Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Oldstone James/Archive

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On 18 January, Oldstone James attempted to appeal his creationism topic ban. it quickly became apparent this wasn't likely to succeed, and it was SNOW-closed. NaìuviaAeo was created a day later.

While blocked for different reasons, Oldstone James made this edit on February 24 to his own talk page listing changes he wanted to make to a couple of obscure chess-related article if/when unblocked.

NaìuviaAeo made exactly those edits shortly after Oldstone James received his new topic bans and had his block lifted on March 1.

Oldstone James' violation of his topic ban less than an hour after his block was lifted suggests that he didn't care about burning bridges. This is consistent with switching to a "backup" account to avoid scrutiny.

Both editors' userpages mention fluency in Russian, and both share an apparent interest in linguistics, as well. Grayfell (talk) 01:54, 2 March 2020 (UTC)

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 * Mz7 (talk) 03:15, 2 March 2020 (UTC)
 * ✅ + ., closing. Mz7 (talk) 03:21, 2 March 2020 (UTC)

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Two days after Oldstone James' final edit (their account having been banned for sockpuppetry), Maxipups Mamsipupsovich became active; while their initial edits were inconspicuous, they edited a disparate collection of articles (often unconnected topically) that overlap with those edited by Oldstone James, including List of tallest buildings in Europe, 5G, Samson, Romelu Lukaku, and the Libertarian Free Will subsection of Infinite Regress For the latter subsection, all substantial edits to the section other than Maxipups Mamsipupsovich's edit, save for an edit-war where an IP tried to delete it without explanation, were by Oldstone James. They eventually showed up on Race and Intelligence, the topic-area Oldstone James originally ban-evaded to avoid a topic ban from, making arguments essentially identical to those made by Oldstone James, eg. vs., or  vs ; see especially Maxipups Mamsipupsovich restoring a bit to the lead that Oldstone James added and spent much of his time on the page arguing over ( vs.. --Aquillion (talk) 14:53, 20 June 2021 (UTC) Aquillion (talk) 14:53, 20 June 2021 (UTC)

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 * . Same general geolocation and they have crossed over into the same range, but their user agents are different. This will need a behavioral investigation...  ~Oshwah~  (talk) (contribs)   01:09, 22 June 2021 (UTC)


 * . Behavior seals it., closing. KevinL ( aka L235 · t · c) 23:50, 28 June 2021 (UTC)