Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Astropolice/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets



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I was tidying up after an editor who has inserted hoaxes about an obscure botanist (Emile Campbell-Browne) to various pages and discovered that these hoaxes had started with an earlier user. Astropolice has edited since 13 April 2020 and their eleven edits covered five different articles. Dr D.Davidson started editing less than 24 hours ago and their ten edits covered seven articles. Two of those articles overlap and many of the edits concern the botanist. Those edits are hoaxes (for example, the botanist was supposed to have been curator of one of New Zealand's prominent museums and I can't find any evidence that a person of this name has ever been in New Zealand). The image uploaded by the sockmaster is up for deletion on Commons as showing the wrong person. I should note that the hoaxes have continued via an IP that I have already blocked for a week.  Schwede 66  20:43, 21 June 2020 (UTC)

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Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * I had already checked and blocked these accounts as ✅ in another case:
 * Closing. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 00:11, 23 June 2020 (UTC)
 * Closing. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 00:11, 23 June 2020 (UTC)
 * Closing. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 00:11, 23 June 2020 (UTC)
 * Closing. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 00:11, 23 June 2020 (UTC)
 * Closing. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 00:11, 23 June 2020 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets



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Perpetrating the same Emile Campbell-Browne hoax as the master and its puppets as here  Velella  Velella Talk 23:11, 5 July 2020 (UTC)

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 * - Strong behavioral connection. Endorsing for sleeper check. GeneralNotability (talk) 00:09, 6 July 2020 (UTC)
 * The best I can do with CU is with . Based on the behavioural evidence I've blocked and tagged the sock. Closing. Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 02:43, 6 July 2020 (UTC)