Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Helpyjelpy/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets

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Editor created an account a week ago, made a handful of edits to their own userpage over a course of days, and then, as their first action outside of their userspace, left a note on the talk page of User:Drmies, a veteran editor, stating: "I just wanted to let you know that sharabsalam has a misleading user box on his user page, telling everyone he’s a veteran editor 2. I thought you’d be the one to tell since despite countless complaints about him followed by his predictable half ass apologies, you continue to support him. He’s clearly net negative for Wikipedia, but, you know, keep up the good work". This is not someone new to Wikipedia. BD2412 T 18:13, 31 May 2020 (UTC)

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 * , thank you for filing this. As it happened I responded to that troll's comment before I looked at your ping--lo and behold, I've already taken care of that business. I blocked them per NOTHERE. I agree that they are not new to Wikipedia; unfortunately I could not prove that with my magic glasses, and there's so many trolls that I don't know which one this might be. I did notice they created the account after some IP trolling, but that's not very informative. Thanks, Drmies (talk) 20:54, 31 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Procedural note: This case was originally filed at "Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/User:Helpyjelpy". There is no need to include "User:" in the title of the SPI, and doing so breaks the Template:SPIarchive notice template. Thanks, Mz7 (talk) 21:53, 31 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Since the account has already been blocked indefinitely, and the account has already been checked, I'm going to go ahead and mark this case as closed. Mz7 (talk) 22:11, 31 May 2020 (UTC)
 * In the future please don't file these types of "suspicious new user" SPI's, they're quite unhelpful for the SPI team to process. If you can't come up with a specific sockmaster for the suspected sock then contact a CU with your concerns/evidence privately. Sro23 (talk) 23:31, 31 May 2020 (UTC)
 * There appears to be a fairly large and sophisticated new sockpuppet movement going on, and it will take every tool that we have to counter it. BD2412  T 00:07, 1 June 2020 (UTC)
 * , Sro23 has it right. The usual procedure at SPI is to list two or more accounts or none at all. If there is only one account exhibiting suspicious behavior, consider instead contacting a checkuser privately, e.g. via Special:EmailUser or by emailing . Mz7 (talk) 20:37, 1 June 2020 (UTC)