Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Powerful Blue/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets
This is not a slam-dunk, and so requires technical comparison. However, the currently active account are mostly editing in the area of voice competition shows, and has been creating inadequately sourced articles. The blocked account and this account both created Britain's Got Talent (series 16). When the blocked account, Powerful Blue, was blocked, the blocking administrator, User:JBW, said that they were a long-term block evader. They didn't say who they had previously been, but, if so, they may both be socks of the same LTA. Robert McClenon (talk) 00:31, 16 April 2023 (UTC)
 * I should probably try to get out of the habit of saying that someone is evading blocks without saying what blocks, as it can sometimes be very unhelpful. However, checking editing histories, it looks as though I was referring to the IP block you can see at Special:Contributions/207.237.46.109. JBW (talk) 08:29, 17 April 2023 (UTC)
 * The version of the article created by Fanmade1023 is now at Draft:Britain's Got Talent (series 16). JBW (talk) 08:40, 17 April 2023 (UTC)

Comments by other users

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Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * A very quick check suggests to me that these are two different people, based on a few things such as very different patterns of editing times. However, I don't have time now to check more thoroughly, and I am unwilling to make a definite decision on the basis of such minimal investigation. JBW (talk) 08:46, 17 April 2023 (UTC)
 * I've had a look at this too, and I would say . There isn't a lot left in the cu database about Powerful Blue, but I can see an IP they've used; most of Fanmade1023's editing looks like it's coming from a different continent, but then there is a series of edits made from a single IP, which they often revisit, and which geolocates to the same place as Powerful Blue's IP. I don't think they're travelling. If a behavioural connection is made, let me know because there is a zero-edit account that is pretty much confirmed to Fanmade1023 and which will also need to be blocked.   Girth Summit  (blether)  08:56, 17 April 2023 (UTC)


 * I have had another look at the behavioural evidence. There are various similarities, such as similar editing interests, and never responding to talk pages messages (unless you count this). However, none of the similarities is anything which couldn't just be two people with similar interests and pesonalities, and there are also several differences, the most srtikking one (to me) being extremely different times of editing. (By contrast, Powerful Blue & 207.237.46.109, who I am sure are the same person, have strikingly similar patterns of editing times.) There is also the fact that, as far as I can see, there is no motive for using a sockpuppet account: I don't see any abuse, such as using the two accounts to jointly edit-war, and both accounts were in use long before the block, so the second one wasn't created to evade the block. On balance, I find the differences between the two accounts more compelling than the similarities, so I am fairly confident think that Fanmade1023 is not a sockpuppet of Powerful Blue. JBW (talk) 20:02, 19 April 2023 (UTC)