Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/GWFrog/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets



 * User compare report Auto-generated every hour.
 * Editor interaction utility

Both edit the same articles in the same way--drum and bugle corps, etc. The overlap is almost ridiculous: Fred has less than 500 edits, and these two cats overlap in 50 places. had a suspicion as well, and perhaps they have something to add. Anyway, besides the edits and the overlap, there's something else, something in the edit summaries (actually, three very different idiosyncrasies) that they share, but I rather not give them all away. OK, one: the use of "&". There's more, stronger evidence which the sharp SPI investigator will see immediately if they lay 500 edits of each side by side; I'll be glad to email you. Anyway, if I hadn't been reverted by Fred on The Cavaliers Drum and Bugle Corps (which they've also both edited) I would have blocked them already on behavioral evidence; as it is, it's best if another admin/CU looks at this. Thanks! Drmies (talk) 02:56, 4 October 2016 (UTC)

Comments by other users
''Accused parties may also comment/discuss in this section below. See Defending yourself against claims.''
 * Thank you for letting me know about this-I have had numerous runins with this user GWFrog and their proxies/socks, most recently vide the Racine Scouts Drum and Bugle Corps. I've been here long enough to immediately doubt their veracity.--Kintetsubuffalo (talk) 03:41, 4 October 2016 (UTC)
 * Kintetsubuffalo, if you could drop a few diffs here from both editors that help make the case, I'd appreciate it. Thanks, Drmies (talk) 03:52, 4 October 2016 (UTC)
 * The sock Fredref123 made only this diff that I caught
 * what caught my attention was the span of only 6 minutes between edits, and looking at the sock Fredref123's edit history of only three edits in one year, which I addressed on the talkpage.
 * Note also there was https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard/3RRArchive326#User:Kintetsubuffalo_reported_by_User:GWFrog_.28Result:_Malformed_report.29 which went nowhere. That stuck in my head due to four uses of the word "neutral", which struck me later as unusual WP:POINTing, as you say, there are idiocyncracies.--Kintetsubuffalo (talk) 04:33, 4 October 2016 (UTC)

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments
✅. Blocked the master for two weeks. Blocked/tagged the puppet indefinitely. Closing.--Bbb23 (talk) 22:14, 4 October 2016 (UTC)
 * Dude, I'm like Trump--my gut is never wrong. Anyway, thanks--and sad that someone doing bugles and boy bands feels the need to set something like this up and run it for years. I suppose the stakes in bugle band competition are higher than I thought. Drmies (talk) 00:49, 5 October 2016 (UTC)