Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Livingfractal/Archive

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Livingfractal seems determined to break WP:BLP and WP:NPOV in order to have Wikipedia officially classify the Shooting of Ahmaud Arbery article as a lynching, in spite of such an assertion being blatant WP:OR. In fact, he has been the only one to be in support of immediately implementing such a measure, as seen throughout the talk page section over the topic.

When it was clear there was no support from the community to rename and classify the Arbery article as a lynching, Livingfractal has been using the List of lynching victims in the United States article as a sneaky way of getting around the consensus. However, I took notice of it and removed the entry from the list, after which Livingfractal added it back in. After I reverted it again with a warning (especially considering the formal warning I sent them about edit-warring), Rosechi4 suddenly shows up and reinserts the same content into the list as their first edit.

I find Rosechi4's arrival to be extremely suspicious, considering this user showed up as soon as Livingfractal clearly wasn't going to have their way. Moreover, the first edit they make that doesn't have anything to do with the Arbery dispute is create a userpage, suggesting familiarity with this kind of ptocess. Love of Corey (talk) 20:49, 8 May 2020 (UTC)


 * As an addendum, Rosechi4's edits so far have been restricted to the List of lynching victims in the United States article. Love of Corey (talk) 21:48, 9 May 2020 (UTC)

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 * I agree that the timing of Rosechi4's arrival is suspicious, but the edits made are not exactly the same as the edits made by Livingfractal. Also, all of Livingfractal's edits include "Tag: 2017 wikitext editor" while none of Rosechi4's do.  This is a hot topic in the news, so not surprising it would attract editors.  I'm not seeing enough evidence of socking here to justify blocking.  Given that Rosechi4 has only made a few edits, asking for moreinfo seems pointless, so I would close this with no action taken. — Preceding unsigned comment added by RoySmith (talk • contribs) 02:02, 16 May 2020 (UTC)
 * There's enough here to justify a CU check which I did. The two accounts seem probably ❌ and I can't see any other accounts related to Rosechi4 in the data. So I've closed the case.