Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Sunhill-a380/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets



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A trail of disruptive edits on the Christmas No. 1s list, all trying to insist that "Christmas No. 1" must include sales on Christmas Day - despite consensus both on Wikipedia and in the UK press and common sense. All three accounts are single purpose on this issue and frankly it is unlikely that there are three people who think such a thing.

They've also raised the issue in Teahouse and Helpdesk, where the question how these three accounts related has been raised but not at this point responded to, so I cannot see that they are using multiple accounts for any legit reason and it appears that they are trying to create an illusion of support for their idea, in contravention of wikipedia's policies. Paul &#10092;talk&#10093; 17:53, 28 December 2020 (UTC)

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 * Thanks for filing. I was considering it, though I initially thought perhaps this person is most likely not aware of Wikipedia's dim view on multiple accounts. Granted, the third account and help desk thread are both new developments since then. Probably just need to be reminded that this isn't how things are done around here, and to have a look at the various guidelines (which were already linked to them in the help desk discussion). — 🦊 06:18, 30 December 2020 (UTC)

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 * The near-identical nature of the edits, and between two of the usernames, is very suggestive. Given that they've been asked about that but have not responded, I can't accept it as a case of legitimate use of multiple accounts. Indef blocking the two sock accounts, giving the master a short block and will leave some guidance on their talk. Closing Girth Summit  (blether)  17:04, 30 December 2020 (UTC)