Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Dxeebolit/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets
same interests (wrestlers and rappers), registered a couple of days after Rackshom was blocked, both mobile edits only, both mostly unsourced edits, both no edit summaries FMSky (talk) 23:20, 16 August 2023 (UTC)

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Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * Crossover, edits and timing warrants a check as this would be clear sockpuppetry to evade a block. - Please compare the accounts. --Jack Frost (talk) 09:27, 18 August 2023 (UTC)
 * ✅. Blocked and tagged. Closing. PhilKnight (talk) 12:13, 18 August 2023 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets

 * ( original case name)

Became active after previous sock was blocked. Same interests (rappers and wrestlers), both mobile edits only, both never using edit summaries, both tons of unsourced edits FMSky (talk) 06:19, 8 September 2023 (UTC)

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Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments
✅ - Rackshom, past sock Trlxig, and Dxeebolit are confirmed to each other. Blocking and tagging. -- ferret (talk) 20:29, 8 September 2023 (UTC)
 * Moved to the oldest account. Re-tagged. Closing. MarioGom (talk) 20:38, 8 September 2023 (UTC)
 * , you don't seem to have blocked Rackshom, so I've done so. Archiving. Thanks, Spicy (talk) 01:31, 10 September 2023 (UTC)
 * @Spicy Whoops. I think for some reason I thought he was already blocked from the prior investigation, as the SPI was under the wrong master originally. Edit: He was under a 1 month block at the time and I didn't notice it was not an indef. -- ferret (talk) 02:15, 10 September 2023 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets
I've noticed a couple of things about the edits from this IP address that stand out in relation to Dxeebolit and previous socks:
 * Article interests - almost exclusively focussed on rappers and wrestlers
 * On wrestler articles, likes to edit the lead to say "currently a WWE wrestler" or similar - diff by IP, compare it to diff by Dxeebolit
 * On Upcoming Playboi Carti album, added "trap" genre to infobox: diff by IP, compare it to diff by Rackshom
 * On Utopia (Travis Scott album), added 'Psychedelic rock' or similar to infobox: diff by IP, compare it to diff by Rackshom
 * On Denzel Curry, randomly messing around with the genre in the infobox: diff by IP, compare it to diff by Dxeebolit, diff by Rackshom
 * On JPEGMafia, added 'punk rap' to infobox: diff by IP, compare it to diff by Dxeebolit and diff by Rackshom
 * Pretty much never uses edit summaries, at all

At this point I am pretty sure it's the same person behind the IP as the accounts.

Also a note of importance is that this IP address was actually previously blocked for six months in September 2023 by a Checkuser: see block log.

I'm reporting here at SPI as this case doesn't seem obvious enough that an AIV report of this IP user got ignored and automatically removed as stale. — AP 499D25  (talk)  04:38, 10 June 2024 (UTC)


 * Update 8 days later: Although it's been more than a week since I filed this report, I just wanted to say this editor is still active and editing on this IP address as of today (e.g. diff1, diff2). Their latest edits haven't been disruptive/unconstructive actually, though, they are still evading a block on their original account, and who knows when they'll get to disruptive habits again (e.g. messing around with genres), I've been watching this IP's contribs almost every day. So yeah, I would recommend some sort of long-term block, maybe 1 year? — AP 499D25  (talk)  23:17, 17 June 2024 (UTC)

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Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * IP has since been blocked. Closing. --Blablubbs (talk) 11:55, 24 June 2024 (UTC)