Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Viktory02/Archive

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Large percentage of their edits are on overlapping articles. Editor Interaction: The two accounts seem to share a political POV and weak understanding of policy that results in an unusually high percentage being reverted by experienced editors. They tend to reinsert their reverted content. Weird sequence on Victory02's user talk page: A post responding to is signed by Joeylieberman, then Victory02 arrives and changes signature but leaves the post intact. initial response signature changed.  SPECIFICO talk 00:57, 12 January 2022 (UTC)

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The signature modification seems the most suspicious to me. Moorleger (talk) 11:01, 12 January 2022 (UTC)

My brother and I live in the same house and also generally care about the same things. Even though we're not the same person, reading the policy it seems like we are probably in violation. Viktory02 (talk) 15:20, 12 January 2022 (UTC)

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 * Moved case to correct capitalization. Spicy (talk) 08:42, 12 January 2022 (UTC)
 * This doesn't need CU. Blocked and tagged. -- RoySmith (talk) 23:57, 12 January 2022 (UTC)

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Following a bit of POV-ing by RichmanHopson at an RfA, I checked--and they're a perfect match. It is possible that User:Matt Lanni is part of this also, since they mysteriously logged in during the activities of the socks and are a perfect match--but there's nothing behavioral I can do something with. Drmies (talk) 18:25, 28 January 2022 (UTC)

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 * Concur that there's no behavioral evidence on Matt. Best to wait and see, I guess. as confirmed. Closing.  --  Tamzin  [ cetacean needed ] (she/they) 18:40, 28 January 2022 (UTC)

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Has returned to the same edit war: ; also, see this first edit summary. It appears to be either a joe job, or the same editor. Checkuser to confirm that, or check for sleepers? Paul Erik (talk) (contribs) 23:38, 7 February 2022 (UTC)

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 * - -- RoySmith (talk) 23:12, 8 February 2022 (UTC)
 * Babbacombe is ✅. Also, since I was there, retagging Joeylieberman as ✅.  I also see:
 * which is a technical match, but somebody needs to review the behavior and make a final call on them. -- RoySmith (talk) 23:22, 8 February 2022 (UTC)
 * which is a technical match, but somebody needs to review the behavior and make a final call on them. -- RoySmith (talk) 23:22, 8 February 2022 (UTC)


 * Thanks, RoySmith. I see this by Horsemanofdeath and this by Babbcombe. Looks like the same editor. I'll go ahead and block. Paul Erik  (talk) (contribs) 00:00, 9 February 2022 (UTC)
 * Yup, that looks good, thanks. -- RoySmith (talk) 00:10, 9 February 2022 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets
Already blocked and tagged; all are CU-confirmed. Note that the least three are from busy ranges with lots of accounts, but the edits are clearly those of Viktory2. Drmies (talk) 15:58, 24 February 2023 (UTC)

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 * Closing. Thanks, Spicy (talk) 00:36, 25 February 2023 (UTC)