Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Pinzunski/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets
On October 16, 2023, I blocked Pinzunski as a sock of based on behavior. Subsequent discussions indicated that Pinzunski was unrelated to Martimc123. However, in the meantime, Pinzunski began evading their block with various IPs (the ones I know about are listed above). Worse, the user was making legal threats with the IPs. A few were blocked for the evasion and the legal threats. Eventually, Pinzunski retracted the legal threats and supposedly disclosed all the IPs they'd used.

In addition, Pinzunski created two named accounts, blocked by, although they made no edits with those accounts before the accounts were blocked. Note that both of these accounts were created before I blocked the master, Bloxorz12 a week before, and Sewy12 several hours before.

On their Talk page, Pinzunski has been insistent that they be unblocked because they have retracted the legal threats and because the block was erroneous. However, when asked by another admin if I would consider unblocking, I opposed an unblock, partly because of their post-block behavior, but also because I thought they had been violating WP:LOUTSOCK before their block, and it was clear that thought the same. See Yamla's comments on the user's Talk page, but, more important, see User talk:Yamla. It is based on that discussion that I am filing this report and partly to create a record going forward.

After I create this report, I will tag the master and the two blocked socks. I have not decided whether to revoke TPA of the master, and I'm interested to hear what others think on that subject. Bbb23 (talk) 16:01, 13 November 2023 (UTC)

Comments by other users

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 * I've tagged the named accounts. Bbb23 (talk) 16:02, 13 November 2023 (UTC)
 * Copying my comments from my talk page, with only trivial edits:
 * Pinzunski disclosed 3 IP addresses and assured us this list was complete. I believe they've subsequently admitted the list is not complete. As to IP used specifically for WP:LOUTSOCK, this list is less than half the IP addresses they've used. There's also ✅ socks, and, albeit with no edits. See also this edit, which Pinzunski subsequently took ownership for; that IP address is not one of the ones they list. To be as clear as I'm permitted, there's unambiguously been WP:LOUTSOCK much in excess of the set of three IP addresses provided by that user, prior to the block on the account, and a very small number of edits made after the block on the account. Additionally, the technical data strongly indicates WP:LOUTSOCK was not accidental, prior to the block. --Yamla (talk) 21:04, 13 November 2023 (UTC)


 * In my view, the only issue that remained here was whether to revoke TPA of the master. Pinzunski has been quiet lately on their Talk page, so I see no need to revoke TPA now, although it may become necessary later. Closing. Bbb23 (talk) 13:58, 15 November 2023 (UTC)