Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Tbenzinger/Archive

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Common interests recently have been interacting at one article that the master started and the alleged sock moved to mainspace without review despite Draft decline (that is one piece usually evident of collaboration, or at best, random coincidence); the accounts both have come back after nearly a year without activities but to only start in "fixing grammar and spelling" (as their summaries say). I'm especially puzzled because it seems the second account, before this, had no other relation to the user or the page. Also to add, the master, has not only potential signs of subject involvement but also seemingly past article subjects too, not simply this one page. SwisterTwister  talk  04:39, 4 August 2017 (UTC)

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Down the rabbit hole we go... the following accounts are all ✅: Molly tharrington would appear to be the oldest account. All blocked and tagged, case moved to reflect master. Yunshui 雲 水 15:57, 14 August 2017 (UTC) — Berean Hunter   (talk)  22:37, 14 August 2017 (UTC)
 * , I think Tbenzinger seems to be the oldest as it is a 2006 account.
 * Gsh - you're quite right, my bad. Yunshui 雲 水 16:10, 15 August 2017 (UTC)

— Berean Hunter   (talk)  20:25, 16 August 2017 (UTC)
 * Re-tagging and closing.

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Cindy Whitehead was created by Carlyoconnor, blocked by Yunshui as a sock on 14 August 2017. Three other accounts that have edited the same draft/article, Tory Kastleberg, PWZ16 and LillianJacobs72, were created a few days later, on 17–18 August. All have a one-sentence "interested in" statement on their user pages (as did Tbenzinger, Carlyoconnor, Molly tharrington, Finalizzi and Ge0rgi3Washington). All three made numerous "Grammar edit"s (usually mistaken/ against MOS) in late 2017 – early 2018. Diffs: Like blocked socks Tbenzinger, Offbeat91 and Carlyoconnor, PWZ16 and LillianJacobs72 have edited Yousef Al Otaiba. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 18:13, 5 March 2018 (UTC)
 * Tory Kastleberg (against MOS)
 * PWZ16
 * LillianJacobs72.

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 * - Definitely socks, check for sleepers per prior behaviour.  QEDK ( 後  &#127800;  桜 ) 18:49, 5 March 2018 (UTC)
 * - Katietalk 00:26, 6 March 2018 (UTC)
 * . Lots of proxies and webhosts involved here and the UAs are pretty common. The master is stale, so I don't have anything to compare it to, but I don't see obvious sleepers. Katietalk 00:37, 6 March 2018 (UTC)
 * - Behavioural blocks recommended.  QEDK  ( 後  &#127800;  桜 ) 09:40, 6 March 2018 (UTC)
 * All accounts blocked. I'll leave tagging to you, . Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 18:32, 8 March 2018 (UTC)