Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Setswana/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets
Setswana was reported at ANI and the thread resulted in a temporary block. This was soon made indefinite after they began to LOUTSOCK. Further digging has shown that this user is a long term abuser, who has been active since at least February 2019. They disrupt articles relating to politics, primarily in Africa and South Asia. The disruption usually relates to lists of heads of state and heads of government. It includes copy paste moves and moves against consensus, long term edit warring lasting for months, and a persistent refusal to use any meaningful edit summaries. All the named accounts and IP addresses are currently blocked.

However it seems like there might be an older account involved here, as this sequence of edits ties one of Setswana's favourite ranges to another group of accounts.


 * 1) edit by blocked sock of U + 1F4AD
 * 2) edit by an IP on range known to be used by Setswana

There are also some signs that both use block warnings:
 * 1) Setswana IP telling Emk9 that their TPA had been revoked
 * 2) U + 1F4AD sock telling one of their own IPs that they were blocked

It might do to have a checkuser weigh in here whether they consider it to be just a case of two sockmasters operating in similar areas on similar ranges or whether this is likely the same person. Mako001 (C) (T)  🇺🇦 01:49, 11 December 2022 (UTC)

Comments by other users

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 * These accounts were blocked by . Drmies, do you have any insight on whether the named accounts are related to Setswana? &mdash; Mdaniels5757 (talk &bull; contribs) 14:33, 11 December 2022 (UTC)

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * There's nothing to do here. Closing. Bbb23 (talk) 14:55, 11 December 2022 (UTC)