Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Carmaker1/Archive

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Checkuser1 Carmaker1 was blocked from editing Ford Bronco, as part of an ANI discussion ([en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard/Incidents#Carmaker1_and_verifiability here]). Shortly after they were blocked, this IP began editing, at Ford Bronco and other automotive articles. Looks WP:DUCK to me. BubbaJoe123456 (talk) 13:16, 8 October 2021 (UTC)

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@BubbaJoe123456: I believe you mean Carmaker1, not Checkuser1? Tol (talk &#124; contribs) @ 18:28, 12 October 2021 (UTC)
 * Talk about your Freudian slips! Corrected. BubbaJoe123456 (talk) 18:30, 12 October 2021 (UTC)

Not sure the timing lines up. Unless I'm reading it wrong Carmaker1 was pageblocked from Euryalus (talk) 08:01, 13 October 2021 (UTC)

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * Spicy (talk) 13:35, 8 October 2021 (UTC)
 * Took another look at this. The IP geolocates to Sri Lanka, and isn't obviously a proxy - Carmaker1 claimed on their userpage to be a native speaker of English living in the US, and based on their writing style I don't see any reason to doubt that. The IP doesn't use edit summaries, while Carmaker1 usually did, and making unsourced changes to car articles seems to be a surprisingly popular hobby on Wikipedia, so I don't think the behaviour is otherwise conclusive. In any case, the IP hasn't edited for a few weeks so it wouldn't be worthwhile to block it now, and Carmaker1 is already indefinitely blocked so even if this were him, it wouldn't change anything from an enforcement perspective. Therefore, I'm closing this case without action. Thanks, Spicy (talk) 15:55, 23 October 2021 (UTC)