Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Ratherbe2000/Archive

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Ratherbe2000 voted keep at Articles for deletion/Stacy Layne Matthews (an article they created). The first edit made by Mister saxobeatasap was to vote keep, stating they were siding with Ratherbe2000 and giving a rationale similar to not only Ratherbe2000's vote in that AfD but also similar to multiple AfD votes and comments by them. Note also the use of "more than 1" instead of "more than one". Mister saxobeatasap's second edit was this message on Ratherbe2000's talk page, say they "really do want to help" them. I suspect this is meatpuppetry if it's not sockpuppetry. Linguist111 my talk page 20:20, 17 December 2018 (UTC)

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✅, blocked, tagged, closing.--Bbb23 (talk) 20:49, 17 December 2018 (UTC)

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The first account was created soon after Ratherbe2000 was blocked indefinitely for sockpuppetry, and their only edit was to vote keep at the same AfD the sockmaster socked at with an WP:ASSERTN-violating argument, similar to those that are typical of the sockmaster The second account also gave an ASSERTN-violating argument at the same AfD; aside from two edits at the AfD subject, this was their only edit after over two years of inactivity. The third account just made a non-policy-based keep vote at the same AfD after nearly six months of inactivity. Linguist111 my talk page 03:08, 18 December 2018 (UTC)
 * Added an IP whose only edit was to vote keep in the same discussion . Linguist111 my talk page 03:22, 18 December 2018 (UTC)
 * Added another user whose only contribution is this keep vote. Linguist111 my talk page 05:00, 18 December 2018 (UTC)

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This accusation was based on the article for deletion page for Stacy Layne Matthews and is in bad faith. An editor making a fake case for an "attack" or to prevent their own editing being examined. When my IP is checked, hopefully this discussion can move forward on to the more concerning issue that this article is considered for deletion on grounds of censorship and discrimination. Joeylevn (talk)

Not a sockpuppet. I'm a brazilian user who is more active at Wikipidia em Português, as it can be seen here. All I did was to revert vandalism made by this IP and contribute in the discussion about the relevance of the page. After all this brigading against those who are editing and discussing, Im feeling that the investigation and the deleting proceedings are not being impersonal.Simonecv (talk) 13:39, 18 December 2018 (UTC)

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This appears to be a group of unrelated users who have been attracted by somewhere off-wiki. However, because of these editors, who know little if anything about Wikipedia guidelines and some of whom are blatantly vicious, I have semi-protected the AfD for one week. Closing.--Bbb23 (talk) 14:01, 18 December 2018 (UTC)

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This user made redirects into articles with edit summaries along the lines of "I think this person is notable because of their social media followers/media appearances/connections" (compare with sockmaster edits. They also voted keep in an AfD for one of the articles they created with an WP:ASSERTN argument citing social media followers (compare with ). Also note the "2000" in both usernames. Linguist111 my talk page 17:53, 26 March 2019 (UTC)

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 * The master and socks are but the behavioural overlap is obvious. Blocked and tagged.--  Jezebel's Ponyo bons mots 18:09, 26 March 2019 (UTC)