Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Woking123/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets



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I think this is a case of WP:DUCK; same editing pattern as previous socks, same areas of interest (particularly Woking 123), and same name format. Not 100% though, so need CU to confirm. GiantSnowman 08:52, 18 March 2019 (UTC) GiantSnowman 08:52, 18 March 2019 (UTC)

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 * - why have you declined CU? "the level of confidence is that high" - no, it's not, hence why I said "[I'm not 100% though]" (not enough edits to be fully confident). Also it won't be stale - plenty of recent socks, see . Pinging who has knowledge of this sock as well. GiantSnowman 10:32, 18 March 2019 (UTC)
 * CU would be able to confirm whether or not this editor is editing from the same range.
 * - no it is DUCK. As I said, same name format as other socks, same editing pattern (to Woking FC and related). There are only a handful of edits though and I am AGFing. GiantSnowman 08:35, 19 March 2019 (UTC)

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 * - Plus if a request is a WP:DUCK, then there is no need for CU at all because the level of confidence is that high. --  Amanda  (aka DQ) 09:37, 18 March 2019 (UTC)
 * Woking123 has been inactive for more than 90 days, so CheckUser won't actually tell us anything. Sir Sputnik (talk) 23:41, 18 March 2019 (UTC)
 * This is definitely not WP:DUCK. Closing, since no evidence has been provided. Reaper Eternal (talk) 02:48, 19 March 2019 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets



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I initially raised my concerns back in March 2019 here. It was closed by as "definitely not WP:DUCK" with no action being taken. I remain 100% convinced that this is a sock, due to the the name similarity, shared between all socks, the same editing pattern as previous socks (no edit summaries, adding career stats tables to footballer articles, updates to infobox stats etc.) and the same areas of interest, namely (and almost uniquely) Woking F.C. (eg this) and Swindon Town F.C. (eg this) related topics, which is quite a tiny and unique cross-over. A large number of articles related to these two narrow topics have been edited by both, see here (and feel free to try this tool with other socks). Both also edit (less frequently) Chelsea F.C. and SBV Vitesse related topics, see this and this showing the crossover.

The previous (as far as I can remember) non-IP sock was (blocked on 25 January 2019) and the previous IP sock was  (blocked on 26 February 2019). Note also their edits to both Woking and Swindon Town related articles by the way. Drive765 was registered on 15 March 2019, after both of those accounts were blocked. I'd have blocked myself if I wasn't subject to ArbCom restrictions. GiantSnowman 12:14, 9 May 2019 (UTC)

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 * This looks like the same user based upon behavior evidence. No use of edit summary, large edit overlap with just ~350 edits and similar interest in football related articles confirms that. Thus : please indef the sock. &#8208;&#8208;1997kB (talk) 03:14, 8 June 2019 (UTC)
 * NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 01:57, 10 June 2019 (UTC)
 * NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 01:57, 10 June 2019 (UTC)