Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Tloks/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets



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Two new accounts and an IP with barely a dozen edits between them, all voting !delete at this AfD. Smacks of meat or sockpuppeting. ThatMontrealIP (talk) 20:13, 29 December 2019 (UTC)

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 * (no comment wrt the IP user). Salvio 22:17, 29 December 2019 (UTC)
 * Blocked and tagged based on behavior and commonality of writing style. The IP?  Meh.  -- RoySmith (talk) 23:38, 29 December 2019 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets



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More sudden IPs voting at the Pino Concialdi AfD. One of them is obviously from the same subbnet/router as 5.171.192.176, the earlier IP. ThatMontrealIP (talk) 15:27, 30 December 2019 (UTC)
 * Thank Cabayi. It's a pity and and a PITA that IPs can disrupt an AFD so easily. I have added the afdnewuser templates. ThatMontrealIP (talk) 16:51, 30 December 2019 (UTC)

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-, marking their AFD !votes with Afdnewuser is likely to be faster and more effective in putting an end to this than reporting at SPI. Cabayi (talk) 15:50, 30 December 2019 (UTC)
 * I've blocked the one IP, and /24 rangeblocked the other, for 2 weeks. But, I agree with Cabayi, it's whack-a-mole and probably not worth the effort.  Maybe semi-protect the AfD, although (while I don't know of any policy that prohibits it), we seem to shy away from that.  -- RoySmith (talk) 17:16, 30 December 2019 (UTC)