Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Joshua's Number9/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets



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Apart from having Joshua in both their usernames, these accounts have a shared interest in four articles: Protection on Wikipedia articles, Construction of the World Trade Center, World Trade Center (1973–2001) and World Trade Center site. Furthermore, their style of editing is unusual to put it mildly and nearly everything they have done has been reverted as inaccurate, inappropriate or actually disruptive. Joshua's Number9 has received several warnings on their talkpage about disruptive or questionable activity. Please let me know if I can supply anything else. Thanks. No Great Shaker (talk) 10:41, 22 January 2021 (UTC)

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These accounts are pretty new and if I had come across them before this SPI case was filed, I would have just posted a warning about when multiple accounts are acceptable and when they are not. I think this is more of a misunderstanding of the usage of single accounts than an act of deception or sockpuppetry. Liz Read! Talk! 18:35, 22 January 2021 (UTC)


 * Agree. I think this editor means to edit in good faith and can be salvaged, though it will take some serious mentoring. --Kent G. Budge (talk) 21:50, 26 January 2021 (UTC)

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * ✅. Going to leave these accounts alone, per the comment provided by Liz above. If this is a good faith misunderstanding, then blocking would do more harm than good versus just talking to them...  ~Oshwah~  (talk) (contribs)   02:50, 27 January 2021 (UTC)


 * Closing without action. The SandDoctor  Talk 17:54, 28 January 2021 (UTC)
 * Thank you to for putting in the time to write an extensive note on the user's talk page. -- RoySmith (talk) 16:32, 2 February 2021 (UTC)