Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/VideoGamer123456/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets
Similar topic area interests and edit summaries (compare this to this); both accounts have a history of adding favorable original research regarding general critical response to Halloween film article lead sections (compare diff, diff to diff, diff). Caught my eye during an ongoing content dispute at Halloween Ends involving material repeatedly being re-added by those two accounts. Note that both accounts use deceitful edit summaries and/or make incorrect use of the "minor edit" checkbox. Likely abuse of multiple accounts to evade 3RR. Throast  { { ping }} me! (talk &#124; contribs) 00:42, 18 October 2022 (UTC)


 * That is not me. I am simply just inferring what the other user put since it keeps getting erased by others and it seems a bit suspicious why they erase it and I'm simply restoring what they originally put by copypasting the review section of the wiki page on a google doc beforehand in case this happens to other wiki pages I edit. (Since this happens often with me.) I am not associated with this mr.creatinator guy nor do I know him. VideoGamer123456 (talk) 14:02, 18 October 2022 (UTC)
 * After multiple warnings on your talk page, you should be aware that the behavior you're laying out very clearly constitutes edit warring. Throast  { { ping }} me! (talk &#124; contribs) 14:04, 18 October 2022 (UTC)
 * Maybe he is being deceitful, but I'm not. They are just positive things reviewers on youtube have said about the movie, but I'm afraid y'all hardly use youtube as a citation, so I don't use it as a citation source for proof. VideoGamer123456 (talk) 14:07, 18 October 2022 (UTC)

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Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * - -- RoySmith (talk) 17:38, 18 October 2022 (UTC)
 * ✅ -- RoySmith (talk) 17:43, 18 October 2022 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets
First edit on the project matches those by the sockpuppeteer and sockpuppets. Edit summary matches with suspected sockpuppets (diff, diff). IPs previously blocked by. Throast  { { ping }} me! (talk &#124; contribs) 14:59, 4 November 2022 (UTC)

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Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * - seems likely, but given the short editing history, CU would be useful to confirm. Thanks, Spicy (talk) 15:38, 4 November 2022 (UTC)
 * I agree the editing looks like a dead ringer, but the CU data says ❌ -- RoySmith (talk) 16:08, 4 November 2022 (UTC)
 * That's strange. Coincidence? Off-wiki coordination? I don't know, but there's not enough behavioural evidence to tell at this point, so I'm going to close the case for now. Thanks, Spicy (talk) 16:11, 4 November 2022 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets

 * ( original case name)

The editor was indefinitely blocked on March 13 for disruptive editing. The edits for that user on the wiki page List_of_films_shown_within_films had edit summaries starting the words "Now With" such as here and here and here

After that user was blocked starting on March 15, an IP user began adding edits on the same page with the exact same edit summaries starting with "Now With" such as here and here and here

I believe this is the same editor evading a block. Kaltenmeyer (talk) 01:46, 16 March 2023 (UTC)

Comments by other users

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Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * - per the tags on the named account, this should be merged to WP:Sockpuppet investigations/VideoGamer123456. Afterwards, please close as the IP range is now blocked. Spicy (talk) 20:06, 24 March 2023 (UTC)
 * . --Blablubbs (talk) 10:52, 27 March 2023 (UTC)