Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Arki00/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets
These are all relatively new users with very few edits (19, 13, 89, and 2, respectively). Since 22 July, User:Arki00, User:Svenskalegenden, and User:Truth_t were all eager to present Lin as the oldest continuously inhabited settlement in Europe, even though it isn't, and have been reverted a number of times by different editors. Have a look at.

User:Svenskalegenden in particular, appears to be have been created just to make a single revert. Specifically, it got created at 18:45, 29 July 2023, and eleven minutes later, at 18:56 (diff), reverted a removal that occurred just three and a half hours earlier (diff), and also expanded a bit. Whoever is behind User:Svenskalegenden, was obviously closely monitoring the page. Even in the case that not all of the aforementioned users are related to each other, it is my opinion that User:Svenskalegenden is certainly a sock of one of them.

User:Therocker694200 made only one relevant edit on 21 July, by changing an estimated age from 6000 BC to 8500 BC (diff) in the article Lin, Korçë. However, the timing of the edit is interesting, because it is one day later, on 22 July, that User:Arki00 appeared to make similar edits, even though they were inactive since 6 March, which is when they made their first edit.

To be fair, some relevant articles were published online after 17 July, which may have prompted the different users to edit the page independently of each other; but, i believe the aforementioned activity (especially that of User:Svenskalegenden) is suspicious enough to warrant a CU check. There might be other sleeper accounts that are associated as well. Demetrios1993 (talk) 01:28, 17 August 2023 (UTC)

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 * These accounts are all technically ❌. – bradv  19:48, 19 August 2023 (UTC)
 * A study pointing to Lin as the oldest inhabited settlement in Europe was published recently, which has been making the news in various national and international media outlets. Given the CU results, I assume these are different users flocking to the article to update it after they read the news. . MarioGom (talk) 22:11, 27 August 2023 (UTC)