Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Johnnygreeney/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets



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Both accounts are SPAs created within a couple hours of each other.

Johnnygreeney's first edit was to add PR to an obscure and badly-sourced cryptocurrancy article, Proof of stake.

Wmoore1131's second edit rearranged this content using a misleading edit summary. The two accounts have gone back and forth like this.

Proof of stake is under WP:1RR per WP:GS/Crypto, but has had had very little activity recently. This may be an attempt to tag-team to avoid scrutiny. Still, it looks like both have violated this restriction anyway.

Both also crank it up to eleven at any challenge, as seen on my talk page after I made one revert, and on each other's talk pages:, , etc.

This edit refers to editors being blocked, although neither have been blocked yet. This suggests some previous history. Grayfell (talk) 21:32, 24 March 2020 (UTC)


 * Per David Gerard's comment here, this is likely from an off-site call to action, and may or may not be sock puppetry. The implied familiarity with Wikipedia is still concerning, though. Grayfell (talk) 02:43, 25 March 2020 (UTC)
 * The style is very familiar though. Check also the most substantial contributors to Draft:Cardano (cryptocurrency platform), who also write similarly and - this is the big tell - have a similar WP:IDHT going on - David Gerard (talk) 02:56, 25 March 2020 (UTC)

Comments by other users
''Accused parties may also comment/discuss in this section below. See Defending yourself against claims.'' This is farcical, my edit was removed as a few words were deemed not to be objective and not fit for an encyclopedia. I agree that a few words were overly enthusiastic but most of the entry has credibility. My post was added in haste, and in hindsight, not very objective. I presumed any impartial admin would show some common sense and allow a new user some latitude. I elected to withdraw and even looked into deactivate my account (I can't!). This was prior to any "call to action" video. A second admin commented subsequently and completely unnecessarily with vindictive and childish taunts with words like "wow... Spam". If any investigation is to be conducted it should focus on those reprimanding new users for choice words by clearly biased imbeciles "administering" content with comments like "wow" and baseless accusations of "psuedo academic crypto spam". If this isn't ridiculous enough, the 'admin' in this case, clearly has vested interests against the crypto industry. The information is publicly available and broadcasted by the twit himself if you care to research. The accusation of associating myself with other users is as baseless as me claiming D&$$"d G?"^$rd is Piers Morgan....I wish to deactivate and disassociate myself from this nonsense and focus on real world work. Please terminate my account.

Johnnygreeney (talk) 23:44, 25 March 2020 (UTC)

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments
— Berean Hunter   (talk)  13:01, 28 March 2020 (UTC)
 * - Violation of 3RR and 1RR per WP:GS/Crypto. Blocked for 48 hours Wmoore1131 as they have broken 3RR and 1RR under GS/Crypto. I see evidence to link these users and the IP 2A02:8084:900:3F00:8D1D:9161:9A62:237B. Violation of 3RR is a valid reason for checking on the criteria and am requesting a check to see if the named accounts are linked. Dreamy Jazz 🎷 talk to me &#124; my contributions 22:10, 24 March 2020 (UTC)
 * Accounts are ❌ and.
 * Even if the IPs are them, they haven't edited in almost a week. Closing. TonyBallioni (talk) 00:48, 30 March 2020 (UTC)