Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/UponAShiningStar/Archive

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This is not a request for a sockpuppet investigation specifically. However, I am bringing to CU attention the account of, due to their suspicious emailing activity. This account has very little activity on Wikipedia (their first edit to this encyclopedia was apparent vandalism, and their other six mainspace edits seem to be low-value rewordings), but recently they have begun sending emails to administrators that I find suspicious. Specifically, I was sent an email from this account, which I had never previously interacted with, stating only "Hello, I have a request involving the English Wikipedia. Would you be willing to take one at this time?" It is apparent that I am not the only recipient of such emails, because UponAShiningStar has has blanked a series of responses on their talk page made by other admins (specifically Surjection and El C) who received such an email and responded on the editor's talk page. After I suggested that use of the email system to contact administrators should be reserved for instances in which an editor is being stalked or harassed, UponAShiningStar emailed me again and wrote, "You've got it exactly right. I am actually being stalked and harassed on Wikipedia, and do fear to place it in a public sphere. In fact, I received a harassing message just yesterday mocking me for getting blocked. All the requests I mentioned were on that subject"; and "Several admins can attest to this". To me, this suggests that several admins have been made aware of stalking and harassment of UponAShiningStar, and have done nothing about it. The entire thing sounds fishy to me. That a year-old low-edit account would suddenly begin emailing admins with cryptic requests, and then refuse to disclose the nature of those requests unless responded to by email, raises my suspicion that this is some kind of sleeper account being used to engage in phishing. I would therefore like to know if they are connected to any other accounts from which Wikipedia has been edited, or with any IP address from which disruptive edits have been made. bd2412 T 18:34, 24 June 2019 (UTC)

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I ran a check based on the report at ANI, not based on this report. UponAShiningStar and are ✅, blocked and tagged. Closing.--Bbb23 (talk) 18:52, 24 June 2019 (UTC)