Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Jo2uke/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets
This is mostly a pro forma report, but since Metallic Lord is now playing FAFO, I think it's worth putting this one on the books.

Southwestmetal had a rather precocious edit history that included installing Twinkle on their very first edit a few months ago. They were blocked for edit warring and disputed it by trying to game the system. Jo2uke, Platville, Foxbox, and Seaman were already uncovered via checkuser but Southwestmetal has not accounted for them.

Metallic Lord was created during Southwest's block, returned to the same dispute, and was blocked as a suspected sockpuppet. As linked above, they admitted to being a sock, and more specifically, having another account with 100,000 edits.

It's worth noting that some of the accounts listed are inactive, and the master has not edited since 2018. However, given the obvious behavioral/IP overlap, the admission of owning an account with that many edits (if it exists) may suggest concurrent editing with all of them.

I've requested CU specifically for Metallic Lord in case there are more sleepers that can be connected to this account. — {Canuck  lehead}  22:06, 3 July 2022 (UTC)


 * Adding User:Third person view to the list per Hammersoft's discovery. — {Canuck  lehead}  00:21, 5 July 2022 (UTC)

Comments by other users
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Add Special:Contributions/Zest Stared, Special:Contributions/Jebba Buggar, and Special:Contributions/Jabrodoah to the list. -- Cyberlink420 (talk) 07:20, 5 July 2022 (UTC)

I have blocked Southwestmetal indefinitely due to their prolific socking during the last couple of days. I very much endorse a CU; whenever any other socks are blocked TPA should be revoked as a matter of course. Daniel Case (talk) 21:49, 5 July 2022 (UTC)
 * Worth noting that Jabrodoah explicitly admitted to being Metallic Lord, in case there was any doubt. - Cyberlink420 (talk) 23:32, 5 July 2022 (UTC)

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * Definitely support a CU. I've seen some clear patterns between Metallic Lord and Southwestmetal in particular. Sergecross73   msg me  22:24, 3 July 2022 (UTC)
 * Support CU. User:Third person view is also very likely a sock, and has already been blocked and now tagged as suspected. --Hammersoft (talk) 13:04, 4 July 2022 (UTC)
 * - -- RoySmith (talk) 22:53, 5 July 2022 (UTC)
 * Jo2uke, Southwestmetal, Platvile, Foxbox2002, and Seaman3000 are ✅ to each other; I'm blocking and tagging those.The other two (Metallic Lord and Third person view) are to each other, but appear to be ❌ to the Jo2uke group, but there's some indication of proxy use which might be confusing the picture.  I see those are already blocked and tagged as suspected, which I won't disturb. -- RoySmith (talk) 23:18, 5 July 2022 (UTC)
 * Hmmm, I'll add to the Metallic Lord group, ✅ to Third person view. -- RoySmith (talk) 23:22, 5 July 2022 (UTC)
 * And the hits keep coming., already blocked as suspected to Jo2uke, are ✅ to each other and  to the Metallic Lord group. -- RoySmith (talk) 23:34, 5 July 2022 (UTC)
 * Doesn't look like there's anything left to do here, so I'll close this. -- RoySmith (talk) 23:35, 5 July 2022 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets
Vandal edits to the same pages as other socks, such as Sonic Frontiers and Jessa Duggar Seewald. Name even references a previous sock account. Already indefinitely blocked; adding to the list purely for clerical reasons. Cyberlink420 (talk) 16:51, 17 July 2022 (UTC)

Comments by other users
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Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * Already blocked. Sir Sputnik (talk) 00:00, 20 July 2022 (UTC)