Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Fusion20/Archive

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I'm tentatively listing Fusion20 as the sockmaster just because that's the oldest account, created in 2011 with just a few (mostly not constructive) edits, although it isn't an SPA like the alleged socks. Fusion20 recently woke up to post the eighth request this past week on WP:REFUND to restore an article that was deleted recently at Articles for deletion/China's Four Most Handsome Men. The other three accounts were created just this month. Those accounts and IP addresses are SPAs who posted the same request to restore the deleted article. I've already blocked the alleged socks on behavioral grounds, but I have not blocked the alleged sockmaster due to its longer history. I don't know if this deluge of requests is due to one person, or some sort of publicity campaign going on in China at the moment.

Requesting checkuser to determine if my blocks were for the correct reason (abusing multiple accounts) and identify any sleepers. ~Anachronist (talk) 20:42, 13 December 2017 (UTC)

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 * The reason there is an influx of users coming in to demand the article be REFUNDed is because there is a Reddit thread bemoaning the deletion and encouraging people to swarm REFUND to ask for tbe article to be undeleted. I see this as being meatpuppetry. not sockpuppetry. — Jeremy  v^_^v  Bori! 21:12, 13 December 2017 (UTC)
 * Hm, yes, that would explain the broad range of IP addresses. If anyone bothers reading that thread far enough down, they'll see that this is the wrong way to restore an article and they'll likely be blocked for engaging in meatpuppetry. Maybe this will taper off eventually. ~Anachronist (talk) 21:15, 13 December 2017 (UTC)

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 * I agree this is probably not sockpuppetry. Closing with no action. Sro23 (talk) 02:04, 14 December 2017 (UTC)