Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Keyserzozie/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets
Sockmaster "retired" after being ( rightfully unfortunately ) harassed off the project. This does not, however, excuse creating two new accounts and carrying on with the same editing behaviours. Primefac (talk) 14:11, 21 January 2024 (UTC) post-archive note: my wording in brackets above was meant to indicate that the user chose to retire after being harassed off the project, not that it was a good thing they were harassed. Updated wording to reflect that. Primefac (talk) 09:51, 22 January 2024 (UTC)

Comments by other users

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Looking over the timeline it seems likely they were harassed into starting the sock account. There's three days of overlap of these accounts, and a few hours before the first sock was created the main was asking another editor to stop harassing them. Harassment will always have unpredictable results, it should never be regarded as having been the right thing to do. --Belbury (talk) 09:20, 22 January 2024 (UTC)


 * Keyserzozie was not harrassed at all. Belbury started the action against them and the complete conversation is here. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Keyserzozie @PamD very politely explained conflict of interest to them. I asked them not to put up a very strong clue to Joanne Harris' email address. In reply, as you see in link above, @keyserzozie asked me to stop 'messaging' but it is obviously impossible for me to have left any messages at all This should not be recorded as harassment as it is unfair to me @PamD and @Belbury NoorStores (talk) 10:49, 22 January 2024 (UTC)

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * ✅, just needed to file this pro-forma. Primefac (talk) 14:12, 21 January 2024 (UTC)