Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/ThomasMatt22/Archive

30 October 2015

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Basically, what these two accounts will do is edit the same article at almost the same time with one account making a subtle vandalism change (like changing a date or crowd attendance figure) while the other account will then make a minor grammatical fix (or similar) straight afterward to avoid the vandalism showing up in the watchlist. Articles where it has definitely been doing this include Melbourne Cricket Ground, Football at the 1956 Summer Olympics and Soccer in Australia – the latter of this is where it has come to a head as it had to be full-protected.

Not sure which account is the 'master', so I just named it after the slightly more prolific account. This doesn't seem like their first rodeo though, so I wouldn't be surprised if this ends up being a long-term sockmaster. It's also been said might be part of the same sock group, but the behavioural evidence isn't quite as strong there and that account is indef blocked now – anyway, should all come out in the wash. Jenks24 (talk) 00:11, 30 October 2015 (UTC)


 * I've been informed just after filing this that it's the same person as User:Chuq/A-League vandal. Jenks24 (talk) 00:18, 30 October 2015 (UTC)

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Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments
I'm not sure what you want done here. I can compare any accounts that aren't. That would include, for example, the named master here, the listed puppet, and Allstar13500. However, the accounts listed at Chuq's page appear to be stale (I didn't look at all of them), and I don't believe there's an SPI for any of them, is there? Even if I can't do the comparison, we have to identify someone as the master (the oldest account of all the accounts). I've put this case on hold until I hear from you ( hasn't contributed to Wikipedia since July).--Bbb23 (talk) 00:42, 30 October 2015 (UTC)
 * Oh, sorry I wasn't clear, I don't come to SPI often. Please compare with, both of which are currently active and I'm 99% sure are socks. Does it really matter which out of those two is called the master? If they are operated by the same person then they're sockpuppeting maliciously to do subtle vandalism and can both be indef'd. The Chuq list was just to show this has been an ongoing problem since before the current socking accounts were cerated, but there's no actual need to tie them together via technical evidence. Jenks24 (talk) 01:07, 30 October 2015 (UTC)


 * . This is taking a long time, I'm not close to done, and it's late my time. Hopefully, I'll post my findings tomorrow.--Bbb23 (talk) 04:41, 30 October 2015 (UTC)
 * The following accounts are ✅:
 * is.
 * Blocked, tagged, closing.--Bbb23 (talk) 14:44, 30 October 2015 (UTC)
 * is.
 * Blocked, tagged, closing.--Bbb23 (talk) 14:44, 30 October 2015 (UTC)
 * is.
 * Blocked, tagged, closing.--Bbb23 (talk) 14:44, 30 October 2015 (UTC)
 * is.
 * Blocked, tagged, closing.--Bbb23 (talk) 14:44, 30 October 2015 (UTC)
 * is.
 * Blocked, tagged, closing.--Bbb23 (talk) 14:44, 30 October 2015 (UTC)

21 November 2015

 * Suspected sockpuppets


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User created hours after all the socks were blocked in the previous SPI. Edits only to articles previously edited by ThomasMatt22 socks, similar username, identical editing style. Jenks24 (talk) 05:48, 21 November 2015 (UTC)

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✅, blocked, tagged, closing.--Bbb23 (talk) 15:10, 21 November 2015 (UTC)