Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/The Side566/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets
Mass creation of unsourced stub articles for non-notable songs by various artists, which end up being converted to redirects or nominated for deletion. Failing to WP:ENGAGE with other editors at their talk page, and apparently not caring about the consequences of their problematic edits. CycloneYoris talk! 22:23, 12 May 2024 (UTC)

Comments by other users

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TimelapseTwo has recently been blocked from editing articles by Justlettersandnumbers, but I've added two additional accounts (admittedly, one is stale) as well as an IP to the list of suspected sockpuppets due to their similar disruptive behavior. The latest and currently active sock, RegularTine, is simply creating hundreds of redirects now instead of having non-notable stub creations redirected by someone else. Many of the redirect titles are not even mentioned in the target articles. The biggest clue that these are the same person are the redirects are being made for songs by many of the same music artists. Some examples include: Finally, when RegularTine created a stub article for Jacob Restituto, which I moved to draft space about 10 minutes later, it was the IP who edited it right at that same time. Star cheers peaks news lost wars Talk to me 06:19, 13 June 2024 (UTC)
 * Why Don't We
 * Choose (Why Don't We song) was created by The Side566 and heavily edited by Regulartrongdd
 * Never Know (Why Don’t We song) was created by Regulartrongdd and recently edited by RegularTine
 * Both the IP and Regulartrongdd edited Let Me Down Easy (Lie)
 * Jack & Jack
 * The Side566 created Promise Me (Jack & Jack song)
 * Regulartrongdd created Tension (Jack & Jack song)
 * TimelapseTwo created Lotta Love (Jack & Jack song), which was also edited by the IP
 * RegularTine created Closure (Jack & Jack song)
 * PrettyMuch
 * Temporary Heart (PrettyMuch song) was created by TimelapseTwo and edited by RegularTine
 * RegularTine just recently created redirects for Would You Mind (PrettyMuch song), Summer on You (PrettyMuch song), and Blind (PrettyMuch song)
 * I Prevail
 * The Side566 created Bad Things (I Prevail song), later edited by Regulartrongdd
 * Regulartrongdd created Gasoline (I Prevail song), later edited by TimelapseTwo
 * TimelapseTwo created Come And Get It (I Prevail song)
 * RegularTine created Paranoid (I Prevail song)
 * I'm convinced by the evidence above from that TimelapseTwo and RegularTine are the same editor. Also, this edit by RegularTine can't reasonably be explained in any other way. Further to that evidence, The Side566 also created Love Song (Why Don’t We song), Can't You See (Why Don't We song), Hard (Why Don’t We song), In Too Deep (Why Don’t We song) and Choose (Why Don't We song); Hurt People (Jack & Jack song); and Deep End (I Prevail song), Self-Destruction (I Prevail song), Body Bag (I Prevail song) and this. The Side566 was indeffed by  in November 2023. I've indeffed these two for evasion of that block., I'm not going to mess with the case status template, but do you think CU might now be justified in case there are more of these? Thanks all round, Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 09:39, 13 June 2024 (UTC)

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 * - is probably, so there would be nothing to compare the other account to. Dreamy Jazz talk to me &#124; my contributions 22:04, 18 May 2024 (UTC)
 * , in order to facilitate and expedite your request, please provide diffs to support your case. Please give two or more diffs meeting the following format:
 * At least one diff is from the sockmaster (or an account already blocked as a confirmed sockpuppet of the sockmaster), showing the behaviour characteristic of the sockmaster.
 * At least one diff per suspected sockpuppet, showing the suspected sockpuppet emulating the behaviour of the sockmaster given in the first diff.
 * In situations where it is not immediately obvious from the diffs what the characteristic behaviour is, a short explanation must be provided. Spicy (talk) 17:32, 9 June 2024 (UTC)
 * There's a rather obvious behavioural similarity among all of these accounts: they have a reasonably unique method of creating broken redirects, and you can see fairly clearly the progression of their knowledge among the accounts. This to me was sufficient grounds to check.
 * The following accounts are ✅:
 * All . There almost certainly are more accounts; the CU data shows the user trying to log in unsuccessfully under many other names, some of which are existing accounts. They're remarkably competent at abusing multiple accounts considering how inept they are with redirects. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 12:16, 13 June 2024 (UTC)
 * Oh and is stale but is obviously the same user. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 12:18, 13 June 2024 (UTC)
 * All . There almost certainly are more accounts; the CU data shows the user trying to log in unsuccessfully under many other names, some of which are existing accounts. They're remarkably competent at abusing multiple accounts considering how inept they are with redirects. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 12:16, 13 June 2024 (UTC)
 * Oh and is stale but is obviously the same user. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 12:18, 13 June 2024 (UTC)
 * All . There almost certainly are more accounts; the CU data shows the user trying to log in unsuccessfully under many other names, some of which are existing accounts. They're remarkably competent at abusing multiple accounts considering how inept they are with redirects. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 12:16, 13 June 2024 (UTC)
 * Oh and is stale but is obviously the same user. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 12:18, 13 June 2024 (UTC)
 * All . There almost certainly are more accounts; the CU data shows the user trying to log in unsuccessfully under many other names, some of which are existing accounts. They're remarkably competent at abusing multiple accounts considering how inept they are with redirects. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 12:16, 13 June 2024 (UTC)
 * Oh and is stale but is obviously the same user. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 12:18, 13 June 2024 (UTC)
 * All . There almost certainly are more accounts; the CU data shows the user trying to log in unsuccessfully under many other names, some of which are existing accounts. They're remarkably competent at abusing multiple accounts considering how inept they are with redirects. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 12:16, 13 June 2024 (UTC)
 * Oh and is stale but is obviously the same user. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 12:18, 13 June 2024 (UTC)
 * Oh and is stale but is obviously the same user. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 12:18, 13 June 2024 (UTC)