Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/JTtheOOG/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets

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I nominated some boxing articles for deletion via both PROD and AfD. The ones that were created by a user named Brain Rodeo were subsequently edited by several IP addresses with no prior edits. These edits included removing the PROD and AfD notices on the pages and vandalizing an article I had previously created. However, the Brain Rodeo account itself hasn't made any edits since July 2021, so he might be unrelated completely. However, I saw it necessary to include his username because all the accounts affected were created by him. Here's a summary of the edits by these accounts which lead me to believe they are socks.


 * Sock1, which was trying to impersonate me and was already blocked for such, removed this AfD template as well as this one.
 * IP1 removed a PROD notice
 * IP2 removed an AfD template and commented in the subsequent AfD discussion
 * IP3 vandalised an article I created with three edits like this, PRODed a separate article by Brain Rodeo, did that again, removed a PROD notice here as well as here, here, here and here. Removed this AfD notice as well.
 * IP4 removed this AfD notice.
 * IP5 removed this PROD notice. JTtheOG (talk) 07:07, 11 February 2022 (UTC)

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 * To save people some confusion, the reported sock is, the report filer is with one less "O" in the username. -- RoySmith (talk) 16:04, 11 February 2022 (UTC)
 * Brain Rodeo hasn't edited these articles in 12 years. They say they're a big boxing fan on their user page, so it's not surprising they created a bunch of boxing articles, some of which many years later were found to not meet our modern notability guidelines.  I see no reason to think they're a sock.  I've blocked all the IPs for a week, and I'm going to move this case under JTtheOOG (two O's). -- RoySmith (talk) 16:15, 11 February 2022 (UTC)