Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Sohonewyork/Archive

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All 3 accounts gamed autoconfirmed to create the article Sidetalk, and those edits all included edits to Fuckjerry. Similar account naming schemes. CU data probably stale. User:力 (power~enwiki, π,  ν ) 21:28, 26 October 2021 (UTC)

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I deleted Sidetalk as a recreation after XFD, and salted because of the repeated recreation. Original editing account was, whose editing pattern is the same as these two. Tempted to block all three as spamming DUCKs - David Gerard (talk) 23:52, 26 October 2021 (UTC)

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 * So here's the thing: there is no overlap in terms of the dates of their edits. Our sockpuppetry policy doesn't prohibit someone from creating an account, abandoning it, and starting again with a new one - which is what seems to have happened here - unless the former account is under sanctions that they are trying to evade with the new account. If you think a block is necessary for promotion or whatever, go ahead; unless we can link these to a blocked account however, we can't block them under WP:BADSOCK. Closing without action.  Girth Summit  (blether)  13:47, 28 October 2021 (UTC)

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All four have usernames related to New York City and have only a handful of undeleted contribs. Sohonewyork, Bushwick1996, and MTA2021 all created pages for Sidetalk despite the channel not yet being notable. All three, with the limited amount of contributions they've made, have edited Josh Ostrovsky and Fuckjerry. And Bxyouheard's only significant contribs are to the Sidetalk page. All four accounts have red linked user pages, make similar edits/edit summaries, tag almost all of their edits as minor edits (even though they're not), and only use the visual editor to edit. Bxyouheard is the only one who's edits differ slightly, but the somewhat promotional edits to Sidetalk such as.

I'm requesting CU to check for sleepers because MTA2021 (and Bushwick1996 to a lesser extent) had a significant gap between account creation and contribs or logged actions.  Bait30  Talk 2 me pls? 22:06, 24 November 2021 (UTC)
 * Oops, I didn't see the previous archived investigation that involved Sohonewyork, Bushwick1996, and MTA2021. My request includes a new account, Bxyouheard, but I'm guessing the conclusion will be the same. Although I will say this seems to be an example of WP:SCRUTINY because it feels like the user is editing Sidetalk in a promotional way and using multiple accounts to avoid scrutiny.  Bait30   Talk 2 me pls? 22:12, 24 November 2021 (UTC)

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 * I agree there is some concerning behavior here, but I've just left uw-agf-sock and we'll leave it there for now. -- RoySmith (talk) 22:41, 24 November 2021 (UTC)