Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Nono64/Archive

02 March 2014

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Nono64 was blocked for 2 weeks on 22 Sept 2011 (with account creation blocked) - . This followed many talk page complaints and at least one ANI. Nono64's last edit was on 1st Nov 2011.

User:NotWith started editing on 6th October 2011 - just after Nono64's block expired. One of the first of NotWith's edits concerns Nono64. The two accounts have very similar talk page archives (format of the archiving and types of complaint they have received) -. The contributions of both accounts look like an attempt to rack up as many edits as possible regardless of whether the edits are helpful and neither account responds to complaints/queries from other editors.

I asked NotWith to disclose any alternative accounts and they didn't respond - just carried on editing (mostly adding articles to a category tree that is already at CFD).

This use of two accounts appears to be an (inept) attempt to avoid WP:SCRUTINY. DexDor (talk) 16:51, 2 March 2014 (UTC)

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''Accused parties may also comment/discuss in this section below. See Defending yourself against claims.'' If they are the same person (and it has been suggested before at User talk:Stemonitis/Archive37) there may have been an attempt to avoid scrutiny in the past (although it could have just been a change of username) but NotWith has been editing for more than two years now. Unless there are any restrictions on Nono64 a sockpuppet investigation is probably unnecessary. If NotWith is editing disruptively that is an issue separate from any sockpuppetry that may have occurred years ago, so I suggest dealing with it separately and closing this investigation. Peter&#160;James (talk) 20:18, 3 March 2014 (UTC)

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments
This seems okay per WP:CLEANSTART. Not perfect, but there is no editing overlap between the two accounts aside from a few edits by Nono64 to archive the user talk page. It looks like an attempt to shed a block log, but NotWith has kept a clean block log for more than 3 years. Honestly, except for connecting the two editors explicitly (such as redirecting Nono64's user page to NotWith or something along those lines) I don't see any actions that we really could take, since no policies are being violated. And I don't think that any actions are necessary here. As Peter James said above, any new disruption should be dealt with separately. --  At am a  頭 22:12, 3 March 2014 (UTC)