Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/BernardZ/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets



 * Tools: Editor interaction utility • Interaction Timeline • User compare report Auto-generated every hour.

Macquaire is a rarely used account that periodically becomes active in order to support BernardZ in disputes, eg. (for ),  (talkpage),  (for ),  (for ).

BernardZ claims that Macquaire is "a mate who tends to follow me on Wikipedia," which may indicate meatpuppetry but is probably just false.

I've requested CU, but would recommend a block based on behavioral evidence even if CU comes up false due to the user's statements. –Roscelese (talk &sdot; contribs) 20:34, 20 May 2018 (UTC)

Comments by other users
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The Editor Interaction Analyzer report is interesting. The two editors have overlapped on 4 articles, 2 article talk pages (the only two article talk pages Macquaire has ever edited), and 2 user talk pages (the only two user pages Macquaire has ever edited). These overlap edits account for 42% of Macquaire's 26 edits (in 3 years time). Looking at their edit count page, they are truly a haphazard editor. Their edits are not evenly distributed by month, but clump together in widely separated months. They don't edit at any regular time of day - their "time card" is all over the place, except for Thursdays at 16:00 UTC. . These are all signs of a sock -- not a meatpuppet -- which is pulled out of the drawer whenever the master needs support.

Further, among BernardZ's top edited articles are Johannes Kepler, Dark star (Newtonian mechanics), Fermi paradox, and Drake equation, while Macquaire has edited Partial pressure and James Prescott Joule. BernardZ has edited Mustafa Badreddine and Edward Said, while Macquaire has edited Mustafa Amin. BernardZ has edited Vela Incident, while Macquaire has edited 2015 Russian Sukhoi Su-24 shootdown.

A CU would probably be a good idea to check for any other socks, but I don't think there can be much doubt that Macquaire is a sock of BernardZ, and not "a mate that follows me around". Beyond My Ken (talk) 02:56, 22 May 2018 (UTC)
 * Given the behavioral evidence, DoRD's results are unexpected. But if these two aren't socks, they must be meatpuppets. Beyond My Ken (talk) 17:19, 22 May 2018 (UTC)
 * I didn't expect those results, either, but they're thousands of miles apart and don't appear to be using any proxy/VPN trickery. ​—DoRD (talk)​ 17:37, 22 May 2018 (UTC)
 * OK, thanks for that. Beyond My Ken (talk) 23:03, 22 May 2018 (UTC)

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * - To help determine whether sock or meatpuppetry is more likely. Sro23 (talk) 22:35, 20 May 2018 (UTC)
 * The accounts are ❌. ​—DoRD (talk)​ 17:03, 22 May 2018 (UTC)
 * Nothing left to do here. Closing. Sro23 (talk) 01:12, 3 June 2018 (UTC)