Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Wisefroggy/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets
Eerily similar names aside all of these accounts are making similar additions to the controversial page What is a Woman?. Edit summary use is also extremely similar, all make use of a mix long sentence form edit summaries and short or nonexistent ones, all three end long form edit summaries with a period and short form ones without one. Note that while Pdogtreefrog and Defeflov have no overlap which shows up on the interaction utility outside of What is a Woman? they do actually overlap if you dig into the edit history... Defeflov edited Matt Walsh (political commentator) on 10 February and 15 June. Pdogtreefrog edited Talk:Matt Walsh (political commentator) eight times on 15 and 16 June. I have considered that this may just be three editors who share the same interests, political views, and educational background but I just can't get over the overarching feeling that there aren't three different editors here. Horse Eye&#39;s Back (talk) 22:33, 18 June 2022 (UTC) Horse Eye&#39;s Back (talk) 22:33, 18 June 2022 (UTC)

Looking at Talk:Matt Walsh (political commentator it appears that there are two other accounts (Corgidad101 and BGoldwater) spamming in the same style as Pdogtreefrog. Socrates Finch is also engaging in the same thing at Talk:What is a Woman? Horse Eye&#39;s Back (talk) 22:40, 18 June 2022 (UTC)

Comments by other users
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 * - With the exception of Corgidad101, a check would be useful to confirm and to look for other accounts. Bbb23 (talk) 01:39, 19 June 2022 (UTC)
 * If the CU results are to be believed, each of these accounts is coming from a different geographical region, mostly but not entirely within the same large country. I obviously can't rule out spoofing, or meatpuppetry though - .  Girth Summit  (blether)  13:30, 19 June 2022 (UTC)
 * This is a controversial topic that's currently making the rounds in the news and on social media, so it's not surprising to me that a lot of new or previously inactive accounts would be editing it. I don't find the behavioural evidence strong enough to override the CU results. I can't rule out some sort of off-wiki canvassing, but I can't rule it in either. If these accounts continue to behave disruptively, WP:GENSEX applies. Closing. Thanks, Spicy (talk) 00:02, 25 June 2022 (UTC)