Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Npinguy/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets



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Actually the ip is a placeholder in this investigation for he's been using that to post edits (see 1, 2) on List of spaceflight records that are continued on his main account. What's really suspicious is his main account is thawed after 13 years of inactivity which can be a typical sign of compromised accounts that would be used for vandalism (i.e. the Trump Dick Pics incident involving even an admin account!) or simply tilting the balance off the neutrality in usual cases. Speaking of pertinency to a lesser extent a couple of months before his edits on the page there was a Canadian IP pushing through a somewhat similar agenda (1, 2) which may indicate a possible tag-team/meatpuppet activity.

Npinguy has indirectly admitted that he is using this online venue as a way to push through his political views (emphasis quote "American Insecurity about their Exceptionalism"). So just to be safe requesting a quick preliminary check on him/her to uncover anything shady if it's indeed the case; in fact I had first asked for private check on the Wikipedian IRC instead of here due to WP:DNFTT (do not feed the trolls) but was convinced otherwise instead so here we goes. 202.190.130.169 (talk) 07:48, 28 January 2019 (UTC)

Comments by other users
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 * Checkusers won't connect a user to their IP address publicly. --DannyS712 (talk) 08:03, 28 January 2019 (UTC)
 * Yeah but what if he have stolen other accounts which we hadn't known of? 202.190.130.169 (talk) 08:12, 28 January 2019 (UTC)

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments
Even assuming the IP belongs to Npinguy, there's insufficient disruption here to do anything. Closing.--Bbb23 (talk) 13:51, 28 January 2019 (UTC)