Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Benhughes15/Archive

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Suspected master had previously edited Grand Duchy of the Lagoan Isles, claiming they were "the new owner" of the micronation without providing any reliable sources. These were their only edits, with no edits anywhere else on Wikipedia. When contested, they created a clone article at User:Benhughes15 with the changes, and then disappeared (stopped editing). Today, 5 months later, the new account was created (including the name "Ben"), and their first edit (and only, as of this reporting) was to re-add the previously contested (and unsourced) information to the article. Adolphus79 (talk) 20:39, 1 March 2021 (UTC)

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 * Very clearly WP:DUCK, but also a violation of the sixth bullet of WP:SOCK, "Contributing to the same page or discussion with multiple accounts"... but I will continue to watch the article in question, and warn accordingly... thank you for your assistance... - Adolphus79 (talk) 11:08, 5 March 2021 (UTC)
 * , Just to clarify the "isn't any overlap in time" comment below, if somebody abandons an account and creates a new one, we generally assume that's because they lost their password, wanted to make a WP:CLEANSTART, or just wanted a new username, and don't consider it socking. If they go back to using the original account again, then we're likely back into socking territory, so please feel free to file a new report if that happens. -- RoySmith (talk) 22:04, 6 March 2021 (UTC)

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * The master account is too for data to be pulled. There are also no past CU logs that I can use to compare. This will need a behavioral analysis...  ~Oshwah~  (talk)  (contribs)   00:25, 2 March 2021 (UTC)


 * . I've left warnings for both accounts. There isn't any overlap in time, so I don't see this as a strict violation of the WP:SOCK policy at this time. If they continue to add unsourced content, I recommend reporting to WP:AIV after sufficient warnings. Closing. Mz7 (talk) 06:05, 5 March 2021 (UTC)