Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Dr Patrick O'Crowley/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets

 * 1) Both users are repeatedly and disruptively editing Fenian Rising to inflate the number of fatalities (see discussion at Talk:Fenian Rising).
 * 2) Similarity of usernames is obvious.
 * 3) Almost identical edit summaries. Dr Patrick O'Crowley: "I changed the number of people who died in the Fenian rising to be more accurate and I cited a source"; Dr Partrick McCoy: "I updated the number of people killed in the Fenian Rising of 1867 to be more accurate and to match the source that it cites" (the citation is a red herring; it doesn't verify the edit).
 * 4) Dr Patrick O'Crowley on their user talk page: changing the number of casualties to "one hundred and two" rather than "twelve" is more interesting and exciting, than a rebellion that killed twelve people and then fizzled out and I believe that Irish people should be able to be proud of the 1867 Rising. Dr Patrick McCoy in their latest edit summary: saying that only "twelve people were killed across the country" is boring...I also believe that leaving it ambiguous meaning that it could be a large amount of people killed allows Irish people to be proud of the 1867 rebellion and I believe that we should be allowed to be proud of it.
 * 5) Requesting checkuser as the user will very likely create another account to continue this vandalism. Scolaire (talk) 11:04, 15 May 2022 (UTC)

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 * These two accounts are ✅ to one another. I don't see any other suspicious activity on their ranges - come back if it looks like they've returned. Closing.  Girth Summit  (blether)  12:17, 15 May 2022 (UTC)