Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Italianlover07/Archive

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Italianlover07 (now stale, but entered as the likely original account) joined Wikipedia in 2007 and was highly disruptive, with a talkpage littered with warnings about adding unsourced and/or poorly-worded material that bordered on vandalism. Ultimately blocked indefinitely on 11/20/08. Four days later, Pizzamaniac09 (also now stale) shows up and edits the same articles, with identical edit summary types, and receives frequent warnings and blocks for adding unsourced, poorly-worded material; Pizzamaniac09 stops editing on 3/8/16 and Pizzamaniac2016 shows up on 3/10/16. Pizzamaniac2016 (also now stale) edits until 6/6/17. Pizzamaniac16 shows up on 5/29/17 (as the first clear case of overlap between sock accounts) and persists with the same disruptive editing. Diffs can be provided if necessary, but between the usernames, the pages being edited, and the nature of the edit summaries, it seems pretty clear these are all the same user who decided to avoid the initial block by just creating a new account and carrying on their disruptive editing. Checkuser requested on the basis of at least two of the socks having had overlap, which suggests there might be more accounts less obviously tied to the master.Grandpallama (talk) 18:48, 26 June 2018 (UTC)
 * Understood on why the CU was declined, although I'll point out that the Pizzamaniac IDs were preceded by the Italianlover master, which is why I suspect some other accounts might be lurking, and the overlap (albeit brief) indicates the user isn't averse to using multiple accounts during the same period. I also suspect there is editing from an IP going on, but I didn't dig into that too much since I was requesting the CU and knew I couldn't list it.
 * Even a superficial comparison of the contribs will show an obsession with Andy Griffith, daytime talk and soap operas, and in gossipy additions about celebrities, especially about their relationships/friendships with each other. The edit summaries all follow the same pattern, mostly "I did this" statements about what was added and "I saw this on HLN" or "I got this from Huff Post." Here's a few diffs that stretch across all four accounts and show one of the recurring themes in these edits: the user's particular predilection for the odd phrase "unfamiliar actor". Grandpallama (talk) 10:01, 27 June 2018 (UTC)
 * Looks like 3 current IPs, which the user bounces between when doing mobile editing, that all happen to feature the same pattern; I'm sure there are others. Grandpallama (talk) 13:56, 27 June 2018 (UTC)

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 * Diffs would be helpful, yes. I am not inclined to endorse a checkuser given that three of the four are stale, but diffs would help establish a behavioral connection. There don't appear to be any more accounts in the form "Pizzamaniac[number]". Kevin ( aka L235 ·&#32; t ·&#32; c) 20:48, 26 June 2018 (UTC)
 * CU declined.--Bbb23 (talk) 21:18, 26 June 2018 (UTC)
 * All blocked and tagged. Closing.  Vanjagenije  (talk)  23:09, 9 July 2018 (UTC)