Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Awardmaniac/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets



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At the time of writing, has been blocked since 2019-09-04T01:04:42 (likely, my own timezone) for violating their topic ban. was created approximately eleven hours later. The editor interaction report shows five intersections, even though Factsmatter4 has only made 12 edits. Factsmatter4 makes this edit, reintroducing Awardmaniac's edit. They make this edit, reintroducing this edit from the blocked user. This edit reintroduces this one. This edit reintroduces these two, including one edit by who I do not believe is involved. I think this is pretty clear-cut, but request confirmation and a check for sleepers. If this is a case of WP:EVADE, I plan to block the original account indefinitely; WP:ANI (in "Awardmaniac violating topic ban") is pretty clear that the next topic ban violation would result in an indefinite block. Yamla (talk) 12:51, 5 September 2019 (UTC)

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Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments
✅, blocked (sorry ) and tagged. No other accounts seen. Closing.--Bbb23 (talk) 14:21, 5 September 2019 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets



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Focused entirely on Michael Jackson and related articles; Awardmaniac was topic-banned (see Special:Diff/886453975 and Special:Diff/886454446) from this subject area and repeatedly violated the topic ban. Indeed, Awardmaniac did basically nothing other than violate the topic ban. This new account was set up very shortly after the previous sockpuppet was blocked, and almost every edit has overlapped with those of the sock master (see the interaction report). If sockpuppetry is confirmed, this would be strike 2 toward an indefinite ban under WP:3X. I have absolutely no doubt they will violate again. Yamla (talk) 21:16, 1 October 2019 (UTC)

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I do not know what this is. I am very much new to Wikipedia. I have edited on this account in different locations. Some places where the IP is shared amongs numerous people. Is that the problem? Assimpleasdoremi (talk) 22:08, 1 October 2019 (UTC) But I believe i might know who the persona that was blocked is. what should I do if I share the same ip adress with someone who share/edits a similiar subject as me? Assimpleasdoremi (talk) 22:14, 1 October 2019 (UTC)

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments
✅, blocked, tagged, closing.--Bbb23 (talk) 22:31, 1 October 2019 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets
Most immediate trigger is the recreation of the redirect, Heal LA, initially created by. A deeper look into the account shows a singular focus around Michael Jackson, as per previous socks. I'm self-endorsing for checkuser, but suspect the data will be stale. Yamla (talk) 23:25, 7 November 2023 (UTC)

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 * based on specific geolocation. Combined with the behavioural evidence, I'm going to say this one's a cinch. I'll tag and block. --Yamla (talk) 23:34, 7 November 2023 (UTC)