Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Magic4950/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets

 * ( original case name)

All were created at the time of the deletion discussion Articles_for_deletion/Andrew_Hollander, had no article edits, and voted together to keep this article. Some of these also posted on the Articles for deletion/Dana Parish discussion. Lamona (talk) 20:40, 5 September 2022 (UTC)

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Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * ❌. Same country, very different locations, devices, and ISPs. I do see a zero-edit sleeper for Crazy4science, but not sharing it at this time since it appears to be a real name and again - no edits. I also checked, they're in the same metro area as Minecraft Dungeon Lord but otherwise I can't draw a particularly solid connection to anyone. Suspect meatpuppetry is afoot. GeneralNotability (talk) 20:59, 5 September 2022 (UTC)
 * This is almost certainly meatpuppetry rather than socking - the intense interest in the AfD from new accounts is particularly suspicious, as is the very similar comments about how the AfD is some sort of personal attack against the article subject. As such I think we need to go on behaviour alone here - I’m indeffing the lot, no tags yet as we might want to move the case to the oldest account.  firefly  ( t · c ) 21:09, 5 September 2022 (UTC)
 * I've moved the case to the oldest account, but I'm leaving them untagged as I think it's clear that this is meatpuppetry rather than socking. Also noting that both AfDs have been semi-protected. Closing. Thanks, Spicy (talk) 21:38, 5 September 2022 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets
Primarily interested in Articles for deletion/Andrew Hollander and Articles for deletion/Dana Parish. As per the recently closed case on the master, possibly more likely to be meat than socks. -Kj cheetham (talk) 21:45, 5 September 2022 (UTC) Kj cheetham (talk) 21:45, 5 September 2022 (UTC) P.S. Some had edited other articles previously though, so am less convinced about those. -Kj cheetham (talk) 21:47, 5 September 2022 (UTC)

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Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * My impression from the previous SPI was that this was some kind of meatpuppetry/canvassing party. It was certainly disruptive at the time - however none of these accounts have edited since the articles have been deleted, and I doubt they will again, so I don't see the need for blocks at this time. Feel free to re-report if these accounts return to promoting the same subjects. Thanks, Spicy (talk) 01:33, 4 October 2022 (UTC)