Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/EnPassant/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets
Pro forma report (filed purely for the record); see below. This case came to us via the scrutineering process for the 2022 Arbitration Committee elections, in which both the accounts EnPassant and OrgoneBox voted. Mz7 (talk) 03:37, 13 December 2022 (UTC)

Comments by other users

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Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * There is a technical connection between EnPassant and OrgoneBox. When asked about the relationship between them, EnPassant stated that they know OrgoneBox in real life and are friends. Due to a combination of behavioral and technical factors, I am not convinced by this explanation and believe these accounts have been violating the sockpuppetry policy.  The two accounts frequently appear together in the same discussions (see ), which is already a suspicious practice policy-wise for two accounts whose personal connection was previously undisclosed (see WP:MEAT). In one instance, EnPassant appears to have used their account to remove a bunch of messages from OrgoneBox's user talk page, see . Based on their edit summary, it seems that they thought they were logged into the OrgoneBox account when they were actually still logged into their EnPassant account. To explain the mishap, EnPassant stated that their confusion was due to a brain injury that they suffered in 2020, see . This explanation seems implausible—EnPassant's edit summary here indicated they wanted to leave the welcome message up on their user talk page "so people don't keep posting it"; this is curious because at the time they made this edit, they already had 8000+ edits over 6 years.  I have explained my reasoning further for checkusers on the checkuser wiki here, where I have provided some evidence of improper logged-out editing as well. For these reasons:, closing. Mz7 (talk) 03:37, 13 December 2022 (UTC)