Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/LeonardHigh/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets

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New account. Added exactly the same text that sockmaster and User:Pp7575 added to Joseph Carraro  Storchy (talk) 13:46, 13 November 2022 (UTC)

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 * Comment - Just on a hunch, because I was involved with tracking down the paid editing and the socking associated with Ugochukwu75, I took a look at User:Film Fanatical10069, who was also a suspected sock of Ugochukwu75 but managed to appeal their block and went dormant (in my opinion, now a sleeper account) after their block was lifted (they wiped all of that from their talk page). The user pages of this new suspected sock and that old one have these lead sentences:
 * "Hello Everyone, I love films and tech. I love building and creating. Any advice or help is GREATLY appreciated."
 * "Hello everyone, I appreciate everything about wikipedia, and find it fascinating. It is my honor to be able to contribute to such an amazing project."
 * On their talk pages in this diff and this diff:
 * "I wanted to reach out, it's been nearly 4 months and no one has yet to review. I am not exactly sure what the procedure is or if I am wasting my time, but I did want to reach out and see if you would reconsider."
 * "Thank you Adakiko, for reaching out."(emphasis mine)
 * The similarity in style strikes me as being too close to be pure chance. By now, the human behind these accounts has been caught numerous times, and they've no doubt figured out that they should use proxies all over the world to hide that they're all one person. Also, Smartthathay made exactly 10 edits in the first 2 hours of that account's existence, did nothing for 4 days, and then began editing the Carraro article that had all the paid editing previously - I'm guessing that had something to do with knowing that an auto-confirmed user is subject to less scrutiny from bots than one who isn't. The Film Fanatical10069 account did a similar thing with a bunch of quick edits upon account creation, but then slept for 2 years before doing paid editing (which they admitted to).
 * Just my two cents. I would give this a few more minutes, if you have the time. Fred Zepelin (talk) 00:07, 14 November 2022 (UTC)

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * Based on historical data, I'd say this is likely to be ❌ to Ugochukwu75 - different continent. Could be a different UPE account trying to pick up the same work of course. Don't see any other accounts on their IP.  Girth Summit  (blether)  16:19, 13 November 2022 (UTC)
 * The CU data in the logs for Film fanatical puts them on a different continent from Smartthathay. They might be someone's sock, and they might be UPE, but I don't think they're Ugochukwu75 or Film fanatical. Girth Summit  (blether)  18:13, 14 November 2022 (UTC)
 * Now blocked as a sock of another sockmaster . Closing. Thanks, Spicy (talk) 20:03, 26 November 2022 (UTC)
 * Split from Sockpuppet investigations/Ugochukwu75 to Sockpuppet investigations/LeonardHigh. Tagging LeonardHigh as master. MarioGom (talk) 20:39, 27 November 2022 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets

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Same edits to Joseph Carraro as previous socks. Created the account over a month ago to get around the semi-protection. Fred Zepelin (talk) 19:22, 1 February 2023 (UTC)

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 * - Please, histmerge this to Sockpuppet investigations/LeonardHigh. Thank you. MarioGom (talk) 22:38, 1 February 2023 (UTC)
 * History merge done. Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 09:03, 4 February 2023 (UTC)