Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Wolf15Berg/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets

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Extremely suspicious behaviour, especially as the newer account's only edit so far was immediately !voting on the MfD... RandomCanadian (talk / contribs) 21:03, 12 February 2021 (UTC)
 * Oops, missed one whose sole edit is a similar diatribe on the talk page of the deletion nomination... RandomCanadian (talk / contribs) 21:07, 12 February 2021 (UTC)
 * Terribly sorry to be commenting again despite the initial check being negative, but Special:Contributions/Ertsia falls into the same pattern... Could this possibly be a VPN? RandomCanadian (talk / contribs) 21:32, 12 February 2021 (UTC)
 * RandomCanadian - It's possible, yes.  ~Oshwah~  (talk) (contribs)   21:34, 12 February 2021 (UTC)


 * For the record: Administrators%27_noticeboard (which I did not see until after this)... RandomCanadian (talk / contribs) 22:02, 12 February 2021 (UTC)

Comments by other users
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 * This is well beyond something that should be given a reasonable benefit of the doubt. The writing style, argumentation, and formatting of these users is identical. No way this is just a coincidence.-- Molandfreak  (talk,   contribs,  email) 22:54, 12 February 2021 (UTC)

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * ❌ as far as checkuser evidence goes.  ~Oshwah~  (talk) (contribs)   21:26, 12 February 2021 (UTC)
 * Despite the negative CU result, I'm inclined to say that Driftwood1300 and NW Science pass the WP:DUCK test because of the similarity of their writing style. . Wolf15Berg and Ertsia are less similar to those two, and it seems more likely that they are unrelated users who were inappropriately canvassed to the discussion off-wiki. It looks like they haven't edited in more than a week, so I don't think any action is needed against them at this time—if they return merely to continue pushing the COVID-19 lab leak thing, I would consider a simple WP:NOTHERE instead. Given the uncertainty of this case, I don't think we need to move this SPI anywhere. Closing. Mz7 (talk) 23:39, 27 February 2021 (UTC)