Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/BallSniff544/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets
Quacking. Account restored dubious edits of previously blocked sock AnActuallySmartPerson445 at both LeafyIsHere and King 810. No other edits. Account also shares habit of editing ref template without changing ref name. Username and insulting edit summaries are also a match. Grayfell (talk) 05:23, 7 May 2023 (UTC)

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Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * Blocked, tagged, closing. Bbb23 (talk) 12:24, 7 May 2023 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets
Quacking. Compare this to this. Note the cut/paste reuse of an unrelated named ref. Grayfell (talk) 20:18, 19 May 2023 (UTC)

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Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * - some clarification on which accounts are socks on Special:PageHistory/LeafyIsHere would be useful. See and  as grounds for checking. Please compare the account mentioned and  to each other and to this case. DatGuyTalkContribs 21:05, 19 May 2023 (UTC)
 * Blocked and tagged both accounts, leaving the CU request. Bbb23 (talk) 21:09, 19 May 2023 (UTC)
 * ✅ the following accounts belong to each other:
 * though only is technically ❌, but consider behavioral investigation. - Mailer Diablo 08:39, 21 May 2023 (UTC)
 * Tagged accounts. Looking at and  it's hard to believe that Nationalconfan wasn't engaged in meatpuppetry of some sort, so I'm going to leave them blocked for now. They can make an unblock request if they want. Closing. Thanks, Spicy (talk) 23:14, 30 May 2023 (UTC)
 * though only is technically ❌, but consider behavioral investigation. - Mailer Diablo 08:39, 21 May 2023 (UTC)
 * Tagged accounts. Looking at and  it's hard to believe that Nationalconfan wasn't engaged in meatpuppetry of some sort, so I'm going to leave them blocked for now. They can make an unblock request if they want. Closing. Thanks, Spicy (talk) 23:14, 30 May 2023 (UTC)
 * though only is technically ❌, but consider behavioral investigation. - Mailer Diablo 08:39, 21 May 2023 (UTC)
 * Tagged accounts. Looking at and  it's hard to believe that Nationalconfan wasn't engaged in meatpuppetry of some sort, so I'm going to leave them blocked for now. They can make an unblock request if they want. Closing. Thanks, Spicy (talk) 23:14, 30 May 2023 (UTC)
 * though only is technically ❌, but consider behavioral investigation. - Mailer Diablo 08:39, 21 May 2023 (UTC)
 * Tagged accounts. Looking at and  it's hard to believe that Nationalconfan wasn't engaged in meatpuppetry of some sort, so I'm going to leave them blocked for now. They can make an unblock request if they want. Closing. Thanks, Spicy (talk) 23:14, 30 May 2023 (UTC)
 * though only is technically ❌, but consider behavioral investigation. - Mailer Diablo 08:39, 21 May 2023 (UTC)
 * Tagged accounts. Looking at and  it's hard to believe that Nationalconfan wasn't engaged in meatpuppetry of some sort, so I'm going to leave them blocked for now. They can make an unblock request if they want. Closing. Thanks, Spicy (talk) 23:14, 30 May 2023 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets
Note the similarity in username to blocked sock account Basketball445

This account is obsessed with adding specific information to Rumble (company) by mangling existing ref templates. Previous accounts did similar to LeafyIsHere specifically to emphasize a connection to Rumble.

Both also edit Mid-Life Crustacean, an otherwise unrelated episode of Spongebob

There are behavioral similarities, as well.

Checkuser request due to previous extensive use of overlapping accounts Grayfell (talk) 18:38, 9 July 2023 (UTC)


 * See also recent vandalism at Meta:User_talk:Grayfell Grayfell (talk) 18:34, 10 July 2023 (UTC)

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Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * This, and a bunch of other similarly named accounts, are confirmed to this master. They're blocked now; closing.  Girth Summit  (blether)  11:26, 11 July 2023 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets

 * ( original case name)

Apparent block evasion, Taking up all of Barney's edit wars. Steven Crowder: Barney and new sock, Boosie Badazz: Barney and new sock, and Eminem: Barney and new sock. I could go on, but I suspect the pattern is established. MrOllie (talk) 19:06, 10 December 2023 (UTC)

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My edits are different. Only the Boosie article is the exact same.if you're editing articles with thousands or millions of views, of course you're going to eventually edit the same article as someone else. If I was another user why are lots of my edits different AwesomeJewishMan446 (talk) 19:23, 10 December 2023 (UTC)

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments
Spicy (talk) 11:46, 20 December 2023 (UTC)
 * Confirmed to Sockpuppet investigations/BallSniff544, and some sleepers created after this report. Could use a merge and tags. Izno (talk) 19:44, 11 December 2023 (UTC)
 * Merge done. Based on Izno's block log, I assume the sleepers are
 * Tagged accounts, closing. Thanks, Spicy (talk) 11:47, 20 December 2023 (UTC)