Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Matthewcarleton214/Archive

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I'm guessing these too: courtesy of Special:Users -- RoySmith (talk) 03:09, 3 January 2022 (UTC)


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Accounts before Johnbeirne have already been blocked (including a possible checkuser on Matthewcarleton21). Johnbeirne edits are in similar areas to the blocked accounts: Ireland's County Leitrim (Cloone, Mohill), County Longford (Longford, Newtownforbes), Premier League, car models, Irish roads (N4), video games, animated series. Edits are often unsourced and may feature subtly disruptive changes (seemingly minor changes to populations, dates etc). E.g. Cloone population: Johnbeirne edit, Matthewcarleton11 edit. Or Drumsna population: Johnbeirne edit, Matthewcarleton19 edit. Or this edit to the Carleton surname article, the only such surname article edit. Declangi (talk) 02:49, 3 January 2022 (UTC)

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 * I'm convinced. Editing interests and style are identical to the old accounts; the edit to the Carleton surname article is something of a giveaway. Blocking the unblocked accounts, tagging, closing.  Girth Summit  (blether)  12:06, 3 January 2022 (UTC)

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This account has edited since 16 January 2022 (but was established in October 2020). The previous sockpuppet account, User:Johnbeirne, was blocked on 3 January 2022. "Awesome dawg 100" has edited four pages that were also edited by Johnbeirne: Mohill, Good Food, Lough Rynn Castle and Template:Opel timeline 1980 to present, a significant overlap out of eight pages edited to date. The edits to Mohill are a restoration of misleading material previously added by Johnbeirne. Declangi (talk) 04:39, 7 February 2022 (UTC)

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 * Yep... they also uploaded an image to Commons credited to "John Beirne" . - please indef the sock. Thanks, Spicy (talk) 05:36, 7 February 2022 (UTC)
 * . --Blablubbs (talk) 00:22, 9 February 2022 (UTC)
 * Tagged, closing. Thanks, Spicy (talk) 00:25, 9 February 2022 (UTC)

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Account name plus Special:Diff/1075532733 contribution on same page as sockpuppet at Special:Diff/1018513581. Djm-leighpark (talk) 14:09, 6 March 2022 (UTC)

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 * duck.  Girth Summit  (blether)  10:03, 9 March 2022 (UTC)

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Just four edits so far: but all are very similar or identical to those of another sock, User:Awesome dawg 100. The two Mohill edits attempted addition of a Weather box for London (later self-reverted), a pattern of editing seen across many of the accounts previously investigated here. Declangi (talk) 22:53, 27 August 2022 (UTC)

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 * They also restored sock edits on Lough Rynn Castle and uploaded the same image to Commons  as a previous sock (I had a Commons admin show me the deleted version).   - please indef Goodlad104203 as a suspected sock. Thanks, Spicy (talk) 20:55, 5 September 2022 (UTC)
 * firefly ( t · c ) 21:04, 5 September 2022 (UTC)

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 * This edit to Cloone is identical to ones by previous socks, e.g. User:Johnbeirne.
 * This addition of a climate table to Mohill (not a location with its own climate data), with sources for other parts of Ireland or the UK and with data which doesn't match those sources, is comparable to additions of a climate table by previous socks, e.g. User:Goodlad104203 and User:Awesome dawg 100.
 * Car model articles being edited overlap considerably with previous socks e.g. articles on Opel cars. Declangi (talk) 23:46, 13 October 2022 (UTC)
 * Yes, you're right, that would have made things quicker and easier to review. I will do that next time. Declangi (talk) 21:03, 14 October 2022 (UTC)

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 * - . Please, block Carfan346123. Thank you.: Next time, if you post links to diffs from previous accounts for comparison (e.g. [diff reported sock][diff older account]</nowiki), it will make it easier to review the case. MarioGom (talk) 19:57, 14 October 2022 (UTC)
 * . DatGuyTalkContribs 11:51, 15 October 2022 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets
Previous socks have disruptively edited the articles Mohill and N4 road (Ireland). The most recent prior sock was User:Carfan346123. Here are diffs for edits by Yoodawg3567 and Carfan346123: Thanks, Declangi (talk) 10:02, 18 January 2023 (UTC)
 * Adding an unsourced or misleadingly sourced climate box to Mohill: Yoodawg3567, Carfan346123
 * Misleadingly changing the date of a bypass for N4 road (Ireland): Yoodawg3567, Carfan346123

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 * Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 08:52, 19 January 2023 (UTC)

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Previous socks have disruptively edited the articles Mohill and Cloone. The most recent prior socks are User:Yoodawg3567 and User:Carfan346123. Here are diffs for edits by Thoccdf and prior socks: Thanks, Declangi (talk) 21:42, 4 December 2023 (UTC)
 * Adding an unsourced or misleadingly sourced climate box to Mohill: Thoccdf, Yoodawg3567
 * Adding an unsourced population figure to Cloone: Thoccdf, Carfan346123

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 * . MarioGom (talk) 13:24, 5 December 2023 (UTC)
 * Same range as previous socks. Good enough for me. --Blablubbs (talk) 15:57, 5 December 2023 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets
Previous socks have disruptively edited the Mohill article by adding an unsourced climate box. The most recent sock was User:Thoccdf. Here are diffs for edits by Thomas dofferer and Thoccdf: Thanks, Declangi (talk) 22:53, 14 June 2024 (UTC)
 * Adding an unsourced climate box to Mohill: Thomas dofferer, Thoccdf
 * Edit warring on dates at Isuzu Trooper: Thomas dofferer, Thoccdf

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 * Blocked, tagged, closing. Bbb23 (talk) 14:07, 15 June 2024 (UTC)