Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Bestchest160713/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets
Both usernames end in 160713 and both are interested in tropical cyclones. Both use the edit summary "Fixed grammar and a major edit" while inserting wrong info (Ilovetyphoons160713 and Bestchest160713). This might ordinarily be excusable as a simple user change, but in this case there is a WP:SCRUTINY issue as the master has multiple warnings for WP:IDHT behavior; neither have edited their talk pages. Suspiciously, after you warned them at User_talk:Bestchest160713 they just waited a month and then resumed the same types of edits with this account. Jasper Deng (talk) 02:34, 2 July 2023 (UTC)
 * Technical note: I request the CheckUser to be done with priority since the master's data expires in just over 2 weeks.--Jasper Deng (talk) 02:35, 2 July 2023 (UTC)
 * Seeing both have an account on Wikidata, I performed a check there myself and find them related. A local check should still be done in case of sleepers I couldn't find there, and to corroborate my results, but the case is strong for a scrutiny block here.--Jasper Deng (talk) 02:46, 2 July 2023 (UTC)

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Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * Both accounts use the same /18. The range used is very busy, so I can only call this from the standpoint of English Wikipedia CU data. Dreamy Jazz talk to me &#124; my contributions 12:18, 2 July 2023 (UTC)
 * Based on evidence shared with me from wikidata, I would amend my result to be . Dreamy Jazz talk to me &#124; my contributions 18:29, 2 July 2023 (UTC)
 * Users blocked. Closing. Spicy (talk) 20:02, 15 July 2023 (UTC)