Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Royston215/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets



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Someone has been edit warring/ reverting edits of a living person, Royston Smith, such as claiming that Harefield is wealthy, calling Smith the laziest MP, with no reliable support for those claims. It appears to be someone hostile to the living person, and I decide to report here due to Smith's personal address being disclosed in the previous edit, which is seriously harmful to the living individual. For example, From the edit history, you are able to see that these accounts continuously put in 'wealthy' to describe Harefield in Southampton, UK, (Revision as of 21:38, 19 October 2019; Revision as of 22:10, 25 November 2019; Revision as of 08:40, 14 June 2020) over a long period of time. I have not done this before so please do let me know if I can explain better. Thank you. NoahJThomas (talk) 14:57, 17 June 2020 (UTC)

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 * - CheckUser evidence cannot be used to connect IP's to registered accounts. Sir Sputnik (talk) 23:41, 17 June 2020 (UTC)
 * In this case it looks like the user Royston215 is clearly the same as the user editing the IP 81.154.97.63 (the other IPs have not edited in a long time and therefore do not require any action). At the moment, I don't think any violation of the sock puppetry policy has occurred—the user simply created an account in the middle of their editing the Royston Smith article. Since it looks like neither the account nor the IP address have edited in about a week, I've simply left warning templates for both the account and the IP, asking them to remain logged in for all future editing and to cite sources. Closing with no further action. Mz7 (talk) 17:19, 20 June 2020 (UTC)
 * I've moved this case from "81.154.97.63" to "Royston215". Although it is true that the IP address edited first, it is easier to keep track of the case when it's filed under the registered account's name. Mz7 (talk) 17:22, 20 June 2020 (UTC)