Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Steve1984stallone/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets
These SPAs have showed up to make similar 'keep' votes at Articles for deletion/Akshay Sharma (2nd nomination), all of which used similar language and forgot to sign on all of their comments. Vanscandre has only made one edit but Oldiegold uses similar edit summaries and edits a similar area as well as overlapping at Akshay Sharma's AfD. Both make edits to cricketer articles with 'Added content', 'Fixed content' etc.  The similarities are enough to be suspicious and the vote stacking is an abuse of multiple accounts, if proven guilty. Spiderone (Talk to Spider) 10:53, 15 April 2022 (UTC)

Comments by other users
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Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * - to compare these accounts and check for others (the suspected sockmaster's account is quite old). Thanks, Spicy (talk) 11:59, 15 April 2022 (UTC)
 * - -- RoySmith (talk) 15:27, 15 April 2022 (UTC)
 * The best I can do here is that everybody is . -- RoySmith (talk) 15:58, 15 April 2022 (UTC)
 * With more data, I can now say that are all ✅ to each other.  Still only  to Steve1984stallone.  I'll block the confirmed accounts but leave it up to a clerk to figure out how to tag them. -- RoySmith (talk) 15:35, 16 April 2022 (UTC)
 * - please indef Steve1984stallone - the obvious socking on the AfD and the behavioural similarities noted by the filer convince me that this account is related. Thanks, Spicy (talk) 15:51, 16 April 2022 (UTC)
 * Ks0stm (T•C•G•E) 15:57, 16 April 2022 (UTC)
 * Thanks. Tagged, closing. Spicy (talk) 15:59, 16 April 2022 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets
After the initial SPI was filed, two more extremely similar accounts have just been created and showed up to !vote at Articles for deletion/Akshay Sharma (2nd nomination). Both start the comment with Keep: and both forget to sign their comments at the AfD again. Same narrow interest in Indian topics and sports with similar edit summaries such as "Added content" and "Content added". It seems that these accounts show up to !vote and then do a few minor filler edits elsewhere and then get retired, which is typical behaviour for these disposable burner accounts created simply just to force an article to be kept at AfD. Spiderone (Talk to Spider) 14:33, 16 April 2022 (UTC)

It looks like Willyjoe got abandoned at 8:11 today and then Subymut made their first edit at 8:28 and carried on for about 3 hours with low-grade edits and then a !vote at the AfD in question. Spiderone (Talk to Spider) 14:38, 16 April 2022 (UTC)

Comments by other users
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Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * - -- RoySmith (talk) 15:21, 16 April 2022 (UTC)
 * See 15 April 2022 -- RoySmith (talk) 15:38, 16 April 2022 (UTC)
 * Closing per above. Thanks, Spicy (talk) 15:59, 16 April 2022 (UTC)