Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Shezfrez62/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets

 * ( original case name)

Seems to be a single user who periodically starts a new account for some reason, but continues to edit the same articles in the same problematic ways.

VideoOldLadyFan abandoned their account ("I would delete this account but I cant") on March 6 last year after saying it was run by two people, and the ToryFan64188 account was created ten minutes later. ToryFan received some warnings for breaking WP:BLPPRIVACY, getting a level four warning in April, and advice on sourcing biographies and not using Twitter as a biographical source for details about a family member.

Shezfrez62 started editing in August, making similar edits to ToryFan, again sometimes using Twitter as a source.

All three accounts have edited BBC newsreader articles Sally Bundock, Lukwesa Burak, Kasia Madera, Sally Magnusson, Naga Munchetty and Mishal Husain, focusing on biographical details about where these women live, were born, or the names of their family members.

All three accounts have added the names of Kasia Madera's children to that article:


 * https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?diff=prev&oldid=1075607819
 * https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?diff=prev&oldid=1076575367
 * https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?diff=prev&oldid=1130137023

I left the newest account a talk page message saying that if they were intending a WP:CLEANSTART, then returning to the same articles and making edits with the same BLP problems was inappropriate, but got no response. I don't know if this is one person using three accounts in sequence, or two people sharing one account and then starting a new account each, but the similarity in editing style of ToryFan64188 and Shezfrez62 suggests that these two accounts have been operated the same person, the latter account continuing problematic behaviour of the former. Belbury (talk) 19:58, 1 January 2023 (UTC)

Comments by other users

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Hi, the other two accounts were created by friends, they shared their accounts with me before I had my own, I only use my own now and don’t use the other two and some of the edits made from the other two accounts were done by my friends who owned the accounts. When I edit Wikipedia I try to make sure it’s all coming from a reliable source before adding any links and I try to add the most reliable links as possible and I do try to correct stuff that may be wrong. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Shezfrez62 (talk • contribs) 20:06, 1 January 2023 (UTC)

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * I'm happy to accept Shezfrez62's explanation above especially given that this would likely have only been a warning anyway. I've moved the case to be under Shezfrez62's username as that's the account they'll use and I've blocked the two other accounts. Closing. Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 06:12, 6 January 2023 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets
New user today restoring an infobox image change that Sbad61 had applied repeatedly over several months  and been given a soft 3RR warning for yesterday. No other edits.

Filing under Shezfrez62 as Sbad61 claims to have been originally using that account before handing the login to someone else. Belbury (talk) 08:11, 8 September 2023 (UTC)

Comments by other users

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Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * ✅ to each other (using same /64 within a short time frame):


 * is to the confirmed accounts.
 * is ✅ to . Dreamy Jazz talk to me &#124; my contributions 21:31, 8 September 2023 (UTC)
 * all. The history of these accounts is somewhat dizzying but my impression is that they are either socking, compromised, or some mixture of the two, all of which are grounds for an indefinite block. Closing. Thanks, Spicy (talk) 22:33, 9 September 2023 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets
This account was created at about the same time as Shad61. Shad61 then created Next Thai general election with no references, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Next_Thai_general_election&oldid=1172946173. Next Thai general election was then draftified, and Shad61 was blocked as a sock, so this account moved the unsourced election article back to mainspace, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Next_Thai_general_election&diff=1179057916&oldid=1172950758.

Two mallard eggs hatch at the same time. When one is plucked, the other starts quacking. Robert McClenon (talk) 17:40, 7 October 2023 (UTC)

Comments by other users

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Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * I don't find the evidence presented here convincing enough to justify a CU investigation. The reported user was not uncovered in any previous CU checks, exclusively edits Thai topics, and has edited the Thai Wikipedia. Shezfrez62 and their socks edited a variety of political and TV-related articles and had no particular focus on Thai subjects - they have never edited the Thai Wikipedia, and I doubt that they would post in Thai on a talk page . The overlap on the election article would seem to be coincidental. Spicy (talk) 11:51, 13 October 2023 (UTC)