Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Trio The Punch/Archive

01 December 2012

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While there are no clearly overlapping edits, both accounts are active at Reference desk/Science. What is very suspicious though is this edit by Sarah Baartman on the user talk of Trio The Punch. The latter had recently been blocked for edit warring and a very obvious case of WP:IDHT. What strikes me in Sarah Baartman's edit is not so much her defence of TTP but the following sentence:

But we agree that you are not a troll, just ill-informed, if I would have an infite amount of time and patience I would've written "rv trolls and people who are too lazy to read".

How can the two of them agree when Trio the Punch was blocked without talk page access and couldn't contact or respond to anyone? Off-wiki contact maybe, or really just the same operator of two accounts? Sarah Baartman states also that "if I would have an infite amount of time and patience I would've written". Maybe it's just meant to be a sort of reflection but one could also interpret it the other way. Another similarity between the two accounts is the very quick sequential refactoring of talk page comments they've started: see threads by Trio The Punch and Sarah Baartman where both editors add multiple chunks of text to their original comments within several minutes after delivering the first post. Also, Sarah Baartman thinks that "Bad admins have caused more damage on Wikipedia than skilled trolls" which is a very unique insight for an account that was created only a few days ago. De728631 (talk) 15:40, 1 December 2012 (UTC) De728631 (talk) 15:40, 1 December 2012 (UTC) De728631 (talk) 15:40, 1 December 2012 (UTC)

Sarah Baartman has just been blocked by FisherQueen but I at least would like to see a check for any leftover sleepers. De728631 (talk) 16:57, 1 December 2012 (UTC)

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 * Unsurprisingly ✅. But wait!  There's more!
 * are also the same joker. And I'm willing to be there are plenty of older, stale ones.  &mdash; Coren (talk) 17:07, 1 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Sleepers put to rest. Closing. Dennis Brown -  2&cent;    &copy;   Join WER 17:17, 1 December 2012 (UTC)
 * are also the same joker. And I'm willing to be there are plenty of older, stale ones.  &mdash; Coren (talk) 17:07, 1 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Sleepers put to rest. Closing. Dennis Brown -  2&cent;    &copy;   Join WER 17:17, 1 December 2012 (UTC)
 * are also the same joker. And I'm willing to be there are plenty of older, stale ones.  &mdash; Coren (talk) 17:07, 1 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Sleepers put to rest. Closing. Dennis Brown -  2&cent;    &copy;   Join WER 17:17, 1 December 2012 (UTC)