Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/DavisAndrew416/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets



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Both accounts have an interest in articles regarding political figures, especially those of South Korea and Japan. Despite being warned about the appearance of the use of multiple accounts in 15 September 2019 ( and ), the two accounts continued to edit the same articles subsequently.

A noted pattern of behaviour is for sockpuppet to disruptively undo reversions of prior edits by sockmaster, including giving edit summaries that appear to pose as a separate editor to create the illusion of support which is specifically mentioned in WP:BADSOCK, including:
 * On Emperor of Japan, see and  by DavisAndrew416 which were subsequently reverted by , but restored by KingCub101 in
 * On Head of State, see by DavisAndrew416, which was reverted by , but then reinserted by KingCub101 in , additionally with a edit summary saying "Reverted edit by GoodDay I agree with DavisAndew416 a more fitting and well known choice."
 * On President of the United States, see by DavisAndrew416, which was reverted by , but then reinserted by KingCub101 in , with an edit summary "Don’t quite understand why DavisAndrew416 update was removed considering that the Vice President is the deputy to the President."
 * On South Korea, see by DavisAndrew416, which was reverted by , but then reinserted by KingCub101 in
 * On Air transports of heads of state and government, see by DavisAndrew416, which was reverted by , but then reinserted by KingCub101 in

The accounts also appear to engage in "good hand, bad hand" behaviour, also a pattern of behaviour specifically called out in WP:BADSOCK: – Epistulae ad Familiares (talk) 11:58, 28 September 2020 (UTC)
 * On Prime Minister of Russia, see deleted by DavisAndrew416 and then reinserted by KingCub101 in.
 * On President of Russia, see deleted by DavisAndrew416 and then reinserted by KingCub101 in.


 * I have also notified both accounts on their talk page. Epistulae ad Familiares (talk) 12:01, 28 September 2020 (UTC)

Comments by other users
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Comment - Looks like a sock & smells like a sock. Odds are, it's a sock. GoodDay (talk) 22:20, 28 September 2020 (UTC)

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments
. Master blocked for 1 week. Puppet blocked indefinitely. DrKay (talk) 08:42, 29 September 2020 (UTC)


 * Tagged, closing. GeneralNotability (talk) 14:36, 1 October 2020 (UTC)