Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Ofiretl/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets
Ofiretl's edit history to date has consisted exclusively of working on an unreferenced draft at Draft:Tom Appelbaum, which they have repeatedly tried to add to mainspace categories in defiance of WP:DRAFTNOCAT. After having to remove the page from categories three times between August 25 and September 28, I gave them a polite note on their talk page advising them that draft pages can't be in categories, following which they ignored me and added the page back to categories a fourth time on October 4 — so I gave them a sterner warning advising of the possibility of consequences for disruption if they continued to readd the page back to categories, and they haven't made any further edits to Wikipedia at all since that warning. Then on October 21, Wikidanrubi222 was created as a new account, which first created its own userpage for itself and then immediately made a beeline for the Tom Appelbaum draft to readd it to categories for the fifth time. This is, however, deeply unlikely to be a coincidence: since draftspace pages aren't indexed by Google searches, a genuinely new user is profoundly unlikely to ever find a draftspace page unless they already know it's there by virtue of being a sock or meat puppet of the draft's creator. Bearcat (talk) 14:03, 3 November 2023 (UTC)

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Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * - Please, compare the two.  Vanjagenije  (talk)  22:47, 6 November 2023 (UTC)
 * ✅ Salvio giuliano 22:56, 6 November 2023 (UTC)
 * —&thinsp;JJMC89&thinsp; (T·C) 21:06, 11 November 2023 (UTC)