Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Sandro-gi/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets



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I blocked Sandro-gi on June 18 because they appeared to be here to promote an author. They created an article in 2017 for a series that was non-notable and then returned this year to create an article on an epic poem that was written by the same author. Their username implies that they are either the author or someone with a strong COI, which seems likely given their edit history. While they denied COI, there is just too much coincidence here and the obscurity of the writer makes it seem extremely likely that they weren't telling the truth. So they were blocked. They responded on their talk page with essentially WP:IDHT and also outright said that they were going to evade their block. Of note is that in their responses they also copied the smiley face from my signature. You can see this all at User talk:Sandro-gi.

On June 24 the account Thrargo was created. They posted a "keep" argument at the deletion discussion for the epic poem (Articles for deletion/Feast of the Gods (Epic Poem)) and also edited the article prior to its deletion. What makes is seem very likely that this is Sandro-gi evading a block is that the account signed their keep argument with the same smiley face that I use in my signature. The likelihood of this being a completely separate person that just happens to post a keep argument AND uses my smiley face signature is fairly slim. It may be worthwhile to check for any other accounts.

Finally, a third note - Sandro-gi apparently made some legal threats so I don't know if this has any bearing here. I don't know if this would be of any interest to you, but tagging you here. ReaderofthePack (formerly Tokyogirl79)  (｡◕‿◕｡)  16:42, 25 June 2021 (UTC)
 * Also note that this user doesn't use the smiley face when posting at this other AfD. Given that Sandro-gi was bragging about coming back with sockpuppet accounts, it seems like they were showing off that they could create new accounts. ReaderofthePack (formerly Tokyogirl79)  (｡◕‿◕｡)  16:49, 25 June 2021 (UTC)
 * Other evidence is that they also randomly capitalize words to emphasize things, as does Thrargos. I suppose I could block them outright, but I would very much like to have a check made for other accounts given they've promised that they'd create more. ReaderofthePack (formerly Tokyogirl79)  (｡◕‿◕｡)  16:54, 25 June 2021 (UTC)

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 * The sock in question is Thrago not Thrargo (a non-existent user). Confusion was introduced by the sock in Special:Diff/1030237440. Cabayi (talk) 18:44, 25 June 2021 (UTC)


 * - In light of Sandro's passion for those articles, and the loss of one at AFD, yet another account at some point is almost inevitable. The connection is behaviorally sound. Please confirm and check for sleepers. Cabayi (talk) 18:50, 25 June 2021 (UTC)
 * ✅ plus ., closing. Mz7 (talk) 19:34, 25 June 2021 (UTC)