Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/MCCLOUD101/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets
Sock 2 is repeating the same disruptive edit, word by word, made by Sock 1 to the page Malayalam cinema. Sock 1 has been banned from Wikipedia editing for persistent IP vandalism. It seems the user has created a new account to bypass the IP ban. Please go through Special:History/Malayalam_cinema and check the activities. SnehaRaphael1996 (talk) 21:42, 5 May 2022 (UTC)

Comments by other users
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There is no base for the claims of the user. Let me provide the admin with more insight According to the user who is making the allegations it is disruptive editing, while I strongly disagree and regard it as a piece of constructive information. The edit might feel the same word by word as the previous one because all I did was "undo" the action of the user SnehaRaphael1996. The edit was promptly reviewed by the admin Bb23 who has given me an opportunity to cite the relevant article. So I am in the process of compiling the relevant references before I publish it. Even though I am not the person who got their IP banned I am familiar with that person. For the record the person only got their IP blocked from editing, they can still edit from their user name if they wish to, as there is no ban on their user name. The user SnehaRaphael1996 seems to be fixated on deleting this piece of information and seems to have taken the matter personally, as it can be noticed that the user has deleted the article repeatedly. The user has given various reasons to justify this so far. I would assume the user is quite tech-savvy and therefore knows how to use Wikipedia better than an average person like me. The user also seems to complain in abundance to the admins about other users, who the user disagrees with, may I suggest the admin go through the user's talk section where the user can be seen mocking someone who got blocked because of the complaint made by the user. This kind of autocratic behavior discourages and disheartens people who are newbies and trying to make contributions. To conclude, as the admin Bb23 has stated in his message to me, this is an opportunity for me to add references to the article before I publish it, please let me have it and give me time to compile it and I request the article to be protected from vandalizing by the user SnehaRaphael1996 once it is published after appropriate citations. Thank you, kindly. — Preceding unsigned comment added by MCCLOUD101 (talk • contribs) 12:04, 6 May 2022 (UTC)

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments
The key question here is whether MCCLOUD101 and the IP are the same person. They say they are not but that they "know" the person. The IP was recently CU-blocked by for logged out editing by an unnamed user to avoid scrutiny. If MCCLOUD101 is the same person, then this is clear socking and, in my view, MCCLOUD101 and the master named account should be blocked. Perhaps User:SnehaRaphael1996 has some idea on who the other named account is.--Bbb23 (talk) 13:35, 6 May 2022 (UTC)
 * I am, of course, not permitted to associate an IP address to a user. In, I stated, "I see you have a history of signing out of your account in order to make problematic edits. As such, I'm extending the block on your IP address to six months. Please count yourself extremely lucky that I'm not also blocking your account. You'll want to read https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Edit_warring before editing further." So, I blocked that IP address range but permitted logged-in editing from there, and chose not to block the unnamed account. As was created after that block, I must have been talking about a different account when I made that statement. For the record, I have not used my checkuser tools today in this case and honestly don't recall which account I was referring to, so I have no insight as to if MCCLOUD101 is related to that earlier, unnamed account or is operating from the blocked IP address. --Yamla (talk) 16:44, 6 May 2022 (UTC)


 * Based on the rhetoric used here and in the UTRS ticket, it is my finding that this account was created as either a sockpuppet or a meatpuppet of the unnamed user who has been loutsocking on this range. Since they appear to have been a throwaway account, it doesn't really matter if I block it, but I will anyways, if only to establish that the user behind this account is no longer welcome to edit, on this account or any other. I'm also going to harden the block on the /64. Maybe that will knock an unblock request loose. I'll also just say, perhaps some CU reading this wants to take a look at MCCLOUD101 and whoever it was Yamla was talking about. --  Tamzin  [ cetacean needed ] (she&#124;they&#124;xe) 03:36, 23 June 2022 (UTC)