Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Boeing720/Archive

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My only evidence is WP:DUCK behavioral evidence in the Unusual requests post, which mentions my (User:Guy Macon) name in connection with the Greta Thunberg page, a page I have never edited. I did however, report Boeing720 for repeated BLP violations on that page, leading to an indef block, and now suddenly an IP appears talking about the same page and mentioning my name. See Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents. Plus the writing style resembles that of Boeing720. As for what to do about it, if it is determined that the IP is a sock of blocked user Boeing720 a short block of the IP with a mention of this SPI in the description would leave a paper trail in case there is further socking and would have the added benefit of preventing any abuse from that IP in the next day or so. Guy Macon (talk) 08:46, 9 November 2019 (UTC) modified 19:10, 9 November 2019 (UTC)
 * He The IP has also been posting pretty much the same content with the same accusations against various Wikipedia editors on the knowyourmeme.com forums and on Reddit. Nothing we can do about that here (I did notify the abuse departments on both websites) but if anybody has a need to know, I have all the information saved. I am not going to publish it anywhere because of outing concerns; someone might be able to figure out the identity of whoever is doing this from the Reddit / knowyourmeme.com threads, and here on Wikipedia we don't do anything to help anyone with outing or doxing. --Guy Macon (talk) 16:52, 9 November 2019 (UTC) Modified 19:10, 9 November 2019 (UTC)
 * Thanks for clearing that up. I have stricken some of my conclusions above that appear to have been incorrect. --Guy Macon (talk) 19:10, 9 November 2019 (UTC)
 * I got an email that suggested that we move this to Sockpuppet investigations/Starkiller88/Archive as being a more likely sockmaster. I don't know enough to even have an opinion on that, so I am leaving this here. --Guy Macon (talk) 03:53, 10 November 2019 (UTC)

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 * This isn't Boeing720. It might have been worth it to block the IP for whatever nonsense it was up to, but the English, although not perfect, was waaaaaaaaaaaaaay better than anything Boeing has ever written.  It also geolocate to Malaysia, which isn't definitive, but Boeing isn't from anywhere near there.  –Deacon Vorbis (carbon &bull; videos) 17:29, 9 November 2019 (UTC)

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 * Softblocked the IP for a week. -- RoySmith (talk) 15:33, 9 November 2019 (UTC)
 * I've had a good deal to do with Boeing over the years, and can recognise his characteristic Swedish-inflected English. (All the better because I'm Swedish myself.) I agree with Deacon Vorbis about the language: Boeing could no more have formulated the IP's post than he can fly. That's not to say it's not a good idea to block the IP for a week — it probably is. Bishonen &#124; talk 17:48, 9 November 2019 (UTC).
 * To be honest, my thought process here never got past, "This is some kind of personal harassment BS, and a short-term block of the IP doesn't have much downside" -- RoySmith (talk) 18:03, 9 November 2019 (UTC)
 * Agreed. Bishonen &#124; talk 18:05, 9 November 2019 (UTC).