Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Leaheaton1/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets
There are obvious similarities between these two users regarding username and editing behavior. Both of them created an article in Leaheaton1’s userspace advertising and promoting the same person, and both of these articles said largely the same thing about that person. Leaheaton2 created their account 37 minutes after the sandbox was speedy deleted,  and they then proceeded to recreate the deleted sandbox article 15 minutes later.  ProClasher 9 7  ~  Have A Question?  17:41, 25 November 2022 (UTC)

Comments by other users

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Hi all, this account belongs to a student taking part in a course here in Ireland (Dashboard here), where the students use their sandbox to prepare a section to add to a stub article about an Irish historical person. The assignment is due today, which is why, in a panic the student created a new account so that they can submit their work. Can I confirm with what the exact problem was with the sandbox content? Smirkybec (talk) 09:18, 28 November 2022 (UTC)
 * Thanks for confirming. It wasn't clear to me that this was a student, I routinely check for  on the user page before deleting (not present at the time of writing).  Restored User:Leaheaton1/sandbox. -  F ASTILY   10:05, 28 November 2022 (UTC)
 * Thanks so much, that is hugely appreciated. Unfortunately that user box only works with courses associated with the Education Outreach Dashboard, which only serves courses run in North America. I ask that students create a user page stating their place on the course, but not all of them undertake this step. Thank you again! Smirkybec (talk) 10:09, 28 November 2022 (UTC)

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * ✅ along with . I'm really not sure what's going on here. The technical evidence doesn't point to "forgot password for old account, created new one", but there also doesn't seem to be all that much attempt to evade scrutiny either.
 * Pinging as the most recent account - can you explain all this?
 * This should probably be moved to Leaheaton as the oldest account. firefly  ( t · c ) 16:23, 26 November 2022 (UTC)
 * . I'd expect this to be sorted out with . MarioGom (talk) 20:17, 27 November 2022 (UTC)
 * Ok. No illegit socking here. Closing without action.: In a case like this, consider asking in the user page, or posting a uw-agf-sock warning. MarioGom (talk) 22:45, 1 December 2022 (UTC)
 * Ok, I’m sorry about that. I was unaware that this editor was a student creating the page for an assignment, and I probably should’ve at least tried to reach out to them to try and understand the situation better, rather than just making this report, especially in cases like this where the usernames are very similar to each other (and therefore isn’t really trying to hide that the accounts are related). This is something that I can work on from now on, and I do appreciate the advice.  ProClasher 9 7  ~  Have A Question?  23:10, 1 December 2022 (UTC)