Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Becausewhynothuh?/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets
This users behavior is extremely similar to Becausewhynothuh? (BWN?), a known sockmaster, in a number of ways: Cerebral726 (talk) 20:26, 8 November 2023 (UTC)
 * Account created 2 days after BWN? was banned:
 * Activated ClueBot within 1 hour of creating their first talk page interaction, which was created 10 days after BWN was banned (with some IPs and other socks apparently being used in the meantime according to this interaction)
 * Edit wars while trying to have discussions in the edit summaries, using all caps for emphasis: AB vs BWN?-1
 * Interest in conservative politics and soccer/football: AB vs BWN?
 * High interest in images in infoboxes for cities, will swap around by changing the numbers of the images but not actually swap the order in the infobox: AB example vs BWN? example. Example of editing the exact same panorama
 * Pretty specific edit about Wicked Games:

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Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * ✅, --Blablubbs (talk) 22:10, 8 November 2023 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets
Becausewhynothuh has used multiple IPs in the past, with all of them having the IP address coming from the United Arab Emirates. Today, I looked at my watchlist, and this IP has become interested in changing the image order. I looked at where this IP address comes from, and it also said that it comes from the UAE. I would like to request CheckUser to make sure this IP is tied to Becausewhynothuh. NoobThreePointOh (talk) 13:37, 7 December 2023 (UTC)

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This is obviously the same editor: distinctive features are pointless fiddling with images: compare vs. --JBL (talk) 17:41, 7 December 2023 (UTC)


 * Sorry for commenting after you've closed this, but: the year-long block on the /46 (by ) is just from a single page, and predates this filing. --JBL (talk) 17:24, 9 December 2023 (UTC)
 * I also note that the same person has continued as (blocked by  for edit-warring and being a massive asshole).  --JBL (talk) 17:28, 9 December 2023 (UTC)
 * As well as also adding a topic on my talk page called "F**k you, you authoritarian piece of s**t" (which was thankfully reverted by someone else, but can be viewed in my talk page history), and undoing my reverts rapidly. NoobThreePointOh (talk) 22:31, 9 December 2023 (UTC)

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * - CheckUser tools may to be used to connect an IP address to an account. Sir Sputnik (talk) 00:34, 9 December 2023 (UTC)
 * Looks like the range is now blocked for a year, including "suspected block evasion". Seems like the messing about with infobox image order is consistent. I'll close this. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk) 14:31, 9 December 2023 (UTC) Nevermind, missed the limits on the block note. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk) 17:29, 9 December 2023 (UTC)
 * OK, Resetting this to "admin" in case I did something wrong, since this is probably the first time I've issued a rangeblock. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk) 14:07, 11 December 2023 (UTC)
 * Thanks for your help. NoobThreePointOh (talk) 14:14, 11 December 2023 (UTC)
 * Also put a notice at WP:AN given the width of this rblock and my lack of experience. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk) 14:16, 11 December 2023 (UTC)
 * Sure thing. NoobThreePointOh (talk) 14:19, 11 December 2023 (UTC)
 * No comment on the IP address (I commented on the range block at AN), but in the process of looking up past socks' info for cross-checking, is ✅, . Closing this report; if anyone else wants to comment on the range block AN is a better place. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 16:00, 11 December 2023 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets
Editing pattern is pretty much what BWNH does with city articles, such as Houston, Miami, and San Diego. NoobThreePointOh (talk) 13:16, 18 March 2024 (UTC)


 * Per my talk page, here are some comparisons between this user and BWNH:
 * 1. In the Miami page, this edit from Gymrat is roughly the same as the edit here from BWNH earlier in 2023. The only difference between these two edits is that the one from BWNH has a pink skyline as the hover preview image in the infobox, as well as slightly less images.
 * 2. On Houston, Gymrat's edit is essentially the same as BWNH's edit in August of 2023.
 * 3. San Diego was especially where everything went crazy, with this compared to this edit by AbiquiúBoy, a sockpuppet of BWNH. While these two comparisons may not seem like such a big deal due to the images being different in both of them, it does go to show that Gymrat, the sock of BWNH, has this type of obsession with messing up the infobox.
 * 4. Finally, for Newark, New Jersey, Gymrat's edit involved repeatedly changing the skyline, and I knew that this was easily a sock, considering that BWNH's edit also changed the lead skyline. NoobThreePointOh (talk) 22:20, 19 March 2024 (UTC)

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I agree this is an obvious duck: compare Gymrat with Bwnh?, for example. --JBL (talk) 00:31, 19 March 2024 (UTC)


 * Same old behavior as all I know. NoobThreePointOh (talk) 09:14, 19 March 2024 (UTC)

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments
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 * based on usage of a familiar IP range and some information from the CU wiki. EdJohnston (talk) 01:24, 20 March 2024 (UTC)
 * Closing. Extraordinary Writ (talk) 21:47, 23 March 2024 (UTC)