Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Wayn12/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets



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Editing obsessions are the same. Changing racial categories against consensus. Mainly concerned with changing ‘black’ or ‘African American’ to more narrow ethnicity, such as Nigerian American. Dennis Bratland (talk) 22:36, 31 July 2018 (UTC)

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 * Note that has been (unintentionally?)  signing their talk page comments "Wayn12": 1.

2. —Sangdeboeuf (talk) 00:32, 1 August 2018 (UTC)
 * Oops. I was going to provide a bunch of diffs but I guess that's not really necessary, other than to establish the connection to Philly2166. I'll add those shortly. --Dennis Bratland (talk) 02:13, 1 August 2018 (UTC)


 * Today is Thursday; I should have time on Saturday or Sunday to sort through the histories to collect the diffs. If I can't finish it by then I probably won't for a few weeks. --Dennis Bratland (talk) 04:04, 3 August 2018 (UTC)

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 * Blocked the two reported accounts as socks., it'd be nice if you could provide diffs linking them to Philly2166 so we can wrap this up. --Neil N  talk to me 00:49, 3 August 2018 (UTC)
 * I've reduced the block length of to one week pending your evidence. --Neil N  talk to me 14:18, 3 August 2018 (UTC)
 * If you wish, you can unblock Wayn12 pending evidence, but blocking the user as a sock must be indefinite.--Bbb23 (talk) 15:20, 3 August 2018 (UTC)
 * Hi . I've blocked Wayn12 for socking using Svengalista right now. If the evidence tying them to Philly2166 is not convincing, I will ask a clerk to move this page so that Wayn12 is the master. Is this the proper way to go? --Neil N  talk to me 15:29, 3 August 2018 (UTC)
 * That makes sense; thanks for the explanation.--Bbb23 (talk) 15:31, 3 August 2018 (UTC)


 * This is copied from Sockpuppet investigations/Philly2166. Sro23 (talk) 11:40, 6 August 2018 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets



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(Diff1 diff2 diff3) IP is repeatedly and without discussion re-inserting content to Carmen Maria Machado identical to the previous version that also repeatedly tried to include (diff4 diff5 diff6). All this is happening during Wayn12's weeklong block for sockpuppetry imposed on August 3. Style of edit summary and pattern of edit-warring are similar. —Sangdeboeuf (talk) 21:05, 8 August 2018 (UTC)

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 * Declining checkuser, which cannot be used to publicly connect an IP to a named account. .-- Jezebel's Ponyo bons mots 21:39, 8 August 2018 (UTC)
 * Closing without action. I wavered on this one – I'm probably assuming too much good faith, given the strong evidence in favor of a block. I considered recommending a longer (or indef) block on the account. Given that the user has indicated they will cease editing, that there have been no edits on the article or from the IP since 8 August, and that blocks are meant to be preventative, I don't think a block of either the user or the IP will be helpful here. Please feel free to come back here if there is further suspected socking. Kevin ( aka L235 ·&#32; t ·&#32; c) 06:49, 20 August 2018 (UTC)