Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Gwikor Frank/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets
Gwikor Frank was recently brought to ANI regarding editing behavior around Cornish identity. During the discussion, it was established she had been editing logged out, under the provided IP (since blocked by Bbb23). BranVyghan, an editor that has never edited Wikipedia before, joined the discussion to support Gwikor Frank; BranVyghan responded to concerns about their unexplained appearance by stating they were a Wiktionary editor, not a brand new SPA. Their Wiktionary account has a total of 36 edits, all to Cornish-language words; Gwikor Frank has 2 Wiktionary edits, also to Cornish-language words. There's no obvious path that explains how an editor who has never touched enwiki before would even be aware of ANI, much less show up to participate by supporting a fellow who shares their editing interests. If they are not the same person, then there is some meatpuppetry at play. Grandpallama (talk) 21:25, 12 March 2024 (UTC)

Comments by other users

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Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * I checked Gwikor Frank because of socking/canvassing concerns at ANI. I did not see any evidence that they were operating other accounts (keeping in mind that CU can't prove a negative), and the nature of the data made me think that further checking was unlikely to be useful. If there's something untoward going on here, it's probably canvassing, and even if it's not the best you're likely to get is . . Spicy (talk) 09:30, 15 March 2024 (UTC)
 * Did you mean to leave it in CU status for some reason?--Bbb23 (talk) 13:47, 15 March 2024 (UTC)
 * Yes, because I didn't check the alleged sock. Someone else might decide to check them, or not. Spicy (talk) 15:31, 15 March 2024 (UTC)
 * I thought of that, but then I don't understand "If there's something untoward going on here, it's probably canvassing, and even if it's not the best you're likely to get is possible." (I assume you meant to put a comma after "if it's not".)--Bbb23 (talk) 15:39, 15 March 2024 (UTC)
 * What I mean is that the UA is generic and there is reason to believe that the IP situation for any suspected socks will be a bit crap, so I don't think there's much of a point in running further checks after the suspected sock failed to appear in my check of the master account. But there's a chance I could be wrong about that, so I didn't want to outright decline it. Spicy (talk) 21:05, 15 March 2024 (UTC)
 * Got it, thanks for bearing with me. I will leave it open for a while, but if there's no further action, I'll close it.--Bbb23 (talk) 21:24, 15 March 2024 (UTC)


 * Closing with no action. Bbb23 (talk) 15:16, 18 March 2024 (UTC)