Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Umbrellazebra/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets

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The suspected user was purely created to support another user umbrellazebra, which I've recently run into disputes with. I tried to reason with this individual with no avail and she (self-disclosed gender) repeatedly tried to frame me as someone who bullies new users (which is nonsense). The user in question umbrellazebra is an interested account solely created to edit a certain topic. She was not happy that I reverted her edits since she did not engage in talk pages nor read the edit summaries (she simply reverted edits she wasn't happy with). She proceeded to likely use sock to further support her unsubstantiated claim that I was somewhat bullying her. My evidence are as follows: 1. the account likely belong to one person since the possibility of someone creating a new account and immediately knowing how to use Wikipedia, then going ahead to comment on someone who they do not know (umbrellazebra) is near impossible. It's either the and slander against me, or she got someone to create the account (both violates sock puppetry rule). 2. The accounts are being used abusively. I would ask if you could please check the user accounts that edited Takeshi Kaneshiro because there are many accounts (one banned) that were created solely to promote the actor. Further, an account should never be created to make slanderous comments (that I was committing cyberbullying, a very serious allegation), in this case, Applehornet was created for that purpose. Jjj84206 (talk) 03:21, 10 August 2021 (UTC)

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 * Thank you for confirming my suspicion. Would the admin be banning this sock user or should I be filing a separate report? Upon my disengagement from the discussion, she proceeded to spread false information on Teahouse and spreading false claims to other users. I'd like to stop this disruptive behaviour. Thank you.Kazuha1029 (talk) 15:37, 11 August 2021 (UTC)


 * Here's the diff that you require, evidencing sockpuppet behaviour. It is extremely unlikely that a newly created account with no edit history immediately checks Umbrellazebra's account and further unlikely to take the same view.  you can clearly tell the same writing style (vocabulary used and sentence structure) pointing to exactly the same user. The main red flag is the repeatedly false claim that there is bullying despite my warning regarding the consequences of sockpuppeting.Kazuha1029 (talk) 18:12, 11 August 2021 (UTC)
 * ] Suspected user proceeded to go on Teahouse to further substantiate baseless claims and contested the stock puppet investigation (instead of doing it here). The user misled other users in believing the false allegations. The user likely got the link to Teahouse through the automated message on her talk page. It's also worth nothing that a complete new user, is extremely unlikely to be this persistent in repeating the same nonsense as the now inactive user (unbrellazebra). It's equally unlikely that the very second edit of a completely new user (applehornet) would be about another relatively new user (umbrellazebra). Across the two users' edits, I've noted similar vocabularies and patterns used, including repeated use of "bully" over 10 times, "ugly", repeatedly saying "doesn't want to get involved", "I'm leaving", "I don't want to be in this conversation", yet repeatedly came back to drop further allegations.
 * Another evidence that proves the user being a sock is this:, the suspected user said, "I was trying to make a small edit to the Takeshi Kaneshiro page and found all this in the history section.", however, if you look at the edit histories for Takeshi Kaneshiro, the user AppleHornet did NOT make any edits to the page. The user (AppleHornet) forgot that she made all edits to Takeshi Kaneshiro through the original account (UmbrellaZebra), but not the sock account.Kazuha1029 (talk) 06:24, 12 August 2021 (UTC)

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I'm assuming that misfiled this. The report should be moved to .--Bbb23 (talk) 12:59, 10 August 2021 (UTC)


 * ✅. --Blablubbs (talk) 13:05, 10 August 2021 (UTC)
 * I've reinstated the filer's CU request as purely a matter of procedure.--Bbb23 (talk) 13:13, 10 August 2021 (UTC)


 * Thanks. I can see that Applehornet is almost certainly related, but you also state I would ask if you could please check the user accounts that edited Takeshi Kaneshiro because there are many accounts (one banned) that were created solely to promote the actor. We can't just mass-check all accounts that have edited a page; . I would also like to ask you to always provide diffs to back up any assertions you make at SPI (you may also want to have a look at guide to filing SPI cases). --Blablubbs (talk) 13:31, 10 August 2021 (UTC)
 * I'd say there's a good chance they're either the same person or know each other. Given that neither has edited in a month, I'm just going to uw-agf-sock the both of them. Closing. GeneralNotability (talk) 23:09, 18 September 2021 (UTC)