Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/TruthNews2020/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets
As well as the username similarities between some of these, they've made similar edits to William DeMeo, adding unsourced claims about his ethnicity and editing his date of birth. Cordless Larry (talk) 21:42, 25 August 2022 (UTC)

Comments by other users

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Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * I have absolutely no idea what's going on here, but this has been going on for years it seems - the oldest account following the pattern I could find was . I'd be interested to see what CheckUser finds for the current batch here. Also noting that the page has been protected for a month which should hopefully stem the flow of nonsense for now. firefly  ( t · c ) 09:54, 26 August 2022 (UTC)
 * - lots of accounts inserting the same BLP violations, e.g. . Worth a check for sleepers & to see if a rangeblock is possible. Thanks, Spicy (talk) 13:13, 26 August 2022 (UTC)
 * - -- RoySmith (talk) 13:56, 26 August 2022 (UTC)
 * All the non-stale accounts (BrooklynGalNew, WilliamSeinwels, Official Mafia Page Laalia, Laailia, Officialmafiapage) are ✅ to each other. Trolling 's block log, I also see these which are long stale but behaviorally seem pretty obvious . -- RoySmith (talk) 14:16, 26 August 2022 (UTC)
 * - I'll block the ones I confirmed. I'll leave it to a clerk to figure out how to best tag this.  Maybe it makes sense to rename this for the oldest confirmed account? -- RoySmith (talk) 14:21, 26 August 2022 (UTC)
 * I moved the case to the oldest account and tagged the blocked accounts. I don't think it's worth blocking the stale accounts as they seem to be throwaways that are abandoned after making a few edits. Closing case. Thanks, Spicy (talk) 14:35, 26 August 2022 (UTC)