GABgab 21:09, 19 April 2017 (UTC)
 * The following accounts are ✅ to each other and to the above group:
 * Blocked without tags. This case should be moved to the oldest account (I believe it is An Old Switchblade) and tagged.--Bbb23 (talk) 17:24, 19 April 2017 (UTC)
 * Done, tagged and closing. GABgab 21:09, 19 April 2017 (UTC)
 * Blocked without tags. This case should be moved to the oldest account (I believe it is An Old Switchblade) and tagged.--Bbb23 (talk) 17:24, 19 April 2017 (UTC)
 * Done, tagged and closing. GABgab 21:09, 19 April 2017 (UTC)
 * Blocked without tags. This case should be moved to the oldest account (I believe it is An Old Switchblade) and tagged.--Bbb23 (talk) 17:24, 19 April 2017 (UTC)
 * Done, tagged and closing. GABgab 21:09, 19 April 2017 (UTC)