Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/LSkywalker77/Archive

04 May 2015

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(I've never submitted one of these before, so I hope I have everything done correctly. If I need to modify something, please let me know.) The editor LSkywalker77 has only edited one article - Lee Zeldin - and all of their edits save one have been to remove information, often a great deal of information:, , . Within hours of receiving a final warning, IP 143.231.249.138 showed up and began removing information (4 edits). Today, the editor BostonRedSox777 has also shown up to the article, the only one they have edited so far, to remove information (3 edits). The three are also removing the same information. Here is the same edit made by all three, ,. Here is another very similar edit made by the two accounts,. Egsan Bacon (talk) 17:27, 4 May 2015 (UTC)

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 * Tehcnically, whether they are the same person is . However, they are clearly blockable as meat, disruptive, conflicted - take your choice. If it weren't for the fact that one hasn't edited since May 4 and the other not since March 27, I would block them myself. However, because of the apparent abandonment of the accounts, I leave it to the clerk.--Bbb23 (talk) 20:20, 23 May 2015 (UTC)
 * is also an obvious member of this group. Someguy1221 (talk) 04:18, 27 May 2015 (UTC)
 * Blocking all three accounts as obvious sock/meatpuppets. If I'm right about where these accounts are editing from, it will likely be impossible to pin this down to other accounts except through behavioral patterns, so I've decided not to relist for checkuser against the new account as a likely waste of time. Someguy1221 (talk) 04:20, 27 May 2015 (UTC)

27 July 2015

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This account exhibits the same behavioral characteristics as the previous ones. Like LSkywalker77, BostonRedSox777, and Facts7, has only ever edited the article Lee Zeldin. Like the others, often likes to remove large amounts of information, such as, , ,. These removals often focus on the same information LSkywalker and crew tried to remove. Here's "L" removing content regarding Andrew Cuomo, the Marriage Equality Act, the NY SAFE Act, "green energy issues", and the NY Dream Act:. Here's "Boston" doing that:. Here's "Joe":. Here's "Joe" removing information about the subject receiving support from several prominent politicians, including Eric Cantor and John McCain, as well as information about the 2014 budget conflict in Congress:. Here's "L", doing the same:. Here's "Boston":. And here's "Facts":. Here's all four of them making the exact same edit:, , ,. Since the investigating admin last time said If I'm right about where these accounts are editing from, it will likely be impossible to pin this down to other accounts except through behavioral patterns, so I've decided not to relist for checkuser against the new account as a likely waste of time. I am not requesting checkuser, but feel that the behavioral evidence is clearly pretty strong. Egsan Bacon (talk) 13:56, 27 July 2015 (UTC)

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 * Amazing how this has been sitting here for about three weeks with no responses from anyone... Steel1943  (talk) 02:20, 15 August 2015 (UTC)

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— Berean Hunter   (talk)  13:54, 1 September 2015 (UTC)
 * Indeffed August 11 by . I've tagged him as a suspected sock. Closing.