Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Unicorn123SL/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets
CU confirmed here, just making it official. Good hand/bad hand editing, time wasting trolling over warnings. Really, I don't know what the end game is, but it's clearly not good. Opening the SPI to dot all the Ts and cross all the Is and get everything documented. Thanks. ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 10:55, 29 March 2022 (UTC)

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 * Blocking and tagging per Special:Diff/1079871843. -- RoySmith (talk) 19:09, 30 March 2022 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets

 * ( original case name)

Ugh, this is a mess. In short, there was a (presumptive) joe-job, followed by an accidental username transcription error, which I failed to catch when blocking. See the longish thread at Special:Permalink/1080317944 for details. Filing this pro-forma. -- RoySmith (talk) 15:05, 31 March 2022 (UTC)

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 * I've retagged the accounts to reflect the correct master. Spicy (talk) 21:47, 2 April 2022 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets
This comment on one of their socks asking the account to be unblocked makes it pretty obvious they are a Unicorn123SL sock, plus their poor grammar and other weird edits (see contribs). 47.227.95.73 (talk) 23:58, 22 August 2022 (UTC)

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 * Duck. Broader range is 125.253.96.0/20. However for now, - Please block 125.253.103.44 for a week. Thanks, --Jack Frost (talk) 00:51, 23 August 2022 (UTC)
 * Already blocked the IP address as a separate action. I want to be clear, my block of that IP address happened before I saw this SPI and does not necessarily imply this IP address is used by this particular user, it could be a joe-job. After noticing this SPI, I see no sleepers related to Unicorn123SL but can confirm previously blocked users, and  for what little it is worth. --Yamla (talk) 10:41, 25 August 2022 (UTC)
 * Closing. Thanks, Spicy (talk) 10:46, 25 August 2022 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets

 * ( originally filed under this user)

On 11 October 2023, User:Democfest was blocked indefinitely. Two weeks later User:Leftregister made their first edit. Leftregister's primary areas of editing have been on articles about Australian buildings, cities, emergency services and transport (often, but not always, around the placement and quality of images), all areas in which Democfest edited extensively.

Democrest was keen on replacing infobox images with montages in Australian cities, e.g. Wollongong, Leftregister has done so at Geelong and Hobart.

Comparing Leftregister's edits to Democfest's edits, all of the former account's top ten edits, (New South Wales Police Force, List of tallest buildings in Sydney, Central Coast (New South Wales), Gosford, Perth, Wollongong, New South Wales Rural Fire Service, Hobart, Canberra and Sydney) have previously been edited on multiple occasions by the latter account, with the three in italics in both top tens.

Not that the block here applies to other Wikimedia projects, but a giveaway is that on Commons, Democfest's last edit on 27 November was to edit an image with Crop Tool 1.5, a tool the editor used extensively. Leftregister used the same tool for the first time 18 hours later and has continued to use regularly, including within the last two days. Dvzk (talk) 13:45, 6 April 2024 (UTC)

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 * Declining CU as there are no non-stale accounts to check against; . This was also opened under the incorrect name and should be moved to Sockpuppet investigations/Unicorn123SL.-- Ponyo bons mots 20:35, 19 April 2024 (UTC)
 * - See Ponyo's request. Izno (talk) 20:47, 2 June 2024 (UTC)
 * Case moved. Spicy (talk) 16:49, 8 June 2024 (UTC)
 * The connection between these accounts seems very clear. The Wordsmith Talk to me 00:34, 13 June 2024 (UTC)