Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Ryancoke1978/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets



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The blocked accounts above were caught by last year, who allowed Ryancoke2020 to continue editing. The talk page explanations offered by Ryancoke2020 are really fishy; the unblock can be seen by scrolling to the green unblock request here...if you have a lot of time.

All of these accounts are only interested in Draft:Tomos Roberts.

I'm requesting checkuser on Ryancoke2020 to see if they are sharing their account, since:
 * 1) . Ryancoke2020 has created only the 65K (!) Draft:Tomos Roberts over the past six months,
 * 2) . Ryancoke2020 has socked in the past,
 * 3) . Ryancoke2020 has the Global IP Block exempt setting,
 * 4) . According to Xtools the account is, on average, basically used around the clock most days of the week. (For comparison here is my timechart,which shows sleep!)
 * 5) . I asked them directly about COI today on their talk page and they said there was absolutely none. However if one looks at their talk history, they say they have been in touch with the article subject's agent, and there also appears to have been coordination for uploading pictures. Possibly (talk) 09:08, 14 January 2021 (UTC)
 * , just to confirm, do you mean that there is not enough data in the logs to check for shared use of Ryancoke2020? They had already admitted earlier to socking with the blocked accounts.  Possibly (talk) 20:19, 14 January 2021 (UTC)
 * Possibly - Correct. Shared use of the same account isn't easy to confirm or conclude unless there's sure behavioral evidence behind it. Users who use VPNs and go through their proxies that are located in different countries could produce similar technical evidence as one whose sharing their account. You see what I mean? :-)  ~Oshwah~  (talk) (contribs)   02:52, 16 January 2021 (UTC)


 * please add CU, if possible, for for obvious reasons; see their contribs. Possibly (talk) 00:22, 21 January 2021 (UTC)
 * Possibly - Dixierising is to Ryancoke2020. Their locations are somewhat-close, but their ranges and user agents are different.  ~Oshwah~  (talk)  (contribs)   01:43, 21 January 2021 (UTC)

Comments by other users
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Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * as far as technical evidence goes. There just isn't enough in the past logs for me to pull enough technical data to make a determination. A behavioral investigation will be needed here. Sorry...  ~Oshwah~  (talk) (contribs)   09:35, 14 January 2021 (UTC)


 * The accounts who needed to be blocked are blocked, tags applied, closing. GeneralNotability (talk) 04:21, 6 February 2021 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets

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User:Dixierising showed up only after User:Ryancoke2020 was told "When responding on a WP:AFD all that is required is a bolded keep and a single sentence explaining how they pass the criteria at WP:GNG" to do just that. There are also some things I'd rather not post here per WP:BEANS but am happy to email any administrator or CU if they can't see it by looking at the comparison between the "new" user and this !vote by the sockpuppeteer. I don't know if CU is really necessary, but throwing a request on in case it may be useful. -bɜ:ʳkənhɪmez (User/say hi!) 02:16, 21 January 2021 (UTC)
 * User:Oshwah - sorry to bother, but given that the sockpuppet only had one edit, and I'm not able to remember if Ryancoke2020 ever edited from mobile, could this explain it? TLDR: is there any evidence in the CU results that shows that there's two phones/two mobile carriers at use? If not, I am happy to email anyone the "BEANSy" information that proves the result. -bɜ:ʳkənhɪmez (User/say hi!) 03:09, 21 January 2021 (UTC)
 * Berchanhimez - Answering your question about more than one mobile device: Yes.  ~Oshwah~  (talk) (contribs)   03:22, 21 January 2021 (UTC)

Comments by other users
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Cheers, Ryan (Ryancoke2020 (talk) 02:37, 21 January 2021 (UTC))
 * No clue what Berchanhimez is talking about. Typical nonsense (as per usual), I presume.


 * The master here is actually Ryancoke1978, but Iimagine the wise admins will be aware of that. Possibly (talk) 20:25, 21 January 2021 (UTC)


 * I have NOT engaged in sock puppetry. I am unequivocal about this!  There will be no proof of this because I did NOT do this.  If I had, I'd own it / admit it, but I'm not owning something that's entirely false.  Ryan (Ryancoke2020 (talk) 23:14, 21 January 2021 (UTC))


 * Comment from person who started SPI - I hadn't noticed this user's other sockpuppets... but as possibly hints above this likely needs merged with Ryancoke1978. Aside from that, as all socks appear to be blocked, I see no further admin action necessary at this time - thanks to all (and to all a good night). -bɜ:ʳkənhɪmez (User/say hi!) 23:10, 22 January 2021 (UTC)
 * I will, however, note as an afterthought, that Oshwah being the CU who handled both cases may have some further commentary on the overlap between all of the accounts (as 14 January was his results on the accounts other than DixieRising) - but I understand it's hard with so few edits. If Oshwah doesn't have anything further for the one non-blocked account that was previously inconclusive, then I think merging and closing both is acceptable. -bɜ:ʳkənhɪmez (User/say hi!) 23:13, 22 January 2021 (UTC)

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * , leaning . Same country, close geolocation. Different user agents and ranges.  ~Oshwah~  (talk) (contribs)   03:06, 21 January 2021 (UTC)
 * I think given the previous block an indef is warranted for both the sock and master. There is also a very unique behavior in the AFD and even here that I've only seen this master do (but will refrain from pointing out publicly per WP:BEANS). CUPIDICAE💕  14:47, 21 January 2021 (UTC)
 * Master account blocked. Black Kite beat me to it for the puppet account. I'll leave the remaining clerical work for Praxidicae. Sir Sputnik (talk) 22:25, 22 January 2021 (UTC)
 * Reserving case for to finish up. Mz7 (talk) 02:14, 23 January 2021 (UTC)
 * Just a friendly reminder to that this is reserved for you. Dreamy Jazz talk to me &#124; my contributions 00:40, 28 January 2021 (UTC)
 * Forgot about this, will work on it today. CUPIDICAE💕  19:05, 28 January 2021 (UTC)


 * Tagged. Closing. GeneralNotability (talk) 04:22, 6 February 2021 (UTC)