Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Whey77/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets

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Strong similarities in edits/editing style/edit summaries at article Richard Uihlein, all within 48 hours. See, e.g., this Whey77 edit and this IP edit; compare also this edit to this edit. Abusive editing in the form of edit warring and source misrepresentation. Possible (perhaps likely) COI issues; Conflict_of_interest/Noticeboard suggested a checkuser. Neutralitytalk 01:59, 3 September 2020 (UTC) Neutralitytalk 01:59, 3 September 2020 (UTC)

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 * - if connected, they have violated WP:3RR using sockpuppets. See reverts 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 all within 24 hours of each other. Endorsing in regards to the accounts only. Dreamy Jazz talk to me &#124; my contributions 10:15, 3 September 2020 (UTC)
 * Accuracyfix and PoliticalHistoryProfessor are ✅. Technically speaking, Whey77 appears, but, as usual,  Salvio 12:20, 3 September 2020 (UTC)
 * Renamed to oldest account. A little surprised by the result, to be honest - looking at the behavior, I would have expected AccuracyFix to be the "possible" account. Anyway, based on the above findings and behavior, I'm confident everyone here is working together (though it's definitely possible that one of these accounts is meat). Whey77 and the IP for a week, indeffed the two named socks. GeneralNotability (talk) 12:43, 3 September 2020 (UTC)

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 * IP address making same edits, with same style, as previously blocked socks, even referencing one prior sock in an edit summary. See, , and . Neutralitytalk 17:14, 4 September 2020 (UTC)

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 * Dreamy Jazz talk to me &#124; my contributions 21:20, 4 September 2020 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets



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The account is the latest in the string of sockpuppet accounts of Whey77 - newly created account editing on article that is the sock target (resumed immediately after semi-protection expired), same language and content style, same phrasing, agreeing with "other user" (i.e., previous sock) on the article talk page. IP addresses have same conduct; e.g.,. Diff 1. Diff 2. Neutralitytalk 00:27, 7 September 2020 (UTC)
 * Also note that the IP address who commented on this very page is the same previously blocked sock. Neutralitytalk 15:20, 7 September 2020 (UTC)
 * ,, apologizes for the ping, but the probably sockpuppet is active. Neutralitytalk 22:28, 11 September 2020 (UTC)

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The users have the best of intentions to clarify and bring context to a libelous statement on a living biography. According to Wikipedia policy and the Wikimedia legal department, this requires urgent removal of the libelous material without further discussion or debate. The unfortunate blocking of this good faith emergency process will be noted for the record.47.154.7.124 (talk) 08:35, 7 September 2020 (UTC)

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 * Complicated case. My suspicions, for the record, are that there are multiple people either working together or being canvassed; the edit summary styles look somewhat different to me. The IPv6 addr geolocates to the same area as the previously-blocked IPv4 addresses, so that's probably the same person. Since they are clearly working all together to edit-war, I have blocked CaveWriting and the IP for a week each without tags, but am leaving Whey77 alone since they have not resumed editing. GeneralNotability (talk) 23:38, 11 September 2020 (UTC)
 * Oh, also, I've ECP'd the page in question. If people start being disruptive on the talk page we can deal with that as needed. And I've blocked the IP from the comments section above, who also geolocates to the same area, and it's more than a little suspicious that they showed up unrequested at the SPI. GeneralNotability (talk) 23:48, 11 September 2020 (UTC)
 * Whey77 just requested unblock at their talk page, despite not being blocked right now. How do you want to handle as they've come back?  only (talk) 00:02, 12 September 2020 (UTC)
 * , yeah, I saw that...if they jump back into the fray here I'll reblock. I'm also curious whether they're being autoblocked, and if so, whose autoblock they're hitting... GeneralNotability (talk) 00:03, 12 September 2020 (UTC)
 * , Applying what may be an excessive amount of AGF, they could just be hitting the ECP and conflating that with being blocked. -- RoySmith (talk) 04:19, 12 September 2020 (UTC)
 * , good thought...but they posted the unblock 15 minutes before I ECP'd :) GeneralNotability (talk) 13:09, 12 September 2020 (UTC)