Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Happycats58/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets



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Happycats58, Cresluer80 and the IPs are all single-purpose accounts whose only Wikipedia contributions to date have been tagteaming on an article about an unelected political candidate, David Williams III, and attempts to smother its AFD discussion in non-policy blather about how nobody ever heard of Lori Lightfoot before she ran for mayor of Chicago (which is demonstrably not true, and has absolutely nothing to do with whether Williams is notable or not anyway.) The other named users are all old and likely stale accounts, but have also only ever edited Williams' article with no history of contributing on any other topic — so I recognize that there's likely very little that can actually be done about them, and am naming them here only so that they're documented in case that becomes necessary in the future. The current and main issue is Cresluer, Happycats and the IPs. Bearcat (talk) 22:26, 22 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Update: These are also stale accounts about which nothing could likely be done at this point as the accounts were identified and blocked and closed four years ago, but another user subsequently brought to my attention the matter of Sockpuppet investigations/Willywill3x, another sockpuppet incident pertaining to a prior attempt to get an article about the very same David Williams into Wikipedia. Obviously these are likely to be the same user, but due to the age of the accounts I'm just making a note here so that the linkage is documented, rather than opening a new request that would almost certainly just get shut down as too stale to investigate. Bearcat (talk) 18:51, 28 May 2020 (UTC)

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Cresluer80 is ✅ to the master and indeffed with tag. The master is blocked for 72 hours. Closing. — Berean Hunter   (talk)  19:52, 23 May 2020 (UTC)