Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Oreilly90/Archive

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Looks like a bunch of accounts operated by the same person, who's having a bit of "fun" with obscure page moves, article hijacking, and quasi-hoax-creation. Suspected sockmaster User:Oreilly90 is already nothereblocked by :
 * 1) Accounts edit in rugby related articles (see tabulated evidence below).
 * 2) User:Oreilly90 created Paul Whelan (rugby player) on 23 December 2016, and edited the article for the next week until . The user then had no edits at all until their next edit in Paul Whelan (rugby player) on.
 * 3) All suspected sockpuppets made their first edit in Paul Whelan (rugby player).
 * 4) In Paul Whelan (rugby player), as well as in general, they prefer marking edits as minor.
 * 5) Two minutes after User:Oreilly90's last edit in Paul Whelan (rugby player) at, User:Rugbyrugbychange is created 01:29, 31 December 2016.
 * 6) User:Rugbyrugbychange's first edit is in  a few hours later.
 * 7) Long story made shorter: User:Rugbyrugbychange took Paul Whelan (rugby player) to Articles for deletion/Paul Whelan (rugby player), some confusing page moves took place, and the comments made by the two accounts were obscure until User:Oreilly90 posted at AfD and a couple of user talk pages ( and ) that Paul Whelan presumably is real, but the article was a joke.
 * 8) During AfD, User:Oreilly90 posted on  regarding Paul Whelan (rugby player), and User:Rugbyrugbychange droped by an hour later and.

The behavioral evidence is strong, but a CU for sleepers is suggested. — Sam Sailor 11:52, 11 February 2017 (UTC)


 * Notice that User:Rugbyrugbychange logged in and edited this SPI case saying they did not know who User:LaurenLehane was, but that the rest of them were operated by the same group of people alright ban us away lads ahaha. — Sam Sailor 00:40, 17 February 2017 (UTC)

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 * - Please, compare those accounts.  Vanjagenije  (talk)  23:15, 16 February 2017 (UTC)
 * ,, , , , and  are ✅
 * is and   is  to the group above. Courcelles (talk) 20:29, 18 February 2017 (UTC)
 * Accounts blocked and tagged. When listing accounts it's helpful to admins/clerks who use the SPI script if you list the accounts inside the Checkuser template. Closing. Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 07:46, 21 February 2017 (UTC)