Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/DerpGunKV2/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets
DerpGunKV2 was indefblocked for copyright violations on 2 June 2021. DevonianShark created their account on 30 August 2021, making an edit to a page Derpgun had last edited on 15 May 2021.

These editors share a mutual interest in obscure German and Soviet tanks. DevonianShark only has 169 edits, yet they have edited seven articles that DerpGunKV2 has edited.

https://sigma.toolforge.org/editorinteract.py?users=DerpGunKV2&users=DevonianShark&users=&startdate=&enddate=&ns=&server=enwiki

On 11 November 2022 DerpGunKV2—still active on other wikis—adds a Wikidata link to the English Wikipedia article for Object 277, which DevonianShark created 25 September 2022‎. Schierbecker (talk) 17:47, 14 February 2024 (UTC)

Comments by other users

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I do not understand why this claim is being made, other than we appear to have edited the same articles at different points in time. I remember I created my account because I saw issues with the page https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Entwicklung_series&diff=prev&oldid=1041494435, and so wanted to correct it.

The lowest time between edits between my account and DerpGunKV2 (https://sigma.toolforge.org/editorinteract.py?users=DerpGunKV2&users=DevonianShark&users=&startdate=&enddate=&ns=&server=enwiki) is 107 days, and 5/7 of the shared pages have over 1 year between edits. Not to mention the disparity between edit numbers – for all 7, I have <5 edits, and DerpGunKV2 has similar numbers for 6/7, but has edited https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_armored_fighting_vehicles_of_the_Soviet_Union 102 times, whereas I edited it 4 times. These edits were all on the same day, and all I did was add links to the articles I created (Object 277 and Object 268).

I cannot see how this is viable evidence in any way. DevonianShark (talk) 18:31, 14 February 2024 (UTC)

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * There isn't really any evidence here, other than both editors being tank nerds (I mean that affectionately, not as a pejorative). It's a niche interest, but there are a surprising number of them. Behavior-wise, DevonianShark seems very different from DerpGunKV2. The Wordsmith Talk to me 23:16, 6 March 2024 (UTC)