Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Hurrygane/Archive

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The suspected sockpuppets were confirmed as the same editor by CheckUser in fiwiki. Hurrygane was not checked, as the user hasn't edited in fiwiki since 2018. However, it was suspected in administrators' noticeboard that all of these users are those of Hurrygane, because they have edited the same articles and all of them started editing after Hurrygane left fiwiki. It should be noted, that Hurrygane ceased editing here in November 2018 and claiming that the user is not used in their user page, but recently they have responded to two edit requests by Ref-checking and The one who creates pages in Talk:Matthijs de Ligt, previous edit being in July 2019 to the same article, which is particulary suspicious. 01miki10 (talk) 10:36, 6 February 2020 (UTC)

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Some corrections and additions. Grammar-Whizz was created 30 August 2017 (Special:CentralAuth/Grammar-Whizz) and the first edit by the account is 13 September 2018. It is before Hurrygane ceased editing. In fact that edit is Grammar-Whizz supporting a proposal Hurrygane made a few hours earlier. I see that Grammar-Whizz has no edits in enWikipedia since 3 January 2020, so he/she is obviously out of scope for CheckUser capability unlike the other suspected accounts. Hurrygane instead has edits from 2 February 2020 (Special:Contributions/Hurrygane) and should be part of this investigation. In fiWikipedia Hurrygane has no edits since November 2018, so CheckUser is of no use there. AB (talk) 13:00, 6 February 2020 (UTC)
 * Your comments about behavior may be useful, but your comments about how CU works are not. Any CheckUser can determine which accounts, if any, are, and Grammar-Whizz is not stale. FYI, the period of retention of CU data is 90 days.--Bbb23 (talk) 14:44, 6 February 2020 (UTC)


 * Hurrygane is indeed part of this investigation, as the page title suggests, and that's also why I'm requesting CheckUser. 01miki10 (talk) 13:08, 6 February 2020 (UTC)


 * Yes. Sorry, didn't see the first line. AB (talk) 13:26, 6 February 2020 (UTC)

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments
. I'm trying to translate what happened on fi.wiki and would like some help. It looks like the filer here is correct, i.e., that you confirmed the suspected puppets listed here (today?), but it doesn't look like any of the accounts was blocked, which I find puzzling. Is that because the fi.wiki "case" has not yet been finalized? Is there something I'm missing? Thanks very much.--Bbb23 (talk) 13:39, 6 February 2020 (UTC)
 * Hi, sorry for the late reply. Yeah, I confirmed all except Hurrygane as it's not an active account on the Finnish Wikipedia anymore. On fiwiki we don't really have a rule that the checkuser need to block the accounts. Any admin can take care of blocks, but seems like nobody did it so far. There is not really any main account within these 4 users, but they all are used by the same person. User Hurrygane stopped editing fiwiki before these accounts were created or used there. If you perform the CU on enwiki it can confirm if Hurrygane is behind of those accounts and you can follow the enwiki policies of use of many accounts and block them if applicable. Stryn (talk) 16:16, 7 February 2020 (UTC)
 * Thanks. Very interesting.--Bbb23 (talk) 16:45, 7 February 2020 (UTC)


 * ✅. Blocked, tagged, closing.--Bbb23 (talk) 16:47, 7 February 2020 (UTC)