Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Pegasus378/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets
One account is named 'Hercules', which is the Greek god, and the other 'Pegasus', which is the Greek horse of Hercules.. at least in the cartoon. Both edit in mainly Afghan/Pashtun-related articles, and both tried to remove more or less the same info in Pashtuns. Pegasus378 made the edit not long after Hercules298 got blocked, this can't be a coincidence. HistoryofIran (talk) 23:35, 24 March 2022 (UTC)

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I’m afraid it is a coincidence. I was flabbergasted by the amount of Pashtuns that were in Pakistan when I was scrolling through the Pashtun Wikipedia page. I decided to check the sources and I found out that the figure given for the amount of Pashtuns in Pakistan was incorrect and I rectified said figure. Upon rectifying said figure, I was baffled at the figure given for the number of Pashtuns that were in India. I came to the conclusion that most of these people had Pashtun ancestors and were not actual Pashtuns. As for the other user, I have no affiliation with him and nor did I know of him, until now. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Pegasus378 (talk • contribs)

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * - the behavioural evidence is convincing; endorsing because they appear to have been running two accounts concurrently for some time, and it's reasonable to suspect there might be others. Thanks, Spicy (talk) 23:54, 24 March 2022 (UTC)
 * - -- RoySmith (talk) 00:08, 25 March 2022 (UTC)
 * The username connection notwithstanding, the CU data says these two accounts are ❌. The users have consistent geolocations, on different continents, with no real indication of proxies. -- RoySmith (talk) 00:19, 25 March 2022 (UTC)
 * Well, colour me surprised, but based on the description above the technical results seem sound. I can't rule out off-wiki collaboration (which would be improper), but I'm not confident enough to definitively say that that is what is going on either, so for now I will WP:AGF and close this without action based on the CU results. Thanks, Spicy (talk) 03:06, 25 March 2022 (UTC)