Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Mztourist/Archive

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I am a PROD patroller and deprodded a stack of articles on 18 Jan. An example is Milton Lewis – a US Marine who won the Navy Cross and had a ship named after him, like most of the other cases. The prod had been placed by Mztourist who then complained on my talk page. We did not agree.

The following day, an article was nominated for deletion twice by another editor: speedy AfD I had created this article 3 months ago and it seemed unrelated to the other incident. But the curious thing is that the editor making the nomination had not edited for 9 months previously. Why did they appear out of the blue for this?

This other editor, Relishcolouredhat, only made one edit during 2020. This was to talk:Deer gun. What makes me suspicious is that that topic is related to the Vietnam War and that is a special interest of the first editor, Mztourist, who created Viet Cong and People's Army of Vietnam use of terror in the Vietnam War, for example. Perhaps Relishcolouredhat is a bad hand account, being used for retaliation?

The many articles about the Navy Cross marines have now been nominated for deletion by third editor, Lettler, in a massive group of 220 articles which commenting editors find disruptive. Lettler's user page says that they are a reformed vandal so perhaps they are just a loose cannon. But I notice some overlap between Lettler and Relishcolouredhat at Stanford White. Perhaps that's just a coincidence but Relishcolouredhat has made so few edits -- just 165 in total –– that there has been little opportunity for overlap with others. Andrew🐉(talk) 23:58, 21 January 2021 (UTC)

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 * ❌ as far as checkuser evidence goes. This will need a behavioral analysis...  ~Oshwah~  (talk) (contribs)   02:57, 27 January 2021 (UTC)


 * Given that Lettler and Mztourist have edited in direct opposition to each other (interaction log shows some cases of one PRODding and the other deprodding, or one nominating for deletion and the other !voting keep). Given that both seem to be extremely active in the MILHIST area, I do not see anything nefarious here, just two active editors in the same topic area. As for Relishcolouredhat, I can't say anything for certain, but I don't see anything near strong enough evidence to connect them to either of these accounts. No, I can't explain why they came back just to nominate one of the filer's articles, but I see basically nothing to prove that they're a bad hand account. Closing without action. GeneralNotability (talk) 02:51, 8 February 2021 (UTC)