Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Nihonjimu/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets

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I believe these are all socks of User:BeccaTrans. The article overlap between BeccaTrans, Orange Miike (a username violation, of course: howdy, ), and Nihonjimu (a variation on User:Nihonjoe) all edited Dai Gohonzon and related articles. Nihonjimu cares for Tina Turner, and that is the link with the other two account. These are all CU confirmed with each other, though not with BeccaTrans. An IP was mentioned by on Nihonjimu's talk page, but I have no comment on that. Also, season's greetings to User:Ian.thomson. Drmies (talk) 22:46, 24 December 2020 (UTC)

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 * I'm not so sure that these are BeccaTrans; I see the same overlap as you at Tina Turner, but Becca rarely uses edit summaries and basically never uses the minor edit box, while the four suspected socks almost always use edit summaries and mark almost everything as minor (even things that have no business being minor). Additionally, some of this group's edits at Ushitora_Gongyo run directly counter to Becca; for example, Special:Diff/964287910 removes several sources originally added by Becca. I'm inclined to split this into a new case under Nihonjimu - that good with you, ? GeneralNotability (talk) 17:23, 28 December 2020 (UTC)
 * GeneralNotability, that is fine with me. I am also not completely sure, and I asked for input/advice on the CU list but received none--the technical evidence points this way, the accounts are not good-faith accounts, and something had to be done. There's no archived CU info on BT, as far as I know, and I don't keep a record--but I'm wondering what thinks of all this. As you indicate, we're in behavioral territory. BTW I do take serious offense to the username trolling and I am surprised all this went under the radar for so long. Drmies (talk) 17:32, 28 December 2020 (UTC)
 * As I said in the email, I hadn't time to fully investigate for a diff-based case, but saw that Orange_Miike was a bad faith account and looked for whatever blocked non-sockpuppet account had a similar level of activity. No objections to splitting the investigation.  Happy Holidays, y'all.  Ian.thomson (talk) 22:29, 28 December 2020 (UTC)
 * Moved to oldest confirmed per discussion above, tagged, closing. Happy holidays y'all. GeneralNotability (talk) 22:44, 28 December 2020 (UTC)
 * , It's not clear from reading the above if BeccaTrans should be tagged as a Nihonjumi sock or not. Also, perhaps I have an over-active imagination, but if we're doing username trolling, maybe also Nihonjumi -> Nihonjoe, and Floridaniceone -> FloridaArmy ??? -- RoySmith (talk) 00:51, 29 December 2020 (UTC)
 * , sorry, should have made that clear - I do not believe BeccaTrans is related to this group and have intentionally not tagged them. I think you're right about Nihonjumi -> Nihonjoe, not so sure about the Florida pair. GeneralNotability (talk) 00:53, 29 December 2020 (UTC)