Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Highschoolprodigy/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets



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Good evidence for Zachwilsonsucks, as that user posted directly to this talk page as if they were Highschoolprodigy themselves. Very similar editing styles for all three accounts. Also see ZWS's talk page. Very suspicious.

I know that all three accounts are blocked, but this is to make sure Highschoolprodigy doesn't easily create more vandalism-only accounts, and to link further socks to this account. WuTang94 (talk) 16:46, 24 September 2021 (UTC)

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 * I'm declining the CU check - Highschoolprodigy will be stale by now, so CU won't make the connection. Vandalism-only accounts like that can be blocked quickly regardless of whether or not they're socks, so we don't really need to make the connection.  Girth Summit  (blether)  13:44, 25 September 2021 (UTC)

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I occasionally do anti-vandalism work. Earlier this year, I noticed an account named Highschoolprodigy doing antivandalism. I told them about Redwarn. They initially started out as a constructive anti-vandal, but later started attacking vandals viciously. Some time later, I was doing RCP again, and I saw them vandalize Sam Walton here. Before I figured out what was going on, I made this distinct comment asking what they were doing. I reported them, and they were promptly blocked. After they were blocked, they repeatedly went on about how they were not in control of their account. This was all back in January.

Today, I was doing RCP again, and I see an account named Idiot Driver vandalize Raising Cane's Chicken Fingers (deleted edit) in the same way that Highschoolprodigy did for Walmart articles. Specifically, their edits were about feces.

I looked at the history of this second person's edits, and caught this talk page in the edit history where this second account uses my exact wording to ask why another account vandalized an article (Someone else could see what you have done!). I then saw that this account also started out doing anti-vandalism, was later reprimanded by administrators for attacking vandals, and later vandalized articles themselves, ending with them getting blocked. On their userpage, I noticed that like Highschoolprodigy, Idiot Driver also talked about how they were not in control of their account or that someone else actually made the unconstructive edits.

I have come to the conclusion that they are the same person and that this may be an LTA who has done this more than once. A CU is needed in my opinion to find more sleepers. Scorpions13256 (talk) 01:54, 9 November 2021 (UTC)

Hold on. I was not aware that someone filed an SPI earlier. Pinging. Scorpions13256 (talk) 01:59, 9 November 2021 (UTC)

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 * Account was checked by Drmies in the case below. Closing this case. Thanks, Spicy (talk) 06:39, 10 November 2021 (UTC)

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(I saw there was already an investigation into this user but was not sure how to list this account as well.) I am an antivandalism editor and was reading random articles when I came across highschool's edits and noticed his open SPI investigation so I started to look around when I sound Sock1's edits. They look very similar as they both seem to do vandalism relating to feces. In particular, they both seem to use the same sound file. (see edits.) I am also attaching 1 more sock that might be connected in some way I am pretty sure. I am however sure that Sock1 is connected. All of these accounts seemed to make the same edits at the same time. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Walton_family&diff=prev&oldid=1001283290&diffmode=source https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?diff=1002798086&diffmode=source https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Highschoolprodigy&oldid=1045245894 https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Sandbox&oldid=1042981067  Bobherry  Talk Edits 02:17, 9 November 2021 (UTC)


 * Deeznuutzz May also be connected.  Bobherry  Talk   Edits  02:37, 9 November 2021 (UTC)

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 * So, User:DaltonWilliamsRELOADED, User:Idiot Driver, User:MrSexyBack, User:Emperor Palpatini, User:Horned Beast are all confirmed to each other. I see no reason to check Deeznutz; a VOA is good enough. Zackwilson is unrelated, as far as I can tell. Any connection with Highschoolprodigy will have to be made by way of behavior. Drmies (talk) 00:42, 10 November 2021 (UTC)
 * The CU confirmed accounts do look like socks of Highschoolprodigy, but since they are all obvious troll accounts who were already blocked before CU, I'm not going to bother with tagging per WP:DENY. Not sure about the other two, but since they're also indeffed, I'm not going to spend too much time on behavioural analysis. Closing, thanks. Spicy (talk) 06:50, 10 November 2021 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets
This person with little history of contributions messaged me out of the blue. I believe this account to be a sock of User:Oppa gangnam psy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:TheCurrencyGuy#c-Battleofthebands2004-2022-06-30T23%3A51%3A00.000Z-Who_are_you_dude TheCurrencyGuy (talk) 00:05, 1 July 2022 (UTC)

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 * See my comments in the section above... But if someone thinks it's worth endorsing, I don't object. --  Tamzin  [ cetacean needed ] (she&#124;they&#124;xe) 01:13, 1 July 2022 (UTC)
 * The following four accounts are ✅ to each other, but are ❌ to Oppa gangnam psy:
 * These four accounts are currently all blocked for other reasons. American's Most Refined Editor has been blocked since fall 2021 but was caught in the sweep since he recently tried to log in. EdJohnston (talk) 02:33, 1 July 2022 (UTC)
 * These four accounts are currently all blocked for other reasons. American's Most Refined Editor has been blocked since fall 2021 but was caught in the sweep since he recently tried to log in. EdJohnston (talk) 02:33, 1 July 2022 (UTC)
 * These four accounts are currently all blocked for other reasons. American's Most Refined Editor has been blocked since fall 2021 but was caught in the sweep since he recently tried to log in. EdJohnston (talk) 02:33, 1 July 2022 (UTC)
 * These four accounts are currently all blocked for other reasons. American's Most Refined Editor has been blocked since fall 2021 but was caught in the sweep since he recently tried to log in. EdJohnston (talk) 02:33, 1 July 2022 (UTC)
 * These four accounts are currently all blocked for other reasons. American's Most Refined Editor has been blocked since fall 2021 but was caught in the sweep since he recently tried to log in. EdJohnston (talk) 02:33, 1 July 2022 (UTC)


 * Thanks, Ed. Moving to Highschoolprodigy, the apparent master here. No tags per DENY. Closing. --  Tamzin  [ cetacean needed ] (she&#124;they&#124;xe) 02:48, 1 July 2022 (UTC)
 * Here are six more that are confirmed to the above group:
 * The common element of this group, besides the jokey names, appears to be plain old vandalism. Several are already globally locked. In some cases the blocking admin was User:Drmies. I assume you might not bother with sock tags if there is already a global block. EdJohnston (talk) 03:04, 1 July 2022 (UTC)
 * The common element of this group, besides the jokey names, appears to be plain old vandalism. Several are already globally locked. In some cases the blocking admin was User:Drmies. I assume you might not bother with sock tags if there is already a global block. EdJohnston (talk) 03:04, 1 July 2022 (UTC)
 * The common element of this group, besides the jokey names, appears to be plain old vandalism. Several are already globally locked. In some cases the blocking admin was User:Drmies. I assume you might not bother with sock tags if there is already a global block. EdJohnston (talk) 03:04, 1 July 2022 (UTC)
 * The common element of this group, besides the jokey names, appears to be plain old vandalism. Several are already globally locked. In some cases the blocking admin was User:Drmies. I assume you might not bother with sock tags if there is already a global block. EdJohnston (talk) 03:04, 1 July 2022 (UTC)
 * The common element of this group, besides the jokey names, appears to be plain old vandalism. Several are already globally locked. In some cases the blocking admin was User:Drmies. I assume you might not bother with sock tags if there is already a global block. EdJohnston (talk) 03:04, 1 July 2022 (UTC)
 * The common element of this group, besides the jokey names, appears to be plain old vandalism. Several are already globally locked. In some cases the blocking admin was User:Drmies. I assume you might not bother with sock tags if there is already a global block. EdJohnston (talk) 03:04, 1 July 2022 (UTC)
 * The common element of this group, besides the jokey names, appears to be plain old vandalism. Several are already globally locked. In some cases the blocking admin was User:Drmies. I assume you might not bother with sock tags if there is already a global block. EdJohnston (talk) 03:04, 1 July 2022 (UTC)


 * Blocked Kevin Hippenhammer, even if it's probably abandoned. And yeah, gonna stick with no-tags on this. --  Tamzin  [ cetacean needed ] (she&#124;they&#124;xe) 03:23, 1 July 2022 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets
This user has very similar behavior to many of Highschoolprodigy's earlier socks, such as reverting vandalism, adding odd messages to vandals in their talk pages, creating unusual userpages, and vandalizing other user's sandboxes. Based off of all this, it seems that this user is a sock of Highschoolprodigy, and may need to be blocked to prevent abuse or more block-evading edits. 47.227.95.73 (talk) 19:03, 3 July 2022 (UTC)

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 * ✅ User:VERIFIED Cat in the Hat to User:Battleofthebands2004 who was already blocked under this case. See the Archive. EdJohnston (talk) 20:39, 3 July 2022 (UTC)
 * Also found in the same IP range as Battle was
 * who is not mentioned in this case but is globally locked since April 2022 by User:AmandaNP. At that time, the message was that they were evading a lock on User:Droofus the Dragon. A clerk should decide whether to tag Sweet Tea. Droofus is registered on Meta but not here. Droofus was originally locked by User:MarcoAurelio back in January 2022. EdJohnston (talk) 20:58, 3 July 2022 (UTC)
 * who is not mentioned in this case but is globally locked since April 2022 by User:AmandaNP. At that time, the message was that they were evading a lock on User:Droofus the Dragon. A clerk should decide whether to tag Sweet Tea. Droofus is registered on Meta but not here. Droofus was originally locked by User:MarcoAurelio back in January 2022. EdJohnston (talk) 20:58, 3 July 2022 (UTC)


 * Closing. Spicy (talk) 20:55, 3 July 2022 (UTC)