Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Fatbatsat/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets
Both of these accounts have the exact same POV on Eskimo-related issues (the Eskimo article sees relatively little editing, so it's not very likely that these are two separate people with the same POV, unless of course WP:MEAT is involved). Specifically both strongly favour the etymology of Eskimo as "netter of snowshoes", rather than it being "disputed" Akinaur Fatbatsat. Both have a tendency to blank their talkpages Akinaur Fatbatsat  (In fact, both of these blankings occured on the same day only a few minutes apart). During October 2021 Akinaur, in their first ever edits, engaged in tag-team edit warring to restore Fatbatsat's preferred version. . Both have a tendency to begin their reversion edit summaries with the custom "Revert:" rather than the default "Restored revision" or "undid revision" Akinaur Fatbatsat.

Akinaur/Fatbatsat is likely also engaging in LOUTSOCKING, per this edit summary by Akinaur in which the google books address is .sg (the TLD for Singapore). Several recently active Singapore IPs and  have been editing the Eskimo article with the exact same POV. (I only want to CheckUser the connection between Fatbatsat and Akinaur, for obvious reasons). Hemiauchenia (talk) 15:47, 20 October 2022 (UTC)
 * Given that Fatbatsat is only blocked from the Eskimo talkpage, can I request that he also be permanently blocked from the Eskimo article itself for this? Hemiauchenia (talk) 20:09, 20 October 2022 (UTC)
 * @Bishonen placed that block, so pinging her to see what she wants to do. -- RoySmith (talk) 20:43, 20 October 2022 (UTC)
 * Hi, . Giving Fatbatsat a short sitewide block can indeed only be done by "changing", i. e. undoing, the indefinite page block I placed. This is a technical problem of which Bugzilla is aware, but apparently it's hard to do anything about it. So, yes, it would be better not to set the three-day sitewide block you were contemplating. As for page-blocking Fatbatsat from Eskimo as well as Talk:Eskimo, I have no strong opinion either way. If you do block them from Eskimo, it needs to be done by changing my block to a p-block from both article and talk. That's not a technical problem, as long as the duration of both is the same (I presume indefinite). Bishonen &#124; tålk 21:23, 20 October 2022 (UTC).
 * OK, thanks. It looks like they've confined themselves to the talk page except for one edit months ago (at least in their Fatbatsat incarnation), so I'll hold off doing anything for now.  Partly because it's what WP:BLOCKP encourages me to do, and partly out of fear of a fire-breathing monster singing the hairs on the back of my neck should I mess it up by accident.  Very scary.  If things progress in the wrong direction, we can always come back and take another look. -- RoySmith (talk) 22:21, 20 October 2022 (UTC)
 * Well, the sock edited the main page some more, but it's really a content issue — not disruption. Except for the use of a sock, which I suppose is serious enough... but I'm fine with leaving Fatbatsat free to edit Eskimo. And indeed both Bugzilla and Bishzilla are aware, so discretion is the better part of valor here. Bishonen &#124; tålk 11:31, 21 October 2022 (UTC).

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Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * - -- RoySmith (talk) 19:44, 20 October 2022 (UTC)
 * The two accounts are ✅ to each other. Given the minimal history here, I can't get too excited.  Indef the sock, 3 days block for the master, no tags.  There's another account that's ✅, but the editing history is totally unrelated topics, so I'm inclined to think that's a false positive.  There may be proxy use going on; they IPs geolocate to a place which isn't what immediately comes to mind when I think "Eskimo".   -- RoySmith (talk) 20:00, 20 October 2022 (UTC)
 * Hmmm. I see Fatbatsat is already p-blocked from Eskimo.  I'm embarrassed to say I'm not sure how that would interact with the 3-day sitewide block I had planned, so I'll just leave it at is. -- RoySmith (talk) 20:03, 20 October 2022 (UTC)