Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/The Penfield Homunculus/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets
Two relatively new accounts, editing sparsely, lots of crossover in topics, similarly-worded edit summaries. Only recently, one account has been backing up the other account (tag-team) in content disputes where multiple reversions have happened, on Catalonia and Camp Nou. Fred Zepelin (talk) 19:23, 26 March 2024 (UTC)

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I was about to open one also on TPH and EC, but I see one exists already. I'll just add my thoughts, which are these: I wish there were a page WP:Sockpuppet Watch, when current evidence doesn't quite imply socking, but bears being listed on a page somewhere so that skilled volunteers can keep an eye out for further developments. That's where I think we are with these two; below is the evidence I have so far:
 * Tag-teaming during EWs at Camp Nou and Catalonia; interactions at FC Barcelona articles and a few others (interaction).
 * The Penfield Homunculus:, ending 00:58, 26 March 2024;


 * 2022–23 FC Barcelona season
 * 2023–24 FC Barcelona season
 * Abde Ezzalzouli
 * Athletic–Barcelona clásico
 * Barça TV
 * Barça TV+
 * Camp Nou
 * Catalonia
 * Clément Lenglet
 * Deco
 * El Clásico
 * Estadi Olímpic Lluís Companys
 * FC Barcelona
 * FC Barcelona (beach soccer)
 * FC Barcelona (youth)
 * FC Barcelona Atlètic
 * FC Barcelona B (women)
 * FC Barcelona Bàsquet
 * FC Barcelona Femení
 * FC Barcelona Futsal
 * FC Barcelona Hoquei
 * FC Barcelona media
 * FC Barcelona Voleibol
 * İlkay Gündoğan
 * Iñigo Martínez
 * Inter-Cities Fairs Cup
 * Joan Gamper
 * Joan Laporta
 * Julián Araujo
 * La Liga
 * La Liga2
 * Liga Nacional de Fútbol Profesional
 * List of countries and dependencies by population
 * List of FC Barcelona players
 * List of FC Barcelona records and statistics
 * List of FC Barcelona seasons
 * List of football clubs in Spain by major honours won
 * Mateu Alemany
 * Oriol Romeu
 * Palau Blaugrana
 * Real Madrid CF
 * Sergiño Dest
 * Spain
 * Supporters of FC Barcelona
 * Talk:2023–24 FC Barcelona season
 * Talk:FC Barcelona
 * Trofeo Aldo Rovira
 * User talk:El Caganer
 * User talk:Oblow14
 * User talk:The Penfield Homunculus
 * Redirects for discussion/Log/2023 July 5


 * El Caganer ending 00:38, 27 March 2024.


 * 2023–24 FC Barcelona season
 * Camp Nou
 * Cant del Barça
 * Catalonia
 * El Clásico
 * FC Barcelona
 * FC Barcelona Femení
 * FC Barcelona in international football
 * March 3
 * President of the Government of Catalonia
 * Talk:FC Barcelona
 * Talk:Ilia Topuria
 * User talk:El Caganer

Not sure that's sufficient; could just be two football fans from Catalonia supporting each other, but I think at a minimum, watchful waiting is in order. Mathglot (talk) 02:37, 27 March 2024 (UTC)
 * One more quantum of data since I last wrote: the two users are tag-teaming to support unsourced content at Talk:Catalonia (diff, diff). The emerging pattern is Catalan nationalism. Mathglot (talk) 05:55, 27 March 2024 (UTC)


 * I think might need to be added to this check. Another account with very few contributions who restored El Caganer's wording. — Czello (music) 08:25, 28 March 2024 (UTC)
 * I'd like to add more evidence. I've never heard of the word "vandalic" before, but El Caganer used it here in an edit summary on 18 March, and The Penfield Homunculus used it 8 times in edit summaries in August 2023. Fred Zepelin (talk) 20:06, 28 March 2024 (UTC)

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 * is about the best you're going to get, I'm afraid. Both accounts are in/around the same city. One is using a mobile connection, the other is using home broadband from the same ISP. It could be the example I often give on the limitations of checkuser&mdash;one person editing from different devices on different connections being scrupulous not to connect the mobile device to their home wifi. Or it could be two different people. HJ Mitchell &#124; Penny for your thoughts? 20:20, 27 March 2024 (UTC)
 * Synalepha is ✅ to The Penfield Homunculus. Blocking those two, and blocking El Caganer as suspected based on behaviour. Surprised they got away with that username. Spicy (talk) 20:13, 28 March 2024 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets
Obvious sock account, created today and minutes later performed same edits on Camp Nou that previous sock account had, and IP addresses had. Fred Zepelin (talk) 16:37, 30 March 2024 (UTC)

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 * ✅ to . Blocking and tagging. Spicy (talk) 23:17, 30 March 2024 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets
Transparent attempt to keep forcing their edits - the registered accounts (now blocked for socking) were making the exact same edits as this IP and another IP, one day after the blocks. Fred Zepelin (talk) 13:00, 30 March 2024 (UTC)

same disruptive edits as Synalepha and El Caganer (already blocked as socks of The Penfield Homunculus). Fred Zepelin (talk) 17:29, 30 March 2024 (UTC)

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 * None of those is active. Closing.  Vanjagenije  (talk)  09:09, 7 April 2024 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets
Identical edits to what blocked user was doing with their previous sock accounts (registered and IP) Fred Zepelin (talk) 03:27, 22 April 2024 (UTC)

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 * Closing without action as the IP has not edited since April 21. Mz7 (talk) 08:06, 6 May 2024 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets
Same edits as before, obviously same blocked user Fred Zepelin (talk) 16:10, 24 April 2024 (UTC)

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 * Closing without action as the IP has not edited since April 24. Mz7 (talk) 08:06, 6 May 2024 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets
Same edits as sockmaster and his previous socks, new account from 1 May Fred Zepelin (talk) 02:07, 6 May 2024 (UTC)

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 * ✅ to El Caganer plus . Mz7 (talk) 08:05, 6 May 2024 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets

 * ( original case name)

The suspected account made two edits, both of which I reverted for failing WP:V. These two edits did not seem related to the behaviour and block of the known puppetmaster, until an IP known to be a sock (Special:Contributions/81.184.63.174) then reinstated them. Kingsif (talk) 12:10, 20 May 2024 (UTC)

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 * Sufficient for me. Blocked and closing. Izno (talk) 00:05, 2 June 2024 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets
This sock has the same style of edit summaries/writing as the sockmaster, the same interests (FC Barcelona/Catalonia) and at the FC Barcelona page "Déu-n'hi-do" restored the version of the sockmaster. This sock is one of the user's many during the last 1,5 months (following Pròssia, ONLY-BARCELONA, A Crocodile in Bed, Omphebra, Blow.ofmind78, and possibly many more). This new sock also seems to understand that by making small edits, one can easily rack up the amount needed to edit certain semi-protected articles, such as the FC Barcelona one (achieved by making small edits such as these:, ). Eem dik doun in toene (talk) 12:28, 22 May 2024 (UTC)

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 * Comment: I'm familiar with a couple of the socks of this account, and after perusing the edits, I agree: the behavior is the same. Absolutely a sock of the same person. Fred Zepelin (talk) 18:52, 23 May 2024 (UTC)
 * also: this edit to my talk page cites no less than 10 Wikipedia policy pages (including a couple I didn't even know existed, so thanks for that!) all neatly linked to corresponding phrases in their attack post on my talk. Yet, the account was created a mere 19 days ago. Fred Zepelin (talk) 17:54, 24 May 2024 (UTC)

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * . I'm afraid that's the best I can do here. Behavioural evidence needs evaluating and I'll leave that to another admin. --Yamla (talk) 13:18, 23 May 2024 (UTC)
 * The SandDoctor Talk 05:15, 30 May 2024 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets
A relatively new account with the same writing style (very similar edit summaries for example), same interests (e.g., FC Barcelona) as the sockmaster and previous socks. Eem dik doun in toene (talk) 13:07, 24 May 2024 (UTC)

Update: Mucchia claims to be "neutral", but threw his toys out of the pram on my talk page. Very ironically, this user also wrote "vandalic", which is an odd and non-English word, as was noted earlier by, a word which has been used by several of his socks. Eem dik doun in toene (talk) 13:39, 24 May 2024 (UTC)

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What are you doing? Its so ridiculous… Stop accusing others to be a sockpuppet.Mucchia (talk) 13:12, 24 May 2024 (UTC)

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * ✅. Will tag and block. --Yamla (talk) 13:40, 24 May 2024 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets
The only edits by these IP addresses has been to send abuse to myself, the admin that blocked the puppetmaster, and a user who removed that abuse. Kingsif (talk) 21:39, 25 May 2024 (UTC)

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 * - CheckUser evidence may to used to publicly link accounts to IP addresses. Sir Sputnik (talk) 02:48, 26 May 2024 (UTC)
 * One IP is blocked, and the other hasn't edited in several days. Closing. Bbb23 (talk) 10:22, 29 May 2024 (UTC)