Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/The Micronesian-Corsican Revolution/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets
TheElvisBelievingBumbleBee is a new account which has been updating and creating pages on semi-professional poker players, and creating a number of redirects with unusual disambiguators. A series of redirects they've created for the various David Larsons that play poker have been coming up at WP:RFD, where TheElvisBelievingBumbleBee sometimes makes a comment and later closes the discussion with the action of whatever they suggested, regardless of consensus. But a handful of those discussions were closed in exactly the same manner by The Micronesian-Corsican Revolution: just enacting whatever TheElvisBelievingBumbleBee suggested, regardless of others' comments. observed today that The Micronesian-Corsican Revolution's user page is a redirect to TheElvisBelievingBumbleBee's contributions, but there is no disclosure in the other direction, so WP:ALTACCN has not been satisfied.

A much more egregious example occurred over the weekend at Articles for deletion/Marat 'maratik' Sharafutdinov. TheElvisBelievingBumbleBee created this article on an amateur player who won a large prize in a big-name online poker tournament, and it was nominated for deletion on 2 Sep. On 9 Sep, as the discussion was due to close and was pointing towards deleting the article and redirecting to the tournament, TheElvisBelievingBumbleBee created a copy of the article at a different title, then redirected the original page to the copy, and then a few hours later The Micronesian-Corsican Revolution closed the discussion saying that was the result. They effectively side-stepped the deletion discussion entirely. I've history-merged the copy back into the original article so the diffs might not be sensical now.

More below. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 16:36, 11 September 2023 (UTC)

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 * Noting that posted on my talk page admitting that they are TheElvisBelievingBumbleBee. I have blocked accordingly. -- Tavix  ( talk ) 13:42, 12 September 2023 (UTC)

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments
The accounts are ✅, and there are a handful of logged-out edits. I've blocked both without tags for the time being. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 16:36, 11 September 2023 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets
Previous sock blocked a week ago, brand new user with very similar name-structure, 10 necessary edits and then immediately creating articles on obscure poker players with unnecessary disambiguation in title, in this case Christian Lusardi (criminal). Fram (talk) 12:29, 18 September 2023 (UTC)
 * Note also that first 2 pages they edited, were also edited by the previous sock, Joseph Cheong and Antonio Esfandiari. Fram (talk) 12:33, 18 September 2023 (UTC)

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 * Recreated Christian Lusardi, now draftified. Please check for sleepers. UtherSRG (talk) 18:07, 18 September 2023 (UTC)
 * The only unblocked account is . Now blocked, as well. Courcelles (talk) 18:45, 18 September 2023 (UTC)
 * Tagged all four currently in Category:Wikipedia sockpuppets of The Micronesian-Corsican Revolution. All are ✅. Courcelles (talk) 18:49, 18 September 2023 (UTC)
 * Closing. Thanks, Spicy (talk) 10:59, 19 September 2023 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets
Account created 2 Oct, gamed autoconfirm, 6 Oct created Christian Patrick Lusardi. Wikishovel (talk) 13:40, 6 October 2023 (UTC)


 * Article is a copy of Christian Lusardi, created by a previous sock. - UtherSRG (talk) 16:16, 6 October 2023 (UTC)

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 * - Will let someone else close if they'd like to do something more with this... - UtherSRG (talk) 16:15, 6 October 2023 (UTC)
 * Closing. Spicy (talk) 00:50, 14 October 2023 (UTC)