Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Cortador/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets
HollowSoul is an account that was created in 2019 but largely has remained inactive ever since, only making 2 edits in the following years, until recently. Despite HollowSoul's long periods of inactivity, their editing tends to pick up on the days Cortador is editing, and coincides with their edits.

HollowSoul suddenly became active again a few weeks ago, exclusively editing pages that Cortador edited at the same time. Of note, one of those pages is Talk:Boris Johnson, the article of which Cortador was p-blocked from at the same time. HollowSoul begun editing on the talk page, using the same turns of phrase.

The only other recent edits that HollowSoul has made is to Sultan Al Jaber, which Cortador has also edited the same day.

Today an RFC was started by Cortador, and HollowSoul responded to a ping very quickly afterwards, despite being inactive since Cortador's p-block. HollowSoul only seems to edit when Cortador needs them to.

Indeed, the editor interaction analyser shows a minimum time between edits being 1 minute on one article, and 7 minutes on the other, which I find very strange given that HollowSoul is normally dormant for years at a time.

I normally wouldn't think much of this if it wasn't for fact that HollowSoul has shown a flurry of activity on the same articles as Cortador after a long period of inactivity, particularly notable in that it picks up on Talk:Boris Johnson at the time of the P-block. Their editing patterns coincide with Cortador, and their account was even created on a day Cortador was active. — Czello (music) 09:23, 13 June 2023 (UTC)

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 * , but with the caveat that the two accounts edit on large networks that are known to be unreliable for geolocation, and those networks cover a geographic area where it would not be unusual at all for them to have this intersection of topic interests. . Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 14:59, 3 July 2023 (UTC)
 * Also looked at the data to inform my behavioural assessment. I don't think there's enough here to block. Closing with no action. TonyBallioni (talk) 23:25, 29 July 2023 (UTC)