Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/June213/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets
June213's first username was. They had some competence problems, and they added copyrighted prose to articles, requiring revdel, as seen on March 25 in the page histories of The Notorious K.I.M. and Hard Core (Lil' Kim album). Baton Rouge IP range Special:Contributions/2600:8807:401:170:0:0:0:0/64 can be seen creating the same revdel problem two days earlier on both pages. That IP range was active for three weeks, but the related Baton Rouge IP range Special:Contributions/2600:8807:400:3970:0:0:0:0/64 was active before that, as early as December 7, 2022. Tecarterk31 registered on December 16.

In March, I asked Tecarterk31 to stay logged in, writing at the talk page User talk:2600:8807:401:170:E556:9D57:B2C:882D. Tecarterk31 responded, affirming the connection between the IP range and the named account. In early April, Tecarterk31 said goodbye to Wikipedia, then a few hours later was renamed to June213. June213 made no edits at all under the new name, and editing ceased from the Baton Rouge IPs.

Retireduser305 registered on April 21, and first edited on April 28, making a good faith addition. A month later, they started to restore edits made by Tecarterk31/June213. In this case they added the name Bruno Mars using the same archived source that Tecarterk31/June213 had previously tried to add.

All the IPs and named accounts, Tecarterk31/June213, Retireduser305 share one trait: they focus mainly on adding names to lists of people who were influenced.

CU requested to make certain, and to check for other socks. Binksternet (talk) 19:04, 5 May 2023 (UTC)

Comments by other users

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Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * There is no rule against abandoning one account and creating a new one, but for it to be a valid WP:CLEANSTART one should not immediately go to the same articles and pick up where one left off. The two named accounts are ✅ to one another, and to the unused account . No comment on the IP, obviously. I'm going to block the new accounts, and ask them to stick with their original one. Closing.  Girth Summit  (blether)  12:26, 8 May 2023 (UTC)
 * Mm. OK, so they're wasting our time by denying it on one of the socks' talk pages, so I'm going to block the master and tag all.  Girth Summit  (blether)  13:26, 8 May 2023 (UTC)