Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Faster328/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets
Two recent accounts both sharing a similar obsession with filling Wikipedia articles with tables of calculations of exponentiation; see their (many) joint edits on power of two, power of three, and power of five/Power of five (exponentiation). On power of two, two edits by Numbers-Mathworld refer in their edit summary to Faster328 as being the "Main Account" diff diff while an edit soon after by Faster328 refers to a "test edit war". The frequent requests by Faster328 for somebody else to edit in the same way they are editing diff: "Maybe can you edit my secondary article" on Talk:Power of two are echoed by Numbers-Mathworld on Talk:Power of five initial edit: "Maybe you can edit this article and add facts and tables". —David Eppstein (talk) 04:47, 14 April 2023 (UTC)

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Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments
According to Faster's userpage, they are a user at scratch.mit.edu, which is a website for kids and educators. In addition, Faster created Numbers-Mathworld's userpage saying that N-M is an alternative (mobile) account used to "read" and to create drafts, which, except for the mobile part, is not supported by N-M's edits. So the only question here is whether N-M is a legitimate alternative account. I suppose we need to hear more from as to what's going on or, if they choose not to tell us, act without them.--Bbb23 (talk) 13:37, 14 April 2023 (UTC)


 * Legitimate alternative accounts do not play-act edit wars with the main account in article space. —David Eppstein (talk) 17:02, 14 April 2023 (UTC)


 * Looks like a duck to me, and "testing" edit wars in mainspace is highly disruptive. I have no objections if others are willing to wait for an explanation and apply some leniency. However, if the behavior resumes again, I recommend indef'ing both accounts. MarioGom (talk) 19:38, 14 April 2023 (UTC)
 * Based on David's and Mario's comments, I've blocked and tagged. Closing. Bbb23 (talk) 19:53, 14 April 2023 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets
Easter328’s username is similar to the master by changing the F to an E, Faster328 (alt) is the username of the master plus ' (alt)'. The rest of those accounts contain 'Numbers-'. Requesting CheckUser. 1.9E3779B97F4A7C1 (talk) 06:00, 6 June 2023 (UTC)


 * Suspected self as puppet of Faster328. 1.9E3779B97F4A7C1 (talk) 06:02, 6 June 2023 (UTC)

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Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments
I blocked User:1.9E3779B97F4A7C1 as a self-declared sock. I think at this point all the listed socks are blocked, so this can probably be closed and archived. —David Eppstein (talk) 06:20, 6 June 2023 (UTC)
 * It seems there might be some joe-jobbery going on here.
 * Ranging from to ✅, group 1:
 * Ranging from to ✅, group 2:
 * Groups 1 and 2 are editing from very distinct geographical locations, and could reasonably be described as or ❌, though I suppose the timings technically allow for travel as an alternative explanation.
 * --Blablubbs (talk) 17:07, 6 June 2023 (UTC)
 * All tagged as two groups. Closing.  Vanjagenije  (talk)  22:35, 6 June 2023 (UTC)
 * Ranging from to ✅, group 2:
 * Groups 1 and 2 are editing from very distinct geographical locations, and could reasonably be described as or ❌, though I suppose the timings technically allow for travel as an alternative explanation.
 * --Blablubbs (talk) 17:07, 6 June 2023 (UTC)
 * All tagged as two groups. Closing.  Vanjagenije  (talk)  22:35, 6 June 2023 (UTC)
 * Groups 1 and 2 are editing from very distinct geographical locations, and could reasonably be described as or ❌, though I suppose the timings technically allow for travel as an alternative explanation.
 * --Blablubbs (talk) 17:07, 6 June 2023 (UTC)
 * All tagged as two groups. Closing.  Vanjagenije  (talk)  22:35, 6 June 2023 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets
Usernames end with '328'. 218.212.76.59 claims to be Faster328 off-wiki via a confirmed sock, Python303. 119.75.204.218 also claims to be Faster328. Please do a behavioural investigation. 119.75.204.218 (talk) 01:57, 24 July 2023 (UTC)


 * It seems that this is a LTA vandal. Go to WP:LTA and create a case. 119.75.204.218 (talk) 03:31, 24 July 2023 (UTC)

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Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * Self-aggrandisiing trolling. Everybody's already blocked. Closing. Cabayi (talk) 13:27, 24 July 2023 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets
Self-reported, see user talk page. See also Wikipedia talk:Sockpuppet investigations/2401:7400:4014:820D:1778:F79D:2719:75B1 where the user claims other IPs. Sjö (talk) 06:54, 9 August 2023 (UTC)

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Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * Blocked /64 range one week. Closing. Bbb23 (talk) 12:54, 9 August 2023 (UTC)