Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Coldplay48/Archive

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Coldplay48 was blocked for a week in May 2020 by NinjaRobotPirate for "operating a sock farm to avoid scrutiny and evade blocks." Three socks were blocked and added to the Category:Wikipedia sockpuppets of Coldplay48.

Coldplay48 and Paperwork69 have the same idiosyncratic intersection of interests, as may be seen in this interaction chart. The areas of interest include several topics related to The Boys (comics), aging rock stars, songs from the 1970s and 1980s, and childrens TV shows.

At many articles, Paperwork69 is the very next editor in the edit history after Coldplay48, adjusting the recently added text, and in some cases, vice versa. Example 1: Example 2: Example 3: Vice versa:

Paperwork69 adds personnel information with the edit summary "Fixed typo" in the same fashion as blocked socks Coldplay56 and Coldplay57.

Eleven60 has some different style indicators but also suspicious similarities, especially the interest in the same articles. Eleven60 added an unreferenced personnel list to a song article in the same manner as the others. Coldplay48 created the A-Train draft article (part of The Boys comic) and Eleven60 became a major contributor the next day, followed an hour later by Paperwork69.

A possible connection can be seen between blocked sock who removed a large section of The Boys with the intention of moving that text to List of The Boys story arcs. Two months later, Coldplay created the article by adding the lost text. Fifteen hours later, Eleven60 placed a project banner on the new article.

Checkuser requested to make certain. Binksternet (talk) 15:46, 25 July 2021 (UTC)

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 * - I am reasonably convinced that Coldplay and Paperwork are the same person, both . I think that Eleven is them too, but there are a couple key differences (like how Eleven60 uses edit summaries with poor English while Coldplay almost never uses them, and how Eleven60 is exclusively editing mobile). That said, they both created files with the unusual choice of edit summary "Reduce size of non-free file" and they have significant overlap, so I'd say there's a good chance this is just their mobile account. Endorse CU for a double-check on Paperwork, confirmation on Eleven60, and cross-check with Milikine (to decide if we need to merge this with Sockpuppet investigations/TotalTruthTeller24). GeneralNotability (talk) 01:12, 30 July 2021 (UTC)
 * ✅, plus . Wrong continent for TTT24.  . NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 21:19, 31 July 2021 (UTC)