Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/ESE150/Archive

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All four parties listed have joined into the same discussion with extremely similar rationales. I find this highly suspicious because the talk page generally sees very little traffic prior to the current discussion, and has not been publicized anywhere else - no WikiProjects were alerted or RFCs were done asking for outside input. The only other participants in the discussion are a number of editors like myself, known to work in the subject area for years.

In addition, and all four parties either just began editing for this discussion, or came out of multiple month/year long absences from Wikipedia to randomly decide to jump straight into this conversation, and have edited virtually nowhere else since.

The argument, for context sake, is about how to classify a video game. Evidence of extremely similar comments:


 * ESE150's argument - Gameplay is different, isometric viewpoint, slower speed, item collection.
 * Wikizzer's argument - Gameplay is different, isometric viewpoint, slower speed, item collection, and Japanese release delay.
 * SonicManiac's argument - "per Wikizzer and ESE150" item collection, Japanese release delay.
 * 186.125.99.147 argument - Gameplay is different, isometric viewpoint, slower speed, item collection, and Japanese release delay.

There's just far too many coincidences in similarities in timelines, participation, and arguments being made to happen organically. Sergecross73  msg me  13:58, 19 July 2017 (UTC)

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✅, blocked, tagged, closing.--Bbb23 (talk) 14:47, 19 July 2017 (UTC)