Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Joesmithroots/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets
obvious sock, created today, amde a few innocuous edits and then just happened to find this afd and make a non-policy based vote to keep. PRAXIDICAE🌈 19:52, 7 August 2022 (UTC)

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Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * Blocked, tagged, closing. Bbb23 (talk) 21:59, 7 August 2022 (UTC)
 * I've been reconsidering, and although I think there's sufficient behavioral evidence to warrant the block, a couple of things give me pause. First, and most important, Udoxfarm didn't just vote at the Loofball AfD; they also voted at two other AfDs. That makes me think that the behavioral connection is less strong. The master has no history of voting at AfDs. Actually, the master is a complete SPA and interested only in Loofball. Second, the master has made an unblock request that is at least plausible, although it could just be the usual denial. If I were to go out on a limb and speculate, I would say that Udoxfarm is a sock, but of some other user. Anyway, for these reasons, I'm requesting a CU.--Bbb23 (talk) 00:09, 8 August 2022 (UTC)
 * CU on this is typical of the region where both editors come from -- rapidly changing IP addresses, and a lot of users on a lot of them. The newer one, for example, has 5 IP addresses in 2 days, with well over a dozen unique userids between them (and nothing at all to indicate anything improper.) The older one has at least 40 IP addresses, with a couple dozen unique userids just in the most recent three or four of them. Technically, there is location but nothing else to connect the accounts. --jpgordon&#x1d122;&#x1d106;&#x1D110;&#x1d107; 01:38, 8 August 2022 (UTC)


 * Courtesy ping  The SandDoctor  Talk 03:51, 8 August 2022 (UTC)
 * Based on the CU results and a discussion with the CheckUser, I have unblocked both accounts. Reclosing. Bbb23 (talk) 19:47, 8 August 2022 (UTC)