Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Firestar9990/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets



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

They all have the same "running cat" GIF on their talk pages. Other editors have also expressed concern over the similarity of the accounts. See here. Firestar464 (talk) 02:33, 25 January 2021 (UTC) Between 2000-01-01 and 2021-01-25 on en.wikipedia.org User:Firestar9990 (talk | contribs) and User:Shadowblade08 (talk | contribs) both made edits to some pages in common. You can see a chronological list of all their edits on the Interaction Timeline or a table view on the Interaction Analyser.

Firestar464 (talk) 02:41, 25 January 2021 (UTC)

I further looked into the situation and it seems that FS is strangely obsessed over chatting with themself, like the interactions between ShadowBlade and DaniHart. Firestar464 (talk) 02:58, 25 January 2021 (UTC)

One might also wish to check their edit filter logs. Firestar464 (talk) 10:35, 26 January 2021 (UTC)

Comments by other users
''Accused parties may also comment/discuss in this section below. See Defending yourself against claims.'' I really do not think that they are the same person. I think you just discovered a group of close friends who decided to edit Wikipedia for fun. I've known about these users since they were first active. Even though they have some of the same userboxes, their behavior and writing styles are all too different from each other Scorpions13256 (talk) 22:44, 26 January 2021 (UTC)

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * as far as checkuser evidence goes...  ~Oshwah~  (talk) (contribs)   02:32, 27 January 2021 (UTC)


 * I don't see anything that suggests disruptive sockpuppetry, and the CU finding supports that. Closing. GeneralNotability (talk) 01:51, 28 January 2021 (UTC)