Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Bukyrrocro/Archive

30 August 2014

 * Suspected sockpuppets


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Both user accounts are used only for what I would describe as trolling, deleting material (33 of the 44 edits Bukyrrocro has made and 11 of the 20 edits 14Gazanflict has made show red numbers, having removed material) and reverting edits (15 of Bukyrrocro's 44 edits and 12 of 14Gazanflict's 20 edits are reverts) just to p*ss people off and see if they can get someone to break 3RR. Bukyrrocro is the oldest account, with 14Gazanflict being created on 9 August. I first noticed them on 27 August on Mikoyan MiG-29 when Bukyrrocro had just made two reverts, and was being reverted by, with 14Gazanflict then showing up 30 min later, "helping out" by making two mindless reverts, the first one reverting AnomieBot and the second one reverting Fnlayson, and then continuing to make mindless reverts (replacing new data with new references with old data with outdated references, clearly showing they didn't even check what they were reverting to) until I gave them a 3RR warning. Of the 12 edits Bukyrrocro has made since 14Gazanflict was created on 9 August, nine were on pages also edited by 14Gazanflict, and of the 20 edits in total 14Gazanflict has made 16 were on pages also edited by Bukyrrocro (Editor Interaction analysis). Both editors also seem to target, reverting their edits. Thomas.W talk 08:25, 30 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Further comment: Their general behaviour, among other things keeping count of their reverts in order not to break 3RR, and 14Gazanflict giving Fnlayson a user warning show that they are not new to WP, so they're quite possibly new socks of a previously blocked or banned editor. Thomas.W talk 08:54, 30 August 2014 (UTC)

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 * Both accounts have been blocked indefinitely by Ronhjones. Mike V  •  Talk  18:45, 31 August 2014 (UTC)

04 September 2014

 * Suspected sockpuppets


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All three editors are currently blocked indefinitely, so this report is partly filed for the record, but a CU would be nice, both to prove the connection between them, and to check for sleepers, especially since Gonnaspiel72 was created in June but wasn't really activated until almost two months later. Gonnaspiel72 made the same type of edits as Bukyrrocro and 14Gazanflict, including mindless reverts of, and was created on the same day as Bukyrrocro, just three minutes apart. The connection between Gonnaspiel72 and the other two became obvious to me when I noticed that Bukyrrocro, Gonnaspiel72 and 14Gazanflict all filed an unblock request just three minutes apart, the time it would take someone to log out, log in as another user and file a new request. Their behaviour clearly shows that the individual behind these user accounts is someone who is very familiar with how things work here on en-WP, so it is very probable that it's someone who has been blocked or banned under another name, long before these accounts were created. Thomas.W talk 06:47, 4 September 2014 (UTC)

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 * I don't see enough in the history of this master to warrant a sleeper check and the sock is pretty obvious so no need for confirmation. If they keep going we can look into CU. Closing. Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 06:05, 8 September 2014 (UTC)