Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Rsfinlayson/Archive

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Strong overlap in very narrow interests. Rsfinlayson was active from April 2016 onwards and since then, he was the main voice against proposals to introduce macrons to New Zealand English. In the great macron debate of 2018, Rsfinlayson made several dozen edits out of a total of just short of 200 editor contributions. His stance was so strong that The New Zealand Herald interviewed him (note that posting a link to this article is not outing, as though it uses his real name, he himself used his real name in his WP signature line). In January 2020, I posted an RfC to resolve New Zealand naming conventions and despite numerous pings, approaches via social media, etc, Rsfinlayson did not contribute to the debate. Everyone I've talked to thought this was very odd and out of line with previous editing behaviour. His last edit was four days prior to me posting the RfC.

That said, there is one account that displays the same obsession with macrons and related areas (e.g. dual naming conventions). Rangatira80 has been editing since May 2019 (i.e. there an overlap of the active editing period with Rsfinlayson). Rangatira80 was one of the few Kiwi editors who voted 'against' in the 2020 RfC and made five edits. The Interaction Timeline shows quite an overlap in interest and both accounts have the (obscure) kickboxer Israel Adesanya as their top edited article (45 edits by Rsfinlayson and 12 edits by Rangatira80).

There's one other account that I'm keeping an eye on but as yet, there isn't enough evidence to link it to this case.  Schwede 66  23:55, 20 July 2020 (UTC)  Schwede  66  23:55, 20 July 2020 (UTC)

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 * - The alleged sock master is . Salvio 06:48, 21 July 2020 (UTC)
 * What's the other account you're thinking of? Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 10:06, 1 August 2020 (UTC)
 * Ah, sorry. Looked at the ping the other day and put it aside; then forgot all about it. I've emailed you for more context. I haven't included the third user in this as the behavioural evidence is not very strong.  Schwede 66  20:07, 3 August 2020 (UTC)
 * As there was another account in the mix (albeit with limited behavioural evidence) and some data left over for Rsfinlayson I decided to run a check. Rangatira80 is ✅ to . These two account are to Rsfinlayson (which is the best I'd be able to do with technical data). Given this I've blocked both accounts as socks of Rsfinlayson. Closing.
 * Thanks. Not sure whether I'm still allowed to comment or place a query. But do I understand this right that you've determined that Rsfinlayson is the sockmaster yet that account has not been blocked? I'm not questioning judgement or anything, but want to understand how this works. If it's more appropriate to have this follow up elsewhere, let's take it elsewhere.  Schwede 66  08:42, 4 August 2020 (UTC)
 * Done now. I forgot to do the separate timed block. Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 12:03, 4 August 2020 (UTC)