Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Edit5000/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets



 * Tools: Editor interaction utility • Interaction Timeline • User compare report Auto-generated every hour.

The editors have made the exact same edits to the Illegal Immigration to the United States page, with three weeks between them. Neither editor had edited the page before they decided to make virtually the same edits. Both editors are new, but edit as if they were seasoned editors, which suggests there are more accounts. Snooganssnoogans (talk) 15:13, 21 December 2019 (UTC)
 * It may also be worthwhile to check the editor Wumbolo. The Edit5001 account became active during a period when Wumbolo stopped editing (or was banned?). Wumbolo then came temporarily back in late October and early Novemeber, a period when Edit5001 stopped editing. Then when Wumbolo was banned on 9 November, Edit5001 started editing again. There is considerable overlap in editing. Of particular interest are the two Unite the Right Rally pages and the page for the Charlottesville car attack, which are not heavily edited pages (the latter has less than 500 edits), but which both of these users have devoted a considerable portion of their editing to (Wumbolo created the page). Snooganssnoogans (talk) 15:55, 21 December 2019 (UTC)
 * It may also be worthwhile to check the editor Dy3o2, a recent account which never edits during the same time as Edit5001, but both of which have sought to add content to the Illegal immigration to the United States about how immigrants are a net drain on public coffers. Both editors have also added negative content to the Peter Strzok page. Snooganssnoogans (talk) 16:19, 21 December 2019 (UTC)

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This is apparently how Wikipedia editors on political pages act. When you start editing pages they work on and they don't like the facts you add, they either try to get administrators to ban you or get you labeled a sock puppet.

I have no relation to this person and simply agreed with the changes they made to an article. I find Snooganssnoogans' behavior here reporting me without evidence disgusting. What happened was I simply looked at past revisions to the article because I figured given the visible bias of the page that there might be editors like me who tried to change some of that. CoyoteKaramazov was simply the first on the list. Edit5001 (talk) 15:21, 21 December 2019 (UTC)

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments
❌. I tend to agree with. This report is clearly political. Nor will I go on a wild goose chase checking CoyoteKaramazov against various other blocked users because they might be operated by the same person. Please be more circumspect when filing at SPI in the future. Please move this report to Edit5000 and then close it.--Bbb23 (talk) 18:18, 21 December 2019 (UTC)
 * Done. Case closed. Sro23 (talk) 18:35, 21 December 2019 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets



 * Tools: Editor interaction utility • Interaction Timeline • User compare report Auto-generated every hour.


 * Interaction timeline with Edit5001, main account (Edit5000 was first but was never meaningfully used.)
 * Interaction timeline with MWise12, previous sock.
 * Editor Interaction Utility for all three.

Immediately after 's previous sock, was blocked, 0BlackEclipse0 appeared and quickly started making edits to George Floyd protests in Minneapolis–Saint Paul that are similar to ones MWise12 was making on that and related articles - downplaying racial issues, playing up violence and property damage in dramatized terms. More importantly, 0BlackEclipse0 also quickly started editing Catholic Church and abortion and United States anti-abortion movement (two other articles where Edit5001 was extremely active), pushing the same broad point of view using very similar edit summaries, such as making controversial changes that clearly changed the meaning of the text while describing them in the edit summary as "better wording". See eg. this vs this. Aquillion (talk) 17:48, 14 September 2020 (UTC)

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Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * looks to be on a VPN of some sort. Shares the same very common operating system and a common (but a bit less so) browser, but that's all I can give you. Use behaviour. TonyBallioni (talk) 13:38, 21 September 2020 (UTC)
 * I believe there is enough behavioral overlap that 0BlackEclipse0 is probably Edit5000. . GeneralNotability (talk) 18:59, 30 September 2020 (UTC)