Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Holding the trophy/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets
I saw this edit by to ANI (as well as the user's subsequent reverts), and suspected sock puppetry due to the nature and location of these edits. These kinds of edits are indicative of sock puppetry; legitimate new users do not know about ANI at all in my experience, and the edits themselves suggested the use of multiple accounts in order to carry out the harassment. After investigating technical evidence, the listed accounts are the result, and are all indefinitely blocked and tagged. I'm creating this SPI report retro-actively for record-keeping and historical purposes.  ~Oshwah~  (talk) (contribs)   22:41, 3 July 2022 (UTC)

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 * All listed accounts are ✅ to one another. Same exact IP address and user agent. This is what I consider a classic "open-and-shut" case as far as sock puppetry evidence goes. All accounts and indefinitely blocked and tagged; closing this SPI report...  ~Oshwah~  (talk) (contribs)   22:43, 3 July 2022 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets

 * ( original case name)

Some serious weirdness going on here. After giving October difference one a fourth warning for disruptively reverting a warning I left on an IP talkpage (presumably found via my contribs), Smiling with the teeth appeared about 10mins later, and oddly, their second edit was to revert one of mine, which would also have had to be found via contribs. They also weirdly targeted a pensylnvanian named place as well, and these things together make me think that this weirdness isn't just coincidence. Smiling was blocked for their general tomfoolery, but October didn't get that far. To recap similarities:
 * Both went into my contribs to revert edits that they had not been connected to
 * Both targeted the infoboxes of Pennsylvanian named places
 * Smiling was created less than 10 minutes after October got a level 4 warning

The weirdness just seems to go beyond simple coincidence. Mako001 (C) (T)  🇺🇦 10:52, 29 September 2022 (UTC)

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Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * - I don't have any doubt that these two accounts are run by the same person, but I'm endorsing to check for other accounts/an older master because the targeting of a specific editor, the fact that one account was created before the other was blocked & the odd username pattern makes me think that there could be more to this than typical drive-by vandalism. Thanks, Spicy (talk) 20:36, 29 September 2022 (UTC)
 * - -- RoySmith (talk) 20:54, 29 September 2022 (UTC)
 * ✅: -- RoySmith (talk) 21:03, 29 September 2022 (UTC)
 * This is also ✅ to Sockpuppet investigations/Holding the trophy and should get merged with that case (in whichever direction makes sense) -- RoySmith (talk) 21:07, 29 September 2022 (UTC)
 * Please merge as above, and (re)tag everybody as confirmed as needed - -- RoySmith (talk) 21:15, 29 September 2022 (UTC)
 * Performed the move to Holding the trophy as that's the oldest and because hist merging needs admin perms. Leaving other needed actions to the next clerk/CU/admin unless I get back to this. Dreamy Jazz talk to me &#124; my contributions 19:12, 1 October 2022 (UTC)
 * Tagged, closing. Spicy (talk) 22:55, 1 October 2022 (UTC)
 * The SandDoctor Talk 06:30, 2 October 2022 (UTC)