Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/PPPSUDO/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets
These four accounts have popped up to ask stupid questions on the talk page of User:Ixtal. Do they all have the same waterbird feathers? Robert McClenon (talk) 22:32, 20 July 2023 (UTC)

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 * Commenting briefly here without being involved as I'm far too busy irl to get into the thick of things, but the question section headings are formatted like those I've gotten from mentees. I'll check now to see if I'm their mentor.— Ixtal ( T / C ) &#8258; Non nobis solum. 18:51, 21 July 2023 (UTC)
 * Indeed, I am their mentor, and . That might explain the connection between the users, but it is possible if the questions themselves are suspicions that they are puppets of separate networks. Unlikely in my eyes but I am not familiar w/SPI flags. — Ixtal ( T / C ) &#8258; Non nobis solum. 18:54, 21 July 2023 (UTC)

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 * OK, so this is weird. These four accounts all geolocate to different countries, and don't appear to be connected in any way. looks a lot like a bunch of socks from the Sockpuppet investigations/Ishola0 case - they're using the same ranges, but they're very busy ranges so it could be someone else, and I'm not inclined to block unless they start being disruptive.  probably requires further scrutiny - it looks like either it's part of a sockfarm/UPE ring, there are a lot of accounts editing about the same sorts of stuff on a small number of IPs. I may create a separate case to investigate that. The other two accounts look innocuous enough. I don't know why they're all rocking up at 's talk page - she's listed as a tearoom host, but she's a long way down the list. Perhaps there's some online forum somewhere saying that she's unusually helpful? I'm inclined to close this case without further action for now - Ixtal, if this prersists and becomes a problem, you can request semi-protection of your talk page (although, if you are active as a Tearoom host, that may not be desirable).  Girth Summit  (blether)  10:58, 21 July 2023 (UTC)