Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Hichem09/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets



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Came across this while on NPP, this report shows a lot of similarity between these two editors, aside from the obvious name similarity.  Onel 5969  TT me 13:28, 14 November 2020 (UTC)

Comments by other users
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 * There is similarity in the name only. Each one represents himself. on my page There is my profile picture, as well as my private page on Facebook and Twitter -- Hichem algerino (talk) 22:07, 18 November 2020 (UTC)

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 * There's no doubt these are the same person. Not just the similar username, similar markup on their user page and the extensive overlap, but in some cases, they've both edited the same page less than a minute apart.  Looking at the timecards, my first guess would be they mostly use one account at work/school, and the other account at home.   could you comment in the "Comments by other users" section above as to what's going on here? -- RoySmith (talk) 19:05, 18 November 2020 (UTC)
 * - waiting to hear from Hichem. -- RoySmith (talk) 19:06, 18 November 2020 (UTC)


 * - I was hoping there would be a simpler resolution, but I guess not. -- RoySmith (talk) 21:24, 18 November 2020 (UTC)
 * Somewhere between and . They share multiple ranges, but are always on different devices. My gut: as they've both disclosed they're Algerian on their userpages: this is probably just a popular name among that nationality and association football is popular culturally as well. TonyBallioni (talk) 01:01, 23 November 2020 (UTC)
 * Based on CU results, I'm going to close this with no action taken. As far as I can see, they're not actually doing anything disruptive anyway. -- RoySmith (talk) 01:09, 23 November 2020 (UTC)