Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Rane43/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets

 * ( original case name)

Similar username, same edit after Reese blocked, similar commentary about the content. I'm not quite ready to duck block after two edits without a bit more connection. Thanks. ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 13:17, 15 September 2023 (UTC)

Some IPs
Based on comments in this archived thread, these IPs are pretty obviously Rane43. (Note they were all blocked by User:Materialscientist):

In that thread, Rane43 specifically denies that the IPs are them: "Nope, none of these users are me. Rane43 is my only account. We are all just genuine people who are trying to make Trump’s page better. Rane43 (talk) 14:03, 18 June 2023 (UTC)"

This link shows blatantly partisan edits to several other pages (so this isn't just about Trump), whitewashing (especially removal of "false" and large swaths of content they don't like), a partisan mission ("fixed bias"), vandalism of a private user subpage, attacks on RS (they are clueless about what constitutes a RS and call mainstream sources "fake news"), and a personal attack on User:Space4Time3Continuum2x:

Valjean (talk) ( PING me ) 16:00, 16 September 2023 (UTC)

Comments by other users

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Is there CU evidence tying Rane43 to the others? I don't see any type of relationship, not even duck. -- Valjean (talk) ( PING me ) 18:32, 15 September 2023 (UTC)

OK, here is duck evidence, but is there also CU evidence? -- Valjean (talk) ( PING me ) 18:38, 15 September 2023 (UTC)


 * Yeah, it's confirmed. ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 19:00, 15 September 2023 (UTC)
 * Good. -- Valjean (talk) ( PING me ) 19:59, 15 September 2023 (UTC)

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * Noting my findings for ease first - the following are ✅: firefly  ( t · c ) 16:09, 15 September 2023 (UTC)
 * Moved to oldest account, and will block the lot - this looks very very much like abuse of multiple accounts to evade scrutiny and/or a good hand/bad hand situation with the "sucks" account. Closing. firefly  ( t · c ) 16:13, 15 September 2023 (UTC)
 * On second thought, marking all these as CheckUser blocks. firefly  ( t · c ) 16:15, 15 September 2023 (UTC)