Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Gee11228/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets

 * ( original case name)

Parsa Dalili gets blocked for changing population numbers of countries without sources, simply citing the user generated Worldometer in the edit summary despite being told to use sources properly numerous times. More or less immediately after that Dimm nótt shows up on Finns making an edit in the exact same manner, down to citing Worldometer in the edit summary and begging to not be reverted. Checkuser can help confirm if it's coming from the same place, which I'd put money on that it does.

Diff examples of Parsa's edits: 1 2 3

Diffs of Dimm: 1, their response to me informing them that they are suspected of sockpuppetry was calling me a virtual dictator 2, restoring the same unsourced numbers here 3 TylerBurden (talk) 16:19, 3 March 2022 (UTC)

Update: the Dimm account has now been blocked as well, but would still be good to connect the two accounts for potential future investigations. --TylerBurden (talk) 07:22, 4 March 2022 (UTC)

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Ah, "virtual dictator", very interesting. I didn't request a sockpuppet investigation over this at the time, but it's relevant: see this edit to Sinhalese people by an IP user, a few days after I'd reverted a similar edit (but with different numbers!) to the same infobox by Parsa Dalili. The edit summary for the IP edit: "Statistics for the year 2022 If you change my version you are a virtual dictator." Largoplazo (talk) 15:30, 5 March 2022 (UTC)
 * Great, so probably not the last we'll see from this editor if they're also using IP's. Oh well as long as there's enough of us ″virtual dictators″ to deal with their behaviour it's all good. --TylerBurden (talk) 16:44, 5 March 2022 (UTC)

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * -  Girth Summit  (blether)  15:02, 5 March 2022 (UTC)
 * These two accounts are to one another. They are similarly likely to . Since all the accounts seem interested in making unsourced changes to population figures in infoboxes, I conclude that they are probably the same person. At risk of being a virtual dictator, I will block and tag all three, once I have moved this report to the name of the oldest account (Gee11228).  Girth Summit  (blether)  15:04, 5 March 2022 (UTC)