Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/HighlyLogicalVulcan/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets



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NoTribbleAtAll came to my attention with the creation of Category:Wikipedians who like Tiger King, followed by placing this category on HighlyLogicalVulcan's page.

Digging deeper, the similarities between the accounts are staggering:
 * 1) With a few hundred edits, they intersect on 19 different pages.
 * 2) They both use the visual editor in most of their edits.
 * 3) Both accounts contributed solely to English Wikipedia + en.wikiquote.org (on different pages there). Wikiquote is a less traveled Wikimedia project.
 * 4) Both accounts have nearly identical editing times, namely all days 07:00 to 01:00 UTC.
 * 5) Both accounts created identical user pages (before the cross edit):  vs.
 * 6) Both accounts use edit summaries rarely. When they do use edit summaries, the style is similar:  vs.
 * 7) Both intersect in article subject matter beyond article intersections
 * 8) Both have edited (no intersections) several Wikipedia: space "Top 50" and "Top 25" pages: HighlyLogicalVulcan vs. NoTribbleAtAll, which is a niche internal Wikipedia thing.

The two accounts are undisclosed. The violate the sockpuppetry policy due to editing the same pages, in particular Joe Exotic where each account has made around 20% of their edits.

CU to confirm and see what else is about.  Eostrix  (&#x1F989; hoot hoot&#x1F989;) 13:35, 6 July 2021 (UTC)
 * I initially suspected there might be more than the pair, but given it is only the pair in CU and NoTribbleAtAll's explanation of switching a device sent to repairs fits with the CU results and usage patterns, this can probably be closed. They should probably place a Template:Alternative account or something similar on their user pages to avoid future questions.-- Eostrix  (&#x1F989; hoot hoot&#x1F989;) 12:49, 7 July 2021 (UTC)

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 * ✅: they're editing from the same IP with overlaps in time, but one account is on one computer and the other account is on another computer. It could be roommates, but given the behavioral similarities, it does seem like they're the same person. I'm not really detecting any intention to mislead in their edits though, so it seems plausible to me that perhaps this user just wasn't aware that they should not be using undisclosed alternative accounts in this way. In lieu of blocking, I've decided to place this case pending an answer to my questions  to the accounts on their user talk pages. Mz7 (talk) 04:30, 7 July 2021 (UTC)
 * Closing without action per the user's acknowledgement that this is their alternative account and that they plan to stick to one account moving forward. Mz7 (talk) 00:30, 8 July 2021 (UTC)