Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/LegesRomanorum/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets
was just blocked for creating an elaborate hoax at (Philodoppides). On the now restored talk page, presented the following evidence which points to  being a sock:

"Additionally, I think Will classics 1993 is possibly a sock of LegesRomanorum as Will classics 1993 edited the page saying that they were changing the name of a fictitious poem to its conventional title "(Heleniad --> Heleneis passim (this is the conventional title of the poem". Their edit history is similar in other ways as well."

In a nutshell, Will classics 1993 seems to have been in on the hoax and is thus likely to have been a sock for LegesRomanorum. Modussiccandi (talk) 06:10, 30 August 2023 (UTC)

Comments by other users

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Looking at Will classics 1993's other contributions, I see they added Philodoppides to List of ancient Greek poets here. Other than that, I'm not immediately seeing any great similarities between Will's and LegesRomanorum's editing; the only other thing is that both edited List of ancient Greek poets and Quintus Smyrnaeus, but LR's edits to these pages were not very significant Caeciliusinhorto-public (talk) 08:13, 30 August 2023 (UTC)
 * Articles for deletion/Philodoppides said the article was created 16:38, 11 May 2020. Will classics 1993 (WC1993) linked it to Quintus Smyrnaeus's article a mere day later (Special:Diff/956307406). How did a newbie find what was an orphan and eventually became a miniscule walled garden so fast? Article alerts? Articles for Creation? The guy hit lucky on Special:Random? We may never know—WC1993 may be long gone and LegesRomanorum (LR) also appears to have flown the coop. (Note that Jahaza had pinged LR on the talk the mere day before, who by now has had more than a week to give any sort of explanation—and have been pinged to do so.) In my extremely limited SPI experience and my extremely suspicious mind, I understand why the community may decide to make sure LR only comes back after an unblock request on that account has been reviewed. Rotideypoc41352 (talk · contribs) 12:16, 30 August 2023 (UTC)
 * My dismantling of the walled garden of four. Unless someone else already removed other incoming links to Philodoppides before me, this is a very small garden indeed. Rotideypoc41352 (talk · contribs) 12:40, 30 August 2023 (UTC)
 * That said, I must confess I am a bit puzzled as to why asked [Modusscandi] at ANI to come to SPI (permalink). I would have thought ANI would be the better place to determine if we need to ban WC1993 to prevent further disruption. (Disclaimer: I am unduly influenced by Tamzin's opinions on this matter.) Rotideypoc41352 (talk · contribs) 12:40, 30 August 2023 (UTC)
 * Yeah, I think it's pretty clear that Will is somehow connected to LR based purely on the Philodoppides thing – so clear that I'm not sure what the SPI is going to tell us! I'm just not seeing the "Their edit history is similar in other ways as well". Caeciliusinhorto-public (talk) 13:24, 30 August 2023 (UTC)
 * If a "ban" discussion would have been the alternative, I'm happy about having sent this to SPI. Assuming you mean a quick block: I just wanted to make sure that evidence is provided (there was a lack of it, and SPI has an evidence requirement) and this is handled by a checkuser if necessary. I didn't look at the alleged sock account as I wasn't at ANI to perform a sockpuppetry investigation. I saw vandalism and blocked for vandalism. ~ ToBeFree (talk) 16:01, 30 August 2023 (UTC)
 * Understood. Thank you for your patience and for your answer. Rotideypoc41352 (talk · contribs) 17:34, 30 August 2023 (UTC)

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * That account was active for a few hours over three years ago - no action is required unless it starts up again.  Girth Summit  (blether)  14:32, 30 August 2023 (UTC)