Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Quisqualis/Archive

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The suspected sockmaster appears to be editing from their IP to disassociate vandalism from their registered account. After I reported the IP editor at WP:AIV for vandalism (e.g., , , etc.), the registerd account Quisqualis left a message on my Talk page apparently indicating they were the IP editor: "why are you reporting me rather than just issuing a block yourself". As this was the only AIV report I'd made in at least a week, Quisqualis could only have been referring to 81.100.37.20 when they said "me." I believe they may have accidentally forgot to sign-out of the Quisqualis account before leaving the message. Chetsford (talk) 21:35, 31 December 2020 (UTC)

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 * You might have noticed that I originally left that comment under the AIV report, which Quisqualis removed as a "talk page comment" and then reposted it to your talk page, apparently just copying and pasting it from the AIV page source. If Quisqualis and I were the same person, how come that edit was attributed to Quisqualis in the page history but the IP (me) on the page itself, as it displays my signature? You're not doing very well tonight, are you? Forget competence, this edit, and the accompanying summary, don't exactly demonstrate the level of maturity expected of admins. 81.100.37.20 (talk) 21:51, 31 December 2020 (UTC)
 * I appear to have stepped into a cow pie with hornets in it, all in attempting to move an ill-placed Talk-type comment from the AIV input box. Having succeeded in making myself a socking suspect, I also may have broken the input box. Still waiting to report my edit-warring vandal...--Quisqualis (talk) 23:31, 31 December 2020 (UTC)
 * Note to closing admin: Quisqualis offered a probable explanation to what seemed an improbable sequence of events on my Talk page. I no longer think they are a sock of 81.100.37.20 and hope this is closed without action. Chetsford (talk) 00:13, 1 January 2021 (UTC)

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * Checkuser cannot be run in order to determine if an account is from an IP address. It can only be used to establish if two or more accounts are associated with one another. Declining CU; this will need a behavioral investigation...  ~Oshwah~  (talk) (contribs)   22:13, 31 December 2020 (UTC)
 * Oshwah - sorry, I was multitasking and dumbly changed the checkuser parameter from no to yes. In any case, I think the above comment by Quisqualis is a probable explanation for an improbable series of events and I'd like to withdraw this request for an SPI. Chetsford (talk) 23:37, 31 December 2020 (UTC)
 * Chetsford - No worries! I figured that was what happened... No big deal. ;-)  ~Oshwah~  (talk) (contribs)   23:40, 31 December 2020 (UTC)


 * Report withdrawn, closing Girth Summit  (blether)  17:34, 18 January 2021 (UTC)