Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/GPinkerton/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets
Rude, dismissive attitude in discussions and edit summaries. Ancient Roman/Middle Eastern topic area. 27 articles with intersecting edits. Also 27 articles intersecting. Motivation to evade scrutiny from bans and edit wars. Elizium23 (talk) 15:20, 29 September 2022 (UTC)

Comments by other users

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Once you're considering accounts with a fair amount of edits (say 500+), article intersection most often becomes worthless as SPI evidence, as it certainly is here. But from my personal interactions with both GPinkerton and Zhomron, I'm confident to say that their editing interests are actually different enough to rule out that one should be a sock of the other. To be convinced otherwise, I'd need some very particular diffs showing uncommonly similar behavior between the two accounts. ☿ Apaugasma  ( talk  ☉) 16:28, 3 October 2022 (UTC)

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * I'm not going to investigate someone based on them editing the same topic area (in which case 27 pages' overlap is unremarkable, or if anything on the low side, given that you have 83 pages' overlap with Zhomron) and allegedly having the same attitude, especially when this would mean GPinkerton was socking well before he was banned.
 * See also WP:GOODSPI. --  Tamzin  [ cetacean needed ] (she&#124;they&#124;xe) 16:06, 29 September 2022 (UTC)
 * Just my tuppenceworth. I was fairly familiar with GPinkerton, we interacted a number of times before his block. This account does not look like him to me - there are quite a few quite significant differences, in fact. I'd want to see some persuasive specific evidence to proceed with this. Girth Summit  (blether)  19:20, 4 October 2022 (UTC)
 * It's been a while and no more evidence has been presented. Closing. Spicy (talk) 19:45, 4 October 2022 (UTC)