Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Rock HBRF/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets
I was reviewing this report at WP:AN3 and noticed that, in addition to the reported brand new user, FlameZ24X, the other two users were involved in the same war with identical edits to British Rail Class 59. It seems an unlikely coincidence. The master kind of came out of the woodwork to edit the article, as did LordChrisW, who's made only two edits, one back in July and the one to the article now. I'm requesting CU to confirm. Bbb23 (talk) 22:32, 20 December 2023 (UTC)

Comments by other users

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Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments
Since filing this report, has blocked all three users for sock/meat puppetry...without tags.--Bbb23 (talk) 23:09, 20 December 2023 (UTC)


 * Oh, I hadn't seen the report, thank you for filing this. A checkuser would be welcome, but the behavior and edit summaries are so similar that I didn't perceive it as a necessity. The "tagging" is currently only in the block reason, and my decision to indefinitely block the master account as well was made after blocking the socks. It has been strongly influenced by their behavior towards other users. ~ ToBeFree (talk) 23:14, 20 December 2023 (UTC)


 * - This looks more like a group of coordinated editors then a single person. Can this be checked anyway? They are posting unblock requests, so it would be useful to know the exact situation.  Vanjagenije  (talk)  23:28, 20 December 2023 (UTC)
 * CU likely won't be too helpful here but my assessment is that it's either one person who knows what they're doing or multiple people all in the same country. Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 00:40, 21 December 2023 (UTC)
 * Thank you – I have now accepted 's unblock request because it convincingly explains a possible source of meatpuppetry they didn't intend to happen in this way. I have also accepted 's unblock request because it contains an apology and the page is semi-protected anyway. I would oppose unblocking and have adjusted their block summary to the reason they remain blocked. Closing. ~ ToBeFree (talk) 01:00, 21 December 2023 (UTC)