Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Floodsmy/Archive

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Both editors edit articles on minor figures or events in the Irish revolutionary period (1912–23) or Northern Ireland conflict (1968-2005), such as Colm Murphy, William Bernard Hickie and Rineen ambush. Edits are always short (typically 10–60 bytes), and are nearly always reverted for OR or inaccuracy. Neither editor ever uses an edit summary. When reverting, neither editor uses the "undo" button. Neither editor has ever posted to a talk page, including their own talk pages. Specific similarities include: I think it's quite likely they are both puppets of an older master, but I don't know who it might be. Scolaire (talk) 08:20, 22 April 2018 (UTC) Scolaire (talk) 08:20, 22 April 2018 (UTC)
 * Irish Volunteers (History): changing "British Army" to "Ulster Volunteer Force". Floodsmy here, here and here; PDONNELLY here
 * Rineen ambush (History): changing "RIC" to "Black and Tans". Floodsmy here and here; PDONNELLY here.
 * National Army (History): PDONNELLY adding "Ulster loyalists" here; Floodsmy adding "Black and Tans" here
 * William Bernard Hickie (History): Adding "Irish Free State" to the military infobox (Hickie was never in the Free State army). Floodsmy here, here and here; PDONNELLY here and here
 * Irish Parliamentary Party (History): Floodsmy adding to the "position" field of the infobox here; PDONNELLY adding to the "ideology" field here.
 * Adding almost identical unsourced and unusual content: Floodsmy to Irish Republican Police; and PDONNELLY to Irish Republic
 * PDONNELLY adding "murder" to one Troubles-related article; Floodsmy adding "terrorist" to another.

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 * Comment from involved editor. Per the nominator, the account has (for some time) been used to make uncited, unexplained, unanswered and unusual edits to a limited sphere of related articles. Several editors have made reasonable requests for engagement, explanation and (at the very least) edit-summaries. All unaddressed. As evidenced by Scolaire's first example (compare Floodsmy edit to PDONNELLY edit) it seems that this behaviour is now spilling into multi account abuse. In this case it may have been accidental socking (sockmaster forgot which of multiple accounts they were signed-in-with), deliberate socking (3RR evasion), or proxy socking (WP:MEAT). Whatever the case its in the realms of WP:QUACK. Guliolopez (talk) 08:55, 22 April 2018 (UTC)

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 * The two accounts would be ✅ except that one is using a PC and the other a tablet. The rest of the technical data is virtually identical. Given the behavioral evidence, I'm persuaded that the two accounts are operated by the same person. Blocked, tagged, closing.--Bbb23 (talk) 11:32, 22 April 2018 (UTC)