Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Cuvtixo/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets
On The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, User:Cuvtixo attempted to make changes to the lede from 24 September to 6 October despite community consensus, talk page conversation, and invocations of WP policy by a variety of editors. I never had any interaction with the user until they left an inflammatory message on my talk page accusing me of edit warring, among other things. See User talk:TNstingray/Archive 1 for the full conversation. You will notice that today, 18 October, the user stated they, heavily indicating that my suspicions of sockpuppetry might be correct, as I did have numerous reverts of IP addresses based on the same reasoning as established.

Diffs:

24 September:
 * 23:12 Edit by Cuvtixo.
 * 23:17 Reversion & explanation by User:Dumuzid.
 * Talk page discussion:
 * 23:36 Concern by Cutixo.
 * 23:50 Answer by Dumuzid.

3 October:
 * 08:14 Edit by 203.189.118.246
 * 08:23 My reversion.
 * 13:03 Edit by 223.25.61.130
 * 15:24 My reversion.

4 October:
 * 03:54 Edit by 203.189.118.128
 * 06:59 My reversion.

5 October:
 * 00:46 Edit by 223.25.61.214
 * 06:54 My reversion.
 * 09:44 Edit by 223.25.61.214
 * 09:47 My reversion.
 * 22:05 Edit by 203.189.118.133
 * 22:22 My reversion.

6 October:
 * 12:08 Edit by Cuvtixo.
 * 12:13 Reversion by Dumuzid.
 * 12:15-17 In three edits, Cuvtixo creates a section on my talk page to insult me and my reversions from 5 October. This link is the final product. I respond in the next edit.
 * 12:18 Edit by Cuvtixo, with edit summary.
 * 12:22 Reversion by User:Toa Nidhiki05

17-18 October:
 * 23:27-28 Cuvtixo admits to purposeful anonymous editing on my talk page. Also notice the removed name-calling (doesn't bother me in the slightest, but it's there). I respond 08:17.

Also see User:TNstingray/sandbox for my investigation into the matter. It's the same information, just written in prose as I developed my thought process prior to this submission. Obviously in hindsight, I can see how these IP addresses are tied to the same user (two devices, likely), and that would indeed make me guilty of edit warring. At the time, this was something that I completely overlooked, due to the alternating nature of the main number (203 vs. 223), plus the fact that the edits were not exactly the same thing. I fell for the ploy that these were different users and didn't think anything else of it. The full context of what was going on did not click until today, 18 October, when I went back through the page history to confirm my new suspicions. In summary, I believe Cuvtixo deliberately logged out of his account to edit anonymously in an attempt to bypass consensus and responsibility. I would like to assume good faith for users, but they directly implied as much in an unprompted conversation on my talk page.

Thank you for your time and consideration, and I am happy to elaborate more should that be necessary, though I have tried to be comprehensive in presenting diffs and context. TNstingray (talk) 14:27, 18 October 2022 (UTC)

Comments by other users

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Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * The obvious thing to do here is to semi-protect The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power and close this SPI. I have done the obvious thing. -- RoySmith (talk) 01:38, 20 October 2022 (UTC)