Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Guotaian/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets
Guotaian's account was created in October 2023, making five edits before May 2024. Mantttt4's account was created in March 2024. They made a smattering of edits until they were blocked for two weeks from editing a page in April 2024 and stopped for the rest of the month. Guotaian resumed editing on May 2. Mantttt4 resumed editing with one edit on May 9 and some edits today. Both accounts edit pages on politics. Both accounts have been called out for disruptive editing without consensus. It is the editing on Factions in the Republican Party (United States) that triggered this report as they are both edit warring to institute sweeping changes to the page, with Mantttt4's edit summary of "PLEASE PROVE LIES/WRONG INFO PLEASE SHOW ME AND I WILL STOP" indicating they are the same person. – Muboshgu (talk) 19:01, 13 May 2024 (UTC)

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 * - there's definitely something fishy going on here.  Girth Summit  (blether)  21:45, 13 May 2024 (UTC)
 * OK so, I actually don't think that the two reported accounts are related - based on the CU data alone, I'd call them ❌, but obviously I can't rule out the possibility of coordination of some sort. However, is definitely a sock - I expect there's an older master we could tie them to, but I'm not sure who at this point. The following accounts, some of whom are already blocked for vandalism/DE are all unambiguously ✅ to them:
 * There are a whole bunch of accounts that are ✅ from them, and which I considered blocking, but it's possible that this is some sort of shared device (public library type deal) and I don't see similar levels of disruption from them - they might be innocent bystanders. I'm going to block all the confirmed accounts, and suggest that we revisit this if any new accounts get involved. Girth Summit  (blether)  22:05, 13 May 2024 (UTC)
 * Interesting. Thanks for the review! – Muboshgu (talk) 22:07, 13 May 2024 (UTC)
 * Closing per Girth. Spicy (talk) 22:05, 19 May 2024 (UTC)
 * There are a whole bunch of accounts that are ✅ from them, and which I considered blocking, but it's possible that this is some sort of shared device (public library type deal) and I don't see similar levels of disruption from them - they might be innocent bystanders. I'm going to block all the confirmed accounts, and suggest that we revisit this if any new accounts get involved. Girth Summit  (blether)  22:05, 13 May 2024 (UTC)
 * Interesting. Thanks for the review! – Muboshgu (talk) 22:07, 13 May 2024 (UTC)
 * Closing per Girth. Spicy (talk) 22:05, 19 May 2024 (UTC)
 * Closing per Girth. Spicy (talk) 22:05, 19 May 2024 (UTC)