Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/DavidMalcolm1212112221/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets
Shadow account presumably set up to support sockmaster's strong desire to determine which photo to use in main infobox at Nissan Skyline. Sockmaster is a self-avowed Holden fan, sock is anti-Ford (there is a rivalry between these two brands in Australia). Both users are clearly Australian. Sock's name is all anti-Ford, "Barras" refers to a type of engine built by Ford of Australia - sockmaster just edited that page to make the engine seem unimpressive (for the record, that edit should stand). Both accounts have history at Talk:Nissan Skyline, supporting each other. Both accounts have problems with civility, as seen by username (puppet already blocked for Username violation, sockmaster has a similar pattern). Compare comments by puppet and master, both favoring the word iconic. DavidMalcolm1212112221 could probably be blocked based onWP:CIVIL alone.  Mr.choppers &#124;  ✎  14:15, 1 August 2023 (UTC)

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Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * A check of the blocked account ("Barras suck L Ford") revealed no other accounts which could be connected to it. I think a check on the DavidMalcolm account is unlikely to lead to any more conclusive information. ST47 (talk) 01:53, 2 August 2023 (UTC)
 * I would actually call this . Courcelles (talk) 21:03, 4 August 2023 (UTC)
 * It's questionable but I don't think there's enough evidence to take action and the suspected sockpuppet is already blocked anyway. For civility issues, there's WP:ANI. Spicy (talk) 16:44, 18 August 2023 (UTC)