Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/The abominable Wiki troll/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets



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Checked based on suspicious activity at Articles for deletion/The Jubilees. ST47 (talk) 05:41, 18 December 2019 (UTC)

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Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * Accounts are ✅ via the CU log to . . ST47 (talk) 05:41, 18 December 2019 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets



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The usual preoccupation with Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark related articles ( &, & ). As for Shadikk and WHone, here's only a few examples of intersection with previous socks: &  &,  & ;  ,  & ,  &. Same interest in the same topic areas (Britpop artists, Gary Oldman films, etc). Sro23 (talk) 00:51, 8 May 2020 (UTC)

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 * - Endorsing own request. There are more than likely several undetected accounts. Sro23 (talk) 00:51, 8 May 2020 (UTC)
 * I've blocked some. WHone is same country, different range, different UA so . Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 06:31, 8 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Thanks. I thought that user behaved off, and while I don't doubt it's a sock of some other master, I don't have the energy to think about it right now, so I'm closing this case. Sro23 (talk) 08:30, 8 May 2020 (UTC)

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Behaving identically to previous sockpuppets, same old fixation on British pop culture and music reviews. As always, the overlap with past socks is extensive (, ,  ,  ,  ,  ,  ,   etc). Same/similar edit summaries too. Given that this account has been around since last year and CheckUser usually uncovers several more accounts, a sleeper check would be a good idea. Sro23 (talk) 07:20, 23 December 2020 (UTC)

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I am a constructive user. The good-hand/bad-hand stuff was years ago: I am now an adult and my mood problems have been treated. This silliness really ought to stop. Boonslud (talk) 12:39, 23 December 2020 (UTC)

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 * - Please compare to last blocked sockpuppet User:Dory Funk. Sro23 (talk) 07:21, 23 December 2020 (UTC)
 * ✅ to each other:
 * Boonslud
 * All the above are now blocked.  is on the same mobile IP range but looks like some random kid. NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 03:13, 24 December 2020 (UTC)
 * Tags applied. GeneralNotability (talk) 03:05, 27 December 2020 (UTC)
 * All the above are now blocked.  is on the same mobile IP range but looks like some random kid. NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 03:13, 24 December 2020 (UTC)
 * Tags applied. GeneralNotability (talk) 03:05, 27 December 2020 (UTC)
 * All the above are now blocked.  is on the same mobile IP range but looks like some random kid. NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 03:13, 24 December 2020 (UTC)
 * Tags applied. GeneralNotability (talk) 03:05, 27 December 2020 (UTC)
 * Tags applied. GeneralNotability (talk) 03:05, 27 December 2020 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets
Edit warring at wrestler Big Van Vader, TheManTheyCallAdam wrote in an edit summary "There was already a reliable sorce when i added the edit 3 years ago." TheManTheyCallAdam first edited Wikipedia on 6 January 2021. It was, a sock of , who inserted the phrase, in full and sourced, on 12 November 2017. I'm not familiar with the sockpuppeteer but such tenacity in blatant contradiction of the source and article history also seems in keeping. NebY (talk) 18:05, 28 August 2022 (UTC)

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 * Comment - TheManTheyCallAdam admits having a prior account . EnPassant♟♙ (talk) 15:36, 2 September 2022 (UTC)
 * Well, maybe. It's true that their first edit was only about 1.5 years ago, but their account goes back almost 4 years.  They might have just forgotten to log in when they made the original edit. -- RoySmith (talk) 16:17, 2 September 2022 (UTC)
 * The original edit wasn't by an IP, it was by, a blocked sock. NebY (talk) 16:22, 2 September 2022 (UTC)
 * I haven't tried to check which socks also edited wrestling articles, but I do see, , and more in Sockpuppet investigations/The abominable Wiki troll/Archive/1. But I raised this because TheManTheyCallAdam claims to have added the edit which the sock made. NebY (talk) 16:38, 2 September 2022 (UTC)

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 * I ran some checks. We don't have much data on TaWt, but from what we've got, I'd say TheManTheyCallAdam is . -- RoySmith (talk) 15:53, 30 August 2022 (UTC)
 * I should also add that most of the data is so old, it's probably meaningless, so certainly applies. -- RoySmith (talk) 15:55, 30 August 2022 (UTC)
 * The reference to an edit from 3 years ago is obviously suspicious. However, the text added by Clatson50 said widely regarded as one of the greatest super-heavyweight professional wrestlers. The specific edit that TheManTheyCallAdam was edit warring over was changing that to widely regarded as the greatest super-heavyweight professional wrestler. I've looked at some recent TAWT socks and they seem much more savvy than this editor (e.g. often using WP policies and jargon in edit summaries - see ). I'm not at all convinced that this is the same user. I can't account for the "3 years" thing, but perhaps they were just lying because they thought that would make their edit stick. Also, 2017 was 5 years ago (feel old yet?) Spicy (talk) 16:32, 4 November 2022 (UTC)