Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Jon698/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets



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This came to my attention while reviewing Articles for deletion/Green Mountain Party. Requesting CU as the behavioral evidence is inconclusive. Subjectively, ImBadWithUsernames seems precocious for having so little edit history (a dozen edits before last week), and has done very limited work outside of areas frequented by Jon698. That said, there's nothing here to rule out coincidence. -- Scott Burley (talk) 00:44, 2 May 2019 (UTC)
 * ImBadWithUsernames' very first edit was to restore content first added by Jon698 the day before . Jon698 edited the article again 15 minutes later.
 * Their second edit was to create the now-deleted article Third Party Info. The article was edited by Jon698 just 4 minutes later.
 * Their participation in the AfD above was simply "Keep, per Jon698" . This is their first and only AfD participation.
 * When another user on the AfD pointed out their suspicious behavior, their response was essentially to praise Jon698: You found a single example of me editing the same article as somebody, who is one of the most prolific political related article makers and who has edited and created thousands of articles.

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Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * This is already pretty convincing. ImBadWithUsernames also removed maintenance tags from an article that Jon698 had previously made dozens of edits to. This is 100% a sockpuppet, . What's more, the sock is lying about it after being accused, and we have at least three different places where the alternate account was mis-used, most recently on the AfD. I don't think the checkuser is even needed for a case this obvious. ST47 (talk) 00:57, 2 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Yeah, on second thought, that second bullet is damning. It's one thing to have random run-ins within a topic area, quite another when it's a brand new stub article with no cats or relevant tags. I will block and tag. -- Scott Burley (talk) 03:44, 2 May 2019 (UTC)
 * All accounts blocked and tagged. -- Scott Burley (talk) 03:49, 2 May 2019 (UTC)