Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/DantheWikipedian/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets
Account editing same pages as blocked user User:DantheWikipedian AntientNestor (talk) 12:40, 28 August 2023 (UTC)

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 * - Please move to DantheWikipedian. Bbb23 (talk) 13:04, 28 August 2023 (UTC)
 * for the record. --Jack Frost (talk) 13:32, 28 August 2023 (UTC)
 * . - 1 v 2.  - Please block  indefinitely for socking. --Jack Frost (talk) 13:32, 28 August 2023 (UTC)
 * The following are ✅ to one another:
 * For what it's worth, AgnesStewart is only perhaps - they edited on a range that DantheWikipedian has used occasionally. The others are all slam dunks.  Girth Summit  (blether)  15:08, 28 August 2023 (UTC)
 * tagged as suspected. --Jack Frost (talk) 23:04, 28 August 2023 (UTC)
 * For what it's worth, AgnesStewart is only perhaps - they edited on a range that DantheWikipedian has used occasionally. The others are all slam dunks.  Girth Summit  (blether)  15:08, 28 August 2023 (UTC)
 * tagged as suspected. --Jack Frost (talk) 23:04, 28 August 2023 (UTC)
 * For what it's worth, AgnesStewart is only perhaps - they edited on a range that DantheWikipedian has used occasionally. The others are all slam dunks.  Girth Summit  (blether)  15:08, 28 August 2023 (UTC)
 * tagged as suspected. --Jack Frost (talk) 23:04, 28 August 2023 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets
Similar edits to DantheWikipedian, adding copyrighted text to Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool (source, edit). Preemptively started a thread on the article's talk page (Talk:Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool) instructing other editors not to remove content that they added; DantheWikipedian had a similar combative discussion style (no need to cite diffs, their talk page is filled with examples). Admitted in a now-archived Teahouse thread that they were frustrated that DantheWikipedian's edits had been reverted. Including IPs with similar edits for posterity. — SamX &#91;talk · contribs&#93; 16:30, 8 September 2023 (UTC)

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 * DavidDunnymede is ✅,, no TPA in keeping with the other accounts. , . --Blablubbs (talk) 16:23, 9 September 2023 (UTC)
 * Account is now blocked, and I blocked for a month as well. The page has been semi-protected, which should prevent further block evasion from IPs. Closing. Thanks, Spicy (talk) 22:53, 9 September 2023 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets
Has added uncited copyvio to Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool from the same website that DantheWikipedian and his socks used (cf. Special:DeletedContributions/DantheWikipedian and Special:DeletedContributions/DavidDunnymede). Username is very similar to at least two confirmed socks. Interaction analyzer (DantheWikipedian, DavidDunnymede) appears to indicate a connection. — SamX &#91;talk · contribs&#93; 18:30, 19 December 2023 (UTC)
 * Thanks. Part of the reason why I request CU was to check for sleepers as apparently found some back in August, but I'll obviously defer to your judgement. I suppose I should've mentioned that in the request. — SamX &#91;talk · contribs&#93; 23:18, 19 December 2023 (UTC)
 * Quite a bit of quacking emanating from and other IPs on that range. — SamX &#91;talk · contribs&#93; 23:24, 19 December 2023 (UTC)
 * Sounds good, thanks. I've started a sort of mini-CCI in my sandbox with some other IPs that have made similar edits, although most of them have been quiet for long enough that there's probably no action needed with them for the time being. — SamX &#91;talk · contribs&#93; 23:51, 19 December 2023 (UTC)

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 * - previous accounts are probably and this seems clear enough based on behaviour., closing. Thanks, Spicy (talk) 23:10, 19 December 2023 (UTC)
 * , that's reasonable, but I thought it was unlikely that there would be other socks because this editor isn't exactly subtle and I didn't see any obvious candidates in the history of their favourite articles. However, after your comment, I noticed making similar edits on Robert Walpole, so I ran a check. That account is ✅ to Danjwilkie as well as to  and, making them confirmed to the master by extension. I didn't see any other sleepers although I didn't check as exhaustively as I could have given the aforementioned obviousness and the nature of the technical data. I will block and tag Wikicommodore.  and I'll leave this open for a clerk or admin to evaluate the claims of IP socking. Spicy (talk) 23:46, 19 December 2023 (UTC)
 * /24 range blocked for a month. Closing.  Vanjagenije  (talk)  00:37, 20 December 2023 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets
In addition to the similar edits and edit summaries, one give-away are the curly quotes that are a consistent presence. HandsomeFella (talk) 19:00, 20 December 2023 (UTC)
 * has done edits similar to those of DantheWikipedian and other users mentioned here, with similar edit summaries. E.g.: diff 1, diff 2
 * has done edits similar to those of DantheWikipedian and other users mentioned here, with similar edit summaries. E.g.: diff 1, diff 2

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 * Not going to act on month-old IPs. Izno (talk) 05:32, 21 December 2023 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets
1 - editing on similar subjects (British 18th-19th century politicians) to DantheWikipedian and their established sockpuppets, for example danjwilkie

2 - similar construction of user names danjwilkie and Davecorbray

3 - Adding blocks of text on foreign policy, domestic affairs, etc. Davecorbray downloads text from ChatGPT (see discussion here Wikipedia talk:WikiProject AI Cleanup at bottom of page) whereas I think the previous sockpuppets were copying from other websites

4 - Adding "sources" that do not support the text, for example danjwilkie here cites a book review which has nothing about finance in it and Davecorbray here  cites a book review which is about a different subject and also cites an entirely irrelevant article about 21st century knife crime

5 - Similarity between DavidDunnymede (a sockpuppet of DantheWikipedian) and Davecorbray in how they introduce themselves on their user pages. One says they are a lecturer and the other a student and they express similar sentiments, although not using exactly the same words. DavidDunnymede's introduction can be seen here

Southdevonian (talk) 18:45, 15 June 2024 (UTC)

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 * Davecorbray's edit history is striking. The third and fourth edits from this account each added several thousand characters to an article. Maproom (talk) 14:10, 16 June 2024 (UTC)

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 * ✅ from socks in the archive. Also .  Girth Summit  (blether)  14:47, 16 June 2024 (UTC)