Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Jgavant/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets
The sockmaster has recently uploaded photos to Wikimedia Commons, including File:Rav Chaim Kanievsky zt'l.jpg, which I recently as a procedural manner. Shortly after I did so, the sockpuppet left a message on my talk page saying that I had flagged an image for deletion. The sockmaster then admitted that they were logged into wrong account when they left a message on my user talkpage.

This typically isn't an issue (people using different accounts for Commons and EnWiki isn't per se prohibited), but multiple accounts are disallowed when they are used to evade scrutiny of edits.

As it turns out, the multiple accounts are being used on the English Wikipedia to evade scrutiny of edits, particularly with respect to the Avigdor Miller article. The relevant diffs, in order, are as-follows:

Sockmaster made substantial edits the article and is reverted by for unexplained removal of sourced content. The sockmaster re-instated their edits and was reverted by a second editor,, who then left a warning on sockmaster's talk page for unexplained content removal.

Five minutes after receiving the warning, the sockpuppet was created. Less than an hour later, the sockpuppet then made a series of edits to effectively revert Padgriffin's revert. The sockpuppet was reverted by and the sockpuppet was warned by Zenzyyx on their talk page. The sockpuppet then partly reverted Zenzyyx's edits, only to be reverted again by Zenzyyx. The sockpuppet then simply undid Zenzyyx's edit and was once again reverted by Discospinster.

In short, the sockpuppet and sockmaster are clearly run by the same person and there's five reverts between them on the same page, which is clear edit warring. Many of those edit Owing to the age of the sockmaster and the relatively quick descent into sockpuppetry, I'm suspicious that there are sleepers associated with this individual. As such, I'm requesting checkuser to check for associated sleepers. — Ⓜ️hawk10 (talk) 22:45, 1 August 2022 (UTC)

Comments by other users

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Hey, wasn't expecting this to be a (most likely) case of sockpuppetry. The sockmaster/sockpuppet is clearly discontent with how the article is written, and I suggested to them on their talk page that they raise the issue in the article's talk page, but was instead sent the reasons why they removed the content, in their own talk page. Following this, they removed both Discospinster's and my warning on their talk page, and has failed to create a section on the article's talk page about their concerns. I suggest an article ban for the user if it is found out that they are not a sockpuppet (highly unlikely), because it is very apparent that they cannot contribute to that article (Avigdor Miller's) in a NPOV way, as evidenced by their edit explanations. Thanks for raising this issue, Hawk. zenzyyxtalk 22:59, 1 August 2022 (UTC)

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * The writing styles don't look the same to me. In any case, Special:Diff/1101805096 makes it clear that Jgavant at least doesn't understand our policies.  I'm going to just leave them both uw-agf-sock warnings and close this.  If problems persist, please file a new SPI, at which point any WP:AGF will have been exhausted. -- RoySmith (talk) 17:02, 2 August 2022 (UTC)