Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Ironcladded/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets
The 2601:0281 IP in the list above appeared at Historicity of Jesus a few days ago, one of a series of logged-out editors arguing for various different names to be used for the geographic region discussed by the article. 2601 argued for using "Judea" rather than "Palestine", with the rationale that the name Palestine was not used for the region before 132CE (e.g., ). After being reverted several times Ironcladded appeared and restored the edits, and then made those same arguments on the article's talk page (e.g. ), before being blocked to enforce WP:ARBECR and later indeffed per WP:NOTHERE.

Users are allowed to create accounts to edit, but when two editors pointed out this connection at WP:ANEW, Ironcladded responded defensively. After Ironcladded was blocked and Historicity of Jesus was semiprotected, the 212.61 IP came to Yehud Medinata and replaced Palestine with "Judah", referring in their edit summary to the naming of Palestine "in the second century CE", very closely mirroring Ironcladded's arguments in the former article.

Several other IPs have been active at Historicity of Jesus and related articles, replacing similar instances of Palestine with terms including "Isreal" and variations of Judea including "Judaea"  and "Judah" (above), citing political motivation. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 16:12, 2 January 2024 (UTC)

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 * This filing is for informational purposes as the account was already indeffed, and the 212.61 IP was already blocked as an open proxy. While these may be different users, multiple users editing in the same disruptive pattern can be considered sockpuppets of one user for the purposes of dispute resolution and enforcement (per WP:MEAT). I haven't blocked any other IPs as of this report. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 16:12, 2 January 2024 (UTC)