Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Antimoany/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets
Antimoany and Computer-ergonomics are WP:TAGTEAM-ing to cut down a section of the article lesbian erasure: This is an article normally with very little editing activity, and both these accounts have been especially active since March 2023 despite very few edits prior to then. Checking their contribs, both have interest in the same topic of transgender issues, and both make very similar edit summaries that, despite sometimes being moderately lengthy and having punctuation, heavily use lowercase (even when saying "i" or proper nouns).

Computer-ergonomics acknowledges having been (contribs) in the past on their userpage, and claims this is a WP:FRESHSTART, though this seems not to square well with the requirement that fresh starts must avoid editing patterns or behaviors that would allow other users to recognize and identify the account. It is expected that the new account will be a true "fresh start", will edit in new areas, will avoid old disputes, and will follow community norms of behavior. However, Computer-ergonomics has instead been editing the very same topics they did as H-influenzae, related to cross-dressing and queer fashion, including Harry Styles. H-influenzae was in hot water at ANI over their activity, when they "retired" shortly thereafter. Nonetheless, Computer-ergonomics has been making edits about Styles specifically and all over the queer fashion topic (e.g. ). Crossroads -talk- 22:53, 17 April 2023 (UTC)

Comments by other users

 * Accused parties may also comment/discuss in this section below. See Defending yourself against claims.

I'm not a sock puppet nor am I tag-teaming. I do not know who Antimoany is, other than seeing their edits to lesbian erasure and appreciating them, which I put on my watchlist after seeing some potential WP:Activist activity from the gender critical crowd. However, I have noticed that you are doing a lot of mass reverting on transgender and lesbian centric articles which I find a bit weird.

I am willing to provide all of my IP addresses on all of my devices to prove that I am in good standing, as I edit both at home and at work. But again, I ensure you that I do not have time to have two accounts, and I think it would be loser behavior for me to tag team any article. As to my lengthy notations with lowercase letters (?) I invite you to visit Tumblr.com, where I spent my early twenties and late teens, and where this typing style is commonplace. Computer-ergonomics (talk) 00:53, 18 April 2023 (UTC)

The amount of work that I would have to do on Wikipedia in addition to my day job for this claim to be true is honestly laughable. To be clear, I don't have time to have two accounts, nor do I care enough about these pages to tag team them. If I wanted to edit the page on lesbian erasure rather than just tag it as overly detailed, I would have edited it myself. However, I did not edit it, because I did not want to. I can provide other evidence if this is necessary, but genuinely I would have had zero qualms with editing the lesbian erasure page under this account and have nothing to hide. I have made additions to more controversial pages. I trust that editors will find me in good standing. Computer-ergonomics (talk) 01:08, 18 April 2023 (UTC)

i hope i'm replying to this right.

i find the given evidence frankly meaningless, but i guess since i'm accused my opinion on the matter is irrelevent. though if editing an article is taken as explicit interest in or support for that article's subject, i do now have a clearer understanding of why the backlog is so huge and why so many articles have multiple issues.

i feel like i got caught in a dispute between two users because i edited an article they are disputing over.

i don't entirely understand the process here, but it looks like our IPs are going to be compared, so i'm not sure if i need to say anything specific until that happens. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Antimoany (talk • contribs) 07:49, 18 April 2023 (UTC)

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * . The evidence is pretty thin here. Computer-ergonomics adds an Overly detailed tag to the lesbian erasure article, Antimoany sees the tag and tries to perform the fix requested by it , and then Computer-ergonomics restores this fix after someone reverts it . It's not hard to see how this could have happened during the natural course of reading and editing Wikipedia, and it's not enough to raise suspicion of sockpuppetry. Because Computer-ergonomics acknowledges being H-influenzae , it is not a violation of the sockpuppetry policy; it would only be problematic if the two accounts tried to mislead the community in some way, e.g. by masquerading as multiple people. Because the two accounts have been very forthcoming with their connection, this looks WP:SOCKLEGIT to me. . Mz7 (talk) 07:05, 28 April 2023 (UTC)