Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Saintstephen000/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets
User requested a vanish in May 2023 while under scrutiny at ANI. Sock appeared in December 2023. Same odd formatting of responses, same level of English usage, same passive-aggressive response to warnings, same signoff. See also this edit, which they apparently had second thoughts about and reverted.

Checkuser not requested since the behavioral match here is pretty clear, but this particular claim could be empty posturing or admission of significant past socking beyond just the two accounts identified here. Grandpallama (talk) 02:15, 1 February 2024 (UTC)

Comments by other users

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Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * I ran a check - the master is stale and there is no obvious evidence of other accounts, but Augmented Seventh has been doing a lot of logged-out editing. The behavioural evidence, especially, makes it obvious that this is the same user, so I'll request an unvanishing. Leaving on checked for a clerk/admin to decide if further sanctions are needed. Spicy (talk) 14:06, 1 February 2024 (UTC)
 * I have reversed the vanish (courtesy ping Cabayi). @Saintstephen000/Augmented Seventh: I am not going to block either of your accounts right now, but please make sure to comply with WP:VALIDALT. I'd strongly recommend sticking to one account, either the old one or the new one; if you do need an alt account for any reason, I would strongly recommend disclosing it publicly or, if necessary for privacy reasons, to ArbCom. And logged-out editing, when you have a perfectly good account, is best avoided entirely, because at a certain point a checkuser may well find that you are doing so to evade scrutiny. Furthermore, please note that a future retirement or vanishing while under AN/I scrutiny or similar may be looked at much less sympathetically by administrators. -- Tamzin  &#91;cetacean needed&#93; (they&#124;xe) 14:59, 1 February 2024 (UTC)
 * i have read the information and am adjusting my editing protocol to address the sp concerns.
 * thank you for the help, Augmented Seventh (talk) 19:23, 1 February 2024 (UTC)