Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/PicturePerfect666/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets
PicturePerfect666 was 48-hour site blocked for edit warring on the Eurovision 2024 page and for personal attacks. While blocked, they brought up repeatedly on their user talk page that they had issue with another user (who was uninvolved in the edit war) reinstating particular sections they (PicturePerfect666) had previously deleted during the edit war.

A few hours after the siteblock ended, a new user (The Satanator) signs up at 01:42, and posts a talk topic ("Revert needed") on the Eurovision 2024 page at 01:47 with knowledge and opinion of that edit war, also asking for that particular change to be reverted. The account was literally 5 minutes old and had issue with the procedure of a specific edit war from 3 days prior, with apparently a very precise interpretation about what should or shouldn't be allowed in these circumstances.

The account then immediately retires (a process new users aren't normally aware of) a minute later at 01:48 with no other edits, without waiting for a reply, a total of 6 minutes after signing up.

Based on the edit logs and related talk page section, no other users appeared to have issue with the particular Eurovision 2024 section in question other than PicturePerfect666 and The Satanator.

Behaviour of The Satanator looks like a sock puppet to me. It's also worth noting that both accounts have similar motifs to their names ('666' and 'Satan'), and neither have set up their user pages.

(Note I've already mentioned this suspicion to Acroterion on their userpage because they were the administrator involved in the initial blocking of PicturePerfect666 and related actions, so I thought it was pertinent.) BugGhost  🎤  10:12, 21 May 2024 (UTC)

Comments by other users

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 * - There's not enough here to take action without technical confirmation. Bbb23 (talk) 12:55, 21 May 2024 (UTC)
 * ❌, but The Satanator has a lot in common technically with Sockpuppet investigations/PaulGamerBoy360. . Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 16:08, 21 May 2024 (UTC)
 * I see zero behavioral similarities. Closing with no action. Bbb23 (talk) 16:38, 21 May 2024 (UTC)