Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Hammerhard18/Archive

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In this AfD, the above suspicious looking accounts appeared, as red as an impossible blush, and, having made no previous appearances in editing, proceeded to feverishly support the opinions of the suspected sockmaster using identical language and arguments. The Gnome (talk) 18:53, 29 May 2018 (UTC)

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Thanks for starting this, The Gnome - I agree entirely about the identical arguments (phrased in an identical manner), and other idiosyncracies that are obvious from this, this, and this. --bonadea contributions talk 19:54, 29 May 2018 (UTC)

Looks like the Bryn Curt James Hammond promoters have been doing their thing for some time. I'm pretty certain that the three accounts belong to the Miami Fox group; is one that was active only six weeks ago and sounded very much like LisaHadley2018. --bonadea contributions talk 20:44, 29 May 2018 (UTC)

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 * The following accounts are ✅ to each other:
 * The following accounts are :
 * Snakebite 1965 is.
 * Blocked all unblocked accounts without tags except Snakebite 1965. Please move to Hammerhard18.--Bbb23 (talk) 21:57, 29 May 2018 (UTC)
 * Tagging and closing. Sir Sputnik (talk) 18:04, 30 May 2018 (UTC)
 * Snakebite 1965 is.
 * Blocked all unblocked accounts without tags except Snakebite 1965. Please move to Hammerhard18.--Bbb23 (talk) 21:57, 29 May 2018 (UTC)
 * Tagging and closing. Sir Sputnik (talk) 18:04, 30 May 2018 (UTC)
 * Tagging and closing. Sir Sputnik (talk) 18:04, 30 May 2018 (UTC)

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Sole edits so far are "keep" posts to the two AFDs for articles created by LisaHadley2018, written in same style, tone, and formatting errors:, The Mighty Glen (talk) 04:24, 30 May 2018 (UTC)

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I think the behavioral evidence against all accounts named (including Snakebite 1965 and Mindgap99) is very strong. Who puts red links and links to disambiugition pages in their contributions at AfD? wikitigresito (talk) 09:30, 30 May 2018 (UTC)
 * Agree. All the users (sic) mentioned in this investigation deploy the exact same format in their texts: Red links; wikilinks to generic articles (e.g. they want to link to the deletion policy and they link to the disambiguation page for "Deletion"); persistent invocation of third-party "authorities," typically ABC; complaints that the proposal to delete is a "personal attack" and the objections to the Keep opinions constitute "harassment"; use of over-elaborate language, full of malapropisms; references to random Wikipedia policies (e.g. they accuse other editors of "violating WP:GNG"); and so on and so forth. Rarely such a smelly sock drawer has been opened. -The Gnome (talk) 11:08, 30 May 2018 (UTC)
 * I do not understand how Snakebite 1965 has not been identified as a sockpuppet and blocked yet. -The Gnome (talk) 20:35, 30 May 2018 (UTC)

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The account is to Hammerhard18. Blocked.--Bbb23 (talk) 15:43, 30 May 2018 (UTC)

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New account almost immediately zooming in on Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/A Case for Murder: Brittany Murphy Files. Some of the tell-tale signs from previous socks are absent (perhaps because they were alerted to them), but the writing style is unmistakeable. I am reluctant to give details for WP:BEANS reasons but to me, the stylistic signs stand out a mile in addition to the behavioural evidence. bonadea contributions talk 11:10, 31 May 2018 (UTC)

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✅, blocked, tagged, closing.--Bbb23 (talk) 18:05, 31 May 2018 (UTC)

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This is written in the same style as used by other recent socks. Furthermore, the user self-identifies as Bryn Hammond, the name of the CEO of Miami Fox Publishing, which is the original user name of Hammerhard18 (whose only edits were to promote Bryn Hammond). I was fooled for a second by the user using the talk page which previous socks haven't done, but of course the AfD discussion page is semi-protected after all the socking. bonadea contributions talk 16:04, 2 June 2018 (UTC)

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 * Same sort of comment posted to the talk page of the other protected AFD involving this puppeteer: . And as Bonadea notes, same style. The Mighty Glen (talk) 16:15, 2 June 2018 (UTC)

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✅, blocked, tagged, closing.--Bbb23 (talk) 16:57, 2 June 2018 (UTC)