Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Nestofbirdnests/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets
reverted an edit made by on 02:48 UTC 14 April 2023. was indeffed for WP:NOTHERE a few seconds later. was created at 03:17 UTC 14 April 2023. Their first edit was to revert the same restored edit, then to post a response to a report about on 's talk page. This seems far too coincidental to be anything other than a case of block evasion by the original editor.  Catfish  Jim  and the soapdish  13:04, 14 April 2023 (UTC)

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Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments
The only edit to an article made by Michael is to Arjuna. It's true that the one edit was exactly the same as the one made by Nest, but I don't think they are the same person. I think that before creating an account, Michael used Special:contributions/68.205.26.246, which is precisely what he says at ANI, and is also why after only one edit by the registered account, I warned him about edit-warring as the IP had made several reverts. In addition, looking at times when Nest posted to Talk pages, their style of writing is completely different from the very long-winded style of Michael. Finally, neither Michael nor the IP use any particular editing platform whereas Nest uses "Mobile edit Mobile app edit Android app edit".--Bbb23 (talk) 13:19, 14 April 2023 (UTC)


 * If is connected to any other editor at Arjuna, it is likely the IP editor who initially removed what is described as a spoiler from the intro of the article (diffs:   ). I reverted the last of these three IP edits .  then went on their destruction spree, reverting a number of my edits, including this one. In my analysis of the situation, Nest's revert was targeted vandalism/wikihounding aimed at any edit I made, regardless of its nature, whereas Michael's edit was at least followed up by a relatively civil comment on my talk page asking about the content in question. I blocked Nest, and I do not see the hallmarks of Nest's edits in Michael's edits, at least not to date. I believe the two accounts are unrelated. —C.Fred (talk) 16:01, 14 April 2023 (UTC)
 * Based on my comments and C.Fred's agreement + additional information, I'm closing this with no action. Bbb23 (talk) 16:04, 14 April 2023 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets
All accounts are interested in languages, especially language isolates and languages in America, and removing claims that a language is a language isolate. Diffs: ,, —*Fehufangą (✉ Talk · ✎ Contribs) 23:57, 18 April 2023 (UTC)

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 * Both socks ✅ to the master; already blocked, but taking over as CU blocks and tagging. Don't see any others.  Girth Summit  (blether)  10:36, 19 April 2023 (UTC)

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Same interest in languages, American languages, and label. —*Fehufangą (✉ Talk · ✎ Contribs) 04:33, 23 April 2023 (UTC)

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 * Also: the persistent harassement of User:Fdom5997. Already WP:NOTHERE-blocked, but still needs to be tagged as an obvious sock. –Austronesier (talk) 09:48, 23 April 2023 (UTC)

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 * - It is already blocked, and looks like a duck, so I have tagged as suspected. Endorsing a check for sleepers. MarioGom (talk) 10:16, 23 April 2023 (UTC)
 * I already ran a check on this account - they're ✅, no sleepers visible.  Girth Summit  (blether)  10:48, 23 April 2023 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets
Removing the language isolate claim again, as with previous socks:, ,. —*Fehufangą (✉ Talk · ✎ Contribs) 14:24, 2 May 2023 (UTC)

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 * ✅, blocked and tagged.  Girth Summit  (blether)  15:18, 2 May 2023 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets
Here's another one quacking.

Again, removing the language isolate status from various articles, as with previous socks.

Also trolling again on 's user talk page: Special:Diff/1153960876. Austronesier (talk) 11:56, 9 May 2023 (UTC)

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 * ✅, also . Blocking and tagging, closing.  Girth Summit  (blether)  14:05, 9 May 2023 (UTC)

24 May 2023
Adding for the record:, blocked. Fut.Perf. ☼ 10:00, 24 May 2023 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets
Housekeeping GeneralNotability (talk) 13:50, 24 May 2023 (UTC)

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 * All of these blocked accounts are ✅ to Nestofbirdnests. Tagged, . GeneralNotability (talk) 13:52, 24 May 2023 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets
Pro forma, mostly for the lock request. --Blablubbs (talk) 22:03, 14 June 2023 (UTC)

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 * ✅, (re-),, closing. --Blablubbs (talk) 22:06, 14 June 2023 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets

 * ( originally filed under this user)

Both of accounts have made same edits by creating draft article for Windows builds, and violate copy right by copy from betawiki. Winbytedemo:, Xpbuild2504: ,  Tetadřvo (talk) 00:27, 12 June 2023 (UTC)

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 * Both accounts have similar usernames and performed the same edits (creating draft articles of builds of Windows). When Xpbuild2504 made an ANI against me, Winbytedemo jumped in an accused me of harassing Xpbuild, and began to defend them. Yitzhak &#124; זה לא יצחק  (talk) 21:22, 12 June 2023 (UTC)
 * OP and the above editor need to be checked too. If in "possible" area, I will proceed to block. Thanks, Lourdes  06:27, 13 June 2023 (UTC)
 * I have blocked the OP after analysing contribution evidence. The above account of Yitzhak needs to be scrutinised. I am ready to block them too on behavioural evidence of a tag team. But will wait for the SPI results. Lourdes  06:32, 13 June 2023 (UTC)
 * Yitzhak is a sock of another master.--Bbb23 (talk) 23:17, 13 June 2023 (UTC)

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 * - It took a while for all this to click. Please move to Sockpuppet investigations/Nestofbirdnests and request a check to confirm all of these accounts and to look for others. Bbb23 (talk) 00:43, 14 June 2023 (UTC)
 * Merged. See the section above for check results. Closing. --Blablubbs (talk) 22:14, 14 June 2023 (UTC)