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14 February 2015

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Freddythemushroom was created and blocked on 01/28. On 02/12, new account Fattythefatbear created 2015 New England Revolution season at 21:19 (link to deleted diff), and Freedythemushroom edited for the first time since the block, at 21:36, to request an unblock. Subsequently, Freddythemushroom used this article for the purposes of a unblock request. Neither account had edited following that series of posts, but both reappeared less than three minutes apart today, as seen here and here. The timing of their edits is highly unlikely to be coincidental, and is possibly worth investigating as both accounts have requested an unblock. Kinu t/c 20:03, 14 February 2015 (UTC)


 * Addendum: I see both unblock requests were declined between the time I decided to open this and finished writing it. Oops. -- Kinu  t/c 20:09, 14 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Edited to add another suspected sock, based on that account's creation time (within a few minutes of Fattythefatbear creating Emmanuel Keppel) and its only edits (a now-deleted joke edit on Fattythefatbear's user page, to which Fattythefatbear responded in kind). -- Kinu  t/c 22:01, 14 February 2015 (UTC)

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You probably should unblock Fattythefatbear since you don't have proof yet that it wasn't an unlikely coincidence. Also, he can't defend himself here.50.153.149.98 (talk) 21:14, 14 February 2015 (UTC)
 * And it's just a coincidence that an IP with no other edits stumbled upon this SPI, right? -- Kinu  t/c 21:46, 14 February 2015 (UTC)

I'm waisting both my time and your time with this so here is my full confession. My first account was Tommythetroll, which I not surprisingly used to troll. After that got blocked I made an account called Freddythemushroom, which also got blocked after I trolled a few times. I then created Fattythefatbear, and used it mainly to try to be constructive, but also to create an article that could get Freddythemushroom unblocked on second chance. Sorry, this was kind of immature of me. Do whatever, because I will find something more constructive with my time. Sorry, 50.153.151.73 (talk) 22:17, 14 February 2015 (UTC)

Oh yeah, and SagySagy is my friend who was editing with me. He also only wants to troll. 50.153.151.73 (talk) 22:19, 14 February 2015 (UTC)

I woke up to find myself accused of sock puppeteering. Can someone explain the evidence to me, because I want every opportunity to defend myself against these absurd claims. The only thing I can say is that I edit from a shared Wifi account and let's just say there are a lot of stupid people in the building who could find making fake accounts amusing. If you question my intentions, feel free to look at my editing history. Also, what length ban am I facing? Thanks, Eman52 (talk) 15:58, 17 February 2015 (UTC)
 * The technical evidence is fairly convincing. You were editing from the same place as the other accounts using the same equipment (and likely the same computer) and also editing similar and the same articles around the same time as the blocked accounts. Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 11:52, 18 February 2015 (UTC)
 * What do you mean by the same equipment. Looking at the logs, only once did I edit a page on the same day as one of the other users (and that was the 2015 pro bowl when lots of people were doing live updates, so I wouldn't say around the same time. Also, my average revision time is different (6 hours different) than most of the other users. Also, my account doesn't follow the pattern in the usernames of most of the other accounts (name-the-animal/plant). Furthermore, there is an apparent full confession by a blocked user on this page, where the blocked user writes that a user named Tommythetroll was the master (though I'm not sure how reliable that confession is, given the fact that he didn't list two of the blocked accounts as his own). Lastly, I do live in a pretty big apartment in Boston, so it is possible that there is someone editing Wikipedia with the same type of computer in my building (is that what the same equipment means?). Thanks a lot, Eman52 (talk) 14:48, 18 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Yes, it's certainly possible that someone in the same location as you edits Wikipedia from a computer with almost the same technical specifications, has precisely the same interests as you, and happens to edit at the same time as you. But, you know, Occam's razor. I see no reason to doubt the findings of this CU. -- Kinu  t/c 19:00, 18 February 2015 (UTC)

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * Following are ✅ to each other:
 * There's another possibility but I want to get a second opinion first. Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 02:29, 15 February 2015 (UTC)
 * This investigation should be moved to Sockpuppet investigations/Tommythetroll per the name of the oldest account.  Vanjagenije  (talk)  10:44, 16 February 2015 (UTC)
 * There's another possibility but I want to get a second opinion first. Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 02:29, 15 February 2015 (UTC)
 * This investigation should be moved to Sockpuppet investigations/Tommythetroll per the name of the oldest account.  Vanjagenije  (talk)  10:44, 16 February 2015 (UTC)
 * There's another possibility but I want to get a second opinion first. Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 02:29, 15 February 2015 (UTC)
 * This investigation should be moved to Sockpuppet investigations/Tommythetroll per the name of the oldest account.  Vanjagenije  (talk)  10:44, 16 February 2015 (UTC)
 * This investigation should be moved to Sockpuppet investigations/Tommythetroll per the name of the oldest account.  Vanjagenije  (talk)  10:44, 16 February 2015 (UTC)


 * Following two are confirmed to each other and very well might be related to the above socks (and below master) but they're probably on a shared IP:


 * is the ✅ master (and oldest) of the accounts above. Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 10:43, 17 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Case moved and tags updated to reflect the master account. Mike V • Talk 18:37, 18 February 2015 (UTC)