Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Twilight Sparkle 222/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets



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Note: FlutterButterfly123 was previously named TwilightSparkleCuddleBear453.

This involves cross wiki socking/global lock evasion, so FlutterButterfly123 doesn't have an account here but I'm listing them here for completeness and because they're an obvious WP:DUCK based on previous username and behaviour.

Twilight Sparkle 222 was blocked about a month ago because they were being generally disruptive and most of their edits consisted of screwing around, spamming the teahouse with questions and pestering other users on their talk page. They were globally locked after picking up local blocks on basically every project they were involved in. The global lock message references a Long term abuse case, and apparently this is a known troll and there has been CU confirmed abuse of previous accounts hence the request for checkuser.

If you check the user contributions of ElectricGirl123 and Twilight Sparkle 222 you'll see the same pattern, screwing around in user sandboxes and asking questions at the teahouse, with basically no productive article space contributions.

All of these accounts create user pages with the same general format, written as if they're trying to help people who come across their userpage. they all start with variations of the same paragraph. It always starts with introducing their username, followed by a statement that they're happy to meet us. This is followed by a statement that they're here to contribute to. This is then followed by instructions to leave messages on their talk page and instructions on how to leave a signature. compare: . In addition the user pages on the English Wikipedia contain a eclectic list of links that they think might be useful to people reading their userpage. Note that both these accounts double space items when using list markup. These userpages are always created in one go as the first edit to a project.

Some of these accounts seem to be interested in getting involved in administrative or antivandalism work despite the obvious lack of competence, FlutterButterfly123 tried to run for adminship on the simple english wiki,, ElectricGirl123 has tried to get involved in the counter vandalism academy.

Finally there's the obvious username similarity - multiple words used to make up a childish sounding name with three digits on the end. 192.76.8.74 (talk) 21:38, 29 September 2021 (UTC)

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Page moved from  to   per request of submitting IP. Relevant edit template and following user message removed. — Sirdog (talk) 21:57, 29 September 2021 (UTC)


 * I do see some username similarities (i.e. TwilightSparkleBlocker453), and when I looked at TwilightSparkleBlocker453's blocks on the CentralAuth page, it was enough for me to file a global lock request against not only that account, but the other 2 listed here. DarkMatterMan4500 (talk) (contribs) 10:28, 30 September 2021 (UTC)
 * Why on earth have you done that? You're not a clerk, not an administrator and not a CheckUser, why are you mucking about here? Leave it to the people who will actually be dealing with the case. 192.76.8.74 (talk) 18:20, 30 September 2021 (UTC)
 * Did I say anything like that? All I said in there was just a simple observation and nothing more. Futhermore, anybody can point it out, not just CheckUsers or Clerks. DarkMatterMan4500 (talk) (contribs) 18:23, 30 September 2021 (UTC)
 * I'm sure the IP was talking about your lock request. If it isn't urgent, the only thing an SRG report about accounts at an ongoing SPI does is to hamper the process, requiring clerks to check for pre-existing reports or revert themselves after they find those. User:1234qwer1234qwer4 (talk)  18:40, 30 September 2021 (UTC)
 * Ah, okay. Then that means the message I left them was probably not needed at most. DarkMatterMan4500 (talk) (contribs) 18:41, 30 September 2021 (UTC)

192.76.8.74 My apologies for the message I left you on your talk page. DarkMatterMan4500 (talk) (contribs) 18:46, 30 September 2021 (UTC)


 * What should we do about this case? DarkMatterMan4500 (talk) (contribs) 22:48, 30 September 2021 (UTC)
 * Thanks for closing the case, as I did file the lock requests against those 3 before it was closed, which I should've waited beforehand. DarkMatterMan4500 (talk) (contribs) 21:11, 1 October 2021 (UTC)

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments
 
 * The accounts have already been locked and it looks like the stewards ran a check. Nothing more to do here. Closing case, not tagging per WP:DENY. Thanks, Spicy (talk) 20:48, 1 October 2021 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets



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Pro forma, see below. GeneralNotability (talk) 03:07, 13 November 2021 (UTC)

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Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * FireAndWaterGirl123 is ✅ to Twilight Sparkle via ElectricGirl123., . GeneralNotability (talk) 03:09, 13 November 2021 (UTC)