Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Prim96/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets

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LJstats was indeffed by User:NinjaRobotPirate on 15 September 2022 with the main focus being contentious material added to Average human height by country. On the same day and as a follow-up, User:salvio giuliano protected the page and it status remains the case. With the following days, one German-based anonymous account edited the talk page and admitted being "blocked". Hereinafter, a trail of crumbs led to other articles such as (but not limited to) Template:World Championships in Athletics medalists in women's heptathlon, and the emerging pattern was also picked up by User:Ohnoitsjamie such as here. In the last days, I made changes to Average human height by country per the earlier talk, and there it seems was User:BundesligaRef quick to make multiple edits on a section that LJstats sought hand over fist to include (getting blocked for edit-warring). The name has a German connection and so does his user page. Meanwhile, a stockpile of edits from BundeslifaRef at Template:World Championships in Athletics medalists in women's heptathlon would covertly restore the article to a sockpuppet-altered revision, which I reverted for playing the proxy here. Then lo and behold, User:ThePenultimateStep interjects himself with an identical user page to BundesligaRef and no strikingly obvious LEGITSOCK tag at either userpage. I could be wrong, but I have a sneaky feeling that one person is editing when he ought not to be. For the record, I have no objections to the edits themselves, but only to the fact that this person is evading the block. --Coldtrack (talk) 21:59, 20 November 2022 (UTC)

Comments by other users
As a result of an edit war, my account was blocked. Account creation was blocked for a period of time. After this period expired, I created a new account, which was also blocked for similar reason. Said edit war against User:Coldtrack is all about a study that was published in the Lancet. This table has now been included following a broad consensus. User:Coldtrack was also warned for edit-warring by User:Ohnoitsjamie. What all this has to do with sock puppetry is a big mystery to me. I have not impersonated another user, nor have I been prohibited from creating an account. For a better understanding, here is the talk page of said article.PenultimateStep (talk) 16:11, 22 November 2022 (UTC)
 * Please read WP:BLOCKEVASION. You are indeed prohibited from creating an account when your original account is blocked. OhNo itsJamie Talk 16:17, 22 November 2022 (UTC)

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * . Sir Sputnik (talk) 00:01, 21 November 2022 (UTC)