Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Kayla994/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets



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 * Significant area of intersection between all three, especially in the area of Indian rulers (kings, queens, sultans, etc.) Kayla has about 14 articles in common with Almeda64, and Almeda has about 5 in common with Xxanna94xx. This is significant as Xxanna94xx has fewer than 70 edits.
 * Almeda popped up on Nov 4th and the first thing they did was create a User page and Talk page, both with "Hello!". Meaningless user page creation is a hallmark of someone trying to get rid of "new editor" stink, i.e. redlinks.
 * Boom, Almeda is suddenly familiar with obscure infobox parameters, citations, then a week later creates Nagmati etc. Clearly an experienced editor.
 * Almeda64 flags lots of his edits as minor and uses lots of edit summaries, as did Xxanna94xx and Kayla994.
 * Almeda64 and Xxanna94xx appear to be the only people who edit this obscure article, (minus a couple of trusted Wikipedia regulars) increasing the sock likelihood.
 * Almeda64 and Xxanna94xx both use summaries like "adding info and reference"[adding info and reference] suggesting that they're using their browser's autofill feature. Kayla994 does the same here.
 * Kayla994 hasn't edited since October 1, 2017. Xxanna94xx stopped editing October 26, 2017. This has the feel of throw-away accounts.

I think there's enough to warrant a CU look to see if this person is evading a previous block. This all has the feel of someone hiding something. I thought originally that this might be a sock of Barthateslisa, based on Almeda64 showing up suddenly to make heavy edits at Padmavati (film), where Bart sock had previously edited, but behaviorally I don't see the obvious connection. Thanks for checking. Cyphoidbomb (talk) 16:53, 14 November 2017 (UTC)

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 * It's tough to say. I guess you could call it .  They're all on the same large ISP, but that doesn't really prove anything; however, each appears on the same few netblocks and has the same user agent.  I did a little digging, but there's no obvious older master.  I didn't check against NineTimes, but I could if an SPI clerk thinks this is likely. NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 19:02, 14 November 2017 (UTC)
 * This does not appear to be block/ban evasion, and the accounts were never used simultaneously. I don't like it when users jump from throwaway account to throwaway account, but technically this does not violate policy. Closing with no action. Sro23 (talk) 01:03, 22 December 2017 (UTC)