Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/TopGun madness/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets
Common Frameworks is a new account that took over working on Draft:Loco (platform) after an older account was blocked for spam. The topic of the draft has been recreated several times under different titles, and since being title-blacklisted yesterday, a number of IPs have requested its restoration, which led me to investigate. See below. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 15:38, 16 March 2023 (UTC)

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Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * TopGun madness and Common Frameworks are ✅, and to . They've also been editing logged out in violation of WP:LOUTSOCK. An unusual hallmark of this case is that, while both logged in and logged out, they have been flagging promotional drafts written by others with UPE and speedy deletion notices. I would say that's either distinct UPE promo farms competing with each other over the same jobs (i.e. delete the competitor's work and replace with your own), or just straight-up WP:GHBH activity. Either way it's disruptive editing and likely in violation of Wikipedia's terms of use, and more blocks will be coming.
 * The confirmed accounts are.
 * I've filed under the name of the oldest confirmed sock, but I highly doubt these are the user's first accounts. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 15:57, 16 March 2023 (UTC)
 * Looks like you left the case status as "inprogress". Is there still something you're looking into, or could we mark this case as closed? Thanks, Mz7 (talk) 04:19, 17 March 2023 (UTC)
 * just a mistake on my part. Nothing more to do, I've marked it closed. Thanks. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 12:44, 17 March 2023 (UTC)


 * , did you intend not to block ? Thanks, Spicy (talk) 16:33, 17 March 2023 (UTC)
 * thanks again. There was some info in the check which gave me pause, which I'd like not to post here per WP:BEANS. Let's say it's unlikely that account will edit again, but if they do then their behaviour should be considered in any decision to block. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 18:42, 17 March 2023 (UTC)
 * Sounds good, archiving. Spicy (talk) 21:57, 17 March 2023 (UTC)