Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Praguegirl/Archive

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Praguegirl made ten edits in May 2015, all related to nominating United States and state-sponsored terrorism for deletion. They didn't use twinkle, and needed a large number of edits to do this. Their deletion rationale: "WP:REDUNDANT and WP:POVFORK already fully covered in United States and state terrorism and also in even minor points are covered inCovert United States foreign regime change actions".

Nervegolgi has made 17 edits since last October. All have been related to three AfDs: the count is again inflated by the absence of twinkle usage. Today they nominated United States and state-sponsored terrorism for deletion: the first sentence of their rationale was "Delete Clearly flunks WP:POVFORK already completely covered in United States and state terrorism and also WP:REDUNDANT."

Obvious socking is obvious: requesting a CU to check for sleepers and/or logged out editing (yes, I know IPs cannot be linked to the account via a CU). Vanamonde (talk) 15:58, 6 November 2018 (UTC)


 * I wonder if you'd do me a favor and take a look at this; while this awaits behavioral investigation, Nervegolgi continues to post misleading walls of text at AfD, is is likely editing logged out, too. Vanamonde (talk) 20:43, 17 November 2018 (UTC)
 * Well, since you ask, Vanamonde., created 7 October 2017, is surely somebody's sock. A genuine newbie will hardly make a beeline for AfD and nominate two articles for deletion, especially not without the benefit of Twinkle, and do nothing else.


 * Nervegolgi repeats some of the same things Praguegirl said in 2015, such as
 * Praguegirl: "Supporting a coup or regime change is not terrorism per WP:TERRORIST"
 * Nervegolgi: "Further supporting a Coup is not Terrorism 99% of the sources the coup was do not say it is Terrorism." (Despite the incoherent grammar, I take this to be the same claim as Praguegirl's.)


 * The two accounts are both SPA's, with an exclusive interest in deletion nominations, specifically in nominating United States and state-sponsored terrorism for deletion. Neither uses Twinkle. There are thus many "tells", but still not of such a specific nature that I, personally, feel sure they are the same. speaking not as a CU since the master is stale, could you perhaps give us the benefit of your experience and intuition? Bishonen &#124; talk 01:30, 18 November 2018 (UTC).


 * Hmm. Well, I disagree with Bbb23's assessment, especially given the extreme similarities of their opening statement and the nature of their complaints since, but it's not worth an argument. Thanks for taking a look,, I do appreciate it. Vanamonde (talk) 05:49, 18 November 2018 (UTC)

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Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments
The alleged master is. CU declined.--Bbb23 (talk) 16:05, 6 November 2018 (UTC)
 * I think there's insufficient evidence to block the user.--Bbb23 (talk) 01:52, 18 November 2018 (UTC)

, I too disagree with 's assessment, and think Nervegolgi should be blocked as an obvious sockpuppet of someone here to cause trouble. Courcelles (talk) 20:08, 29 November 2018 (UTC)
 * Going ahead and closing this as Courcelles has blocked one of the accounts and the other is stale. TonyBallioni (talk) 03:22, 21 December 2018 (UTC)