Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/NABFNJ/Archive

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User:NABFNJ had edited until mid-May 2020, when the editor was blocked indefinitely for "Persistent unresponsive, disruptive editing, edit warring". Requests from the user to overturn the block were rejected.

User:173.63.223.60 started editing in July 2020, editing the same cluster of articles related to Morris County, New Jersey and surrounding municipalities.

User:NAB1997 began editing in early September.

The three users have a pattern of editing the same articles related to New Jersey (which could be a geographic coincidence), but the two non-IP users also share a common interest in songs by David Bowie, Elton John and other related music artists. A summary of their interaction history shows that the two non-IPs have made several hundred edits, with an overwhelming percentage to the same articles, largely consisting of repeated small edits in a short span of time, with strong overlap in the articles edited.

The article for Randolph, New Jersey has been edited by all three including 11 times by NABFNJ, 17 occasions by NAB1997 and 40 times by the IP editor. For Morris Township, New Jersey, it's 19 edits by NABFNJ, 26 by NAB1997 and 8 times by the IP. At the article for Mendham Township, New Jersey, it's 23 for NABFNJ, 26 by NAB1997 and 9 times by the IP, while at Mendham Borough, New Jersey it's 16 by NABFNJ, 27 by NAB1997 and another 9 by the IP editor.

Just to pick one article, Morris Township, New Jersey, in more depth, the edit history shows that both NABFNJ (in April 2020) and NAB1997 (just days ago) had material removed by Dianaa as copyright content copied from different pages on the same website.

The overlap in articles edited across two very different domains (New Jersey municipalities and UK rockers who hit it big in the 1970s), the pattern of the way edits are made (many small edits to the same cluster) and the pattern of copyright issues are nearly identical. I would have reported this sooner, but I had assumed that the original editor had been unblocked and had resumed editing, not realizing that the two were different editors because even the names chosen (NABFNJ and NAB1997) were so similar.

It is clear that the original NABFNJ is using the new NAB1997 and the IP address as a means to evade the indefinite block imposed in May.

While the congruence of the two editors and the IP being the same seems obvious to me, the pattern documented here should provide adequate evidence to justify a checkuser. Alansohn (talk) 16:10, 8 October 2020 (UTC)

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Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * I agree that there is a remarkable amount of overlap between these users. NAB1997, IP blocked for six months since it seems remarkably stable. GeneralNotability (talk) 19:43, 9 October 2020 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets
The two editors have a very strong overlap in the articles they both edit. Both editors have the same pattern of making many small edits to articles and a habit of adding the word "upscale" to articles. The two editors share the same two articles -- Morris County, New Jersey and Mountain Lakes, New Jersey -- as the two articles they have edited most, with Smoke Rise (community) as another article that each edited about two dozen times. Please let me know if more specific evidence would be helpful. Alansohn (talk) 12:07, 17 May 2023 (UTC)

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Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * - similarly stable IP with same ISP and geolocation, and similar behavior . Please, block the IP for a while. I would suggest a few months., : If you want to go back to editing, I would suggest trying the Standard offer after a period of inactivity. MarioGom (talk) 22:09, 12 July 2023 (UTC)
 * Blocked IP for 6 months., in the future it would be helpful to provide specific diffs comparing edits by the suspected sockpuppet to ones by previous accounts. Closing. Thanks, Spicy (talk) 23:58, 12 July 2023 (UTC)