Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/WhisperToMe/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets



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In Administrators'_noticeboard a user had suggested that I could be User:Infograbber. I am stating that I am not Infograbber, but I would like a Checkuser to confirm this. The user uses timings on posts, but there are no comments on stylometry. I am asking for this checkuser to clear this up. WhisperToMe (talk) 04:39, 16 October 2021 (UTC)

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 * "A user" would be me. And to be clear, I didn't get to the point of opening an SPI because the editor in question is an admin and so I decided to discuss their conduct at AN first. There is certainly evidence both editors have been involved in meat-puppetry following this Reddit thread and then this one. Whisper says he was "inspired" by the first thread to advocate for the restoration of Matthew Tye (deleted three times and salted). Tye himself (the subject of said article) contributed to the first thread, and opened the second. Following either or both Reddit threads, Infograbber19 also arrived at the same wrong venue as Whisper (by sheer coincidence, apparently) to advocate for the restoration of Matthew Tye. Were this a recent AFD, or had there been recent sources published that might prompt people to be interested in revisiting the subject's notability, sudden general interest might make sense (though making the same WP:WRONGVENUE mistake simultaneously would still be a strange coincidence). But the AFD was in 2018, and the source cited by Whisper in advocating for restoration was published in 2020. The combined Reddit threads (given the "inspiration" admission) were almost certainly the genesis for this sudden interest and advocacy. And yet nobody thought to mention said off-wiki advocacy and collaboration until the first Reddit thread was linked at DRV. Happy to accept its not sock-puppetry, but the meat-puppetry is fairly evident.  St ★ lwart 1 1 1 05:21, 16 October 2021 (UTC)

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * Closing per WP:CHECKME. If there is substantive evidence of sockpuppetry then a different user is welcome to file. Primefac (talk) 07:36, 16 October 2021 (UTC)