Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/LiamCardigan/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets



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Unclear if this is meat or sock, but all accounts are promoting Ian Urbina. Reporting here from WP:AIV based on report by

All accounts are using the minor edit tag. All use full sentences in edit summaries.

Diffs to compare:
 * LiamCardigan:
 * Khloe Bear:
 * Emmatucker67:

CU requested for confirmation and sleeper check  Eve rgr een Fir  (talk) 20:37, 25 February 2021 (UTC)

Just noticed and 's CU block of that user. Appears to be related to this case.  Eve rgr een Fir  (talk) 20:40, 25 February 2021 (UTC)

"User agents" means ... the info unique to an individual editor (browser, etc.)?  Eve rgr een Fir  (talk) 21:04, 25 February 2021 (UTC)
 * EvergreenFir - Correct. User agent strings will contain the browser, version, and Operating System of the device being used. User agents can be helpful in many situations, or they aren't. For example, people using Chrome on Windows 10, or even people using Safari or Chrome on the latest version of MacOS or iOS. That's a very common user agent string to see, and I don't use that information to base a confirmation, just because it's so common. :-) In this case, they're using the same versions of an OS, which isn't the latest release. This is why I tagged this SPI report as technically indistinguishable. They're on different IPs and ranges, but their user agents really shine through.  ~Oshwah~  (talk) (contribs)   21:30, 25 February 2021 (UTC)
 * Thank you both! Before this is archived I wanted to ask if the Blake Shawl sock drawer connection pointed out below was investigated. Looks like  blocked some of those. I think a MEAT/SOAP block might be in order, but want to confere with you before doing anything. Should I head to COIN or ANI, or you think there's enough behavioral evidence to block now?  Eve rgr een Fir  (talk) 06:21, 26 February 2021 (UTC)

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-- IIRC, there was a previous 'round of Ian Urbina promotions, and it wasn't just Blake Shawl. There were actually several accounts involved. Pepper Beast   (talk)  21:18, 25 February 2021 (UTC)
 * Ah, found it. Whole drawer full of socks.  Pepper Beast    (talk)  21:34, 25 February 2021 (UTC)

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * ✅ as far as user agents go, but they're on different IPs and ranges. Same country, different geolocations.  ~Oshwah~  (talk) (contribs)   21:00, 25 February 2021 (UTC)
 * After reviewing the technical evidence with another Checkuser, I am going to update this as ❌. One of the accounts were actually on a different OS release than the other two, and are not technically distinguishable as I originally thought.  ~Oshwah~  (talk) (contribs)   22:04, 25 February 2021 (UTC)
 * These do not appear to be sockpuppets of the same user. Closing with no action taken. Reaper Eternal (talk) 22:11, 25 February 2021 (UTC)