Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Political Expert 47/Archive

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At first I thought this HAD to be a provocative imposter because 47's edits so clearly seemed to be aimed at pure disruption after 4747's run. However, both accounts are roughly one year old, created 2 minutes apart.

4747 had quite the run of "not hearing", discussed extensively on their talk page, starting at the beginning of August 2018. They seemed to suddenly have seen the light yesterday, based on their comment at User_talk:Political_Expert_47_47. Then the sleeper account, 47, arrived, seemingly oblivious to the situation. Other than the age of the accounts, I'd have guessed it was a vandal impersonating 4747.

Given that 47 is a sleeper account that lay dormant for almost one year (save one edit in April), I was curious if there might be more. This comment, however, seems to indicate there has been some previous history with this editor. (A little light digging in the appropriate places, however, didn't turn up anything.) Thus, I'm asking for a CU to sweep for other sleepers. Sum mer PhD v2.0 20:54, 11 August 2018 (UTC)

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✅. No other accounts seen. Blocked, tagged, closing.--Bbb23 (talk) 22:07, 11 August 2018 (UTC)