Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Hurricane boy 50/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets



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These users, in all tropical cyclone basins, are creating articles for storms that don't exist yet, and it is getting out of hand. There was a sock investigation including too, but I believe he is innocent. However, these three Wikipedians are messing up the tropical cyclone WikiProject, and I've got good reason to suspect they are operated by one person. 🐔Chicdat Chicken Database 10:49, 3 May 2020 (UTC)

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The named accounts are ✅ (excluding ), along with: . . Closing. Reaper Eternal (talk) 15:08, 3 May 2020 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets



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177.72.48.196 is editing the same pages (e.g. Draft:Cyclone Irondro), and disrupting WikiProject Tropical cyclones in the same way as, , and. This needs to stop. 🐔 Chicdat Chicken Database 10:02, 18 June 2020 (UTC)

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 * - Check users do not link IPs and accounts per the privacy policy and check user policy. Dreamy Jazz talk to me &#124; my contributions 10:57, 18 June 2020 (UTC)


 * My initial impression from looking at the IP's edits is that this is probably a static, and clearly somebody who's into weather. But, without more specific evidence, there's no way to know if it's a sock or just somebody else who is interested in the topic.  If there were specific pairs of edits showing the same change being made, that would be a good indication.  -- RoySmith (talk) 20:28, 18 June 2020 (UTC)
 * No response to request for more info, closing. -- RoySmith (talk) 14:10, 21 June 2020 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets



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Identical username to the other socks accounts, and also identical editing activity on the bn.wikipedia, where this person is also active. This account was created around the same time as another batch of socks back in December 2019. Compare the Global Account log of this account to those of the other known socks. Please also run a sleeper check, since this person is known to leave behind sleeper accounts..  Light and Dark2000  🌀 (talk) 18:57, 12 August 2020 (UTC)

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 * - All the accounts in this case are stale for the purposes of the checkuser tool, because there have been no edits or actions in the last 3 months. Because the accounts are stale, this means that the checkuser tool does not have any data about these accounts and so the checkuser tool won't be able to find any sleeper accounts. Dreamy Jazz talk to me &#124; my contributions 19:22, 12 August 2020 (UTC)
 * Based on the user names, yeah, probably a sock. But, that's not enough to block on.  If they're causing trouble on another wiki, that's for the folks on that wiki to handle.  If they ever wake up from hibernation, we can sort it out.  Until then, it's not causing any harm.  Closing with no action taken. -- RoySmith (talk) 19:47, 12 August 2020 (UTC)
 * Based on the user names, yeah, probably a sock. But, that's not enough to block on.  If they're causing trouble on another wiki, that's for the folks on that wiki to handle.  If they ever wake up from hibernation, we can sort it out.  Until then, it's not causing any harm.  Closing with no action taken. -- RoySmith (talk) 19:47, 12 August 2020 (UTC)