Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/BigBoyzz1006/Archive

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All of these accounts are edit warring to go to a specific version of Bryan Scott (quarterback) on the article and talk page. I've blocked two of them for obvious socking and disruption, and I'm requesting CU for the others and checking for additional sleeper accounts. BigBoyzz1006:. Birdz1210:. Thehulk2021:. O'jomiloju:. The article in question only gets about 20 page views per day and the subject is an obscure lower-level player so the attention is unlikely to be from multiple people. Eagles 24/7 (C)  22:22, 7 January 2021 (UTC)

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 * Bagging and tagging confirmed accounts.  ~Oshwah~  (talk) (contribs)   22:40, 7 January 2021 (UTC)
 * Bagging and tagging confirmed accounts.  ~Oshwah~  (talk) (contribs)   22:40, 7 January 2021 (UTC)
 * Bagging and tagging confirmed accounts.  ~Oshwah~  (talk) (contribs)   22:40, 7 January 2021 (UTC)
 * Bagging and tagging confirmed accounts.  ~Oshwah~  (talk) (contribs)   22:40, 7 January 2021 (UTC)
 * Bagging and tagging confirmed accounts.  ~Oshwah~  (talk) (contribs)   22:40, 7 January 2021 (UTC)
 * Bagging and tagging confirmed accounts.  ~Oshwah~  (talk) (contribs)   22:40, 7 January 2021 (UTC)
 * Bagging and tagging confirmed accounts.  ~Oshwah~  (talk) (contribs)   22:40, 7 January 2021 (UTC)


 * Closing per the above. The SandDoctor  Talk 18:25, 9 January 2021 (UTC)

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Pushing similar changes to Bryan Scott (quarterback). Compare by BigBoyzz1006 against  by Jiltsdanny789. Eagles 24/7 (C)  18:14, 1 February 2021 (UTC)
 * Can you bag and tag? Eagles 24/7 (C)  22:21, 1 February 2021 (UTC)
 * Eagles247 - I'm not sure why the script didn't block the account when I did so... Weird. Anyways, ✅.  ~Oshwah~  (talk) (contribs)   23:41, 1 February 2021 (UTC)

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 * ✅. Bagging and tagging all accounts. This SPI can be closed...  ~Oshwah~  (talk) (contribs)   22:05, 1 February 2021 (UTC)

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Brand-new SPAs editing Bryan Scott (quarterback) in promotional fashion. Removing BC Lions from infobox, in line with assertion from other sockpuppets that he did not sign with the team. Eagles 24/7 (C)  22:19, 11 February 2021 (UTC)

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 * ✅. Bagging and tagging socks. This SPI can be closed...  ~Oshwah~  (talk) (contribs)   06:29, 12 February 2021 (UTC)

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Making inconsequential edits to pages of NFL quarterbacks and immediately reverting themselves in order to get autoconfirmed status and edit Bryan Scott (quarterback), which has been semi-protected. Special:Contributions/Brownacrux made similar edits to similar (or same) pages after the Scott article was protected. Requesting CU for sleepers. <b style="color:#004C54">Eagles</b> <b style="color:#004C54">24/7</b> (C)  21:47, 16 February 2021 (UTC)

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 * Also found and ✅:
 * All will be bagged and tagged. This SPI can be closed...  ~Oshwah~  (talk) (contribs)   22:04, 16 February 2021 (UTC)
 * All will be bagged and tagged. This SPI can be closed...  ~Oshwah~  (talk) (contribs)   22:04, 16 February 2021 (UTC)
 * All will be bagged and tagged. This SPI can be closed...  ~Oshwah~  (talk) (contribs)   22:04, 16 February 2021 (UTC)
 * All will be bagged and tagged. This SPI can be closed...  ~Oshwah~  (talk) (contribs)   22:04, 16 February 2021 (UTC)
 * All will be bagged and tagged. This SPI can be closed...  ~Oshwah~  (talk) (contribs)   22:04, 16 February 2021 (UTC)
 * All will be bagged and tagged. This SPI can be closed...  ~Oshwah~  (talk) (contribs)   22:04, 16 February 2021 (UTC)

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Same agenda at Bryan Scott (quarterback) as the other accounts. Account created one week after last batch was blocked. Began editing at that article exactly 10 days after first edit, in order to circumvent semi-protection. <b style="color:#004C54">Eagles</b> <b style="color:#004C54">24/7</b> (C)  03:13, 23 March 2021 (UTC)

Since the CU came up empty, the behavioral evidence seems clear here. This edit (adding that Scott's grandfather was some non-notable Army general) is similar to other sock edits. This edit (removing BC Lions and/or Edmonton Eskimos tenures from the infobox or prose) is consistent with other sock edits (here, here, here, here, here, here, etc.) <b style="color:#004C54">Eagles</b> <b style="color:#004C54">24/7</b> (C)  20:18, 23 March 2021 (UTC)

According to User:Hillster, the account is an undisclosed paid editing account. I'm sure all of the previous sockpuppets here are too, including the creator of the article,. <b style="color:#004C54">Eagles</b> <b style="color:#004C54">24/7</b> (C)  20:36, 23 March 2021 (UTC)

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 * - Seems pretty ducky, but last month's CU netted a few sleepers, so worth another look for more of them. -- RoySmith (talk) 03:18, 23 March 2021 (UTC)
 * ❌ -- Amanda  (aka DQ) 14:00, 23 March 2021 (UTC)
 * This has gotten weird. After Amanda's finding, I took a look at Bryan Scott (quarterback) and ended up nominating it for WP:AfD.  Now, check out this edit where newish user Hillster notes that User:Bored&Broke is an account related to Mr Scott editing on his behalf - he wasn't aware of the disclosure policies and has been asked to refrain from making any further edits to Wikipedia.  I'll leave it to somebody else to figure out how to proceed from here. -- RoySmith (talk) 21:00, 23 March 2021 (UTC)
 * I suggest the account be blocked as an undisclosed paid editing account, no sock tags, and close this SPI case. <b style="color:#004C54">Eagles</b> <b style="color:#004C54">24/7</b>  (C)  20:44, 9 April 2021 (UTC)
 * UPE-blocked Bored&Broke per the above. Closing. GeneralNotability (talk) 01:31, 15 April 2021 (UTC)